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I sacrifice them to his blood.

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Seek from his head his friends his feet.

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Sorrow and love, love me no doubt.

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Dear such love and sorrow me.

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For thine some love so rich and proud.

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Worth the whole health of nature mine.

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That for a present Lord is called.

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God so amazing, so divine.

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He bends my soul, my life, my all.

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Now I see the crimson wave, the fountain deep and wide.

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Jesus my Lord, my Jesus, say voice to his wounded side.

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The cleansing stream I see, I see, I'm cleansed and all.

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In cleanseth me, oh praise the Lord, in cleanseth me.

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In cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.

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I see the new creation rise, I hear the speaking blood.

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It speaks polluted nature, I see, speak the crimson flood.

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The cleansing stream I see, I see, I'm cleansed and all.

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In cleanseth me, oh praise the Lord, in cleanseth me.

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In cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.

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I rise to walk in heavens of light above the world and sin.

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With hearts made pure and garbage spied and Christ the

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Amen.

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Look up now.

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The cleansing stream I see, I see, I'm cleansed and all.

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In cleanseth me, oh praise the Lord, in cleanseth me.

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In cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.

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All the last.

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Amazing grace is to be known to feel the blood of God.

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And Jesus, oh dear Jesus, know by Jesus crucified.

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The cleansing stream I see, I see, I'm cleansed and all.

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In cleanseth me, oh praise the Lord, in cleanseth me.

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In cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.

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Jesus, what a friend, what a savior.

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Jesus, love of my soul.

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Friends, may fail me, foes, assail me.

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Leave my Savior, please be known.

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Hallelujah, what a Savior.

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Hallelujah, what a friend.

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Saving, helping, weeping, loving.

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He is with me to the end.

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Jesus, what a strength in me.

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Place where'd we hide myself within.

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Chanting, trying, sometimes failing.

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Leave my strength, my faith, release.

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Hallelujah, what a Savior.

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Hallelujah, what a friend.

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Saving, helping, weeping, loving.

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He is with me to the end.

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Jesus, what a help in sorrow.

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Out of evil's glory flow.

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Even when the Lord is great,

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He might come to cleanse my soul.

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Hallelujah, what a Savior.

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Hallelujah, what a friend.

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Saving, helping, weeping, loving.

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He is with me to the end.

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Jesus, love of my and me.

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While the tempest still is high,

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storms will not be nigh.

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For days beneath my cry,

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the tears I cry.

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Hallelujah, what a Savior.

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Hallelujah, what a friend.

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Saving, helping, weeping, loving.

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He is with me to the end.

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Jesus, I do now receive you

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more than all that Him hath done.

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He hath granted me forgiveness.

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Hallelujah, what a peace life.

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Hallelujah, what a Savior.

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Hallelujah, what a friend.

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Saving, helping, weeping, loving.

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He is with me to the end.

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Sing the wondrous love of Jesus.

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Sing His mercy and His grace.

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In the benches bright and blessed,

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we'll remember God's name.

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Lift them all together.

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With the audience we thank you

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on the day of your dressing at the feet.

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And we all see Jesus

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will sing and shout Him to lead.

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While we walk the hill and the path,

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we bow to the new spread of sky.

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God, when drowned in praise, our Lord,

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now our shadow's side.

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We all in the office you can,

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on the day of your dressing at the feet.

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And we all see Jesus

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will sing and shout the name for me

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to let us stand before Him.

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True and grateful, trusting, serving every day.

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Just one place of Him in glory

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will not dwell for the day.

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And we all in the office you can,

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on the day of your dressing at the feet.

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And we all see Jesus

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will sing and shout the name for me.

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Y'all blast now onward to the Christ.

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Before us soon is new, He will be born.

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Soon the world He gives will open.

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We shall dress Him so strong.

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And we all in the office you can,

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on the day of your dressing at the feet.

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And we all see Jesus

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will sing and shout the name for me.

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O Lord, from a thousand times to sing,

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Blessed be the name of the Lord,

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And glory to God, my God and King.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord,

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Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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Jesus the babe that charms our fears

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Blessed be the name of the Lord

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Good morning everyone and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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It's great to see everybody here.

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If we can go ahead and find our hymnals, we will get started with this morning's service.

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And for our first song this morning, let's all go to song number 175.

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Song number 175.

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It's just like his great love, song number 175.

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Let's all sing that out real loud together.

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A friend I have called Jesus, whose love is strong and true,

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Can never fail to lend his heart, no matter what I do.

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I stand against his power, a friend I have to pray,

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Confessing all my guilt to him, lasting now for all the way.

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It's just like Jesus, who called the world away.

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It's just like Jesus, who beat the day by day.

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It's just like Jesus, all along the way.

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It's just like his great love, sometimes a class of trouble

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Becomes a sky above.

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I cannot see my sin, nor spurn my doubt, its wondrous love.

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But here I'm having time to see the only right that's there.

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In papers the clouds he cleaned, and so he is there.

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It's just like Jesus, who called the world away.

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It's just like Jesus, who beat the day by day.

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It's just like Jesus, all along the way.

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It's just like his great love, when troubles have or may be,

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And rain upon my head, when life seems worse and useless,

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And I would better pay, I've made my dream to be the sin,

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For do I know it may? For ev'ry all he did have tears,

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And sunshine after rain.

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It's just like Jesus, who called the world away.

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It's just like Jesus, who beat the day by day.

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It's just like Jesus, all along the way.

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It's just like his great love.

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Oh, I could sing forever, of Jesus, the divine.

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Of all his care and dearliness, for this, for I love mine.

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His love is in it over all, and when there's days of pain,

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When Jesus whispers, peace be still,

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And all the clouds away.

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It's just like Jesus, who called the world away.

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It's just like Jesus, who beat the day by day.

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It's just like Jesus, all along the way.

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It's just like his great love.

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Amen.

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All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 289.

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Song 289, come, send her come.

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It might be new to some of us, but we know it well,

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sing it out and follow along.

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Song 289, so I'll sing that out again.

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While Jesus whispers to you, come, send her come.

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While we are praying, oh, you come, send her come.

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Now is the time to know, you come, send her come.

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Now is the time to know, you come, send her come.

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Are you to ever need it, come, send her come.

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Jesus will bear your burden, come, send her come.

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Jesus will not deceive, you come, send her come.

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Jesus can now redeem, you come, send her come.

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Oh, here is dinner being, come, send her come.

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Come and receive the blessing, come, send her come.

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While Jesus whispers to you, come, send her come.

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While we are praying, oh, you come, send her come.

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Praise, sing it, everybody.

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Good morning, thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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If you hadn't gotten a bulletin, you would like one,

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just lift up your hand nice and high, one of our ushers can come by

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and get you guys a bulletin.

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On the front we have our Bible memory passage, Romans 10, verse 15,

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is the verse of the week.

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We have our church stats on the right,

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a list of several expecting ladies.

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We still have our kids choir that is practicing after the evening services.

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If you have a child 4-17 that is participating,

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stick around after the evening service for practice.

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We have the Carthage, Texas, soul winning marathon, March 21st,

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brother Sam is helping lead this.

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Also, Aisle soul winning marathon is also the same day, brother Banik

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is also leading a soul winning event over there on the other side

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of DFW, so if you can participate in those.

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We have a soul winning mega marathon April 4th.

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We're just going to be meeting at the church and going out somewhere

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within 15-20 minute driving distance of the church.

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So if you'd like to participate in that, we'd love to have you.

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Should be an all day event and we'll feed you.

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Easter Sunday is April 5th this year.

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We have our children's choir is going to be performing that morning.

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We have a conference coming up, the anti-Israel conference

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May 20th through the 24th.

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We've got lots of guest preachers for that event.

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It's going to be a lot of fun.

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On the back is our prayer list and then we have some QR codes.

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If you'd like to register for any of those events, please do.

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You should be able to follow those codes.

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If you have a problem, just talk to me and I'll see what the problem is.

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Should be working.

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That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.

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We're going to go ahead and just sing our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 146.

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Psalm 146 in your black binders with laminated pages or in your King James Bible.

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Psalm 146, let's all sing that together.

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Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.

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While I live will I praise the Lord,

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By those who praise him unto my God,

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While I have any need.

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Lord, not your trusted friend's death,

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Nor in the sight of men,

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To give whom there is no help,

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Whom there is no help.

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Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.

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In breath growing forth,

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We return into his earth in mass,

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Every day his love's bearing,

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Happy is he that hath come.

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God of David for his help,

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Whose hope is in the Lord,

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The Lord is God.

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Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.

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Praise the heaven and earth, the sea,

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And all that therein is which keeps you forever,

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Which executes judgment,

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Before the opressed which gives it,

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Turn to the free, the low,

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Who is hidden in the blister.

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Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.

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The Lord, who middled the eyes of the blind,

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The Lord great with tune acts,

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Our God, the Lord God is,

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The righteous, the Lord.

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Free her with the strangers,

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He reared with the Father,

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O rest and deliver.

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Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.

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Like the way of the wind,

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In the eastern and the side down,

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The Lord shall reign forever,

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He reigns like that old Zion,

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Unto all generations.

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Praise ye the Lord, praise ye the Lord.

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Great singing everybody.

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Now as the offering plates are being passed around,

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go ahead and open your Bibles to 1 Peter chapter 4.

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That's the book of 1 Peter chapter number 4.

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1 Peter chapter number 4

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1 Peter chapter number 4

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1 Peter chapter number 4

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1 Peter 4, the Bible reads,

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For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,

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arm yourselves likewise with the same mind,

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for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin,

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that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men,

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but to the will of God.

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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles,

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when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings,

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banquetings, and abominable idolatries,

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wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot,

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speaking evil of you,

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who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

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For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead,

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that they might be judged according to men in the flesh,

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but live according to God in the Spirit.

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But the end of all things is at hand,

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be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer.

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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves,

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for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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Use hospitality one to another without grudging,

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as every man hath received the gift,

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even so minister the same one to another,

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as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God.

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If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth,

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that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,

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to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,

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as though some strange thing happened unto you,

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but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings,

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that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

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If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye,

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for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

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On their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

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But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer,

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or as a busybody in other men's matters.

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Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed,

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but let him glorify God on this behalf.

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For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God,

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and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

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And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God

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commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

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Let's pray.

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Father God, I pray that you fill Pastor Shelley with your Spirit

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and help him to preach the sermon you've laid on his heart with clarity of mind, with boldness.

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Help us to pay attention and derive lessons from this message

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that help us to be better Christians moving forward.

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And please protect us as we go out soul-winning later.

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We love you, and in Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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Amen. I want to look back at verse 13.

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The Bible says,

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But rejoice inasmuch as your partakers of Christ's sufferings,

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that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.

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If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye.

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For the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

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On their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

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He is glorified.

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But let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evildoer

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or as a busybody, and other men's matters.

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So the Bible is saying that at the end of our lives or when Christ returns

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or when we have the judgment seat of Christ,

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that we're not going to be ashamed or embarrassed

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for any of the times that we suffered for being godly,

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for being a Christian, for standing on the truth, for doing what's right.

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But rather it's just going to give glory to God, glory to Christ.

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But what we don't want to do is we don't want to be someone that suffered in this life

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or at the judgment seat of Christ where we didn't do anything for Christ,

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but rather we were doing evil or we were doing wicked.

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You know, in this life you can suffer great punishment from God for being wicked.

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And there's no glory in essentially being punished for being a bad person.

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And there's this bad idea that just permeates Christianity today

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that basically teaches that if you're saved you're going to have the works,

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that if you're saved you're going to have the fruit,

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that if you're saved you're just going to basically be this polished apple

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and you're just going to look good and act good and everything's good about you.

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But that's not reality and that's not the truth.

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In fact, there's many people that are what I would call a dirty, rotten Christian.

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And that's the title of my sermon this morning is Dirty, Rotten Christians.

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Okay, and this is an important doctrine for you to learn.

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Because as a consequence of salvation being an absolute free gift by faith alone,

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apart from all works, that means that really scummy people are going to get saved.

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That means people that are not willing to repent of their sins are going to get saved.

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That means people that are not genuinely having a good heart

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or wanting to serve God or wanting to do the right thing are going to get saved.

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There are many rotten people that get saved.

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There's many dirty people that get saved.

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And not only are they that way when they get saved,

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they have really no plans on changing and becoming a different version of themselves.

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And they simply quench the spirit.

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They simply continue walking in the flesh rather than in the spirit.

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And as a result, they end up doing just as much evil and wicked as any other unsaved person.

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And in many cases even worse.

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It's crazy how people just don't get this idea.

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And of course then they'll say, well, you're not saved.

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They try to preach from the gospel.

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But you know, at the end of the day, the dirty, rotten Christian does not need the gospel.

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You know what he needs? Hard preaching.

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Why do we have hard preaching?

