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I heard it with sin and distress, until I heard a sweet voice saying,

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Make me your choice, and I entered the haven of rest.

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I've anchored my soul in the haven of rest.

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I'll sail the wildest seas of old.

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The tempest may speak, for the wilds bore me deep,

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In Jesus' time to save evermore.

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I yield in my step to his favor and grace,

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And faith taking hold of the world.

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My feathers fell off, and I anchored my soul

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In the haven of rest.

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It's my Lord, he will choose me.

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I've anchored my soul in the haven of rest.

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I'll sail the wildest seas of old.

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The tempest may speak, for the wilds bore me deep,

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In Jesus' time to save evermore.

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The song of my soul, says the Lord in me whole,

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Has made the old story so blessed,

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Of Jesus, who saved, who so ever will have,

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A home in the haven of rest.

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I've anchored my soul in the haven of rest.

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I'll sail the wildest seas of old.

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The tempest may speak, for the wilds bore me deep,

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In Jesus' time to save evermore.

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I am happy today, and the sun shines bright,

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And the clouds have been rolled away,

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For the Savior said,

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Who soever will bring the breath in to stay,

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Who soever, certainly meaneth me,

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Certainly meaneth me, oh, certainly meaneth me,

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Who soever, certainly meaneth me,

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Who soever meaneth me.

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

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His glory is will my soul.

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I've been lifted up, ever since I've been free,

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His blood has made me whole.

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Who soever, certainly meaneth me,

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Certainly meaneth me, oh, certainly meaneth me,

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Who soever, certainly meaneth me,

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Who soever meaneth me.

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Oh, what wonderful love, oh, what grace divine,

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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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Who soever, surely meaneth me,

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Surely meaneth me, oh, surely meaneth me,

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Who soever, surely meaneth me,

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Who soever meaneth me.

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There shall be showers of blessing,

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This is the promise of love.

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There shall be seasons refreshing,

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Send from the Savior above.

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Showers of blessing,

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Showers of blessing we need.

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Mercy drops round us are falling,

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But for the showers we glee.

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There shall be showers of blessing,

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Precious free by me again.

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Over the hills and the valleys,

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Sound of the vines of rain.

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Showers of blessing,

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Showers of blessing we need.

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Mercy drops round us are falling,

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But for the showers we glee.

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There shall be showers of blessing,

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Stand there upon us, oh Lord,

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And to us now are refreshing,

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And now honor the word.

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Showers of blessing,

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Showers of blessing we need.

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Mercy drops round us are falling,

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But for the showers we glee.

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There shall be showers of blessing,

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Oh, that today they might fall,

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To God we're confessing,

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Now as on Jesus we call.

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Showers of blessing,

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Showers of blessing we need.

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Mercy drops round us are falling,

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But for the showers we glee.

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I don't know

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how tomorrow

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I just live from day to day.

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I don't borrow

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from its sunshine,

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For its skies they turn to grey.

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I don't worry

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about the future,

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For I know

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what Jesus said.

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And today

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I'll walk beside him,

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For he knows

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God is a hand.

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I don't think

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about tomorrow,

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I don't seem

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to understand.

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But I know

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there will be tomorrow,

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And I know

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every step

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is getting brighter,

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As the golden stairs I climb.

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Every bird

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is getting lighter,

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Every cloud

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is getting lighter,

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As the golden

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stairs I climb.

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Every cloud

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is getting lighter,

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As the golden

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stairs I climb.

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Every cloud

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is getting lighter,

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As the golden

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stairs I climb.

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Many things

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about tomorrow

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I don't seem

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to understand.

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But I know

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there will be tomorrow,

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I know

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who holds my hand.

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I don't know

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about tomorrow,

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If you bring me

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poverty,

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But the one

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who feeds the sparrow

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Is the one

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who sends my beam.

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And the path

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that is my portion

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May be through

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the flame or flood,

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While his presence

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goes before me,

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When I'm

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covered

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in his blood.

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Many things

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about tomorrow

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I don't seem

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to understand.

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But I know

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there will be tomorrow,

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And I know

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who holds my hand.

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On Jordan's

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stormy winds I stand

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And catch the

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wishful eye

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to feel it.

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The one

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who feeds the sparrow

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Is the one

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who sends my beam.

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And the path

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that is my portion

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May be through

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the flame or flood,

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While his presence

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goes before me,

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When I'm

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covered in his blood.

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And the path

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that is my portion

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May be through

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the flame or flood,

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While his presence

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goes before me,

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When I'm

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covered in his blood.

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The one

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who feeds the sparrow

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Is the one

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who sends my beam.

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And the path

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that is my portion

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May be through

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the flame or flood,

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Bearing not my

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Lord who's crucified,

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Knowing not

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it was for me

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He died on Calvary.

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Mercy there was

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great and grace was

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great, Pardon there

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was both

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and cry to me.

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There my burden

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sold my liberty

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And Calvary.

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By God's word

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at last my sin I learned,

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Then I

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trembled at the

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law I turned,

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Till my guilty

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soul to glory

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turned to Calvary.

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Mercy there

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was great and grace

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was great, Pardon there

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was both

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and cry to me.

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There my burden

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sold my liberty

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And Calvary.

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Oh, the love that drew

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salvation's plan,

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Oh, the grace that

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brought it down to man,

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Oh, the mighty

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hope that God

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did stand, And Calvary.

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Mercy there was

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great and grace was

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great, Pardon there

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was both and cry to me.

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There my burden

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sold my liberty

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And Calvary.

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Now I've given to

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Jesus everything,

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Now I'm glad

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the only man's mine,

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And Calvary.

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Now my rapture

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told can only sing

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of Calvary.

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Mercy there was great

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and grace was great,

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Pardon there was both

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and cry to me.

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There my burden

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sold my liberty

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And Calvary.

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Let's go to song number 266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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Honey

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in the Rock, song number

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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266.

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Oh there's honey in the rock,

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my brother.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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In the rock for you.

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The King is in for the flood

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to cover.

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There's honey in the rock

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for you.

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Have you tasted

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that the Lord is gracious?

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Do you

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walk in the way that

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you?

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Have you drunk from the living

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mountain?

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There's honey in the rock

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for you.

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Oh there's honey

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in the rock, my brother.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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In the rock for you.

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Leave your sins for the flood

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to cover.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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Do you pray

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unto God the Father?

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What will thou have

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me to do?

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Never fear

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he will surely answer.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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Oh there's honey

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in the rock, my brother.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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Leave your sins

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for the flood to cover.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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Then go out

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through the streets

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and by way,

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preach the word to the

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many or few.

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Stay to every

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fallen brother.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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Oh there's honey

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in the rock, my brother.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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There's honey

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in the rock, my brother.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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Leave your sins

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for the flood to cover.

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There's honey

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in the rock for you.

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We're working on verse 16.

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Any kids that 18 and under

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can quote the verse of the week and get ice cream

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after the service.

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Our service times and soul winning times are listed

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there on the inside as well as our

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church stats so far for the year.

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On the right is a list of several

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expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for the expecting

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ladies of our church. Upcoming

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events, we still have our kids choir

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practices that are meeting after the evening

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services on Sunday. We do have a

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soul winning mega marathon

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on the fourth. On the back

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there is that QR code. There's also one out here

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if you'd like to register.

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I was looking online, I think there's

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like over 26

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events that are registered for that specific

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day across the world.

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So there's honestly a lot of events already

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scheduled. There's probably events

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that are not even on our

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website that people are also hosting

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and everything like that. But really

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looking forward to having a big push and really encouraging

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people to participate for

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our mega marathon this year. I know the Philippines

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is going to be doing

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a lot there. I know there was like

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I think there was like three events in Australia.

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There was one in India. There

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was some in Europe.

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I think there was one in Sweden. There was one in the UK.

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I'm probably forgetting

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some. There was definitely ones in

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Canada. There's ones all over the

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US. So there's a lot of different events.

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So definitely excited about that.

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And then of course our Easter

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services are April 5th.

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We have our anti-Israel conference

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May 20th through the 24th. On the back

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is our prayer list. And then

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we have that QR code down

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below again.

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I don't have an update

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for our missionaries that are in Barbados

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right now. But I did talk

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to Tanner on Monday. Everybody got there safely.

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And he said he kind of got the same

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feel that was kind of like the Bahamas already.

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So I'm looking forward to

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hearing about what's going on

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over there and the work that they're doing.

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But we'll go ahead and say a quick word

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of prayer through our prayer list.

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We're continuing to pray for Brother Tony if you'd pray for his

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health. Please continue to pray for

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the Afzals if you pray for their

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mother's health. We're also praying for

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Brother Billy a couple things here. Praying for

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his mother's surgery coming up on April 2nd.

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His cousin's

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family, if you'd be praying for them.

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A couple things there. And then pray for Brother

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Tatum who's enlisting in Space

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Force. Also

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if you continue to pray for the Spurgeons

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for work. We're praying for the Urbanic

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family for Natalie and their

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pregnancy and their delivery.

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Please pray for Brother Canary's brother

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Elliot for his salvation and health.

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And then we've also been praying for Brother Jameson

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who's over in the Philippines. I think I just

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saw in the chat if you'd pray for also little Oliver

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the U of Kems. I guess

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they ran to the emergency room. Just pray for him

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and his toe. So we

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got that. That's pretty much all I

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have. So we'll just say a word of prayer

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now for our church family.

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Thank you Heavenly Father so much for Steadfast

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Baptist Church. Thank you so much for

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all those ladies that are pregnant

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and are expecting. I pray that you please

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bless them and bless their pregnancies.

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Please help those that have recently given birth

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just continue to recover and to be

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healthy. I pray that you would also just be

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with our church family that needs

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health right now. That needs favor.

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Needs blessing. Those that are in the hospital

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I pray that you could please bless them.

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Those that are needing a smooth delivery.

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I pray that you would give a timely birth

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under them. I pray that you would also just

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bless our missionaries that are out in

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Barbados. That you keep them safe.

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Open doors for them to

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make appointments and to get people

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saved. And I pray that you would just

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bless their work. That they can be very fruitful

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down there and return safely.

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Please bless the continued work in the Philippines.

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I pray that you would bless our upcoming

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soul winning events and our marathon.

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I pray that you would allow us to see

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many people saved. And I pray that we give

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all the honor and glory to Jesus. In his name we pray.

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Amen.

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That's really all I have as far as announcements.

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We're going to go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week.

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Psalm 147.

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Psalm 147.

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Alright that was Psalm 147.

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You can find it in your binders.

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Psalm 147.

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Psalm 147.

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Let's all sing that out together.

