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I know I'm right. He watches over me day and night.

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Follow me, give my day and night. He is my friend.

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Jesus is all the world to me. I want no better friend.

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I trust him now, I'll trust him when life's leading day shall end.

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Beautiful life with such a friend. Beautiful life that has no end.

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Eternal life, eternal joy, he's my friend.

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He's my friend.

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Peace, peace, wonderful peace, I command from the Father above.

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Saint of my spirit forever I pray, in heaven the spills of love.

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What a treasure I have in this wonderful peace, buried deep in the heart of my soul.

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So secure that no power can find it away, all the years of eternity come.

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Peace, peace, wonderful peace, I command from the Father above.

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Saint of my spirit forever I pray, in heaven the spills of love.

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I am resting tonight in this wonderful peace, resting sweetly in Jesus' control.

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For I'm never all danger by night and by day, when his glory is wedding my soul.

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Peace, peace, wonderful peace, I command from the Father above.

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Saint of my spirit forever I pray, in heaven the spills of love.

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And I think when I rise to that city of peace, where the author of peace I shall sing.

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That was the reign of the star-based, the ransom will sing, in that heavenly kingdom shall be.

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Peace, peace, wonderful peace, I command from the Father above.

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Saint of my spirit forever I pray, in heaven the spills of love.

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Oh my soul, are you here without comfort or rest, marching down from halfway untied?

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Make the Savior your friend when the shadows grow dark, oh, exalt the sweet peace so sublime.

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Peace, peace, wonderful peace, I command from the Father above.

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Saint of my spirit forever I pray, in heaven the spills of love.

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Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love.

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Hearts unfold like flowers before thee, hoping to the sun above.

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Health of clouds of sin and sadness drive the dark of gentle wind.

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Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day.

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All thy works with joy surround thee, earth and heaven reflect and raise.

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Stars and angels sing around thee, center of unbroken praise.

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Hill and forest, vale and mountain, bowing head of flashing sea.

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Chanting bird and flowing mountain, call us to rejoice in thee.

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Thou art giving and forgiving, ever-blessing, ever-blessed.

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Hell's ring of the joy of living, ocean depth of happy rest.

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Thou our Father, Christ our brother, all who live in love are thine.

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Teach us how to love each other, lift us to the joy divine.

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Portals join the happy chorus, which the morning stars begin.

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Father, love is raining o'er us, brother, love binds man to man.

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Ever-seeing hearts beyond earth, winter's in the midst of strife.

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Joyful music leads us unburdened in the triumph song of life.

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O, as endeth my Savior, endeth my Sovereign, die!

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Would he depote that sacred man for such a worm as I?

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He loves me, he loves me, he loves me this I know.

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He gave himself to die for me because he loves me so.

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Was it for crimes that I have done he croaked upon the tree?

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He loves me, he loves me, he loves me this I know.

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He gave himself to die for me because he loves me so.

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World-wide the sun in darkness, I have shone his glories in.

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When proud men are born, they are born again.

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Christ the mighty maker, die for men the creatures sin.

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He loves me, he loves me, he loves me this I know.

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He gave himself to die for me because he loves me so.

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Thus might I live my blushing face while his dear cross appears.

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Dissolve my heart in thankfulness and melt my eyes to tears.

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He loves me, he loves me, he loves me this I know.

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He gave himself to die for me because he loves me so.

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The drops of grief can ne'er repay the debt of love I owe.

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Dear Lord, I give myself away, it is all that I can do.

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He loves me, he loves me, he loves me this I know.

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He gave himself to die for me because he loves me so.

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I will meet you in the morning just inside Easter Gate.

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Let me ready, grateful pilgrim, let me see you in Easter Lake.

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I will meet you, I will meet you just inside Easter Gate over there.

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I will meet you, I will meet you, I will meet you in the morning over there.

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If you're racing off to glory, linger near the Easter Gate.

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For I'm coming in the morning, so you'll not have long to wait.

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I will meet you in the morning, I will meet you in the morning just inside Easter Gate over there.

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I will meet you, I will meet you, I will meet you in the morning over there.

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Keep your legs all trimmed and burning for the proud and watchful wait.

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We will be with us at the meeting just inside Easter Gate.

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I will meet you, I will meet you, I will meet you in the morning just inside Easter Gate over there.

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I will meet you, I will meet you, I will meet you in the morning over there.