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Why do we have a church where we get up and we scream about sin

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and we yell about everything in the Bible and we make a big deal about it?

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And why do we try to separate ourselves?

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And why do we have church discipline standards?

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And why are we willing to kick people out for railing?

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It's because Christians can get into all this junk.

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And of course, when Christians are in sin, you know what is usually the consequence?

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It's going to put a wet blanket on soul winning in some way.

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Why keep ourselves separated?

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Why come to church three times a week?

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Why sing the old fashioned hymns and the soul stirring hymns?

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Why make a big deal about all these things?

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It's because it's what keeps us on the path of just reaching new people

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and preaching the gospel and actually being a light in this dark, dark world.

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Because people without church are not going to be effective soul winners.

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People that go to a lame church are not going to be effective soul winners.

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You need to get into a church that's going to put a lot of pressure on you

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to clean up your lives and actually do what God said and to follow his commandments.

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But unfortunately, because this idea has permeated a lot of people,

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this idea that well, when you're a Christian, you're going to be perfect.

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When you're saved, you're not going to have big sins.

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When you're saved, you're not going to be tempted with sin.

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So then what happens is there's this fake facade that gets basically preached by pulpits

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and lifted up in congregations where everybody is just fake.

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And everything's fake and everything's holier than thou.

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And wow, we just we never make mistakes over here and we never do anything wrong over here.

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And we're just this perfect, polished apple.

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And you know what? Me and my wife have never had a fight in our lives, which is a complete lie.

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It's far further from the truth than you even realize.

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Why do they do this? Because they want to put this image forth that when you're saved, you're somehow awesome.

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Or when you're saved, you're not going to sin.

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Or when you're saved, you don't have a past.

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Or when you're saved, you don't have a future.

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And let me tell you something.

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We are sinful.

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You know, I don't want anybody in this audience to think today like, oh, you know what?

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Our church doesn't deal with major sin as your pastor.

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Let me tell you, we deal with major sin.

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Oh, well, you know, our marriage, we have problems.

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Join the club.

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Join the club, bro. OK.

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And again, the churches where they're trying to act like, well, we don't have any problems and we don't have any abuse and we don't have it.

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Like they're just lying through their teeth or they're pastoring about three people that, you know, are just spiritually functioning retards.

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And you shouldn't listen to them anyways. OK.

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Let me tell you something.

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People have screwed up lives.

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People are sinners. They're serious.

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I mean, when you read the New Testament and you're reading about what's going on in churches, are you dealing with minor issues?

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It's like this guy's sleeping with his dad's wife.

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That's pretty screwed up.

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It's like Jezebel's committing adultery.

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And, you know, all these people are committing adultery with her in the church and they're they're teaching fornication and they're they're dealing with idolatry.

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It's like, oh, yeah.

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And guess what?

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There's also people being bribed and extorted over here in this other church.

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And I mean, just crazy, horrific things are happening in the church because that's what church is really like.

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Don't let people fake, fake you out and make you think like, oh, no, no, we would never have issues like that.

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No one in our church will get drunk.

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No one in our church would ever commit fornication.

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No one in our church would ever commit adultery.

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Nobody in our church would ever get divorced and remarried and swap wives and do all this.

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Look, it happens in all of these churches.

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It happens in every church.

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You go to the old church.

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It's happening all the time.

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You know what?

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They just don't broadcast it.

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They don't kick people out.

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They don't make a big deal out of it.

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So then they just allow it to go ramp it.

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You know, by being more public and more visible, you actually reduce it, even though to the appearance like, man, you guys are always dealing with issues.

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It's like, no, everyone's always dealing with issues.

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We're trying to actually fix it.

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We're trying to be real about it.

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We're not fake and pretending like nothing ever happens.

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Because let me tell you something.

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There's a lot of people that are just dirty, rotten Christians out there in this world.

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And at the end of the day, we're all sinners.

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But then there's some like really rotten Christians, too, that exist out there.

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And what is the Bible saying?

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Hey, we should not want to be a Christian that gets exposed for committing murder.

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Why would this verse even exist in the Bible if Christians weren't capable of committing murder?

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I mean, Christians can kill people.

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Oh, well, I just don't think that Christians ever do that.

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Look, Pastor Henderson, whenever we were dealing with the Romero situation, he said, we're not going to tell everybody in the church what Romero is doing at that time, because someone might kill him.

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It was like it's like this could happen.

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Like, we're not we're not so naive to think someone couldn't just be so enraged.

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And maybe they donated a whole bunch of money.

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I mean, think about it.

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What if you sacrificially gave your life savings to church and then you find out that this guy's sleeping with hookers on your sacrificial giving to the church?

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You don't think that person could get enraged?

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And look, a lot of times people kill people without that intention.

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They're just they just start hitting them in the head because they're just mad.

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And then just the right punch.

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And it's just the guy's the guy's gone.

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The guy's dead.

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You know, you throw the guy through a window, he gets cut, dies.

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I mean, think about Moses.

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We don't even know if Moses necessarily intended to kill the Egyptian.

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He was just kind of defending one of his brethren, just kind of got mad.

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And then, oh, now he killed him.

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OK, so you never know where these things can lead.

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But let me tell you something.

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Christians can kill people.

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Have you heard of David?

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Yeah, he killed Uriah.

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Yes, King Saul complicit in all kinds of murder.

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He's trying to kill David.

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Like that's like basically the whole story of Saul is just trying to kill people.

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He's trying to kill David.

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He's throwing the spear at him.

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Missus.

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Then he tries to throw the spear again.

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Missus.

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Then he tries to kill his own son, Jonathan, by throwing the spear at him.

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Then he orders his soldiers to slay a whole bunch of priests.

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They fail.

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So then he gets doleg to eat him, I to come in and basically do his bidding and slaughters the priests.

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But then this guy, he's not even willing to just kill a priest.

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He kills the whole family, too.

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Then Saul just keeps hunting down David, keeps trying to kill him, keeps trying to kill him.

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Keeps trying to harm him until he eventually has to kill himself.

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And of course, that's a form of murder in a sense.

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And it's just killing himself.

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Self-murder, suicide.

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And, you know, at the end of the day, like, don't be surprised when Christians do really screwed up things because it's par for the course, unfortunately.

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It is part.

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Why do you think Jesus had to come down and redeem us?

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Because we're screwed up.

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But let me tell you something.

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There's some really, really bad Christians in this world.

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If you went to Matthew, chapter five, go to Matthew, chapter five.

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Notice you don't want to be you don't want to be caught as a thief or as an evildoer or a busybody.

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And, you know, when you get caught with this stuff, lots of times, that's just how everybody's going to remember you forever.

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Boy, you just don't want to go down these roads.

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You want to be careful.

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Oh, why go to church three times a week so you don't get caught being a thief and an evildoer and a busybody and all this other stuff?

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You know, it's easy to get away with being a busybody when you're not in church.

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No one's going to hold you accountable.

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There's no accountability for people that are not in church for being a busybody.

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It's not illegal.

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There's no real ramification because the Internet you can just hide.

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I mean, it's going to be hard for someone to track you down and punch you in the face because you can just say whatever you want on the Internet now.

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So there's a bunch of, you know, lions on the Internet, but they would never say that to your face.

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You confront them in person at church multiple times, and they're just like, it's good.

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It's good. I like you.

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But then online, they're just like, oh, he's so bad.

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There's a lion online.

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OK, so people just be busybodies and railers and slanderers and whatever endlessly in this world.

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And it shouldn't shock you.

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Look, point one of this of the sermon is you should not be surprised when Christians are rotten people.

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Don't be surprised by it.

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And just every day, it's just like, man, I just get less and less surprised.

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It's like, man, this guy's bad.

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Yep. Another person's bad.

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I guess it's just reality.

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Matthew, chapter number five, look at verse number 19.

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Whosoever there therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so he should be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.

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But whosoever shall do and teach them the same should be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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So the guy that's breaking God's commandments and teaching people to break God's commandments will be the worst person in heaven.

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This person exists.

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There are really people in this world who are breaking God's commandments and teaching people to break commandments.

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And they're still going to heaven.

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But they're not going to be greatly rewarded.

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And look, there are going to be many people that will surprise you at their position in heaven.

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There's going to be many people that you thought, wow, I bet this guy is going to have the nicest mansion in heaven.

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And boy, it's not going to look like that at all.

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And then there's going to be other people that you thought didn't really do much for God.

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And hey, they're going to be greatly rewarded.

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Now, again, for most of the most of the most people, you'll probably just be able to tell.

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But again, there's going to be some people that surprise you on both sides of this equation.

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There's going to always be surprises.

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I guarantee looking at poor widow woman from the out outward looking in, no one really knew this woman was giving of all her living and that Jesus was going to greatly reward her for her sacrificial giving.

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OK, I don't think anybody could have probably seen that.

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Now, obviously, someone like Peter, I'm sure most people are probably like Peter's probably going to be greatly rewarded.

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And we get that.

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Obviously, you can't completely hide Peter.

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Right.

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But I get that.

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I bet that poor widow woman.

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No one knew unless Jesus actually revealed that and showed that to them.

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And again, we kind of know about her, but I guarantee she's not the only person that's sacrificially given to God and done things for the Lord and been a good Christian.

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And people just didn't really know or weren't really aware of it.

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OK, and so people will surprise you.

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But you know what?

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It should not surprise you that there are Christians teaching you to break God's commandments.

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Which not surprise you is that there's Christians that are hypocrites about what they say and what they do.

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And that's why you have to be extremely careful to read the Bible for yourself, to have your own personal walk, for you to walk in the spirit.

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And don't be surprised even when someone you look up to as basically being a hypocrite or doing the wrong thing.

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Because, look, wouldn't first Matthew chapter five, verse 19, be meaningful if this is a person in a position of authority?

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Because it's saying that they're teaching that that sounds like this person's been elevated to the point where they have the ability to actually affect other people.

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It's not like just some random dude.

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This is a guy that's actually actively teaching and preaching, has some level of authority.

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And yeah, there are a lot of pastors out there teaching people to break God's commandments.

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And it's like, oh, well, this guy's not safe.

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We shouldn't just always hit the not safe button.

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Sometimes it's just a dirty rotten Christian.

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Well, you are just a dirty rotten Christian that aren't you?

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Now, look, when they're preaching a false gospel, not saved.

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Right.

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Let's hit that button.

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Let's smash that button.

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Let's hit it until it breaks.

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But let me tell you something.

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When the guys got the right gospel, just realized salvation is a free gift.

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Even this liar got saved.

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Even this thief got saved.

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Even this murderer got saved.

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And is that what we do?

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We go out into the highways and hedges.

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We go into the ghettos and we're getting a bunch of dirty rotten people saved, are we?

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They're not even necessarily cleaning up their lives.

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They're not even making a big change.

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Many of them in their spirit when they first get saved, don't they kind of have that initial burst of like, man, I kind of want to get in church.

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I kind of want to get right with God.

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I kind of want to do the right thing.

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But then it's just like obviously the carnal nature takes over five minutes later when they never want to come back to church.

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Yeah.

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Inside of us all that spirit man wants to serve God.

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But according to Romans chapter number seven, many times we just don't listen to it and we don't follow it and we don't obey it.

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And in the same way, we just find ourselves doing things that we don't allow and falling into the same sins and having the same pattern of lifestyle and being lazy and being selfish.

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And whatever excuses that we want to make, you know, why drag yourself to church?

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Let me tell you something.

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So you'd be less of a dirty rotten Christian and you'll be less ashamed for all the wicked stuff you're going to get into.

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Don't kid yourself.

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Don't think like I got saved.

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I won't send lies and don't think just because by coming to church, you're locked in either.

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Look, that just helps.

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It does not.

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It's not a cure.

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Being in church will not necessarily cease you from committing grievous sin.

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There are many times where people are involved in grievous sin, even while in church.

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And so it shouldn't shock you when someone is doing these things.

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I'm trying to just unveil the curtain here a little bit.

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Good.

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Actually, I'm refined and I think God wants you to do that so you don't trick yourself.

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Well, I show up at church, so that means I won't ever do anything stupid wrong.

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Now, there's some sins that are worse than others.

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Sorry.

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That's reality.

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And, you know, God in the New Testament still kills people for sin.

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He kills people literally.

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Now, one of the dumbest things to do is read a story in the New Testament about how people got killed and then do the exact same thing.

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Acts chapter number five, look at verse one.

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Why has thou conceived this thing in thine own power?

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Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?

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Thou'st not lied unto men, but unto God.

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And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost, and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

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You know, the Bible says there was a guy who sells a possession and he's trying to give it to church.

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He lies about how much money he's really giving to church.

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He keeps back part of the price, privily.

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And then as a result, he gets killed.

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He gets just smoked by God for having lied not only to men, but also to God himself and the Holy Ghost.