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the least disloved,

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and to the young braven's which cried,

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He divided not in the strength of the forty-day

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from pleasure in,

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the legs of the man who were taken,

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zap returning dead vib derive

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stole grip hoping mercy

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Great job everybody now as the offering plates are being passed around

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Go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter number 23 that is Deuteronomy chapter 23

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Oh

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Deuteronomy 23 the Bible reads he that is wounded in the stones or hath this privy member cut off shall not enter into the congregation

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of the Lord a

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Bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even to his tenth generation

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Shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord and

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Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even to their tenth generation

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Shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord forever?

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because they met you not with bread and with water in the way when he came forth out of Egypt and

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Because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pithor of Mesopotamia to curse thee

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Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam

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But the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee because the Lord thy God loved thee

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Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever

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Thou shalt not abhor and eat a mite for he is thy brother

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Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian because that was to stranger in his land

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The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation

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generation

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When the host goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every wicked thing if there be among you any man that is

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Not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night then shall he go abroad out of the camp

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He shall not come within the camp

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But it shall be when evening cometh on he shall wash himself with water and when the sun is down

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He shall come into the camp again thou shalt have a place also without the camp whether

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Thou shalt go forth abroad and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon and it shall be when thou will ease thyself abroad

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Thou shalt dig therewith and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee for the Lord thy God

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Walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy camp be holy

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That he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee

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Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which has escaped from his master unto thee

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He shall dwell with thee even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it liketh and best

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Thou shalt not oppress him there shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel

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Nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel

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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow

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For even both these are abomination under the Lord thy God

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Thou shalt not rend upon usury to thy brother

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Usury of money usury of vitals usury of anything that is lent upon usury unto a stranger

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Thou mayest lend upon usury but unto thy brother

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Thou shalt not lend upon usury that the Lord thy God may bless thee and all that thou set us thine hand to in the

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Land whither thou goest to possess it when thou shalt vow of vow unto the Lord thy God

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Thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee

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But if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee that which is gone out of thy lips

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Thou shalt keep and perform even a free will offering according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God

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Which thou hast promised with thy mouth when thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard

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Then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure

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But thou shalt not put any in thy vessel when thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor

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Then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand but thou shalt not move a sickle under thy neighbor's standing cord

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Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer father. God. We thank you for Deuteronomy chapter 23 and for tonight's Bible study

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I pray that you bless it fill pastor Shelley with your spirit help them to expound on

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This chapter to us and help us to pay close attention to the message that we can learn

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Valuable lessons derived from the word of God this evening. We love you and in Jesus name. I pray amen

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amen

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Here in Deuteronomy 23. There's there's this interesting theme that you can kind of notice in this chapter about purity itself and

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We we have a lot of purity rituals or just statutes that are kind of being outlined in this particular chapter

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Specifically about the congregation of the Lord here in verse 1

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It says he that is wounded in the stones or at this privy member cut off

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Shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord

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And so there is here in the Old Testament certain statutes and requirements

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Limiting people's access to the congregation of the Lord

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And so, you know from just a carnal perspective you could look at this and just understand that there's certain

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aspects of the carnal nature that are not ideal and

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They're forbidden from the congregation of the Lord a lot of different applications can be made here one, of course

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Everything kind of alludes to Jesus Christ and the Bible makes it clear that Jesus Christ had no blemish in him

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And so of course him being that perfect sacrifice for us. He was without blemish

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he didn't have this particular problem and

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People that had these particular problems were just not allowed to enter into the congregation of the Lord

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Keeping the congregation Lord pure pure from blemishes pure from and you know something that's just

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wrong or defiled

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Now in this particular

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Idea of purity I looked up some different definitions of like what purity means

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Purity could mean freedom from spiritual or moral defilement

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Freedom from or free from blemishes clean

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Untanked with evil free of guilt. So there's different applications here, you know when we're talking about this

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we're not necessarily talking about free from spiritual or moral defilement, you know having a

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Physical infirmity or having some physical defect does not make you wrong with God from a spiritual perspective

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It doesn't make you immoral or something like that

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But it is just a blemish and what we're talking about here is that the congregation Lord was free from

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Blemishes that we were not allowing that kind of a blemish

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Here's another one verse 2 a bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even to his tenth generation

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Shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord and so, you know

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God's not even allowing a bastard into the congregation Lord a bastard would be someone that was born out of wedlock and

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Many people don't really even think this is a problem

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They don't even think it's bad

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The Bible used this term bastard and think about how much purity

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Has to go into this particular situation to be entered back in the congregation Lord ten generations

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So essentially this bastard would have to have a child born in wedlock and then they would have to have a child born in

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Wedlock and then they would have a child born in wedlock to ten generations in order to allow that

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Descendant to even come back into the congregation of the Lord

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Meaning that you're really keeping the congregation Lord from a lot of different defilements

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You know people that have physical deformities

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They're kept out then you have people that are born out of wedlock

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Whatever baggage is coming with that that's kept out from the congregation of the Lord as well

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Verse 3 and Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter in the congregation of the Lord even to their tenth generation

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So they not enter in the congregation the Lord

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forever because they met you not with bread and with water in the way when you came forth out of Egypt and because they hired against

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The Balaam the son of Beor of Phthor of Mesopotamia to curse thee

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So also Ammonites and Moabites are kept completely out of the congregation of the Lord

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It says even to their tenth generation. So they have to be just mixed just so many times

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To where basically they're just basically, you know washed out the Ammonite or Moabite

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Genealogy is basically wiped out of their descendancy for the most part

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So before they could potentially enter back into the congregation of Lord now again

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Some people make a big deal about racial purity when it comes to the children of Israel and

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It's like kind of true and kind of not it's true in the sense that there really is

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These people that were physical descendants of Israel

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I do not believe that the children of Israel were just a hodgepodge random people

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It was literally the physical descendants of you know

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Jacob as we know Israel and it really is coming from Ruben and is a car and Joseph and these people

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But obviously there was some mixing even then and then of course the mixing slowly kind of just keeps coming in

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But it's it's still limited if you think about it the Ammonite Moabite could come in there

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But after ten generations and you could have had other people coming in obviously Joseph married

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One of the priests daughters and so of course his children would have been somewhat mixed in that particular

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Genealogy, but you know for the most part the genealogies in the Bible are from the patriarchal side of the equation

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They're not really coming from the the mother side

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They're coming from the father side and you really kind of see you know a lot of racial purity

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For this particular group of people now again was it strict no it was not strict

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But it was a very homogenous group of people and and God is very much keeping these

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Ammonites and Moabites out of this particular group not because they're racially inferior

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Why because they didn't offer bread and water and because they were wanting to curse them, okay?

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That's the reason why so God is not a respecter of persons God doesn't really necessarily care about

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Race, but you definitely see certain races. You know certain groups of people just getting completely wiped out in the Old Testament

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You know the Canaanites just completely wiped out the Ammonites and the Moabites

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They're gonna be destroyed eventually and all these things have spiritual pictures

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They have spiritual understanding and spiritual layers for the most part

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I'm trying to just get through this chapter initially just understanding what it's saying and then we're gonna come back and we're gonna go through

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The layering that's really being understood from a spiritual perspective, but you notice God is keeping a purity here now

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I think the purity

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Is more being emphasized here from a kind of a

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Spiritual or a moral defilement if you think about it the Ammonites and the Moabites have false religion attached with them

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They want to basically come in and corrupt the children of Israel from a religious perspective from drawing them away from the Lord

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Obviously a bastard child is someone that went against God's commandments didn't have respect towards marriage

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and of course that leaven could come in and

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And cause the rest of the camp to have a lower view of marriage and not want to emphasize marriage

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And so bringing these people in to their particular congregation is gonna cause them to possibly take the commandments of God less serious

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It's gonna draw them away and the false religion and he doesn't want to allow that

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And so he's trying to keep their group pure from these particular situations

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Not only that these people are cursed for having tried to curse

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You know the children of Israel and he doesn't bring accursed people into the congregation of the Lord

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Now it says in verse 5 nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam

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But the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee because the Lord thy God loved thee

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So you know even when wicked people curse you

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God can end up turning that into a blessing like they make a movie against you called man of God and then God turns that

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Around and someone else makes another movie called man of God

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You know what I mean and and sometimes that thing just turns into a blessing someone tries to harm you or hurt you and it

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Just ends up blessing you you know I was thinking about how about 18 months ago

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We went through this big drama, and there was a lot of controversy and we had some people leaving our church

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But honestly it was a huge blessing because we lost

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I don't know 30 35 people

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But most of those people were just rotten to the core and there wasn't really any way for us to know

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Or to be able to get them out of our lives

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And it was just God turning that into a blessing you think that that's a curse like oh man you lost 30 people

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But then you find out who those 30 people are and you're just like wow I wish we had gotten rid of them sooner

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and just case in point there was one person in particular that was going around and

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borrowing money from people in our church

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Thousands and thousands of dollars like one person in particular just borrowing five thousand dollars not paying it back

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Just ripping people off lying to people and isn't interesting once they go around and they rip everybody off

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And then they run out of people to rip off then they leave and now you're a cult and

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Now you're a bunch of bad people and unsaved and whatever now seems like you're just a scumbag

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And it's like praise God we got that person out

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Why would we want people in here that are secretly going around and trying to play this sympathy card and trying to just?

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Suck good money after bad and you know be careful of these people that are privily coming around

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Just trying to just sucker you out of money and this kind of stuff

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You know you should consider the cause of the poor

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You know the Bible says a man won't work neither should he eat and sometimes you know

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It's hard not want to be sympathetic towards people it's hard not want to help people

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I like helping people

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but I typically try to help people that weren't asking for it and

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I'm a little bit more skeptical of the people that are asking for it because a lot of times the people that are asking for it

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You know they have some kind of a problem you need to look into that often when somebody wants something from me offer them a job

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That really fixes the problem quickly

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And it is funny because you know even if you were like to offer them just some really small task like think about it

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It's like hey

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How about you just take out the trash for a couple times for us and we'll give you five grand

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It's like even that would discourage the actual lazy person, okay

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You'd be surprised how whenever you're just asking to do a small thing you know

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They'll be people to be like hey, you know some bum out in the street or some other person like hey

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Can you give me 100 bucks?

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You mean whatever it's like how about you just come to church and talk to me after the service they can't even do that

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They can't even they can't even just sit down and listen to me yelled them for five five minutes or an hour or whatever

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They can't even crack open a Bible and air conditioning or something like that

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You know be careful of the guy that is just begging for money and his story

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You know and some of these people are dangerous

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You know you need to be careful around those type of people praise God even Dallas and Fort Worth puts up signs saying you

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Can say no to panhandlers you can say no to street charity because really a lot of it is just paying for booze

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I'm sorry

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It's not real charity real charity in many cases is not gonna be giving a bum

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You know some kind of money or some kind of a thing and what I'm what I'm trying to get to the point here

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Is I'm making is that many times you could think that something negative is happening to you?