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The joy of that glad meeting with the saints before us waved.

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What a blessed and happy meeting just inside Easter Gate.

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I will meet you, I will meet you, I will meet you in the morning just inside Easter Gate over there.

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I will meet you, I will meet you, I will meet you in the morning over there.

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Oh how he loves you and me.

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Oh how he loves you and me.

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He gave his life, what more could he give?

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Oh how he loves you, oh how he loves me.

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Oh how he loves you and me.

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Jesus to Calvary did go.

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It's the torment time to show.

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God needed there from hope from this day.

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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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It's great to see everybody here. If we can go ahead and take our seats we will get started with tonight's service.

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And once we've found a seat we're actually going to start this service off with a song from our binders.

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You should have a black binder with laminated sheet music inside nearby.

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And if you can look towards the back it will be Redeemed.

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3-3-8.

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Redeemed.

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Let's all find that together.

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Redeemed.

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I love to proclaim it.

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Let's all sing that out together on the first.

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Redeemed.

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How I love to proclaim it.

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Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

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Redeemed through His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.

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Redeemed.

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Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

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Redeemed now I love to proclaim it with sound and forever I am.

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I thank God my blessed Redeemer.

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I thank God all the day long.

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I sing those I cannot be silenced.

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His love is the theme of my song.

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Redeemed.

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Redeemed.

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Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

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Redeemed.

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Now I love to proclaim it with sound and forever I am.

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I know I shall seek it if you need the healing every move I deny.

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Lovingly guard my blessed steps and give me peace long in the night.

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Redeemed.

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Redeemed.

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Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

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Redeemed now I love to proclaim it with sound and forever I am.

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Great singing everybody.

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Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer.

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Lord, once again we thank you for this great church.

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Thank you for everything you're doing with us and everything you're doing through this church.

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Lord, we just ask now that you fill us all with your spirit.

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Help us be edified tonight and sing unto you with all our might.

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Hence in Jesus name that we pray. Amen.

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Alright for our next song we're going to go to song number 294.

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Song number 294.

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We sing it this morning.

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Stepping in the light.

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Stepping in the light.

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Song 294.

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You know who else?

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Singing out loud.

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Singing out loud.

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Singing out loud.

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Singing out loud.

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You know who else?

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Singing out.

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Song 294.

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Trying to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Trying to follow our Savior and King.

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Shaping our lives by His blessed example.

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Happy, how happy the songs have been.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Stepping in the light.

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Stepping in the light.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Let Him pass on fire.

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Resting more closely to Him who is leading.

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And we are tempted to turn from the way.

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Trusting the arm that is strong to defend us.

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Happy, how happy our praises He stays.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Stepping in the light.

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Stepping in the light.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Let Him pass on fire.

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Walking in footsteps of gentle forbearance.

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Footsteps of faithfulness, mercy, and love.

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Looking to Him for the grace freely promised.

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How happy our journey of love.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Stepping in the light.

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Stepping in the light.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Let Him pass on fire.

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Wanting to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Upwards to upward will follow our guide.

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When we shall see Him, the King in His beauty.

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Happy, how happy the praises His time.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Stepping in the light.

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How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior.

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Let Him pass on fire.

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Great job everybody.

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Alright, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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If you need a bulletin, please raise your hand nice and high.

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And we'll have one of the ushers come around and get that to you.

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On the front of the bulletin we do have our verse for the week.

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I encourage all those under the age of 18 to be memorizing that throughout the week.

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On Wednesday you can receive that ice cream reward.

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On the inside we have our service times and our sowing times along with the regional sowing times.

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So if you're interested in participating in any one of those, you want to see the person that's listed there as the leader for that.

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And then on below that we have our church stats.

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If you're not already, make sure that you go ahead and submit your totals for this afternoon to the sowing stats group.

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Make sure that you're doing that on a consistent basis.

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On the right hand side we do have our expecting ladies.

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To be in prayer for, let's continue to pray for each one of those.

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Some upcoming events.

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After the evening service tonight, there is the children's choir practice that's going to take place in the fellowship room.

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So make sure that you stick around for that.

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March 21st we have the Carthage Texas Soul Winning Marathon and the Aisle Texas Soul Winning Marathon.

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Both of those are taking place on March 21st.

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I will have another note to make on that when we get to the back.

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Also we have the Soul Winning Mega Marathon April 4th.

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And then Easter Sunday is April 5th.