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Now, I read these stories and I'm always just thinking like, who is dumb enough to do this?

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Like, who would ever do something even similar to this?

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But you know what?

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Roger Menezes did do something exactly like this.

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Roger Menezes was getting donations and procuring donations for his missionary in the Philippines, Pastor Matthew Stuckey.

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And then he was keeping back part of the price for his church.

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And he was not sending the money.

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Now, what percentage was he keeping back?

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Well, for the first four years, he was keeping back only 100%.

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So if you can calculate that percentage, I'm not going to tell you which percentage.

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It was about approximately 100%.

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OK, so Ananias actually gave part of the money.

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This guy's giving zero dollars of the money.

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And I'm talking about people literally saying on a check, VBC Manila to Pastor Stuckey.

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And then it's just like, nope, into our fund.

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Nothing given to him.

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Zero.

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Then after like the donations are skyrocketing and he's run out of excuses of how to steal this money,

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he just like comes up with this deal to do like a 50-50 deal, which is like, look, I know PayPal has fees, but 50%.

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That's pretty hefty.

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You know?

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And so for the next three years, he was taking 50% of the money that was coming in and only giving Pastor Stuckey 50% of his money.

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But that is dangerous thing to do.

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You say why?

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Because it's illegal?

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Well, yeah, it's illegal.

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Why?

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Because it's unethical?

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Yeah, it's unethical.

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Why is it so dangerous?

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Because God might just kill you for doing something so stupid and wicked and evil.

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And again, the city are in line to, hey, we're supporting a missionary in the Philippines.

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Give money to this missionary.

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Let me explain something to you.

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Verity Baptist Church gave zero dollars to Matthew Stuckey at any time.

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You know how much money Verity Baptist Church has donated to missions?

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Zero dollars.

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If you've given two nickels to the Philippines, you are a bigger donor than Verity Baptist Church.

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Think about that.

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Now, they paid a bookkeeper some money to do bookkeeping, but they have given net zero dollars.

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Not only that, even Pastor Brzezarski, after trying to fix this, he's trying to chew Pastor Stuckey down on some of their expenses to just for all time record, Verity Baptist Church gives zero dollars to their missionary.

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Think about how that makes sense.

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Look, that is a dirty, rotten thing to do.

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To sit here and pretend like, hey, give money to the missions, give money to our missionary.

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We're going to give zero.

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And not only are we going to not give zero, we're going to literally take some of that as well.

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Now, supposedly, if they give it back, you know, then you could say that they're back to zero.

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Right now, they're in the negative.

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They're not even at zero.

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I mean, just think who has been funding Pastor Stuckey?

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It's just people in the congregation and people from outside of their own sacrificial giving above tithes and offerings.

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Just they funded the whole thing.

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And not only did they fund the whole thing, basically, they were overfunding the thing in the sense that not all the money was even getting there.

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They're basically, you know, only 43 percent of their money was funding the operation.

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I mean, this is insane, folks.

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This is crazy. How do you read a story like this?

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You say, well, you know, it happened and nice because he did it.

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Look, anybody that's a part of this is also in danger because let's keep reading the story.

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And the young men arose and wound him up and carried him out and buried him.

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And it was about the space of three hours after when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

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Now, what did she not know that happened?

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She didn't know that her husband died.

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She did know about the fraud, though, says.

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And Peter answered her, Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.

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And she said, Yay, for so much.

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So she lies as well, lies with her husband.

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Then Peter said under how is it that you have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord?

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Behold, the feet of them which have buried the husband are at the door and shall carry the out.

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Then she then fell she down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost.

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So not only did he die, God killed the wife as well for just participating in the activity.

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You want to participate in these wicked, evil activities.

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God will just smoke you. God could just kill you.

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Now, again, is every single time someone steal from church, God kill them?

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Probably not. I don't think so.

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But you know what? Why would I want to tempt fate on something like this?

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Why would I want to sit here and mess with God?

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You know, isn't the Bible say God is not mocked?

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What does that mean?

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That means you're not going to do something rotten to God and he's going to let you get away with it.

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You get away with nothing.

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For what's remained soeth, that shall he also reap.

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At just bare minimum, he'll just shame you permanently,

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let alone what other punishments he may bring upon you for your wicked, evil actions here.

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This is just insane, folks.

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But what I'm trying to show, then we are to read a story in the Bible of people in church.

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This is the church is starting.

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You would think they'd be on fire for God.

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And they're already lying and deceiving and holding back money and doing wicked things.

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And God punishes them and say, Hey, I'm serious. This is serious.

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Don't mess with me. Don't mess with money.

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And look, don't lie about stuff in church.

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Obviously, you might think like, isn't that the pastor?

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So I don't lie.

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But it's like I'm telling you, don't lie about things in church.

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It's the pillar and ground of the truth.

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I mean, when the name of your church is Verity, do you know what Verity means?

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It's like Veritas meaning truth.

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You're borrowing this name.

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I mean, when Jesus says Verily, verily, you know what that means?

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Truly, truly.

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That's what the modern versions will change that to.

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And that's not the problem with the modern versions.

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There's a lot of other problems with the modern versions.

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They hold back part of the text, just like some people are holding back part of the price.

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OK, I mean, you're going to just mock God like that.

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The name of our church, truth, if the pillar and ground are the truth,

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and they're going to sit here and just do this kind of stuff.

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You know, there is a qualification in the Bible for pastors.

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It says not greedy, a filthy lucre.

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Isn't it interesting that you get up and scream and yell and holler about people's qualifications?

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When the Bible says not greedy, a filthy lucre.

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Now, again, let's explain what filthy lucre is.

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A pastor being paid is not filthy lucre.

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A pastor being paid well is not filthy lucre.

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A pastor being paid double is not filthy lucre.

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You know, it's filthy lucre taking money that's designated to your missionary and keeping it.

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That's filthy lucre because it's not yours.

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It's not yours to give.

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It's not yours to take.

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Look, what is lucre?

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It's basically money that you don't deserve, that you didn't earn, that you didn't work for, that's not yours.

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And you're coveting it and you're taking it like Aiken.

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Aiken coveting the Babylonian garment and Aiken taking the silver and gold and hiding it in his tent.

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And look, it's so stupid because it's like, yeah, you're taking money from your missionary and just gold plating your building.

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I mean, what does that even matter?

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Isn't it funny?

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It's like Aiken took this Babylonian garment.

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Don't you think he probably couldn't even wear that out in public?

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Because he wears it out in public.

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He's like, hey, where did you get that?

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We're out here in the wilderness.

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The Costco here doesn't sell that garment.

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You know what I mean?

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It's like, I wonder where you got that.

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So what is it?

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You're just going to wear it at night and look in the mirror just like, you know, he's going to peacock for himself at night.

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You know, it's like sometimes I don't think criminals even think through their entire fraud scheme.

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It's like, oh, you're stealing money for what purpose?

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And again, this is sometimes how criminals do things is they don't really think about how they're not going to get away with it.

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I don't know. It's just like criminal.

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They just do the crime.

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And then it's just like, how are you expecting to get away with this?

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And I'm like, I didn't think about that.

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That's why they're a dumb criminal.

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It's like, hey, let's rip off the bookkeeper.

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What?

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Wait, you're going to rip off the guy doing your books and then you're going to think you're going to get away with that?

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Like, isn't that retarded?

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Like, if you're going to rip someone off, I mean, you think like, hey, you're going to be a criminal.

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You might try to do it in a way where you could at least get away with it.

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It's like, hey, the only way we're going to get away with it is if this guy will never say something.

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So, you know, you have to do you have to exercise extreme authoritarian control on people.

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While simultaneously preaching that you're a servant leadership and you never exercise control on anybody.

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You know, the kind of guy that says everybody on staff, every text message has to be proofread by the by the pastor before it can be sent out.

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That's the kind of servant leadership that some people are modeling.

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But that's not certainly that's called a harsh dictatorship.

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That's like communism with Big Brother CCTV.

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And then they want to act like, oh, how dare you people over here exercising authority?

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Look, I think that's ridiculous.

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I don't even proofread my own text messages.

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If you ever got a text from me, you'd be like, does pastor even know how to speak English?

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You know, it's like I mean, with fat fingering and autocorrect and just, you know, if you do if you ever do voice to text, man, that can get funky fast.

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You know what I mean?

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It's like let's go brand in terms of something else.

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You know what I mean?

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I don't know if that was autocorrect or not, but if you would to John Chapter 12, go to John Chapter 12.

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You know, we should just stop being fake.

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Can we just stop being fake?

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Christians are sinners.

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We're all sinners.

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We're all screwed up.

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We all lie and we all do things that are bad.

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But, you know, at the end of the day, we're trying our best to not become one of these dirty rotten Christians.

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We're trying to have at least some standard.

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We're saying we're just trying not to be a drunkard and an adulterer and just an egregious thief.

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We're just trying to not be that person.

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But it usually these like super holier than the owls.

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They're fake because it just doesn't exist.

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Everybody kind of just wants to believe none of it really is this guy over.

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He never lies.

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He's never cheated on his taxes.

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His wife's never said anything mean to him.

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He's never he's never gotten a fight with his wife.

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Everything he does is right and pure.

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That guy doesn't exist, folks.

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He just stopped.

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Stop building these guys up in your head to think, oh, this guy's perfect.

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Doesn't exist.

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It's like, hey, we're trying to have a standard over here.

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First Corinthians five.

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OK, because we just know we're all screwed up a little bit.

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OK, but again, why does the fake person want to go over here?

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It's pride.

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It's pride that wants you to think this guy's super special and super amazing and awesome and just a holier than thou.

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And nobody can compete and nobody will ever arrive.

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And they've arrived.

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Look, it's all fake.

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It's just it's just a charade.

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Don't don't fall for this kind of stuff.

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And of course, the work salvationists love this doctrine because they teach like if you got saved, I mean, you're going to be super polished.

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You're not going to have any problems.

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That's why they cover up every scandal.

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That's why they cover up every transgression.

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Why?

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Because they can't allow their little perfect image and their little perfect bubble to be popped for everybody to see and then be like, well, if y'all guys are so screwed up, then how come then how is it lordship salvation?

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Well, they have to have, you know, there's a lordship salvation forces them to be fake.

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So it's like, why do you think the Pharisees were so fake, folks?

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Because when you believe it works, salvation, then you have to pretend like you actually have the works when you're really rotten to the core.

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And look, the Pharisees were the worst of the worst.

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They're devouring widows houses for pretense, making long prayers.

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They on the everything on the outward appearance is great.

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I mean, what is a Pharisee according to the Bible outward appearance?

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Perfect.

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No one has any reason to look at the outward appearance and say, this guy's bad.

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Never fights with his wife.

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Super polished.

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Everything's great.

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The choir is awesome.

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Super great.

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But they're a hypocrite, meaning that they say do not.

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And of course, they're financial thieves, just robbing people blind, doing all kinds of shady things, and they don't actually care.

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They're not really genuine.

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John, chapter 12, look at verse number six.

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This is talking about Judas Iscariot.

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Let's back up to verse four.

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Sorry.

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One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which would betray him.

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Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and given to the poor?

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This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and bear was put there.

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Why didn't you give to the vision offering?

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Not that he cared about the missions, but because he was a thief and he took all the missions money.

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I mean, what?

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There's like one guy.

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It's like every single sermon, every single post.

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What is the first line?

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Donate here.

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Giant offerings all the time.

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And then that's the guy that's not giving a nickel, not a nickel to his missionary.

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How can you say you even care about missions when you don't even give a nickel?

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How can you care about someone?

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Oh, yeah, I forgot.

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It's the same guy that years ago preached that it's not his job or role to go out into a small town and get a bunch of people saved and leave.

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And I guess we just all kind of look the other way.

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We shouldn't be looking the other way on that kind of stuff anymore.

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Hey, when someone doesn't care about soul winning, there's a problem.

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And you know what the problem is, especially when they're saying they do.

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I mean, when people are just eking this stuff out, it's kind of like what?

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Why?

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Why?

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Why do you not care?

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You know why people don't care about soul winning?

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Because it won't build your church.

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Now, it can indirectly impact your church.

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It can build it with soul.

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It can bring soul winners that want to come to your church.

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But look, the direct efforts of soul winning is not going to build a church.

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Anybody that's done soul winning for a long time realizes they're not coming.

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OK, now, now, look, I'm not saying that we're going to stop or slow down soul winning.

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It's just our motivation isn't to build the church.

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It's to get people into heaven.

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It's for them just not go to hell.

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And we just realize like, hey, you know why we do soul winning?

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Because we realize they're not going to show up.

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That's the whole reason we went to them.

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We're like, hey, we know you're not going to come.

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That's why I'm here.

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Oh, no, no, I'm going to come.

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I don't believe you.

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That's why I'm here.

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Come back later.

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This is your chance because you're not coming and I'm not coming back.