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And it's actually a blessing

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It's a blessing in disguise, and you don't really understand it you know a lot of things that are good for you

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Sometimes have an initial pain period

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Like even working out you work out it kind of hurts

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But then you're gonna be blessed by this later

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And you know that pruning process and John chapter number 15 you know sometimes God prunes a congregation

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Just to make it that much better

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You know we had I don't know it's crazy

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50-60 something people like come to our church in that heat of that controversy and I remember

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Occasionally we'd have big services

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We'd have you know Sunday morning 250 or 260 or 270

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I'm thinking like man if we saw those other 35 losers in our church. I don't even know where they would fit

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I don't even know where we'd put them. You know it was like praise. God. He just opened up some more seating

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You know just so we could have some of that seating and yeah

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I don't have a problem calling someone a loser

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That's falsely accusing me of being a false prophet and unsaved and a reprobate yeah, I'm gonna call them a loser

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Okay, sorry if you're offended by that term

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But if they're gonna call me an unsafe false prophet based on nothing then yeah

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I can in turn turn them into that because again these people don't want to work. They're lazy. They're listening to the sermon right now I

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Mean as soon as the sermons over they're gonna post clips of the service like he called me a loser

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Now I didn't steal that much money from people yeah, you did loser

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Now

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Sometimes you just don't understand what God's doing and look I'll be honest with you

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There are so many times in my life in the last five seven ten years where something's happening

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And I'm thinking like there's no way this is gonna work out

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Like I know I'm not saying I don't believe God

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I'm not saying I don't have faith

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But I just can't like I can't figure out how this could possibly turn into a blessing and then God does it anyways

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Because sometimes you just can't you can't see it. That's why the Bible literally says we have to have faith because faith is

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Trusting in God when you can't see it sometimes you can kind of just see God's providence sometimes you can kind of just see

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It's like the Red Sea opens, and you're like okay. I guess we're gonna walk through but before it opened

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You were sitting there like I know God's gonna take care of us, but like man

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I have no idea how this is gonna work out like I don't have a surfboard

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I don't I don't know how I don't think we're gonna be able to swim like I just don't think I can't figure it out

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And look it's okay that in your carnal mind

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Sometimes you're just sitting there thinking like I don't know how God's gonna figure this out

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But then in our spirit we just say you know what I'm still gonna trust God anyways though though

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He slay me yet

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Will I trust him and you just put your faith in it and you know what God could turn a literal curse into a blessing?

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Enemies attack you going against you you know we've had protests

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We've had all kinds of crazy things happen to us and then people show up people come and visit our church

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We get new members we get people saved that we didn't expect getting saved

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you know someone threw a rock through our door in hearst and just smashed the door and

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Someone had driven driven by and saw it and so they called the cops

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well later that day when I was there cleaning up the glass from the

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The damage or whatever they'd done the guy came and stopped and it's like hey

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I saw this and I called the cops or whatever and then I was able to actually stand there and give him the gospel

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And he ended up getting saved so you know even though it's like a curse to have your door smashed or whatever

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It's like someone got saved out of it, and you know what what's that worth?

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It's worth every door if my door is smashed every day

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And I got someone saved as a result of that then just smash the door every single day

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You know what I mean like who cares about a door being smashed got fixed no big deal

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We'll just keep moving on but you know what these people meant it for evil and god meant it for good

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And you never know how god can turn a situation around

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I'm just trying to say that there's many times that I felt like I didn't really get it

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I didn't really see it in the moment and and look you would be no different than job

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Who really didn't get it in the moment?

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Really couldn't see it and then somehow

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God just turned it all around and god blessed job greater in the end than he was

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In the beginning and so we just have to have faith and trust in the lord and realize hey

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He loves us. Did you notice in verse 5 why he did it?

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Because the lord thy god loved thee

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You know the bible says in romans chapter number eight nothing can separate us from the love of god which is in christ

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Jesus our lord

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Nothing nothing can separate the love of god from us look if you're saved god loves you

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And so if you're saved and you're seeking the lord you should know that even the curses that come against you

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God can somehow turn that into a blessing

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Of course you have to have that by faith you have to believe that but at the end of the day

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You know if you're right with god and you're saved hey

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Nothing can separate us from the love of god, which is in christ

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Of course look even if your back's slid and he's still going to love you

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I'm just saying that all things work together for good to them that love god to them that are called according to his purpose

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So not only will he not?

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Stop loving you he can even turn the curses into a blessing. Next thing when you're not right with god

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He may be the one cursing you okay, so you don't want that all right

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But i'm telling you when you are saved and you're right with god even even the curses can somehow

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Bless you it just makes you stronger

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Now it says in verse six thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever

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you know

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this is a verse that I think a lot of churches and a lot of ministries really struggle with because they don't believe

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That god can just be done with people

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But look this is a clear verse that god can get done with certain people and he can say hey

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These are people that you would just never even seek their peace

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Isn't this similar to in?

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Genesis chapter number 19 they go down and they just see a bunch of wicked people

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He doesn't say hey abraham go down there and give the gospel of sodomy

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No, he's like hey, you just got to get out of there because i'm gonna burn it. I'm gonna toast it, you know achin

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You know, hey, we're just gonna we're just gonna stone with stones and then burn everybody with fire

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You got corna dathan abiram get away from these men get away from their tents and the earth just swallows them up

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You know at some points in time god's just like hey, it's over for these people. Don't even seek their peace

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You know the bible even says in first john

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I mean let's go to the new testament in our minds first john chapter number five

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Says that if you see your brother send a sin which is unto death. I did not say he shall pray for it

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So you could even get to a point with someone where you wouldn't be seeking their peace

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You wouldn't be praying blessing under that particular group of people and look obviously the bible says that we're supposed to give the gospel to every creature

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But you know after the first and second admonition a heretic is supposed to be rejected

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So it can get to a point where you're just done with somebody verse seven thou shalt not abhor an edamite

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Free is thy brother thou shalt not abhor an egyptian because thou was a stranger in his land now edamite

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Is edam which is esau so esau became the edamites

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Esau is jacob's brother

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So of course there's several generations separated in a sense

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But god is still considering edam to be their brethren to be their brothers and that you should not

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Treat them poorly and you shouldn't hate them. What is a poor hate them be negative towards them. You also have the egyptians

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Hey, even though the egyptians had enslaved them and even though the egyptians, you know were their masters

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You can't necessarily just blame every egyptian

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Right. I mean, it's not necessarily the egyptians fault

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That pharaoh has enslaved these people you look at the midwives specifically the midwives

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disobeyed pharaoh

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Rebelled against pharaoh and saved the men child alive

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So are we going to really blame the egyptian midwives? No, they were some good people in general like they

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They tried to do what's right in general

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They had fear towards god and the bible even says that god blessed the hebrew midwives and gave them houses

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So we don't want to just hate all of egypt because of pharaoh

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And you know, we could all have this attitude. We could just hate like an entire group of people because of their leadership

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Because of their government look, I think a lot of people hate america because of our government and you know

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That's a wrong. That's a wrong mentality. That's a wrong attitude. Yeah, is there some bad americans? Absolutely

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You know democrat is just the party of satan

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Let's just be honest and most politicians are evil to the core

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Okay, and i'm with you

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But at the end of the day that doesn't mean that every american is of satan

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And it is some kind of like an evil controlled person, you know

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Some a lot of americans are some of the greatest people

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And so we want to make sure that we have the right mentality here. I think that egypt often represents the world

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And so, you know in general our disposition to the world should be that of being favorable of being kind

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of giving the benefit of the doubt

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And the edamite is kind of like, you know a closer kin to us

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And of course, we want to be kind unto them

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We want to be kind to our family members. Think about this

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Shouldn't you just love your mom and your dad and your brother and sister even if they're not saved

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And you should try to do good unto them

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And then to the world we should just kind of be good to them in general

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But there are certain groups that are the ammonites mobytes

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There's certain groups that hey we're done with those particular people and we'll get to that here in a moment

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Look at verse number eight

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The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the lord and their third generation

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So again from a purity perspective these people aren't as bad to come into the lord

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You know come into the congregation of the lord come into the camp, but they still have to be

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Three generations removed. Okay, so it's again. There's still some purity aspects. There's still some limitations

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You know if if this congregation of the lord if the children of israel are just egyptians

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Then why is he literally saying here egyptians can't come in for three generations?

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And then somebody will be like, oh, there's no racial purity here. There's no racial significance here

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They're all just whatever look that would make no sense if this is just a huge group of egyptians

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And then they can just come in now the bible teaches that the children of israel left with a mixed multitude

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So a lot of egyptians went with them, but they were not allowed to come into the congregation of the lord

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Until the third generation because there was a distinction. There was a separation. They're not the same group of people

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It's it's a very distinct thing

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I mean the egyptians abhorred the hebraeus according to genesis and that's where they had them in goshen

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They abhorred the shepherd they abhorred the the children of israel in a sense

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As as a general disposition not all of them, but as a general thing the egyptians didn't really like the hebraeus

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They were separate from one another

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Albeit when god plagued them and did mighty works a lot of egyptians came with them in the mixed multitude

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The bandwagon egyptians they came out with a congregation lord, but again

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They're still not allowed to mix in yet until the third generation because this is a

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You know physical descendancy from the children of israel. Of course

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They're going to get watered down and mixed more and more as time goes on but in general they are kind of a physical

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descendancy

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Now it says in verse number nine when thou host go forth against thine enemy

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Then keep thee from every wicked thing

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Um, this is kind of just a standalone verse, but this is really takes place with eiken

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There's other examples, but this is an eiken verse for sure

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Because when they're going out to battle he took the accursed thing

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He took the wicked thing and then it caused the entire

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You know children of israel's host to be cursed and when they went to the battle of ai

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They ended up losing and you know, you got to be careful. You don't want to lose the battle of ai. All right

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Battle of ai will get you right

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But the key isn't becoming a farmer. It's just not being cursed

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That's how you win the battle of ai, right?