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OK.

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Like we're here now.

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It's time now.

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Why do the apostles never have to go everywhere?

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At what point in the New Testament do you just see all these people coming?

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One time to John the Baptist and then the vast majority of them didn't get saved.

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Isn't that interesting?

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Just tons of people come to John the Baptist.

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Don't even get saved.

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Tons of people come to Jesus.

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Don't even get saved.

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They just immediately leave as soon as the preaching starts.

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And look, that's how it would be here.

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You think if I just went out and gave flyers and whatever gimmick we had free pizza and it wasn't Little Caesar's was good.

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You know, it's like really good pizza.

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We're like free pizza.

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And we just bring in like five thousand people and then I start preaching.

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They're not coming back, folks.

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OK.

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I mean, it's just it's don't don't think like, oh, man, why don't we just have just all these people just flocking to the church?

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It's called the preaching.

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Well, what if you change the preaching?

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Well, more people could come.

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Yeah, I could just become a non-denominational guy.

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I could get a roller coaster out over here and ride on the roller coaster and play basketball and jump on trampolines and just woo and wow everybody.

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Play Hollywood movies and we could just bring in tons of people.

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You know, the good people would leave.

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The soul winners would leave.

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People that want hard preaching would leave.

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And they just be filled with gross people.

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So have a church filled with gross people that don't care about the things of God.

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And then pretty soon you're just gateway.

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Oh, and then who's leading gateway?

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Oh, yeah, a pedophile.

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Yeah, because who is going to just misuse the church like that and take advantage of the church for just money and financial gain?

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Typically, Pharisees, reprobates, Judas Iscariots, pedophiles.

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But let me tell you something, even though that's the vast majority,

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Even saved Christians can be just as dirty and rotten and turn the house of God into a house of merchandise and into a den of thieves.

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And you know what?

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It shouldn't shock us when it happens because the flesh is the flesh and people can get selfish and prideful.

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And look, there's been many a church that's crashed and burned, even good churches, even saved pastors.

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So, you know, that's why you have to be careful.

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Why is it? Why are we emphasizing the first works?

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Well, they can never be taken away from us.

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And that's what keeps us on the straight and narrow, folks.

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If we if we give up so winning, we could just go into all kinds of different bad paths.

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Go to Hebrews, chapter 10, go to Hebrews, chapter 10.

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I think you have a site so many too much now all of the size of harder now.

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Yeah, more stupid.

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And look, you show me the guy emphasizing soul winning and hard preaching, and I want to be his friend.

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Show me the guy attacking soul winning and scaling back and preaching soft, lame sermons.

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That guy's going in a bad direction.

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It just it doesn't matter what their images ignore the image.

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Ignore the headlines.

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Oh, this guy has a bad reputation, but he loves soul winning and preaching fire sermons.

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I like him.

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Here's the guy that's polished, never fights with his wife.

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But boy, he's scaling back the soul winning and not preaching with the Bible saying I don't want to I don't want to hang around that person.

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And sometimes we want to make excuses in our heads and our minds about these people.

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I'm telling you, it's just it's just the reality.

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What did Jesus say?

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Didn't he say that if if you follow him, he'll make you a fisher of men?

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Yeah.

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Show me the guy that's fishing lots of men and I'll show you someone following Jesus.

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Show me someone that's not fishing a lot of men and I'll show you someone that's not following Jesus.

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Say how many how much percentage 100 percent of the time?

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It's not 50 50 or 43 percent.

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It's 100.

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Hebrews chapter 10, look at verse 26.

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For if we sin willfully after that, we receive the knowledge of the truth that remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

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He that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses of how much sore punishment.

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Suppose ye shall be thought worthy who have trodden underfoot the Son of God and have counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified and unholy thing and have done despite under the spirit of grace.

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We know him that has said vengeance belongeth unto me.

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I will recompense, say the Lord.

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And again, the Lord shall judge his people.

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It is a fearful thing to fall in the hands of living God.

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But point one of the sermon is, you know, when we realize there's dirty rotten Christians, we should just not be surprised.

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OK, I just I just hope that in the future you're going to take away some of the shock factor and you're going to not be offended because what does the devil want?

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The devil wants you to do this.

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The devil wants you to follow a man.

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You get invested in a man.

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And then when a man fails, he's got you to quit.

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When you realize, hey, there's a lot of dirty rotten Christians out there.

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I wasn't really following them.

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I was following Christ.

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And then they you just trash the dirty rotten guy and you just find someone else following Christ and you just keep going.

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OK.

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And it's going to happen.

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And you don't follow a man.

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You follow Christ.

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And he's not dirty and rotten.

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OK, so don't get offended.

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Don't get upset.

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Don't say like, well, I think Christianity is fake now or I think I have these fake now or the King James is fake or so when he's fake.

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No, no, let the fake person be fake.

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Right.

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It's the fake person that's fake, not God, not so winning, not the Bible, not Christianity.

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And let all the examples in the Bible remind you that there was fakes all along the way.

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Hey, the New Testament church was a fake thing.

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Ananias and Sapphira are fake.

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So God just bam.

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Y'all are gone.

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But boy, it's a crucial time in setting up a church at the beginning.

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Why do you want to take away funds from a church when it's a church plant at the very early stages?

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You got an early church plant in an economically disadvantaged area and you want to make it more difficult on them?

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That's just a testimony to God that he makes sure to take care of people despite.

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OK.

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And it's a testimony to people that are willing to actually be a true Christian and suffer themselves to be defrauded for a long period of time, trying to do the right thing, trusting that God will actually take care of them in the long run.

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But you know what?

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We need to be careful.

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Why?

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Because if we just go against God's word, he says it's going to be a sore punishment for us.

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He says that it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of living God.

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The Bible says that God's going to judge his people.

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Look, it takes an idiot to mess with God.

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It takes someone that has no fear of God.

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I mean, to watch someone do something like this kind of stuff, it takes a lot of fear of God.

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I mean, just absolutely zero fear of God.

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And boy, when you do that repeatedly for years, think about how long suffering God is with some people.

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You know, he said about Jezebel, who's committing fornication and teaching people to do all this wicked stuff.

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He said that he gave her a space to repent.

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He gave her a long time to get it right.

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Just didn't get it right.

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Go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 9, verse 9.

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He said, I'm going to get it right.

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Just didn't get it right.

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Go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 11.

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Go to 1 Corinthians 11.

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So point one is we should not be surprised.

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Point two is that we should take heed unto ourselves.

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We need to take heed unto ourselves because God will judge his people.

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There's no punishment in heaven.

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I mean, once you get to heaven, you're perfect.

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There's no more punishment for sin.

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Your sins are separated from you as far as the east is from the west.

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Apart from the judgment seat of Christ suffering loss, I don't see any punishment in the Bible.

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I don't see any any area.

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And even being in a low part of heaven is still going to be joyous.

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But at the moment that you receive such a position, it could be you're going to suffer loss, as the Bible says.

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I mean, you're going to be disappointed that you didn't put invest more into Christianity and do more for God at that point.

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But again, once you're there, hey, you know, at least we're all having having fellowship.

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But what should we do as Christians?

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As Christians, we should take heed unto ourselves.

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First Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 11.

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Now all these things happen to them for in samples and they are written for admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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Wherefore let him that think of the standard take heed lest he fall.

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You know, how do you watch a guy think about this?

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How do you watch a guy that stole money from churches, stole money from churches that you were associated with,

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literally sues you and then gets the worst skin disease ever known to man.

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And you're not afraid.

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I mean, Gallagher sued Roger Jimenez.

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That whole group sued them for the comments that he had made.

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So he wasn't aware of this.

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And then you watch this guy get just severely punished by God.

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I mean, Gallagher divorces his wife.

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So he's like twice divorced or something like this.

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Or maybe it was on his wife's side.

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I don't know.

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Just divorces his wife, gets into Hinduism, becomes a fag loving idiot, then gets the worst skin disease ever.

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He's addicted to alcohol.

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It's like, hey, I wonder if God punishes people from stealing from churches.

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Yeah, he really does.

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Like, how do you how do you not feel like, man, I'm in a bad position here?

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I'm making a bad decision here.

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Maybe I should get it right with God.

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I mean, you it's like you read the old like you should read the Old Testament stories and then just be afraid.

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But then God's giving you real life examples of people you know.

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Then you should be afraid.

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And this is what God is saying here.

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He is saying specifically, hey, we should take heed.

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We shouldn't think that we stand.

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We could fall.

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These things are written for our admonition.

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Everything in the Old Testament was written for us as an example of what God would do today.

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It's not like, oh, the God of the Old Testament, he was mean and would really, you know, scorch people.

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Look, that's the New Testament.

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It's the same God.

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Have you ever read Revelation?

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It's pretty fiery.

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Ananase and Sapphira smoked.

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People can get smoked today.

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And look, dirty, rotten Christians exist in this world.

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And when they get smoked, you know what we should do?

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We should be afraid for ourselves.

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We should say, hey, you know what?

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If this guy can get into sin, if a pastor can get into sin, if a pastor with all this accountability and responsibility and whatever can get in this kind of sin, I better take heed unto myself.

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I better make sure I'm reading my Bible.

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I better make sure that I'm praying.

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I better make sure that I'm, you know, taking care and being careful and not hanging around skeevy people and going down a bad path or, you know, getting a little lax.

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You know, once you start lying, it's like the floodgate opens of just how many lies you'll tell.

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You just steal a little bit of money and it's just the floodgate opens of how much money you'll really take.

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In many cases, people don't realize how far they're going to go.

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That's why you have to be really careful to try and stop it immediately.

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If you're stealing money, you need to stop right now.

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If you're lying about some kind of situation, you need to stop lying right now.

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If you're getting backslidden, you need to get on the right page now.

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Because you just don't know how far it's going to go.

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And look, we can sit here and be like, oh, wow, this person really ruined their life.

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That doesn't help you if you don't actually make any changes in your own life.

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We need to take heed on ourselves. Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 10. Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 10.

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Ecclesiastes chapter 7, verse number 1.

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The Bible says a good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

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Why is it better to end? Because you finished.

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You don't know if you're going to finish.

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It'd be better to know, hey, I'm 85 years old, I'm about to die, and I never stop serving God.

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Because you being 25, we don't know if you're going to be around here next week.

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We don't know if you're going to come back to the evening service.

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That's why it's better to know that you finished, to know that you actually did it.

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It's like, hey, I started the race. No, no, you want to finish the race.

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And you know what's better than all the money in the world? A good name.

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I would rather die poor and people be like, hey, he served God,

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than being the richest man and dying like a Rothschild or a Bill Clinton or being Hugh Hefner or something like that.

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Some skeevy, disgusting person.

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Like stealing money is not worth it. You can't take it with you to heaven.

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No missions funds will make it with you to heaven.

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No building on this earth is going to make it up to heaven with you.

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No Babylonian garment is going to make it with you.

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You know, money is a stupid thing.

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It's like, especially for Americans, you pretty much can have the nicest clothes and the nicest food and stuff,

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at a pretty just minimal amount of money.

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And the people that have all the luxurious crap in this world, it's not even worth it.

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And it breaks and it diminishes and it's not nice anymore.

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I mean, look, you know, people that buy these really fancy cars never drive them.

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Sorry to surprise you.

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But like these people that buy these like $500,000 cars, million dollar cars,

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they never drive them because if they do, they'll lose their value.

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So they'll have this Lamborghini in the driveway or probably not, probably in the shop or in the garage.

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It'll have 200 miles on it. 300 miles on it. Why?

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Because they don't want to diminish the value on that vehicle.

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Plus, it's like, have you ever driven in Dallas? You can't even go fast anyway.

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It's too much traffic.

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It's like that's just going to make you more frustrated.

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You're driving around in this Lamborghini and there's nowhere to go.

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You're just stuck in traffic.

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And then someone, some just like, you know, Alamo truck or whatever just drives by

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and just splashes mud all over you and kicks rocks on your windshield and whatever.

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And you're just like, some illegal just drives by and just side swipes you or something.

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Do you have insurance? Hola?

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How does he speak English?

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Oh, man, I just want to chase money. Look, chasing money is stupid.

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We need to take heed unto ourselves.

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Oh, well, this guy won the lottery and it ruined his life.

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Look, money is not what it's cracked up to be.

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You know what? You'd be better off just serving God and people in church being like, this is a good guy.

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But even if you do that for years, you're a good guy for a decade, you're a good guy for two decades.

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And then you start getting in some trash.

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What does the Bible say? Look at Ecclesiastes 10, verse one.

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Dead flies cause the ointment of an apothecary to send for the stinking savor.

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So to the little folly, him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.

01:16:09.160 --> 01:16:10.160
This is what's sad.

01:16:10.160 --> 01:16:14.160
It takes a long time to build up a good reputation.