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Is you want to make sure that you're just not cursed of god by having possessions that you shouldn't have

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And if you have them you want to get rid of them. So then you're not cursed by ai, okay

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So ai will destroy you if you have the accursed thing. So you want to keep yourself pure, you know

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again, i'm not trying to get ahead of myself because I want to make these spiritual applications, but

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You know when we're in a battle

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We want to be careful that we are, you know, right with god

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We want to make sure that we're pure that we're not getting really backslidden because it's a dangerous time and we want to be really careful

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That we're right with god that we're pure with god, you know purity matters

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Notice that purity here is mattering that when someone's bringing some cursed thing into the camp

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It can harm everybody else and we want to make sure that we're keeping ourselves

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Pure from these things they're keeping the congregation pure

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When they're going out to war they're keeping themselves pure from wicked things

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Verse 10 if there be any i'm sorry if there be among you any man that is not clean

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By reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night

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Then shall he go abroad out of the camp he should not come within the camp but it shall be when evening

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Cometh on he shall wash himself with water and when the sun is down he should come into the camp again

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I think this is a general principle

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So the uncleanness could be many different things one example would just be hand me withers a critter or an animal

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That comes at their camp in the night

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He kills it if you touch a dead carcass or a dead animal body that would make you unclean

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And the bible is simply saying this person would have to go outside the camp

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Wash themselves and then they could return when the sun set on the next day

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Again, just a simple purity ritual, right?

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We're just trying to make sure that we're not keeping uncleanness

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In the camp in the congregation that someone that's unclean is going without the camp cleaning themselves up and then returning back

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Clean coming back pure

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We have here in verse number 12

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It says thou shalt have a place also without the camp whether thou shalt go forth abroad

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And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon and it shall be when thou will ease thyself abroad

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Thou shalt dig therewith and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee for the lord thy god walk in the midst of

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Thy camp deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy camp be holy

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That he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee

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Now this is where you get that the famous or the outhouse, right?

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Uh, but again, it's just it's simple sanitation principles that you want, you know number two to be without the camp

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And specifically it needs to be covered

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That you want to cover it you don't want to just leave it out, you know, you know

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It's funny to me because I was talking to my dad

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I was just talking to my dad and I was on the phone today

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And he was like, hey, what are you preaching? I was like i was preaching this and he's like, you know

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What's it about and I was just bringing some of the verses up

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I brought this one up and he's like wow do people really need that and he was just kind of being he was just kind of being

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Funny, he's not being disrespectful the bible. He's just kind of being you know, like do we really need to know that one?

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And it's like yeah, san francisco really needs that one

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Yeah

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Yeah, I mean just think about how much feces is just on the ground and just everywhere in their streets. It's gross

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And as much as we find it gross the bible teaches that god himself finds it gross that god doesn't like it

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God doesn't want you to be unclean god doesn't want his streets to be filled with dung

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He doesn't want just dung everywhere and it's isn't one of the most frustrating things when you accidentally step in dung

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I mean man, it just stinks. It's frustrating. It's gross. It's defiled

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It just ruins your day

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And at the end of the day, it's just like god doesn't even want to walk up and down your camp

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So that he steps in some dung he's saying if he sees this he may just depart

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He may just not even want to be in their camp. And so they're supposed to go outside the camp

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And cover it specifically. So these are just good sanitation principles and you'll notice people that are not right with god

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You'll notice false religions often fail in this area

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You can go to certain countries you can go to certain areas where they have a false religion and they will not

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Abide by these simple sanitation principles that are listed here in the bible

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And of course god is a clean god and he wants us to be clean and this is an important principle

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And you know what we should cover that, you know, if you go out camping in the woods

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Hey, you know

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I went camping in the woods when I was younger

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I haven't done it very much but what they did is you would go out

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Into the woods like far away from the camp you would dig a hole and then they had a home depot bucket

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with a toilet seat on it

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and you would basically

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Do your business ease yourself and then you would just cover it up and then you you would leave

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This is how you want it. You don't want this in the camp. You want to make sure it's covered

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You want to make sure that everything's taken care of you know, this is a simple principle

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And there's nothing wrong with stepping on dirt

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That stuff's underneath

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But you know what there's you don't want to step on this kind of dirt. You don't want to step on this kind of mud

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Or sludge. All right

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now he says in verse 15

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Thou shalt not deliver

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unto his master

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The servant which is escaped from his master unto thee

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He shall dwell with thee even among you in that place which he shall choose

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And one of thy gates where it liketh him best thou shalt not oppress him

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So, you know, this is kind of a difficult verse. I think you have to read into it a little bit

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Just because of of other verses in the bible. It says here that the servant is escaped

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From his master. There must have been a problem. There must have been some kind of a conflict or some kind of a controversy here

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For him to want to quote escape from his master

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Uh, additionally

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If he escaped and he's guilty of any other principle that we have in the bible

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We would use those to apply right if someone had committed murder and was running away from their master

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We already have that statute and we know how to how to deal with that

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He would have to be delivered back to the judges and he'd be executed for his murder if it was theft

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He'd have to take account for his death

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So it kind of seems like what's being implied here is that the servant is being

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Mistreated in some way like there's something negative about his um his his situation of being under this particular master

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And so if he's able to escape that oppression if he's able to escape this negative

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Harmful circumstance and he came to you

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Basically for refuge in a sense what the bible is saying is that you would not just deliver him back into his oppressive

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Harmful dangerous situation. So again, there's there's probably something awry here

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There's some kind of an issue

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And think about it. It's like god actually cares about people being oppressed

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He actually cares about people being taken advantage of or abused in some way that technically if you could escape

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Then you wouldn't do this now

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What would be a modern day application? I don't know if there's a ton

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But to me this would be the couple examples would be like we have a religious

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Exemption for seeking asylum to america

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So like sometimes countries are persecuting christians or people for their faith and they come to america fleeing

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You know a biblical principle would be like hey, we're going to accept that person

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We're not just going to send them back to this particular country to their death or the beating or jail

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Because they didn't do anything wrong

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They're not a criminal because if they're a criminal we just extradite them and just send them right back and say like no

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No, you're not going to escape murder. You're not going to escape some crime that you committed

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But if they're basically just fleeing for religious persecution

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Or just some kind of oppressive state then we accept it another example be like how many people have escaped north korea

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You know defectors of north korea

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We don't ship them back. We're not saying like hey you got to go back north korea

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We'll be shipping them to their death in many cases or to just some gruesome

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Experience so in some cases if someone could escape north korea, we would be like hey

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We'll take you we wouldn't send you back to that

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Oppressive state to that oppressive country to that hellhole of a country north korea

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Okay, and so I think those could be some practical applications

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or circumstances

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obviously

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You know in an abusive situation, you know, we have to respect authority

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But at the same time we should be willing to accept people that are in some kind of a negative oppressive abusive situation

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And try to help them in general

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It says

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Also that he has freedom right he can kind of go where he wants that he gets to kind of

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Go where he pleases. He's also

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He's swapping masters in a sense too, though. He's not necessarily a master himself. He's just swapping masters

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Hey, I want to serve this guy. He'd be better verse 17

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There shall be no whore the daughters of israel nor sodomite of the sons of israel

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Thou shall not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the lord thy god for any vow

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For even both these are abomination under the lord thy god so

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By following all these statutes having a whore would be somewhat difficult

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Because a woman that was caught committing fornication would be obligated to marry

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That person and so and since you know, you have women that are married

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They shouldn't be whores. Obviously if they committed whoredom, they would just put the death for adultery

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You have women that are just too young living with their dad

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They're not and then you have women that are of age living with their parents

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Well, if they were to commit fornication, they should end up being married off to that particular person and almost every case and so

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whores or harlots

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Really can't even exist if we're all kind of abiding by these principles and doing these things and of course god is saying hey

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No one should be doing this

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There's other principles in the bible that says that should not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore

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That would be a wicked thing to do that would be an evil thing to do that'd be a wrong thing to do

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But if someone did that if someone literally allowed their daughter to be a whore

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Or was prostituting their daughter to be a whore or something like that. The bible is just saying they're not welcome in the congregation

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We're not we're not going to allow harlotry

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Into our congregation, you know, it's shameful that in america we allow

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Pornography and and prostitution of these things to be legal in our country. It should be illegal period

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We should just not allow those things

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We should eradicate those things and get rid of those things. I mean if they can censor me off the planet

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Can't they censor some pornography?

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But of course, we know the people that are making money off of this are probably of course

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Lobbying and doing all kinds of things to grease the wheels of our politics

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You know if we had a righteous government, they wouldn't censor the preacher. They would censor the pornography. You know what I mean?

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And it's shameful and it's harmful and look why is this so harmful because the carnal nature

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Definitely has an appetite for this, you know sinful man wants this

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It's it's it's even though it's a shameful thing even though it's kind of has a gross element to it

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It's also something that's desirable to the carnal man to the carnal mind. And of course, that's why it's so dangerous

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It's so dangerous because there's such an appetite for this because most men are going to struggle in this area

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And most men are willing to you know indulge the flesh in this particular area

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That's why you just have to eradicate it. You can't allow yourself to have this in society. It's just too harmful

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It's too dangerous. It's destroying the youth. It's destroying marriage. It's destroying all kinds of people's just life

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It's causing people to get so much stds. It's destroying the health of our nation. It's just so harmful

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And look, it's so harmful because it's just so appealing to so many people and so many people get sucked into this

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I mean virtually every young man is gonna is gonna struggle with this. It's a major temptation. It's a major problem

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It's a major sin

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We have to just try and get it off the table to reduce

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The impact that it has in our nation and the bible says that if we have a land that has harlots and and and

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Hookers and prostitutes and all this stuff that the land will will fall to hordom

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That'll destroy itself that'll be destroyed and god's trying to keep it pure from that so it's not destroyed

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So it's not going to be damaged and so this is very important not not only whores, but even sodomites

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Yes, sodomites are abomination. They're dogs and they're not welcome in the congregation of the lord period

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Now if we compare this with other passages, we learn that god is much harsher

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Towards the sodomite than he is to the whore. Okay whores in the bible

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There's many whores that are redeemed in the bible

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You have ray of the harlot specifically as a major example of someone that obviously

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By faith is recognized in the book of james. She's recognized in other passages. She's delivered from jiraco

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She comes into the congregation. She comes into the lineage of jesus christ himself

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The sodomites they're just burned in genesis chapter number 19

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They're just eradicated by the kings of israel and the kings of juda throughout the books and then in romans chapter number one

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It clearly teaches that the sodomites are reprobate

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They're rejected of god that they're filled with all unrighteousness and wickedness and evilness and so

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They are just to be rejected period

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They're not allowed to be in the house of the lord

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And of course the money acquired from either of these people is not welcome in god's house either

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And how many churches today are willing to take money from prostitutes and whores and from sodomites instead of preaching what the bible says on these issues

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Dirty money taking dirty money and tainted money in

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Because they don't want to preach these things because you know what you preach these things and someone has some kind of a fag

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Uncle or fag brother and they're going to get offended. They're going to leave

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They're going to leave they're not going to like it. But you know what? This is god's word

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He's saying hey these people are not allowed in the house of the lord

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We're not allowed to set their money for any vow. These are abomination. They should just be rejected wholesale

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And you know, that's that's our stance. That's what we've always believed as a church and we always will

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Says in verse 19 thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother usury of money user of vittles user of anything that has lent upon

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Usury unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury

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But under thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury that the lord thy god may bless thee in all that thou set

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Us thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it

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Against again, it's basically like citizens of your country

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You shouldn't be lending upon usury to those of your nation some rich foreigner that comes over here

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That's just a traveling visa or something

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If he wanted some kind of a business deal you could technically charge him interest if you felt like it

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But again, if you look at other principles about the poor you wouldn't want to oppress the poor

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So even if someone was a stranger that was poor

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He's not saying like rip off the poor here. Okay, I think if you if you look at all the context you would really only limit

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usury or interest to rich foreign interests

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Rich foreign interest because it's a hostile action to lend money on usury

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And I've heard some people say oh this is just saying that you can lend money to people that are not saved

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I don't believe that I don't agree with that

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Because it's a harmful action now some rich businessman doing business in a foreign country

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He's not going to be that offended by interest

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But you know you just start just your average poor person your neighbor your friends or whatever

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You're charging these people interest on stuff. It's it's not going to make you look good. It's not a good testimony

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It's not what god wants. It's very harmful to them. It's harmful to society and you know

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What kind of application process you can go through on the salvation whether you're going to give them interest or not?