01:16:14.160 --> 01:16:16.160
And it takes seconds to ruin it.

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I mean, how long did it take to build a 47 story skyscraper in New York?

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I mean, just think about how much planning and organization and steel and materials were put into the planning of building a 47 story skyscraper.

01:16:38.160 --> 01:16:40.160
It's called Building Seven.

01:16:40.160 --> 01:16:43.160
And in seven seconds, it was on the ground.

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Due to office fires.

01:16:45.160 --> 01:16:49.160
You'd think you had a plan that office fires couldn't take a building down that fast.

01:16:51.160 --> 01:16:54.160
I mean, think just seconds, it's gone.

01:16:54.160 --> 01:16:56.160
Just instantly.

01:16:56.160 --> 01:17:01.160
And look, you could just spend two decades building a reputation that's second to none.

01:17:01.160 --> 01:17:03.160
And it's instantly shattered like that.

01:17:05.160 --> 01:17:07.160
Why would you want to go down that road?

01:17:07.160 --> 01:17:15.160
You know, when it takes so much effort to build a good name and to have good things, you should be really careful that you don't destroy it.

01:17:15.160 --> 01:17:17.160
That's why we should take heed under ourselves.

01:17:17.160 --> 01:17:21.160
You could have two decades of a great marriage and it takes seconds to ruin your marriage.

01:17:23.160 --> 01:17:28.160
Two decades of working hard and finances and just in seconds, it's all gone.

01:17:28.160 --> 01:17:29.160
It's all lost.

01:17:29.160 --> 01:17:31.160
You should take heed under yourselves.

01:17:31.160 --> 01:17:33.160
Go view to Acts Chapter 17.

01:17:33.160 --> 01:17:39.160
David just spends decades proving that he's he's the man after God's own heart.

01:17:39.160 --> 01:17:40.160
Great guy.

01:17:40.160 --> 01:17:46.160
And then in just seconds, he's just already destroying it, ruining his reputation, killing people.

01:17:46.160 --> 01:17:47.160
I mean, it's just crazy.

01:17:49.160 --> 01:18:01.160
If Saul can be little in his own sight and then just evil and wicked to the core later, if David can be the man after God's own heart and committing adultery and murder, then we should take heed under ourselves.

01:18:01.160 --> 01:18:06.160
And realize, hey, no one is above getting into wicked sin, evil sin.

01:18:06.160 --> 01:18:09.160
And there's just a lot of dirty rotten Christians out there.

01:18:09.160 --> 01:18:16.160
And, you know, one thing that I've noticed, this is like a personal thing that I've noticed, is that a lot of people in the Bible go bad in their old age.

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Like, if you think about it, there's a lot of people that kind of like start good.

01:18:21.160 --> 01:18:25.160
And then when they get older, that's when they go really bad.

01:18:25.160 --> 01:18:28.160
I mean, you got Solomon starting good.

01:18:28.160 --> 01:18:29.160
End of his life.

01:18:29.160 --> 01:18:30.160
Horrific.

01:18:30.160 --> 01:18:31.160
Saul starting good.

01:18:31.160 --> 01:18:32.160
End of his life.

01:18:32.160 --> 01:18:33.160
Horrific.

01:18:33.160 --> 01:18:34.160
David starts good.

01:18:34.160 --> 01:18:35.160
End of his life.

01:18:35.160 --> 01:18:36.160
Ends horrific.

01:18:36.160 --> 01:18:38.160
Demas starts good.

01:18:38.160 --> 01:18:47.160
Ends his life by loving this present world, departing unto Thessalonica and just forsaking Paul and just going down a bad path.

01:18:49.160 --> 01:18:51.160
Oh, well, I was a great Christian until I was 35.

01:18:51.160 --> 01:18:52.160
Okay.

01:18:54.160 --> 01:18:55.160
You know, we should take heed.

01:18:55.160 --> 01:19:00.160
Just because you've been good for 35 years doesn't mean that you can't just fall off the wagon.

01:19:00.160 --> 01:19:05.160
So I have to be super careful and super diligent and stay in church.

01:19:05.160 --> 01:19:06.160
Well, I've read the Bible 20 times.

01:19:06.160 --> 01:19:08.160
We'll read it a 21st time.

01:19:10.160 --> 01:19:13.160
You know, don't keep pressing towards the mark.

01:19:13.160 --> 01:19:15.160
Well, I got enough people saved.

01:19:15.160 --> 01:19:16.160
No, you didn't.

01:19:16.160 --> 01:19:17.160
Keep getting more people saved.

01:19:17.160 --> 01:19:19.160
Go on another missions trip.

01:19:19.160 --> 01:19:20.160
Keep working.

01:19:20.160 --> 01:19:24.160
You know, as soon as David stops working, it's bad.

01:19:25.160 --> 01:19:26.160
Laziness will destroy you.

01:19:26.160 --> 01:19:28.160
Selfishness will destroy you.

01:19:28.160 --> 01:19:30.160
Pride will destroy you.

01:19:30.160 --> 01:19:39.160
And so because of these things, you know, we as God's people, what should be our attitude towards pastors and leaders when we see just this horrible thing happen?

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Well, we shouldn't stop trusting the the the the offices and the organizations that God has established.

01:19:48.160 --> 01:19:51.160
You know, I have not lost faith in church at all.

01:19:51.160 --> 01:19:53.160
I have not lost faith in the King James Bible.

01:19:53.160 --> 01:19:54.160
I haven't lost faith in pastors.

01:19:54.160 --> 01:19:56.160
And what should our default position be?

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We should just trust, but we should trust and verify.

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And it says in Acts chapter 17, verse 10, and the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night and Nubria, who coming thither when in the synagogue of the Jews.

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These are more noble than those in Thessalonica, that they receive the word with all readiness of mind and search the scriptures daily, whether those things are so.

01:20:15.160 --> 01:20:17.160
So notice they're they're trusting.

01:20:17.160 --> 01:20:19.160
They're ready.

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But they verify.

01:20:21.160 --> 01:20:22.160
They verify.

01:20:22.160 --> 01:20:24.160
It's like, hey, I'm ready to come to church.

01:20:24.160 --> 01:20:26.160
I'm excited to hear the passage message.

01:20:26.160 --> 01:20:29.160
You know, it's not our job to go into towns and get a bunch of people saved.

01:20:29.160 --> 01:20:31.160
Well, I went home and verified that.

01:20:31.160 --> 01:20:33.160
And that's like counterintuitive.

01:20:33.160 --> 01:20:36.160
Everything the Bible teaches.

01:20:36.160 --> 01:20:41.160
Hey, this guy's getting up and just lying and saying like, oh, I was never a new IP fan club.

01:20:41.160 --> 01:20:44.160
Let's just verify that for five seconds.

01:20:44.160 --> 01:20:45.160
False, false.

01:20:45.160 --> 01:20:47.160
You have a website called New I have be singles.

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Who?

01:20:49.160 --> 01:20:50.160
What?

01:20:50.160 --> 01:20:51.160
Yeah.

01:20:51.160 --> 01:20:53.160
Like what?

01:20:53.160 --> 01:20:58.160
Oh, you know, I'm just I'm just going to start lying about other people and falsely accusing other people.

01:20:58.160 --> 01:21:04.160
You know, if a church doesn't go home and verify, well, then they just become brain dead idiots.

01:21:04.160 --> 01:21:06.160
And boy, God will punish you, too.

01:21:06.160 --> 01:21:08.160
You know, a ruler harking to lies.

01:21:08.160 --> 01:21:11.160
All his servants are wicked is what the Bible says.

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You can't just sit here and just fall off the wagon with an evil person and not get punished as well and not have bad things happen to you as well.

01:21:20.160 --> 01:21:21.160
And you may not like these things.

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And look, it's easier for me to preach this and for some people to hear it because they're closer to the situation.

01:21:27.160 --> 01:21:28.160
Let me tell you something.

01:21:28.160 --> 01:21:40.160
There's a reason why it's important when you have a scandal to bring in some outsiders so they can just judge correctly and not sit here and pervert judgment by being too close to the situation, by being an actual respecter of persons.

01:21:40.160 --> 01:21:45.160
By actually having been compromised in the situation.

01:21:45.160 --> 01:21:52.160
You know, Nathan can just come up to David and just be like, hey, thou art the man.

01:21:52.160 --> 01:21:56.160
I mean, David can judge rightly when it's not about him.

01:21:56.160 --> 01:21:58.160
Actually, he kind of goes over the top.

01:21:58.160 --> 01:22:03.160
He's like, hey, this guy took this other guy's sheep.

01:22:03.160 --> 01:22:06.160
I'm over here with tons and tons of sheep.

01:22:06.160 --> 01:22:14.160
And there's this one poor little guy in the Philippines with one little you lamb and he stole that one you lamb.

01:22:14.160 --> 01:22:15.160
What should happen?

01:22:15.160 --> 01:22:19.160
And David's like, kill him.

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And then Nathan, the prophet, has to come in and say, hey, thou art the man.

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Now how do you feel about it?

01:22:25.160 --> 01:22:27.160
Now what do you judge?

01:22:27.160 --> 01:22:31.160
Now what do you think?

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Look, it's easy to judge these situations.

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But you know what?

01:22:34.160 --> 01:22:38.160
As a Christian, as a person in this church, you better verify yourself.

01:22:38.160 --> 01:22:39.160
Trust but verify.

01:22:39.160 --> 01:22:41.160
Trust and verify the pastor.

01:22:41.160 --> 01:22:42.160
Trust and verify the deacon.

01:22:42.160 --> 01:22:44.160
Trust and verify the evangelist.

01:22:44.160 --> 01:22:46.160
Trust and verify the members in this group.

01:22:46.160 --> 01:22:48.160
Trust and verify the soul winning captains.

01:22:48.160 --> 01:22:50.160
Trust and verify the musicians.

01:22:50.160 --> 01:22:52.160
Trust and verify everybody.

01:22:52.160 --> 01:22:54.160
Do not sit here and blindly trust.

01:22:54.160 --> 01:22:56.160
Verify.

01:22:56.160 --> 01:22:59.160
We realize, hey, anybody can be a dirty rotten Christian.

01:22:59.160 --> 01:23:03.160
Therefore, hey, I trust you, but I'm going to verify.

01:23:03.160 --> 01:23:04.160
And you know what?

01:23:04.160 --> 01:23:08.160
The guy that's honest is like, I'm so glad you're verifying.

01:23:08.160 --> 01:23:16.160
If someone starts getting squeamish and awkward and weird about you verifying things, there's a problem.

01:23:16.160 --> 01:23:18.160
And let me tell you something.

01:23:18.160 --> 01:23:20.160
When there's a problem, say something.

01:23:20.160 --> 01:23:24.160
You know, we should never punish whistleblowers.

01:23:24.160 --> 01:23:26.160
That's a wicked thing to do.

01:23:26.160 --> 01:23:28.160
And you know what you're trying to do?

01:23:28.160 --> 01:23:32.160
You're trying to discourage other people from being honest.

01:23:32.160 --> 01:23:35.160
If you're going to punish whistleblowers, you know what?

01:23:35.160 --> 01:23:38.160
There's probably more dirt to uncover.

01:23:38.160 --> 01:23:39.160
I mean, think about it.

01:23:39.160 --> 01:23:40.160
Think about it.

01:23:40.160 --> 01:23:43.160
A woman comes forward and says, hey, I was abused by this guy.

01:23:43.160 --> 01:23:45.160
It's like, why didn't you come out earlier?

01:23:45.160 --> 01:23:49.160
You must have been complicit.

01:23:49.160 --> 01:23:52.160
You're going to victim blame that now?

01:23:52.160 --> 01:23:54.160
I mean, that's just wicked and evil.

01:23:54.160 --> 01:24:00.160
And think about how are you going to victim blame someone as a victim of theft?

01:24:00.160 --> 01:24:05.160
Well, you should have, you know, how dare you do that?

01:24:05.160 --> 01:24:11.160
How dare you come up with a scheme to steal from yourself?

01:24:11.160 --> 01:24:16.160
I mean, do you really expect me to believe Pastor Matthew Stuckey in the Philippines is over here just like, you know what?

01:24:16.160 --> 01:24:18.160
I feel like we have way too much money.

01:24:18.160 --> 01:24:25.160
We should come up with a way to give more money to Sacramento and deceive donors.

01:24:25.160 --> 01:24:30.160
You're retarded if you believe that or evil or wicked or all of it.

01:24:30.160 --> 01:24:33.160
Sorry if you don't like those terms, but I can't I'm trying to use a harsh term.

01:24:33.160 --> 01:24:41.160
OK, because in fact, that's probably just insulting to people that are mentally handicapped because they're probably way more gracious and nice than those people are.

01:24:41.160 --> 01:24:46.160
Because these are dirty rotten people to come up with these schemes and to believe these lies.