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But you know there are banks out there

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This is real that if you put on the application like you're a jew they won't charge you interest

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Because they have they have this principle that they apply only to jews

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And you know what that's harmful to america that we have all these money lending practices in america

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Where they're charging interest to us, but they won't charge it to each other because they know how harmful it is

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They know how much I mean you buy a house a mortgage

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You're going to pay double or triple what the house is worth if you pay that entire full note

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You know these these cash payday loan places are even more predatory

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You get a car loan. You get I mean just everything's on interest and loans and usury. I mean student debt loan

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I mean we're charging kids to teach them how to be a a successful citizen of our nation. That's wicked

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Hey, you want a job? Well, you got to pay me money to get a job. You know, that's that's backwards. It's weird

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It's harmful to society. It's just extracting so much wealth from people

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You know, this is a practice that should be banned in america. We should ban usury towards citizens

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It should not be legal to be charging all those interests on our citizens

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It's just an extraction of wealth and it's evil and it's wicked

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And I don't I don't agree with it

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He says here in verse number

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21 when thou shalt vow vow unto the lord thy god

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Thou shalt not slack to pay it for the lord thy god will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee

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But if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee that which is gone out of thy lips

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Thou shalt keep and perform even a free will offering according as thou hast vowed on the lord thy god

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Which thou hast promised with thy mouth

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When thou comest unto thy neighbor's vineyard

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Then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure

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But thou shalt not put any in thy vessel when thou comest in the standing corner thy neighbor

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Then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand but thou should not move a sickle under thy neighbor standing horn

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So i'm going to explain these few real quick and then we're going to go through some spiritual applications

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but

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Uh, it the bible is saying it's not a sin to make a vow

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There's nothing wrong because if you notice here in the verse where it says

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Verse 23 or sorry verse 22, but if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee the word forbear is to not do something

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So he's saying even if you forego even if you don't make a vow

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It's not a sin

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There's nothing in the bible saying you have to vow things to god. It's nothing in the bible saying like you have to make promises to god

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Okay, and think about it. Some people say this is salvation. You gotta you gotta make a promise

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You gotta give your life to him. No. No, he gave his life for me

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All I did is accept his free gift

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I'm accepting his promise not my promise. It's not my promise that gets me into heaven is his promise that gets me into heaven

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Okay, I don't have to make any vow ever

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No, if there is no obligation to make any vow in your life

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Now probably the most common vow that many people will make is a marriage vow

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Okay, but look you don't have to make a marriage vow. No one is obligated to get married

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You could just be a single person and serve god your entire life and you could make zero vows your entire life

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There is nothing wrong with that

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But if you do make a vow

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For any reason the bible is saying you have to keep it if you make a vow to god

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Then you have to honor that you have to keep your word unto god

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So if you stand at the marriage altar and you say till death do us part

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And you're making this vow before god and man then the bible says that you have to pay it period

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There you know, it's just sad how many people just think that there's all these

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Exceptions to get out your vow to god. No, no, there is no such thing

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Now

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Obviously that vow itself is made on certain pretext on certain presuppositions

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One is potentially that you were marrying a virgin

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That was the only exception given in the old testament that broke that vow because you're making a vow based on a certain

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Understanding that was not true and because of that fraud god gives one exception

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But if you actually marry a virgin there was no escape clause

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If you know that she's not a virgin and you went on the deal there was no escape clause

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It doesn't matter. It's till death do us part. That's why I believe in a till death marriage

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Because if you think about it, the only thing that's the exception is that the marriage was basically a fraud and never happened

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So it's not like you're breaking the marriage is basically kind of an annulment even though it used the word divorce

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Even though he's the word putting away

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Our modern understanding of a california no fault divorce is is perverted in comparison to what god actually had

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Intended in the scripture and actually means by divorce. So you make a vow unto god you have to keep it

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That's why jephthah when he makes a vow whatever comes out to meet me in the field that I will sacrifice unto you

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He had to keep that he was thinking it was going to be his sheep or something his favorite sheep

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Or his favorite cow or something. He did not expect it to be his daughter

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And when it was his daughter, wow, that was very grievous unto him

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But because he made that vow he still sacrificed his daughter and think about it in the same way

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God made a promise to redeem us

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Through the sacrifice of his son and he kept that promise. He kept that oath god cannot lie

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Anything that god promises to us in hope of eternal life which god that cannot lie promise before the world began

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Isn't it great that god can never break his promise?

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Isn't it great that when he in a spiritual sense marries us and we become the bride of christ?

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He's never going to leave us. He's never going to forsake us. He's never going to drop us like a bad habit

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We are sealed under the day of redemption. Hey when god says he's gonna buy he's gonna buy

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He puts down the earnest payment and yeah, he didn't necessarily

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Complete the transaction yet, but we know he will and he always makes good on his promise

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And that's the example and to us that we should always honor our word

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We should always honor our contract our vow our promises, especially unto god

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Especially unto god, but again, do you have to no?

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But this is what you should do you should be very careful before you ever make any vow ever for any reason

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To be very very careful if someone's saying like hey, here's this nda

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Here's this legal agreement that I need you to sign to cover up sin

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Be very careful before you sign that

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You know, first of all, I don't even know why you would

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You know if someone came to me and said like hey pastor shelly

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I need you to sign this document to cover up sin. I'd be like no, let's just tell everybody

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I mean, what are they gonna do to you?

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Kill you. I mean they might kill you. I don't know, but you might be careful, but i'm just saying like hey

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Where is where is that in the bible?

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Where's the bible like let's make a pact let's make some blood oath

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So that we won't expose sin or whatever in the church or something like that's a bad. That's a bad thing

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I mean achan had to confess his sin for the whole congregation and then we just stoned him and killed him and then we moved on

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Okay, and I get that every little minor trespass and every little minor grievance and whatever charity

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Cover it the multitude of sins and i'm not saying that we need to sit here and be nitpicky and whatever

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But when there's major sin when there's a big problem, it needs to be dealt with appropriately

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People should be careful to make these vows and promises to god and covering things up and signing all kinds of contracts

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Be careful what you sign

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Be careful what you agree to be careful what you promise and what kind of owes that you make

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And you don't want to be this kind of person that's just always breaking their word breaking their oaths breaking their pacts

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Look there have been people

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I know

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That I didn't ask for this. I would have never asked for this. They're like hey

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I just want to let you know like i'm never leaving your church

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I'm never leaving steadfast. I'm a lifer. I'm whatever and then it's just like gone at the drop of a hat

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You know, don't make that kind of a promise

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Look even at the door. I've gotten someone saved at the door and they're just like I swear to god

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I'm coming to church and I said don't do this

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I said, I know you're not coming

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And I do not want you to start your christian life by just breaking a vow to god. Okay

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Okay, and look, you know

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I think this is where it's coming from people just like in in a moment of clarity in a moment of sobriety

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They think you know what?

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I'm kind of disappointed in how my actions have been in the past or I feel guilty about something

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I've done in the past and I just really want god to to know that i'm sincere about making a change and so they

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Kind of say like I just want to make this vow or this promise, you know

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It's way more important than making of our promise just doing it

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You know, I don't believe you get extra points for having said you were going to do it and then doing it

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It's like people want the style points

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Whatever they want to they want to be like hey

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I'm going to make this three interface and then they shoot and make it

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It doesn't matter if you shoot the three and win the game you win the game

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You didn't have to have the extra style points of being like i'm going to do it too. You know whatever

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And so it's like when christian life it's like hey, don't tell me you're going to come to church three times a week

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Come to church three times a week

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Don't tell me you're going to go on the next mission strip. Just go on the next mission strip

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Don't don't tell people you're going to do things. Just do it. Don't say hey, i'm gonna love you wife

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Just love her right?

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We should stop worrying about making promises and ohs and all this kind of stuff and we should just do it

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We should just be people that are willing to deserve god and love god and do it and especially if you struggle

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And diligence if you've constantly broken your word do not make a vow

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Okay, please don't but if you do

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We keep that serious. It's very serious in the house of god

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And we don't want to be the kind of people that break our word. We can be cursed for breaking our word

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Um in this particular passage, it's also saying

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That if you do make this this vow even a free will offering

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It's dedicated them now again, this is used isn't this interesting like this whole the whole premise of this is like

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Let's honor our word and help and love god and do what's right

01:19:04.440 --> 01:19:10.600
Then the pharisees twist this whole thing and they'll when their parents come to them and they say hey, I need some money

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Then they say oh no. No, this has been this is corbin

01:19:14.840 --> 01:19:19.080
It is corbin. This is in the new testament. It's like what does that mean? It was devoted to god

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Well, here's the thing if it's devoted to god, you can't break that word. Can you?

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I mean if you had some money if you had a cow if you had a sheep and you said i've dedicated this to god

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You could never give that to your parents

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so they they basically use that law to try and

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Trick their parents in society and then not actually honoring the father mother and giving them money or helping them

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Because it's like they take something that's good and then they twist it into something that's evil and they make it a burden

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And they kind of twisted the word of god. Look, that's really evil and wicked

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If someone's asking for money or asking for help and then you lie

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And say no, no, this is for god

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No, this is for the vision offering and then you don't give it to them

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Okay, that's super wicked. It's super evil. It's wrong

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God gets really mad about that

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And of course, I don't want to be that kind of person that makes these o's and and god rained down on

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The last part was a little different. It's talking about eating grapes and eating corn that also comes into play in the new testament

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It's interesting. I mean so much of this chapter is just in the new testament in the stories to come

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Like a lot of these statutes are going to be brought up referenced and in stories

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But we have the the the disciples of jesus walking through the corn and they're plucking and eating on the sabbath day

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And of course the Pharisees get really mad at him

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Pharisees must have hated the old testament. I'm telling you what

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But the bible is basically saying hey, there's no there's nothing wrong with eating in the field

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Okay, you can eat in the field

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But you can't like start putting something in your pocket and you know get in a basket and just carrying and taking something

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And if you think about it

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By taking stuff with you. It's kind of like personal enrichment

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Eating the food isn't going to enrich you. We all have to eat

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Come and go but it's just basically like hey being satisfied

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But you're being like personally enriched by taking their goods or or actually just harvesting a bunch of their crops

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When they you didn't even do the work. You're just basically harvesting and reaping, you know, someone else's crops

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You're just stealing their goods

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But again, uh, i'm not going to go there for a second time

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But in proverbs 6 the bible says that men are not going to despise you

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If you're a thief and you're like stealing to satisfy your soul

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So it's like people don't really aren't as bothered by you basically taking goods to basically satisfy

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Your just current need your current hunger

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But yeah people are going to be really mad at you

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When you're trying to steal their goods for personal enrichment or for personal goods even in that proverb it says you have to pay back

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This you don't even necessarily have to pay back. Okay, but let's go through this chapter one more time quickly

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And think about the spiritual applications. Okay, and I think that

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A lot of this is really stemming from the idea of purity keeping yourself from spiritual moral defilement blemishes being clean untamed with evil

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And when we talk about the congregation lord, this could be in reference to church itself specifically, so I think a lot of it's in reference to church

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Now when we talk about someone that's wounded in the stones or at this privy member cut off

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One thing this could be like these transgender surgeries. You know what I mean? We're not going to let them in the church

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But but if you think about it, what is what's happened here? This person is incapable

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Of producing seed

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They're incapable of producing seed. So therefore as a result if they can't produce seed

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There's something wrong with them. Why would someone not be able to produce seed because they're not saved

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That's what's actually being illustrated here. And again someone like this is someone that's like been in the congregation

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That we didn't know about and they can't produce seed

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It's like an infiltrator that's in here. And again, isn't that a lot of these trannies and stuff? They're reprobates infiltrators, whatever

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They you you come to them and you're thinking this guy can produce seed and he can't

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Why because he's a reprobate because he's not saved and of course those people aren't welcome in the congregation lord once that's discovered

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Once that's made known once that's public. It's like we're going to get this guy out

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Because we only want the saved in church someone that doesn't have the gospel someone that's not saved

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They can't spread the seed which is the word of god because they're just not saved

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And so we would get them outside the camp a bastard. Well, if you go to hebraeus

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Let's go there for a second go to hebraeus chapter number 12. The bible makes it clear that a bastard is not saved

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So doesn't it make sense that in a church you don't want people that are infiltrators and not saved and again

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You just don't want the unsaved in general

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In church, they're not welcome in church church is not for the unsaved church is for the sage

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It's the congregation of saints. It's those that have called upon the name of the lord. That is the people that church is for

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Now it says in hebraeus chapter number 12

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Look at verse number six for whom the lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth

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If he endure chastening god dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not

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But if you be without chastisement

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Whereof all are partakers then are you bastards and not sons?

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So the bible says that every single person that's not punished by god is not saved and they're not a son

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They are a bastard because it says we're all partakers why god will punish his children

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God is not mocked for what so man soeth actually also reap those that are without chastisement those that are never punished by god

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It's because they're not even saved

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They are a bastard and they are to be put outside the camp. They're not welcome into the camp

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You know, obviously an unsaved person we'd always give them the gospel

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But i'm just saying in general, you know, we this is not a place for unsaved people

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This is not a place for bastards and people that have their privy member cut off

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Now again, i'm not saying literally

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Yes, someone that's physically mutilated we could allow them

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But the spiritual picture here is someone that's not saved that's an infiltrator and we would not allow them to come into the congregation of the lord

01:24:46.540 --> 01:24:49.020
The ammonite and the mo bites in verses three and four

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Notice they didn't give them bread and water

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What does bread and water often represent? Well represents the word of god and the gospel again

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And again, this would be a group of people that are not saved because they can't give bread and they can't give water

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This is another group of people and of course, they can't bless you

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All they can do is curse you and again, this is what the unsaved, you know protesters and reprobates and haters

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They can't give the gospel. They can't give anything good

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They can only curse and they hate the things of god

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And of course, there's a certain small group of the population in this world that's reprobate the bible makes it clearly

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And and look matthew chapter number seven give not that which is holy under the dogs

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Neither cast your pearls before swine, you know, there has to be a group of people in the bible

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That are dogs

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I mean if the new testament is saying beware of dogs

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And then the old testament saying hey, we're not going to have the price of a dog in the house of the lord

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And then it says hey, guess what? This is a sodomite

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And then I get up and say hey, we don't let sodomites in our church ever. It's like oh, how dare you?

01:25:52.140 --> 01:25:55.420
You know, I remember this one guy got really mad at me because we had a sticker on our door

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It said no dogs allowed

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And this guy's like show me in the bible where jesus ever called someone a dog. I'm like, oh you matthew seven

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I knew you were going to go there

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Right

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And look, that's one there's actually a second mention where he's talking to another woman and she references to herself

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Uh, you know as being kind of like unworthy

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Of receiving any attention from the lord and he says it's not neat to cast the children's bread

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And the dogs and he just calls this woman dog. So sometimes dogs just references to unsaved

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Sometimes it references to the sodomites and of course here in this chapter itself

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We have the dogs and the dogs are not welcome

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The dogs are not allowed in the congregation of the lord because they're reprobate and they're not man's best friend

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Now you might you might think that but they're not all right

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Now verse five turn the curse into a blessing. We're not going to seek their peace. You know again

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Some people we're not going to seek their peace and even their curses are going to somehow bless us and cause us to multiply and be better

01:26:53.740 --> 01:26:57.820
You know pharaoh's curse upon the children of israel in the sense that he was uh,

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Afflicting them caused them to multiply caused them to grow and it caused them to have more blessing from the lord

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Um, the bible says we should not abhor an edamite or an egyptian

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Then again, this is our our family members and the unsaved world

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We would not be negative towards them. We would be kind to them

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We would be gracious to them. We're hoping that they get saved. We're hoping that they can turn to the lord

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And we shouldn't just despise unsaved people

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There's some unsaved people that are just the enemies of god. We hate them with perfect hatred as psalm 139 says

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But the people that are just your average unsaved person your average unsaved catholic and whatever, you know

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We should love them be kind to them. We should be gracious. We should we should pray for them

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We should want them to get saved

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We should do good under them. But yeah, there is a small group that you know what? We're not going to even seek their peace

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And that's a harsh message, but it's a reality

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Uh verse eight, uh talked about them not coming into the congregation of the third generation verse nine

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When there's a battle you got to keep yourself from the wicked thing. Look when we're in a spiritual battle

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When our church is in a real big battle

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We have to be careful as a congregation not to let wicked things come into our church wicked things like railing

01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:07.800
Uh drunkenness

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The things that are listed on first corinthians 5 list. We don't want to allow wicked people

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We don't want people in our church. They're going to be secretly recording our our meetings and just shipping that information out

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No, you have to deal with those people harshly

01:28:20.140 --> 01:28:21.740
You got to get those wicked things out

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You have to get the leaven out of your church and a little leaven leavens the whole lump

01:28:25.900 --> 01:28:29.660
We cannot allow that kind of stuff in a battle and you know when you were going through a battle

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You need to try and get yourself even more right with god

01:28:32.620 --> 01:28:37.500
You need to be more pure not less and again think about what these things are doing. It's causing our church to be pure

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If we don't let the unsaved infiltrators in church, it's going to keep our church pure

01:28:42.140 --> 01:28:46.220
If we don't let the bastards the unsaved come in it's going to keep our church pure

01:28:46.380 --> 01:28:51.020
If we're not letting the reprobates and all those people come in, of course, it's going to keep us pure

01:28:51.420 --> 01:28:55.260
We're also, you know going to be kind to then say but they're not a part of the congregation

01:28:55.260 --> 01:29:00.140
They're still kept out notice that they are kept out the third generation. We're still not even the most nice

01:29:00.700 --> 01:29:02.060
unsaved person

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You know if they can't get saved

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Well, we don't want them to necessarily be a part of our congregation

01:29:07.820 --> 01:29:10.300
We want to just give them the gospel and hope they get saved

01:29:10.540 --> 01:29:12.540
But you know, I heard this story

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And forgive me. It's it's uh, I partly believe it. Okay. Sometimes the bible brings up stuff

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That I can't for sure confirm. I can't for sure confirm this but i've heard this and I partly believe it

01:29:24.940 --> 01:29:26.940
That I went to a church

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And there was a red hot preaching conference

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And I preached a sermon called gross people

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Okay, and supposedly this sermon destroyed the conference and destroyed everything, right?

01:29:38.460 --> 01:29:40.460
Well, then I was told that there was actually

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Uh a family there's two families there

01:29:43.340 --> 01:29:44.300
that

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Are from india that were part of the congregation and they were very wealthy and they tied lots of money to the church

01:29:51.740 --> 01:29:56.460
Well after my sermon one of at least one of them got very offended and ended up leaving the church

01:29:56.780 --> 01:30:02.700
Now again, I tried to make it clear in my sermon multiple times that I was not mad at indian people

01:30:02.860 --> 01:30:08.700
I was mad at hinduism and I said that repeatedly but again, obviously there's some overlap and people getting to get offended

01:30:08.780 --> 01:30:12.700
Maybe I didn't word everything right. I don't know but nevertheless they left

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And it was like they had been there for a year

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People have been at the church for a year

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And and I think the whole I heard that a lot of people blame me for them leaving and they're mad at me and i'm trash or whatever

01:30:24.380 --> 01:30:28.220
But then they said well, but that family they didn't believe

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You know

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Uh in in eternal security

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They they believe that you can lose your salvation

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And and they're not saved

01:30:36.700 --> 01:30:38.700
So they're going to the church for a year

01:30:38.780 --> 01:30:45.180
Not saved and then everybody's super offended that my sermon somehow gets them out of the church or whatever and it's like

01:30:45.740 --> 01:30:51.820
Look, i'm not saying that someone that's unsaved if they come and visit for a few weeks or even a few months or something

01:30:51.820 --> 01:30:54.380
That i'm not going to try to be kind and get them, you know the gospel

01:30:54.380 --> 01:30:57.580
But i'm like, do you really want unsaved people in your church for over a year?

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I mean that's kind of dangerous because then at that point are you even have any kind of separation?