01:24:46.160 --> 01:24:48.160
No one would believe this nonsense.

01:24:48.160 --> 01:24:52.160
It's like when you take your kid's arm and he's like, you're like making him hit himself in the face.

01:24:52.160 --> 01:24:55.160
How dare you hit yourself? Stop hitting yourself.

01:24:55.160 --> 01:25:03.160
It's like, come on, you're not going to sit here and just hit hit your little kid in the face and then blame him for it.

01:25:03.160 --> 01:25:04.160
It's wicked.

01:25:04.160 --> 01:25:09.160
Go to Romans, chapter 12.

01:25:09.160 --> 01:25:12.160
Yeah, there's a lot of dirty rotten Christians out there in this world.

01:25:12.160 --> 01:25:14.160
And you know what?

01:25:14.160 --> 01:25:17.160
We need to verify.

01:25:17.160 --> 01:25:24.160
Now, in relation to this point, it's kind of just a similar point, but it's still different.

01:25:24.160 --> 01:25:27.160
OK, is that we need accountability.

01:25:27.160 --> 01:25:29.160
Everyone needs accountability.

01:25:29.160 --> 01:25:31.160
OK, accountability is good.

01:25:31.160 --> 01:25:39.160
Romans, chapter 12, verse 17, Reconvents to no man evil for evil, provide things honest and the sight of all men.

01:25:39.160 --> 01:25:42.160
Things should be honest on the up and up.

01:25:42.160 --> 01:25:50.160
Make sense where there's no room for dishonesty, because when you give room for dishonesty, then people do dirty rotten things.

01:25:50.160 --> 01:25:55.160
When you have the accountability and go to second Corinthians, chapter 8, we shouldn't even trust ourselves, folks.

01:25:55.160 --> 01:25:57.160
We don't trust ourselves.

01:25:57.160 --> 01:25:58.160
We don't trust anyone.

01:25:58.160 --> 01:26:01.160
We build accountability practices.

01:26:01.160 --> 01:26:06.160
So, you know, as a church member, number one, you should just realize there's bad people, rotten Christians out there.

01:26:06.160 --> 01:26:08.160
Number two, go out.

01:26:08.160 --> 01:26:09.160
Well, this guy's saved.

01:26:09.160 --> 01:26:11.160
He can still be rotten.

01:26:11.160 --> 01:26:12.160
Don't be surprised by that.

01:26:12.160 --> 01:26:16.160
And since we know that he can be rotten, we need to take care of ourselves.

01:26:16.160 --> 01:26:18.160
We need to verify what they say and do.

01:26:18.160 --> 01:26:25.160
And then we need to allow ourselves to have accountability in our lives so we ourselves don't fall victim and things don't go bad.

01:26:25.160 --> 01:26:32.160
Second Corinthians, chapter 8, look at verse 21, providing for things on it or for honest things, not only the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

01:26:32.160 --> 01:26:39.160
Notice the Bible emphasizing again the importance of not only honesty to God, but honesty to men.

01:26:40.160 --> 01:26:49.160
OK, so we want to make sure that our church is going to be honest and have accountability and it's not just going to allow itself to just go off the wagon.

01:26:49.160 --> 01:27:01.160
You know, when you take over a church where there's been financial impropriety and serious scandal and issues, the last thing you want to do is not create accountability.

01:27:01.160 --> 01:27:10.160
And of course, when I took over Steadfast Baptist Church, let me explain to you, it was riddled with dishonesty when it comes to the financial means.

01:27:10.160 --> 01:27:17.160
OK, and you know, Romero, Donnie Romero was a really skeevy character.

01:27:17.160 --> 01:27:19.160
He was a dirty rotten Christian.

01:27:19.160 --> 01:27:23.160
OK, and after getting caught, let's just let's just think about let's just play a trip down memory lane.

01:27:23.160 --> 01:27:25.160
If you weren't there, I'm going to catch you up.

01:27:25.160 --> 01:27:26.160
Right.

01:27:26.160 --> 01:27:30.160
This guy gets caught doing some wicked, shady, evil things.

01:27:30.160 --> 01:27:34.160
He gets up in front of the congregation and this is what he says.

01:27:34.160 --> 01:27:36.160
I haven't been ruling my house well.

01:27:39.160 --> 01:27:42.160
OK, what does that mean?

01:27:42.160 --> 01:27:43.160
I'll explain what that means.

01:27:43.160 --> 01:27:48.160
It means going to casinos, stealing money from the church and sleeping with hookers.

01:27:48.160 --> 01:27:54.160
OK, so when someone says, hey, I committed moral sin, you don't know what that is.

01:27:54.160 --> 01:27:58.160
And if you believe it's something mild, you're probably naive.

01:27:59.160 --> 01:28:03.160
Oh, I just think he just he probably looked at something he shouldn't.

01:28:03.160 --> 01:28:05.160
No, there's no way it's just that.

01:28:05.160 --> 01:28:10.160
OK, folks, and somebody trying to float that idea is just trying to be like, I didn't rule my house well.

01:28:10.160 --> 01:28:12.160
OK, I guarantee it's way worse.

01:28:12.160 --> 01:28:17.160
And when they won't tell you, it's because it's way worse.

01:28:17.160 --> 01:28:20.160
If it was mild, they would just tell you the reason why they don't tell you.

01:28:20.160 --> 01:28:24.160
And if they're leaking out a mild excuse, it's because it's not real.

01:28:24.160 --> 01:28:26.160
And they just want you to just accept that and move on.

01:28:26.160 --> 01:28:29.160
OK, is there some dirty rotten people out there?

01:28:29.160 --> 01:28:31.160
Oh, but that would mean he's lying.

01:28:33.160 --> 01:28:35.160
Let me give you a little tip.

01:28:35.160 --> 01:28:37.160
People lie. OK.

01:28:37.160 --> 01:28:39.160
Oh, I don't think he would lie.

01:28:39.160 --> 01:28:40.160
Yes.

01:28:40.160 --> 01:28:43.160
Not only that, Romero told me, oh, I'm so sorry.

01:28:43.160 --> 01:28:44.160
I shouldn't have done this.

01:28:44.160 --> 01:28:46.160
I screwed up. Please help me.

01:28:46.160 --> 01:28:48.160
I'm like, OK, I'll help you.

01:28:48.160 --> 01:28:49.160
Me being naive.

01:28:49.160 --> 01:28:52.160
He's like, hey, I'll send you money or whatever.

01:28:52.160 --> 01:28:54.160
I'll send you the money in the bank account.

01:28:54.160 --> 01:28:58.160
There was $83,000 in the bank account and he sent me $40,000.

01:28:58.160 --> 01:29:03.160
And me being naive, not thinking that I actually thought he was actually sorry

01:29:03.160 --> 01:29:06.160
until I heard that, you know, announcement and all the other stuff.

01:29:06.160 --> 01:29:09.160
But it's like we realized instantly this guy's trying to cover stuff up.

01:29:09.160 --> 01:29:13.160
He was trying to steal another $43,000 while claiming he was actually, oh, I'm so sorry.

01:29:13.160 --> 01:29:14.160
I shouldn't have done this.

01:29:14.160 --> 01:29:17.160
Still trying to steal another $43,000 in the moment.

01:29:17.160 --> 01:29:23.160
Look, when someone gets caught in this stuff, they will lie and cheat and steal on their way out.

01:29:23.160 --> 01:29:25.160
Have you heard the unjust steward?

01:29:25.160 --> 01:29:29.160
Guy's just lying and ripping people off and stealing all the way out.

01:29:29.160 --> 01:29:31.160
You don't trust these people.

01:29:31.160 --> 01:29:35.160
People that are trusting these people are naive and foolish and stupid.

01:29:35.160 --> 01:29:42.160
You mean the guy getting up behind the pulpit lying to everybody for seven years isn't capable of lying now?

01:29:42.160 --> 01:29:52.160
So obviously, you know, you need outsiders coming in that are not partial, that are not involved.

01:29:52.160 --> 01:29:55.160
That didn't do the same thing at their church plant.

01:29:55.160 --> 01:29:56.160
Okay?

01:29:56.160 --> 01:30:00.160
So that way maybe someone could have an objective opinion.

01:30:00.160 --> 01:30:02.160
Okay?

01:30:02.160 --> 01:30:04.160
And yeah, Romero was a dirty rotten Christian.

01:30:04.160 --> 01:30:05.160
So you know what we did?

01:30:05.160 --> 01:30:08.160
We changed things immediately.

01:30:08.160 --> 01:30:13.160
Now, when I came into Step Fast Baptist Church, you know how many financial records we had?

01:30:13.160 --> 01:30:15.160
Exactly.

01:30:15.160 --> 01:30:17.160
Okay?

01:30:17.160 --> 01:30:20.160
It was like we didn't know where bank accounts were or anything.

01:30:20.160 --> 01:30:22.160
It was just like have fun figuring stuff out.

01:30:22.160 --> 01:30:24.160
Okay?

01:30:24.160 --> 01:30:25.160
That had to change.

01:30:25.160 --> 01:30:29.160
You know, there's another skeevy person involved in this, Adam Fanon.

01:30:29.160 --> 01:30:37.160
And Adam Fanon was telling me in my face, yeah, I want to work with you, and behind my back is telling everybody every dirty slander about me.

01:30:37.160 --> 01:30:39.160
Well, why would I want to work with a person like that?

01:30:39.160 --> 01:30:45.160
Secondly, when I said, hey, I need to see the financial records for the church.

01:30:45.160 --> 01:30:47.160
I want to see the tithes.

01:30:47.160 --> 01:30:52.160
I want to see when they count the money and they make a tie sheet, I want to see those.

01:30:52.160 --> 01:30:53.160
I want to see receipts.

01:30:53.160 --> 01:30:54.160
I want to see the stuff.

01:30:54.160 --> 01:30:58.160
He said, oh, well, Romero has that.

01:30:58.160 --> 01:31:00.160
I said, Romero's in Fort Worth.

01:31:00.160 --> 01:31:01.160
Did you mail this?

01:31:01.160 --> 01:31:03.160
Did you send this?

01:31:03.160 --> 01:31:07.160
I said, where is the physical record of any of the documents you had?

01:31:07.160 --> 01:31:09.160
He said there is none.

01:31:09.160 --> 01:31:12.160
And then he stopped texting me back.

01:31:12.160 --> 01:31:22.160
And it's like, why would I not fire a guy who's in charge of all the money and the finances who refuses to provide any finances or money or anything and is lying about me?

01:31:22.160 --> 01:31:24.160
Yeah, I would fire that guy.

01:31:24.160 --> 01:31:25.160
You know, I did ask the questions.

01:31:25.160 --> 01:31:26.160
I'm like, hey, where's the money?

01:31:26.160 --> 01:31:27.160
Where's the receipts?

01:31:27.160 --> 01:31:30.160
Where's the stuff so we can look it over and figure out what's going on financially?

01:31:30.160 --> 01:31:32.160
Then this guy's like, don't have any.

01:31:32.160 --> 01:31:34.160
Bye.

01:31:34.160 --> 01:31:36.160
That's shady.

01:31:36.160 --> 01:31:37.160
OK.

01:31:37.160 --> 01:31:53.160
Now, what's weird is when you do have a guy that's a bookkeeper and you come into a new situation and you and you instead of saying like, hey, give me the books, give me the receipts, tell me what's been going on, you just say you're fired and we cut all your access to all the financials.

01:31:53.160 --> 01:31:57.160
What?

01:31:57.160 --> 01:32:03.160
Is that someone that's trying to figure out the truth or is that someone trying to cover things up?

01:32:03.160 --> 01:32:08.160
And then blames that guy for not telling him stuff.

01:32:08.160 --> 01:32:10.160
What?

01:32:10.160 --> 01:32:12.160
That's that just makes no sense.

01:32:12.160 --> 01:32:13.160
We need to have accountability.

01:32:13.160 --> 01:32:17.160
And of course, our church, you know, how do we run finances?

01:32:17.160 --> 01:32:22.160
Well, when money is given in the donation plate, they take it in this room.

01:32:22.160 --> 01:32:23.160
It's still kind of public.

01:32:23.160 --> 01:32:24.160
It's still visible.

01:32:24.160 --> 01:32:25.160
There's multiple men there.

01:32:25.160 --> 01:32:27.160
They count all of it.

01:32:27.160 --> 01:32:35.160
They fill out two separate sheets that have to match exactly both sides of the count have to match exactly.

01:32:35.160 --> 01:32:41.160
Then they take pictures of it and they text me and our bookkeeper a digital copy of that amount.

01:32:41.160 --> 01:32:50.160
Then when the money is taken to the bank, it has to have a deposit slip that matches the exact same amount when it gets entered in the bank.