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I mean, that's kind of awkward now, of course

01:31:05.660 --> 01:31:10.060
Why would someone want to just tolerate unsaved people in their church for over a year?

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Because they're paying lots of tithe money. That's one reason but you know, I don't believe that that's the right motivation

01:31:16.140 --> 01:31:22.940
I don't think that's the right thing. You kind of wonder if they were actually being confronted harshly enough on that particular issue because

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What does a man profited if he gained the whole world and yet lose his own soul?

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I mean i'd rather offend somebody so much

01:31:30.940 --> 01:31:32.060
That they're going to leave the church

01:31:32.060 --> 01:31:36.220
But at least I gave them a better chance of getting saved than allowing them to just stay unsaved

01:31:36.620 --> 01:31:38.940
Because if you don't get it over a year, I mean you're kind of like

01:31:39.580 --> 01:31:46.620
I don't know. I mean the Bible says in second corinthians. I mean the apostle paul says that either you're saved or you're reprobate by now

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Like he's just saying like you either got it or you didn't at some point an adult that's heard the gospel

01:31:53.580 --> 01:31:55.740
That many times isn't going to get it. I mean, what are you going to do?

01:31:56.140 --> 01:32:02.780
But of course i'm not saying be mean to the unsaved i'm not saying be mean to those people we should be kind and gracious and sometimes people are hard cases

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But you know, they shouldn't just be part of your church. They shouldn't be the fabric of your church

01:32:07.500 --> 01:32:10.780
Your church should be the saved and that's keeping your church pure

01:32:11.580 --> 01:32:16.780
Pure motives pure religion pure faith pure doctrine

01:32:17.900 --> 01:32:20.940
It's dangerous when you just have a church filled with unsaved people in it

01:32:20.940 --> 01:32:25.980
Now i'm not saying the whole church i'm not saying that i'm just saying like hey, I wouldn't want that interesting story

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I don't even know if it's true, but I partly believe it. All right

01:32:30.060 --> 01:32:36.220
Uh also it says here that when someone is unclean by the night

01:32:37.100 --> 01:32:40.460
That they had to go out and come back again. It's in the darkness

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Is this like someone that gets backslidden in our church and they do some unclean thing or like hey, you got to get out there

01:32:46.780 --> 01:32:50.300
Wash yourself with the water of the word and then you can come back in

01:32:51.100 --> 01:32:55.020
Okay, and some people get really mad at this. They think church is a hospital. No

01:32:55.900 --> 01:33:01.820
Is not a hospital the hospital is a hospital if you need medical attention, please leave and go to the hospital immediately

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All right

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And spiritually speaking if you have a major sin issue in first corinthians 5 you need to leave fix that

01:33:08.700 --> 01:33:13.340
And then you can come back into the congregation lord and we'll welcome you and we'll be kind and we'll be gracious

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And we'll forgive you and we'll confirm our love toward you, but let me tell you something

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People are supposed to be punished so that they'll actually get right

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Now he also says if you ease thyself in the camp that you're supposed to or you're not supposed to ease yourself in the case

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Let's do without the camp

01:33:29.500 --> 01:33:35.020
Okay, you know again, we don't want dung in our church. We don't want false doctrine. We don't want ugliness

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We don't want messiness and if you're going to do that kind of stuff, you know, you may be asked to leave

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We just don't want that kind of leaven that that kind of crap in our church. Sorry for my expression. All right

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A servant escapes and we want to

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Essentially not return them

01:33:50.860 --> 01:33:53.580
You know again, I think if someone comes unto you and needing help

01:33:53.580 --> 01:33:59.740
We should try to help them and not necessarily just turn them away one application. I thought of this particular story though

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Is is kind of like sin itself because the bible teaches that when you get saved you're no longer

01:34:07.100 --> 01:34:11.820
The servant of sin but you've now become a servant of righteousness and the good thing is that god

01:34:12.300 --> 01:34:16.620
Is not going to deliver us back unto sin under the curse of the law

01:34:16.620 --> 01:34:20.620
We're now free from that and we'll never be given back into that

01:34:20.620 --> 01:34:23.340
But what's interesting is you didn't you didn't become a master

01:34:23.340 --> 01:34:26.540
You went from the servant of sin to the servant of jesus christ

01:34:26.540 --> 01:34:30.620
You're always gonna be a servant, but once you cross that rubicon

01:34:30.620 --> 01:34:33.420
You don't have to go back. God's not gonna be like, you know what?

01:34:33.500 --> 01:34:36.460
You're kind of a bad christian. I'm like devil can have you back

01:34:36.460 --> 01:34:40.620
You know like he doesn't give anybody back and you don't praise god for that plus there's freedom

01:34:40.620 --> 01:34:45.580
The servant access freedom to go wherever he wants and and that's what salvation is is. It's freedom

01:34:45.580 --> 01:34:48.140
You now have a liberty you've been made free from sin

01:34:48.140 --> 01:34:52.380
So I think there's a lot of parallels there as well. But again, it just kind of keeps your

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It keeps things pure in a sense that someone is being oppressed

01:34:56.860 --> 01:34:58.860
Can leave this oppressive situation

01:34:59.020 --> 01:35:02.700
Someone is being oppressed can leave this oppressive situation

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And now there's no more oppression oppression has been cleansed think about it this way

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What if there was a church praise god for the new testament? What if there's a church where the pastor is very oppressive?

01:35:11.900 --> 01:35:13.500
What if he's very controlling?

01:35:13.500 --> 01:35:18.380
What if he's going and stealing 18 year old girls out of the house and putting them up in hotels or whatever?

01:35:18.780 --> 01:35:24.220
And people leave the church. Well, you know what? Praise god that if there's a really bad pastor people could just leave

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He can leave

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And they could all go to a good church and serve there and then that one then the oppression can cease

01:35:32.220 --> 01:35:35.120
You know what? Praise god that there's freedom and there's opportunity

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So that we can keep christianity pure and people aren't locked into the dark ages or the catholic church

01:35:41.180 --> 01:35:45.260
Like you just have to go to this church or this is the only church option or this is the only pastor

01:35:45.580 --> 01:35:49.260
You know, that would be frustrating if we had a state-run church

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And that's your only option. You're locked in isn't it nice that you could escape

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Zionism that you can escape the preacher rapture that you can escape some of these other doctrines

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You can escape repent of your sins and all this other kind of stuff

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And you can just come into a church where there's more freedom. There's less oppression. You don't have to pay for literally everything

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You have to pay for the tracks. You have to pay for you know, every single

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Meal and every single event and every single men's retreat

01:36:19.500 --> 01:36:22.620
Sorry, you don't know how many things I mean like i've been to the churches

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It's like hey every meal every retreat every track everything is just like another nickel and dime

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It's like man. I like another master

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I like the new ifd master. Sorry. He's a little bit nicer a little more freedom

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Now again

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If if we take the spiritual application no whores and no

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Sodomites again, that's pretty easy to extrapolate of the new testament same thing

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We just don't let you know the reprobates and the witches and the whatever and in the house of god again

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There are whores in the bible get saved a repentant whore can be welcomed back into the house of god

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But you know, I personally don't believe in repentance. Sodomites doesn't exist

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I'll never believe in it and i'll never change my mind on that issue and they're never welcome period

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Uh, this also goes for child molesters child molesters. I do not believe a repentant. They should be executed by our government

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And look, I don't care if she's 14 years old in one day. I'm still going to call you a pedophile

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I heard of a church where they were condemning somebody in their church

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There was a guy that was caught in a literal sting operation

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Trying to solicit a 14 year old girl. He was caught someone in the church said like man

01:37:31.980 --> 01:37:36.060
I like the guy he seems like a pedophile and the leadership's like hey, that's railing

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What

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Can you imagine kicking a guy out of your church for calling that guy a pedophile look i'll call him a pedophile right now

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What what a weird idea and they're like well technically according to the dictionary

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It says that if she's 13 years old and 366, you know, 65 days or whatever

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Then or older than that then it's not a pedophile. So herbophile

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what

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Anybody that just explained that to me is an idiot

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Pedophile fine. It's like let's just not have this kind of a weird idea and look pedophiles are not welcome ever

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There are many churches were like this is the pedophile section

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the reformed pedophiles

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Doesn't exist for me

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You know what? I don't believe in it. I'll never believe in it

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Look, there are sins in the bible that we're all tempted with we're all liars

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We all struggle with sin but look someone that is going after children is reprobate to me

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I believe it's reprobate to god the sodomites are reprobate. They're not welcome in the house of god period

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And you know what? I'm never going to change my mind on that

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Oh, well, you're just you don't believe the gospel. I do believe the gospel. These people don't believe in jesus

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And look they will lie to you and they will deceive you and they will trick you

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But there are many people that can give lip service the gospel and they do not believe it

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And that is the sodomite most of them don't even give lip service. Let's just be honest, but the the the handful

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That do I still reject them?

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You're like, oh, I don't like that. Well, you go get those five people saved then and you go have fun with them

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Now it says here in verse number 19

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That we're talking about usury and and charging interest on people again

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Not something we don't want to oppress our own brothers and sisters in christ in the church

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We would never want to do something like this or harm them. We should be giving we should be kind

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We should be gentle under these people

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Uh any vow that we make hey, we want to make sure that we we pay that or honor that

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also

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Eating the grapes and eating the corn. Here's here's the last application. I want to make and I know i'm preaching long but

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steadfast babbitt's church, right?

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We're trying to keep the congregation pure you got to keep certain people out you want to keep you know certain sins out

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You want to keep these issues out?