01:32:50.160 --> 01:33:02.160
Then not only that, our bookkeeper literally has records of every single dime that's spent for the church, every single penny that all of that amount of money is scrutinized by five,

01:33:02.160 --> 01:33:09.160
six guys in the church who look over all the finances, prepare a combined statement and presented to the church.

01:33:09.160 --> 01:33:11.160
Say, well, how are people going to steal money?

01:33:11.160 --> 01:33:13.160
Exactly.

01:33:13.160 --> 01:33:16.160
How are you going to start expensing stuff that no one knows about?

01:33:16.160 --> 01:33:24.160
You think that five, six guys are going to look over every single dime and not say like, hey, where's the money going to the missionary in the Philippines?

01:33:28.160 --> 01:33:30.160
Yeah, you would realize that real quick.

01:33:30.160 --> 01:33:40.160
You know, it would also be in that meeting is the bookkeeper himself saying to five, six people, hey, we're still not getting any of your money.

01:33:40.160 --> 01:33:42.160
And then they'd be like, hey, is that true, pastor?

01:33:42.160 --> 01:33:44.160
Is this what's going on?

01:33:44.160 --> 01:33:50.160
Look, when you don't have these systems of accountability in place, you give yourself a foothold to do shady and dishonest things.

01:33:50.160 --> 01:34:03.160
Now, again, are we going to literally just hand out every single checking statement and check image to every single member to for them to all create their own accountability?

01:34:03.160 --> 01:34:05.160
No, that's kind of that's over the top.

01:34:05.160 --> 01:34:06.160
Right.

01:34:06.160 --> 01:34:08.160
But it's like you got to have some level of accountability.

01:34:08.160 --> 01:34:11.160
You got to have some system in place.

01:34:11.160 --> 01:34:19.160
And look, when the pastor is saying, hey, just take that missions envelope, someone wrote, fill that an envelope and it's cash.

01:34:19.160 --> 01:34:21.160
And it says to the Philippines.

01:34:21.160 --> 01:34:24.160
And the pastor says, hey, just take the money out of that.

01:34:24.160 --> 01:34:27.160
Just put it in the other group and throw away the envelope.

01:34:27.160 --> 01:34:30.160
You're a Democrat.

01:34:30.160 --> 01:34:31.160
Because what do they do?

01:34:31.160 --> 01:34:37.160
They took the ballot out of the envelope, threw the envelope away, separated it from the ballot so that they could what?

01:34:37.160 --> 01:34:39.160
Cheat.

01:34:39.160 --> 01:34:42.160
Spiritual Democrats, my friend, isn't it interesting?

01:34:42.160 --> 01:34:43.160
They separate from them.

01:34:43.160 --> 01:34:45.160
Don't separate from the envelope.

01:34:45.160 --> 01:34:47.160
OK, that's wicked.

01:34:47.160 --> 01:34:48.160
That's shady.

01:34:48.160 --> 01:34:50.160
That's evil.

01:34:50.160 --> 01:34:52.160
Well, but but no, this is a church.

01:34:52.160 --> 01:34:54.160
Look, there's dirty, rotten Christians.

01:34:54.160 --> 01:34:56.160
We don't do anything shady.

01:34:56.160 --> 01:35:04.160
Look, there was a guy in Oklahoma that was donating money and someone called me and they said, hey, there's something shady going on.

01:35:04.160 --> 01:35:10.160
He's he's he's wrapping money in a napkin and like putting his name on it.

01:35:10.160 --> 01:35:13.160
And I said, we have sheets.

01:35:13.160 --> 01:35:16.160
Can you just can you fill out the envelope?

01:35:16.160 --> 01:35:22.160
It's like, look, I don't want to take a napkin for your donations.

01:35:22.160 --> 01:35:25.160
Look, when something weird happens, we should call it out.

01:35:25.160 --> 01:35:29.160
Hey, when someone does something shady, call it out.

01:35:29.160 --> 01:35:32.160
When someone's doing something awkward or weird, call it out.

01:35:33.160 --> 01:35:40.160
We don't want to be a church where we're just like, hey, I've noticed this really shady, weird crap for seven years.

01:35:40.160 --> 01:35:43.160
OK, we got to call it out.

01:35:43.160 --> 01:35:54.160
But at the end of the day, you know, if someone is being taken advantage of because they're on staff and they're being lied to and manipulated and ripped off, I'm not going to sit here and bash that person.

01:35:54.160 --> 01:35:57.160
We're going to bash the actual perpetrator of the crime.

01:35:57.160 --> 01:36:04.160
You know, there's a reason why you cannot even can you cannot if you go to university, you cannot date your teacher.

01:36:04.160 --> 01:36:06.160
You cannot date the teacher.

01:36:06.160 --> 01:36:13.160
Why? Because it's it's seen as an abuse of power for a teacher to basically date his students.

01:36:13.160 --> 01:36:21.160
So in the same way, if you're in a foreign country, depending on financial means just to pay your bills,

01:36:22.160 --> 01:36:28.160
we can't trust that guy to not be in a compromised situation, conceal information.

01:36:28.160 --> 01:36:33.160
He probably will, especially if he feels like he's only personally being defrauded.

01:36:33.160 --> 01:36:39.160
And you know what? Let me say something. I have zero blame towards Pastor Stuckey in this entire situation.

01:36:39.160 --> 01:36:43.160
Now, again, in hindsight, we could sit here and say you probably should have blown the whistle.

01:36:43.160 --> 01:36:47.160
And yeah, we would have sided with you whether you believe it or not.

01:36:47.160 --> 01:36:48.160
We're going to side with the truth.

01:36:48.160 --> 01:36:51.160
But at the end of the day, you know what? It's a difficult situation.

01:36:51.160 --> 01:36:55.160
I can't put myself in his shoes. You know, what's another lesson we can learn from this?

01:36:55.160 --> 01:36:58.160
Say something. Say something.

01:36:58.160 --> 01:37:02.160
Well, what about the pastor? Well, all you learn pastors can be dirty, rotten scoundrels.

01:37:02.160 --> 01:37:03.160
They can be dirty, rotten Christians.

01:37:03.160 --> 01:37:06.160
And so, you know, if there's smoke, there's fire.

01:37:06.160 --> 01:37:08.160
And we're going to figure out what the truth is.

01:37:08.160 --> 01:37:12.160
And we're not going to protect people just because we like them.

01:37:12.160 --> 01:37:17.160
And, you know, at the end of the day, you know, we can't just walk away from the situation and make no changes.

01:37:17.160 --> 01:37:21.160
We need to make sure that we're making changes. Where? In our own lives.

01:37:21.160 --> 01:37:26.160
Hey, we should not be surprised. Change one. Stop being surprised.

01:37:26.160 --> 01:37:31.160
Realize that many Christians are rotten people.

01:37:31.160 --> 01:37:34.160
Number two, take heed unto yourself.

01:37:34.160 --> 01:37:39.160
Make sure that you're not compromising yourself and going down a bad path.

01:37:39.160 --> 01:37:44.160
Number three, make sure you verify everything that you're hearing from the pulpit.

01:37:44.160 --> 01:37:49.160
Don't be one of these guys just like, yeah, pastor said it, yeah, it must be true, yeah, yep.

01:37:49.160 --> 01:37:57.160
This is true. Trust, but verify. Trust, but verify.

01:37:57.160 --> 01:38:03.160
And make sure that you and your church has accountability.

01:38:03.160 --> 01:38:06.160
Make sure that you have accountability in your life.

01:38:06.160 --> 01:38:10.160
And look, don't just take this as a church. Put it in your own life.

01:38:10.160 --> 01:38:16.160
You know, my wife can look at my phone whenever she wants.

01:38:16.160 --> 01:38:23.160
That makes it a lot more difficult for me to want to chat up somebody else or say something that I shouldn't say.

01:38:23.160 --> 01:38:29.160
Right. And again, you say like, oh, wow, are you really tempted to do that? Not at all.

01:38:29.160 --> 01:38:33.160
But at the same time, I don't even want there to be an option.

01:38:33.160 --> 01:38:36.160
It's like, hey, are you going to take money from the church? Hell, no.

01:38:36.160 --> 01:38:41.160
But let me tell you something. I made a system where I can't because I just don't want to.

01:38:41.160 --> 01:38:46.160
It's like, hey, you have a firearm in your house. Put it in a place where the kids can't get to it no matter what.

01:38:46.160 --> 01:38:51.160
Not because you think they're going to be stupid, but because you want to make sure it just can't happen.

01:38:51.160 --> 01:38:57.160
You just build accountability in your life so that, hey, I'm not going to allow this stuff to happen.

01:38:57.160 --> 01:39:03.160
Hey, as a man, you know, let your wife see the finances so you don't do something stupid with the money.

01:39:03.160 --> 01:39:06.160
Wives, let your husband see your side of the finances.

01:39:06.160 --> 01:39:12.160
Don't have hidden bank accounts. Don't have hidden credit cards.

01:39:12.160 --> 01:39:15.160
Look over the budget together. Don't allow.

01:39:15.160 --> 01:39:21.160
I mean, there's been couples where it's like we thought we were tithing the whole time and this one person just stopped tithing.

01:39:21.160 --> 01:39:26.160
Well, I wouldn't want to be Ananias and Sapphira. I don't want to be complicit in this kind of things.

01:39:26.160 --> 01:39:31.160
And, you know, by providing accountability to your spouse, providing accountability in other areas of your life,

01:39:31.160 --> 01:39:36.160
you prevent yourself from doing something stupid.

01:39:36.160 --> 01:39:40.160
And look, at the end of the day, we need to take heed unto ourselves. That's the most important lesson here.

01:39:40.160 --> 01:39:45.160
Look inward. We could sit here and point and laugh and look at other people and make memes all day long.

01:39:45.160 --> 01:39:49.160
Look, you can make a meme about this situation times 10.

01:39:49.160 --> 01:39:54.160
Every meme template works. Every single meme template.

01:39:54.160 --> 01:39:58.160
I've tried it, all right?

01:39:58.160 --> 01:40:01.160
But you know what? Is that really going to help you?

01:40:01.160 --> 01:40:05.160
You know, it's going to help you by you making personal changes.

01:40:05.160 --> 01:40:12.160
And you know what? Any church can get screwed up. We are doing a great work here.

01:40:12.160 --> 01:40:15.160
We're supporting people that are doing a great work.

01:40:15.160 --> 01:40:17.160
You know, we're going to be supporting and helping Pastor Stuckey.

01:40:17.160 --> 01:40:21.160
We're going to be helping and supporting our evangelists still, obviously, in the Philippines.

01:40:21.160 --> 01:40:25.160
We support and help other people. We're getting a lot of people saved. We're having big missions trips.

01:40:25.160 --> 01:40:28.160
It's important that we don't just allow this to come crashing down.

01:40:28.160 --> 01:40:31.160
From what? Dirty, rotten Christians.

01:40:31.160 --> 01:40:35.160
Okay? That's why you get here's some other accountability measures you should do.

01:40:35.160 --> 01:40:40.160
Don't be alone with someone of the opposite gender.

01:40:40.160 --> 01:40:42.160
Because you never know what weird accusations can be made.

01:40:42.160 --> 01:40:47.160
Jack Hiles had a bunch of accusations made against him at one point about committing adultery.

01:40:47.160 --> 01:40:49.160
And I don't believe he did.

01:40:49.160 --> 01:40:54.160
But just the fact that he allowed himself to be in a lot of compromising situations allows for a pot of his wife

01:40:54.160 --> 01:40:57.160
to come out of nowhere and just lie and whatever.

01:40:57.160 --> 01:41:01.160
And let me make it clear. No woman accused Pastor Hiles of anything.

01:41:01.160 --> 01:41:05.160
It was some disgruntled guy that made up lies about Pastor Hiles.

01:41:05.160 --> 01:41:09.160
Zero women accused him of anything. Okay?

01:41:09.160 --> 01:41:14.160
It was just some guy claiming that he was banished to his own basement.

01:41:14.160 --> 01:41:18.160
Which you're just already kind of like, yes, it doesn't seem trustworthy.

01:41:18.160 --> 01:41:20.160
Already. Okay?

01:41:20.160 --> 01:41:27.160
And look, I hate to break it to you, pastors aren't perfect.

01:41:27.160 --> 01:41:30.160
There is no perfect marriage.

01:41:30.160 --> 01:41:33.160
But you know what? Sometimes that's good for some of you.

01:41:33.160 --> 01:41:37.160
Because maybe some of you are thinking like, man, what's wrong with my husband?

01:41:37.160 --> 01:41:42.160
Well, has your husband ripped off missionaries for $115,000?

01:41:42.160 --> 01:41:46.160
Seems like he's doing pretty good.

01:41:46.160 --> 01:41:54.160
Oh, your husband who's actually been sacrificed, you know, scraping by and he gave $50 every once in a while to a missionary when he could.

01:41:54.160 --> 01:41:58.160
Oh, but you're not like this one guy who's ripping off the missionary.