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We don't want someone's someone's someone's like ripping somebody off in the church or charging them interest or being covetous or extortion

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Like we're going to get that person out of this church. We're going to keep ourselves pure. Here's the last thing is that

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Of course the bible says that the laborer

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Uh is someone that can be is worthy of reward is is worthy of his meat is worthy of his hire

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You know when you're in the field and you're eating the grapes or eating the corn there's no problem

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And the bible even says eat to thy fill like you can just again grapes are a luxury

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The corn is like a luxury in a sense. These are not like low

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Items of food. These are like higher end. These are like good things and it's saying eat like

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You know, so my philosophy is that when we're in the field

01:40:37.100 --> 01:40:41.100
Working for jesus that we are allowed to eat and eat a good meal

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And eat to our fill

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But we're not going to necessarily

01:40:45.740 --> 01:40:46.860
you know

01:40:46.860 --> 01:40:51.340
Take stuff home. Okay, we're not there's no personal enrichment on the mission field

01:40:51.900 --> 01:40:57.100
Right. I think that when it comes to missions work when it comes to our soul winning events when it comes to these things

01:40:57.420 --> 01:41:02.140
That we should take care of our soul winners and we should take great care of them

01:41:02.460 --> 01:41:04.460
But we don't want to take the money

01:41:04.460 --> 01:41:07.580
And and somehow give it to them as like a personal enrichment

01:41:08.140 --> 01:41:13.660
Right, so you go on the mission field I have no problem paying, you know all kinds of stuff and look some of it's diy

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So a lot of people pay their own gas people are paying their own plane tickets and stuff

01:41:18.300 --> 01:41:22.700
But i'm just saying like at times we pay people's transportation. We've paid people's housing

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We pay for people's meals here and there we paid for a lot of these things and look even if we paid 100

01:41:28.940 --> 01:41:33.020
You know what? I think there's nothing wrong with that. Now. We're not going to necessarily be like hey

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If you go soul winning today, i'm going to give you 500 bucks

01:41:35.580 --> 01:41:43.980
That's not that's not really making sense with the church money to necessarily just be enriching people for doing the missions work now again

01:41:43.980 --> 01:41:48.460
If we hire someone on staff and they have a job and part of their work is going out soul winning

01:41:48.620 --> 01:41:53.100
Then so be it but we're not sitting here trying to personally enrich ourselves

01:41:53.660 --> 01:41:58.700
In the field of the lord, but you know what when we go out soul winning, there's nothing wrong with eating the grapes along the way

01:41:59.660 --> 01:42:03.980
Nothing wrong with eating the corn along the way, but we're not going to sit here and and try to

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Enrich ourselves or take some, you know financial gain from that particular endeavor, right?

01:42:11.340 --> 01:42:15.420
We're not going on missions trips to make money. We're going on missions trips to save people

01:42:16.380 --> 01:42:18.380
We're going on missions trips to

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Bless people and get people saved and turn them to righteousness and get them into a good church

01:42:23.260 --> 01:42:25.420
We're not going to just see if we can get rich

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Off of it. And again, i'm for paying missionaries a wage so they can still lead about a sister

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They can still live in comfortable housing and that kind of stuff

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But at the end of the day, we're not sitting here trying to make people rich off of the gospel

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That would be a wrong application. So you can go too far to where someone's getting personally enriched through ministry. I think that's wrong

01:42:46.300 --> 01:42:48.700
But you can go to the other extreme where you're offended

01:42:49.260 --> 01:42:56.860
At people that are in ministry or doing ministry getting things paid for having nice meals having nice accommodations having you know

01:42:57.180 --> 01:43:01.180
That would be a wicked attitude as well. We want to have the right opinion that says hey

01:43:01.420 --> 01:43:06.540
Someone doing the work of the lord should be well taken care of have their meats, but they're not going to be personally enriched

01:43:07.260 --> 01:43:12.780
And when it comes to pastors or missionaries, you know, I don't think that pastors or missionaries should be rich

01:43:13.420 --> 01:43:15.420
If their money came from the ministry

01:43:16.140 --> 01:43:20.460
Okay, there's nothing wrong. I personally don't think there's anything wrong. Someone was rich or independently wealthy

01:43:20.860 --> 01:43:26.460
I don't think that there's anything wrong with them being up and and the service of the lord or serving god

01:43:26.780 --> 01:43:30.300
Look at the pastor and this didn't I I don't know but if a pastor

01:43:30.940 --> 01:43:35.420
In 2009 bought a thousand bitcoins or something like that and then you know

01:43:35.660 --> 01:43:40.780
Fast forward today is a multimillionaire because he bought a bunch of bitcoin praise god, you know

01:43:41.180 --> 01:43:44.300
I'm not going to be mad at the guy. I don't think there's anything wrong with that particular guy

01:43:44.540 --> 01:43:50.540
There's nothing wrong with that. But obviously if a guy is you know, he comes into the ministry with a fifty thousand dollar net worth

01:43:51.260 --> 01:43:53.920
And then fast forward five years from now. He's a he's a multimillionaire

01:43:55.020 --> 01:43:59.580
And the only source of income is from the ministry then yeah, I think there's something wrong with that picture

01:44:00.060 --> 01:44:06.300
Right. There's something wrong with kenneth copeland and td jakes and these guys that are doing nothing in the car in the world

01:44:06.780 --> 01:44:12.140
And they're just making just millions and millions of dollars through the ministry. That's wicked. That's wrong

01:44:12.620 --> 01:44:16.940
Okay, that's being greedy of filthy lucre. That's someone not getting double honor

01:44:17.020 --> 01:44:21.900
That's someone getting like a thousand honor or something like that or a hundred honor and you know what that's wrong

01:44:22.140 --> 01:44:27.100
That would be fleecing the flock literally. Okay, there's nothing wrong with eating the grapes

01:44:27.580 --> 01:44:31.900
But we're not going to sit here and just put a whole bunch of grapes in a bucket and take it off

01:44:32.300 --> 01:44:36.540
And look any pastor that's getting a decent salary. He's not going to be rich enriched by that

01:44:37.260 --> 01:44:40.300
Even our government. Sorry. I want to finish this tangent. All right

01:44:40.860 --> 01:44:45.500
Even our government, you know getting paid a 200 000 or 250 000 a year

01:44:45.740 --> 01:44:51.740
They're never going to be multimillionaires by doing that. The reason why our government is so rich is because of insider trading, which is wicked

01:44:52.540 --> 01:44:57.180
Through lobbying efforts and deceptive means and evil wicked means, you know

01:44:57.260 --> 01:45:01.580
It'd be better we better off as a country if we just paid our politicians a healthy wage

01:45:02.060 --> 01:45:04.060
To discourage them from this and making that illegal

01:45:04.460 --> 01:45:08.700
Like if they're paid 200 250, let's pay them a half a million or a million

01:45:09.260 --> 01:45:13.740
And then make it illegal to be doing insider trading or whatever

01:45:13.900 --> 01:45:18.220
Because look even if you're making a half a million dollars a year if you're living a life of a politician

01:45:18.540 --> 01:45:22.140
You're not going to be personally enriched that much you're going to barely be making it

01:45:22.460 --> 01:45:23.260
Okay

01:45:23.260 --> 01:45:28.860
To live in holly to live in dc to live in these places and traveling and eating these fancy restaurants and being a member of their

01:45:28.940 --> 01:45:30.940
Country clubs and doing all the things they have to do

01:45:30.940 --> 01:45:33.580
I mean you're really not going to be making that much money

01:45:33.740 --> 01:45:39.020
The reason why they have multimillion dollars is because of options trading and insider trading and all this

01:45:39.340 --> 01:45:43.980
You know evil wicked stuff that they're doing with our government's money. That's the reason why

01:45:44.700 --> 01:45:50.460
They're that way and look as a minister as a pastor pastors being paid, you know something under that

01:45:50.700 --> 01:45:52.620
They're never going to be personally enriched

01:45:52.620 --> 01:45:56.780
And and if there was a pastor that's making millions off of being a pastor, that's wrong

01:45:57.980 --> 01:46:01.180
Obviously in 10 years from now, we have to revisit this. Okay, we might all be millionaires

01:46:01.900 --> 01:46:07.580
But i'm just saying like obviously in today's economy and today's money that wouldn't make any sense. That would be wrong

01:46:07.900 --> 01:46:09.900
So we want to have the right mentality

01:46:09.900 --> 01:46:15.260
What would be wrong is paying a missionary 26 000 a year and acting like he's getting paid a lot of money

01:46:15.820 --> 01:46:17.820
In the philippines that's weird

01:46:18.220 --> 01:46:22.220
Okay, and and look just because he's in the philippines. I don't think we have to sit here and be like

01:46:22.540 --> 01:46:24.940
Let's see the the least amount of money we can pay him

01:46:25.580 --> 01:46:29.740
Just to do that, you know, we should take care of missionaries. We should take care of the evangelists

01:46:29.900 --> 01:46:33.420
We should do good under them. God's feeding them grapes. God's feeding them corn

01:46:33.820 --> 01:46:38.860
God's not making them eat some kind of a sacrificial diet, you know, just some kind of a low

01:46:39.500 --> 01:46:43.820
Pay or something like that. We try to take care of our missionaries. Hey, I want them to eat beef

01:46:44.300 --> 01:46:46.700
The workman is worthy of his meat. You know what I mean?

01:46:47.500 --> 01:46:51.420
I don't want them to sit here and have to suffer. I want them to get good meals and to eat

01:46:51.960 --> 01:46:56.140
Properly and be able to take care of their family and not hear and starve to death

01:46:56.460 --> 01:47:02.140
That the mission there's so few people that are even doing the right the right work. Why do we want to starve out the good people?

01:47:04.140 --> 01:47:06.140
There's so few people wanting to do the right thing

01:47:07.100 --> 01:47:08.060
Like

01:47:08.060 --> 01:47:10.060
The person that cares about money is carnal anyways

01:47:11.020 --> 01:47:11.260
You know

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We want to make sure that the ministers of the lord the people that are doing the right thing

01:47:13.900 --> 01:47:17.580
They they these burdens are lifted from them that they're taking off their shoulder

01:47:17.580 --> 01:47:19.580
They're not making it harder than it has to be

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You know that that would be a bad way to to run a ministry to run a church

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And again, I think of these principles if we apply them, we're going to keep ourselves pure

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What's pure paying the missionary lots of money? What's not pure?

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Personally enriching yourself from the missionary money

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Paying yourself bonus and bonus and bonus and bonus through the year and not giving money to your missionary

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That would be super wicked. That would be super evil

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If you were doing that so again, what keeps yourself pure keeping the missionaries well fed

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What does starving them to death? No allowing them to personally enrich themselves off of the ministry

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No, we want to be in the right kind of frame of mind again

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This whole chapter is a great chapter on purity

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There's there's too much to say sorry. I've preached for a long time, but let us just pray to the lord that we keep ourselves pure

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Let's pray heavenly father. Thank you so much for our church. Thank you so much for all the ministries that we have going on in our church

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I pray that you would help us to stay as pure as possible

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And and we thank you so much for the church has been bought by the blood of jesus christ

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I pray that we would

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Not do despite the spirit of grace

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And that we wouldn't go against your word, but we'd be willing to accept the good and the bad

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We're willing to keep out the problems and and the wickedness and the defilement that we try to keep your house pure

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That we would worship you in spirit and in truth

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And I pray that as we keep ourselves pure that you could greatly bless us and you could cause

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Uh the light of the gospel to shine brightly and we can see many people saved in jesus name. We pray amen

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All right for our last song tonight, let's go to song number

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472

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Song number 472

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Song number 472 this is my father's world song 472. Let's all sing that out together

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My listening ears all nature sings

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I rest me in the park

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Empty

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The morning

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My father's world

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This is my father's world

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That though the wrong seems not so strong god is the ruler

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This is my father's world

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Jesus tonight shall be satisfied

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And be one great singing everybody you were all dismissed