01:41:58.160 --> 01:42:05.160
And maybe you're the problem because you thought, oh, I wish I was married to this guy or I wish I had this guy as my husband.

01:42:05.160 --> 01:42:07.160
But you didn't realize that you know what?

01:42:07.160 --> 01:42:14.160
You're coveting something that was wrong and you shouldn't cover it another woman's husband and think that he's so great.

01:42:14.160 --> 01:42:19.160
Because usually the grass is greener on the other side, but it's a fake lie.

01:42:19.160 --> 01:42:22.160
It's not even real grass was Astro turf.

01:42:22.160 --> 01:42:24.160
Lay down by some Mexican cheaply.

01:42:24.160 --> 01:42:26.160
All right.

01:42:26.160 --> 01:42:28.160
And let me tell you something.

01:42:28.160 --> 01:42:30.160
You know what? You can sit here and covet all day long.

01:42:30.160 --> 01:42:34.160
But there are people that covet other people's spouses all day long.

01:42:34.160 --> 01:42:38.160
And if they only knew.

01:42:38.160 --> 01:42:42.160
You know what? Why don't you just be content with the spouse that you have?

01:42:42.160 --> 01:42:45.160
Why don't you be content with the situation that you have?

01:42:45.160 --> 01:42:49.160
Why don't you sit here and just be thankful to God for what you have?

01:42:49.160 --> 01:42:52.160
And, oh, man, we fight sometimes.

01:42:52.160 --> 01:42:54.160
Join the club, man.

01:42:54.160 --> 01:42:55.160
We have problems.

01:42:55.160 --> 01:42:57.160
And look, why why say all this kind of stuff?

01:42:57.160 --> 01:43:06.160
Because I've heard from multiple people that said, hey, we started listening to Roger and Menace sermons on marriage and it made our marriage worse.

01:43:06.160 --> 01:43:11.160
And I didn't want to say anything because I just didn't want to shame the guy or make a big deal about it.

01:43:11.160 --> 01:43:12.160
Now I don't give a crap.

01:43:12.160 --> 01:43:14.160
OK.

01:43:14.160 --> 01:43:19.160
But he gave stupid bad advice in a lot of areas.

01:43:19.160 --> 01:43:20.160
OK.

01:43:20.160 --> 01:43:21.160
Techno music will not ruin your marriage.

01:43:21.160 --> 01:43:24.160
OK.

01:43:24.160 --> 01:43:30.160
Moral sin will.

01:43:30.160 --> 01:43:31.160
Look, it's sad.

01:43:31.160 --> 01:43:32.160
It's sad. It's sad.

01:43:32.160 --> 01:43:33.160
It's sad to see these things.

01:43:33.160 --> 01:43:34.160
I don't want these things to happen.

01:43:34.160 --> 01:43:36.160
It makes Christianity look bad.

01:43:36.160 --> 01:43:38.160
It makes independent final Baptist look bad.

01:43:38.160 --> 01:43:41.160
It makes people that hold many of our doctrinal positions look bad.

01:43:41.160 --> 01:43:43.160
It makes missions look bad.

01:43:43.160 --> 01:43:44.160
It makes.

01:43:44.160 --> 01:43:46.160
Oh, well, you know what?

01:43:46.160 --> 01:43:48.160
The deputation system y'all make fun of.

01:43:48.160 --> 01:43:52.160
But then look what y'all did.

01:43:52.160 --> 01:43:55.160
Someone has to do the right thing out there.

01:43:55.160 --> 01:44:02.160
Someone has to not be fake so that we just can't keep bringing reproach under the name of Christ.

01:44:02.160 --> 01:44:03.160
It's shameful.

01:44:03.160 --> 01:44:04.160
It's wicked.

01:44:04.160 --> 01:44:09.160
And you know what's even more shameful is when you know it's bad and you know it's wicked and you can't even say it.

01:44:09.160 --> 01:44:16.160
When you're so close to the situation, maybe it's because you're guilty.

01:44:16.160 --> 01:44:19.160
You know, we should care about people getting saved.

01:44:19.160 --> 01:44:28.160
And I mean, look, at the end of the day, taking money from a missionary, that could have literally cost some people getting saved.

01:44:28.160 --> 01:44:43.160
I mean, you don't think a hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in the Philippines couldn't have caused one more missions trip or one more person to go and do another activity.

01:44:43.160 --> 01:44:47.160
Look, we're talking about people's souls on the line here.

01:44:47.160 --> 01:44:48.160
That's not stuff to mess with.

01:44:48.160 --> 01:44:50.160
God's not someone to mess with.

01:44:50.160 --> 01:44:51.160
God gets angry.

01:44:51.160 --> 01:44:52.160
And you know what?

01:44:52.160 --> 01:44:53.160
It's a sad day.

01:44:53.160 --> 01:44:56.160
It's a sad day when Christians are like this.

01:44:56.160 --> 01:44:57.160
But you know what?

01:44:56.160 --> 01:44:58.160
We shouldn't allow it to surprise us.

01:44:58.160 --> 01:44:59.160
We should have known.

01:44:59.160 --> 01:45:03.160
Hey, there's going to be some bad hombres.

01:45:03.160 --> 01:45:04.160
We got to take heed.

01:45:04.160 --> 01:45:05.160
We got to trust.

01:45:05.160 --> 01:45:06.160
We got to verify.

01:45:06.160 --> 01:45:07.160
We got to have accountability.

01:45:07.160 --> 01:45:16.160
And I think, you know, for some people, they kind of like when they started seeing the signs, they were instantly like, yeah, this is a problem.

01:45:16.160 --> 01:45:17.160
Good job.

01:45:17.160 --> 01:45:23.160
There was other people that they kind of fell for some of this hook line and sinker stuff.

01:45:23.160 --> 01:45:25.160
They kind of fell for the polished apple.

01:45:25.160 --> 01:45:26.160
And let me tell you something.

01:45:26.160 --> 01:45:30.160
You better do some searching in your own heart about where you're at.

01:45:30.160 --> 01:45:35.160
If you fell on the wrong side of the situation at any point in time, you better say like, hey, maybe I have some problems.

01:45:35.160 --> 01:45:38.160
Maybe I lack a little bit of discernment in some areas.

01:45:38.160 --> 01:45:42.160
Maybe I should check myself and make sure that I'm right.

01:45:42.160 --> 01:45:44.160
OK, because I'll tell you something.

01:45:44.160 --> 01:45:54.160
When it came down to the fan in situation, the people that instantly sided against fan in were the good people that are still in church, going soul winning, serving God.

01:45:54.160 --> 01:45:59.160
The people that sided with him when the dust was settled were all bad.

01:45:59.160 --> 01:46:07.160
But there was another group that was kind of like teeter tottering, kind of fanning, that went back.

01:46:07.160 --> 01:46:08.160
And you know what?

01:46:08.160 --> 01:46:12.160
They've been in washups, too, basically.

01:46:12.160 --> 01:46:14.160
Kind of do nothings.

01:46:14.160 --> 01:46:14.160


01:46:14.160 --> 01:46:15.160
You don't want to be that person.

01:46:15.160 --> 01:46:17.160
It's like, who's on the Lord's side?

01:46:17.160 --> 01:46:21.160
It's like, get on the Lord's side immediately.

01:46:21.160 --> 01:46:23.160
Maybe you should learn that lesson.

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And look, what kind of vindication are even looking for at this point on who's been on the right side of these issues?

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I mean, how many ex-NUIP people have to die for the ex-NUIP to think like, hey, I'm wrong?

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And the reality is for many of them, it's all of them.

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You know what?

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You take heed under yourself.

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Don't side against the men of God.

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Don't side against soul winning.

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Don't side against the right doctrine.

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When you see the warning signs, I don't care how big of a hero he is to you, you know, you need to be careful.

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We need to always verify, have accountability.

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Look, even when stuff was going down with Pastor Anderson, I verified.

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There is not a person on this planet that verified more than I did.

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And yet they want to sit here and say I'm a lap dog or whatever they want to call me.

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It's like, hey, I called everybody and talked to everybody and verified all kinds of stuff.

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I held people's feet to the fire because I don't want to be this kind of person that just doesn't verify.

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But you know what?

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When the dust settled, I knew what side I was going to be on because I did verify.

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And look at all the people that just hastily made a decision and oops, wrong side.

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But we want to side with truth.

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We want to side with what's right.

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We want to side with verity, what the Bible means.

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You can have a name.

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And what wouldn't it be a shame if the church named steadfast?

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If the church that's been evicted twice and protested and sued and money stolen and done all these great exploits, wouldn't it be a shame if they went down?

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That's why we have to be careful.

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We should all be careful.

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And you know, does that mean that we won't have problems in the future?

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No, we will.

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And everybody will find out about it.

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Does that mean that we won't have dirty rotten people come into our church?

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No, we probably already do.

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And the history has always been a Judas amongst us.

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They've always overlapped, at least in timelines.

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Does that mean that we won't have friends fall by the wayside?

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No, we will.

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Does it mean we won't have persecution?

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No, we will.

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Does it mean we won't have setbacks?

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No, we will.

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But you know what?

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What is a person that's steadfast?

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He's always abounding in the work of the Lord.

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Let it just always be said of steadfast, well, at least they just kept soul.

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People were falling.

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People were dying.

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People were crying.

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People were getting skin diseases.

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But you know what?

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They just kept going soul winning.

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Money was taken, whatever.

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We just kept going soul winning.

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We just kept going soul winning.

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We just kept getting people saved.

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Because at the end of the day, that's all we can take with us anyways.

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Don't get discouraged.

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Do more soul winning.

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Don't get backslidden.

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Do more soul winning.

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Don't spend your money on selfish Babylonian garments.

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Do more soul winning.

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And you know what?

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Let's support the people that are doing the soul winning because that's what really matters.

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That's the heartbeat of Christianity.

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God didn't pick a bunch of perfect people to follow him.

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Peter wasn't perfect.

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He said, Lord, depart from me from a sinful man.

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Peter even denied Christ.

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But you know what?

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Peter cared about getting people saved.

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And you know what?

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We should care about getting people saved.

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Because they're going to die and go to a real hell.

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How dare you take money so that people can go to hell?

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Boy, it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God.

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Don't mess with them.

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Let's go to some prayer.

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Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your grace and your long suffering nature.

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I pray that we wouldn't take that for granted.

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I pray that we wouldn't excuse our sins.

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I pray that you would help us to recognize that the flesh is still evil and rotten and unregenerate.

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And that Christians can be bad.

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I pray that you would help us realize that the fact that our flesh is bad is why we need church so much.

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Is why we need to read our Bible.

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Is why we need to be around other like-minded Christians.

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Is why we need accountability.

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Is why we need to verify with the Bible every time.

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I pray that you would help us to have more discernment when there's problems in the future.

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I pray that you would help us to make sure there's accountability in our lives and in our families and our homes and our churches to prevent us from going off the cliff.

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I pray that you would help people to stay zealous for the things of God.

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I pray that you would help bless the work in the Philippines.

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And you bless Pastor Matthew Stuckey.

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That you would bless our evangelists at the Steadfast Baptist Church Philippines.

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I pray that you would help bless those that are doing the work that are on the front lines that are getting people saved.

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I pray that you would help us to have a zeal for soul winning.

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And I pray that you would help us by your grace to be steadfast in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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Alright for our last song let's go to song number 127.

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Song number 127.

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Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.

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Song number 127. Let's all sing that out together.

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Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.

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Just to take you at his word.

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Just to rest upon his promise.

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Just to know the same the Lord.

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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him.

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How I feel him o'er and o'er.

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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.

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Oh, Lord, praise to trust in him o'er.

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Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus.

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Just to trust his cleansing love.

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Just to sample painful funds.

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To keep the healing plants in flood.

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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him.

01:52:33.160 --> 01:52:38.160
How I feel him o'er and o'er.

01:52:38.160 --> 01:52:43.160
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.

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Oh, Lord, praise to trust in him o'er.

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Yes, it's sweet to trust in Jesus.

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Just from sin itself he sees.

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Just from the innocent he takes.

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Life and mass and joy and peace.

01:53:08.160 --> 01:53:13.160
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him.

01:53:13.160 --> 01:53:18.160
How I feel him o'er and o'er.

01:53:18.160 --> 01:53:23.160
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.

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Oh, Lord, praise to trust in him o'er.

01:53:28.160 --> 01:53:33.160
I'm so glad I learned to trust in him.

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Just a good friend and I know that now

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our family will be with you to the end.

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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him.

01:53:48.160 --> 01:53:53.160
How I feel him o'er and o'er.

01:53:53.160 --> 01:53:58.160
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.

01:53:58.160 --> 01:54:03.160
Oh, Lord, praise to trust in him o'er.

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Praise, singing everybody, you are all dismissed.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.