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We have ordered some special invite cards for Easter.

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So those should probably be here next, I believe it was the 17th is the date that I was given.

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So we'll have about two weeks to hand those out to those that you would like to invite.

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And then the children's choir will be performing on that service as well April 5th.

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On the back we have our prayer list.

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But just some new things to make mention of.

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There are these QR codes here.

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So you'll want to scan those if you're interested in participating in any one of those Soul Winning opportunities.

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And that's going to take you to the events page on the God Resource page.

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And this is something that Pastor Shelley has been working on.

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As far as providing a way for us to register for events.

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Making a lot of people's jobs easier.

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You can also see events that are taking place across the country, across the world.

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Which is really cool because there might be people that are listening to our services.

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But maybe are in a different state.

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It kind of gives them an opportunity to get involved in Soul Winning.

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That's near them.

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And so definitely want to plug that.

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If you're interested in attending the AISL, the Carthage, or even the Mega Marathon.

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Make sure you scan that QR code.

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Go to the website, register, and include as many people that are going to be attending for that event.

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It will really help us out from an admin perspective.

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And it will also kind of help facilitate just more Soul Winning and being more efficient.

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So definitely want to make a plug there for that.

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That's all the announcements we have this evening.

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We're going to go to our next song.

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Brother Dustin is going to lead us.

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Alright, for our next song, let's go to Psalm 139.

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Once again in your black binders.

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Psalm, Psalm chapter 139.

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And we'll sing our Psalm of the Week.

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Psalm 139.

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Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God.

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Deep are from me their forty bloody men, Deep are from me their forty bloody men.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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And then I agree, With those that rise up against thee.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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For they speak against thee wickedly.

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For they speak against thee wickedly.

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And thine enemies save thy name in vain.

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And thine enemies save thy name in vain.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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And then I agree, With those that rise up against thee.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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I hate them with perfect hatred.

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I hate them with perfect hatred.

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I count them, my enemies.

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I count them, my enemies.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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And then I agree, With those that rise up against thee.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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Tonight I hate them, O Lord, that they be.

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First John chapter number four.

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The Bible says, Beloved, believe not every spirit,

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but try the spirits whether they are of God,

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because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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Hereby know ye the Spirit of God.

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Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God,

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and every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God,

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and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God.

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And this is that Spirit of Antichrist,

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whereof ye have heard that it should come,

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and even now already is it in the world.

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Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them,

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because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

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They are of the world, therefore speak they of the world,

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and the world heareth them.

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We are of God.

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He that knoweth God heareth us.

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He that is not of God heareth not us.

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Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of error.

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Beloved, let us love one another,

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for love is of God,

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and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God,

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for God is love.

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In this was manifested the love of God toward us,

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that we might live through him.

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Herein is love, not that we loved God,

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but that he loved us,

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and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

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Beloved, if God so loved us,

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we ought also to love one another.

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No man hath seen God at any time.

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If we love one another, God dwelleth in us,

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and his love is perfected in us.

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Hereby know we that we dwell in him,

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and he in us,

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because he hath given us of his Spirit.

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And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son

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to be the Savior of the world.

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Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,

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God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

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And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.

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God is love,

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and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,

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and he in God in him.

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Herein is our love made perfect,

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that we may have boldness in the day of judgment,

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because as he is, so are we in this world.

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There is no fear in love,

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but perfect love casteth out fear,

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because fear hath torment.

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He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

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We love him because he first loved us.

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If a man say, I love God,

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and hateth his brother, he is a liar.

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If he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen,

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how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?

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And this commandment have we from him,

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that he who loveth God, love his brother also.

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Let us pray.

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Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for the Word of God.

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I thank you for this church.

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I thank you for our pastor,

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and I ask you to please fill him with your Holy Spirit.

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Help him to preach boldly to us.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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I'm gonna do my best this evening.

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I don't know, my voice is almost gone.

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If you're gonna do those, then we'll just end really early.

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So it'll be unlike Pastor Shelley.

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But 1 John chapter 4, the Bible says in verse 20,

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if a man say, I love God,

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and hateth his brother, he is a liar.

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For he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen,

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how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?

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And this commandment have we from him,

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that he who loveth God, love his brother also.

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So I wanna do my best to talk about sibling rivalries.

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Sibling rivalries.

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And really, we should love our brother

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physically and spiritually.

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This is a really good reminder here.

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Verse 1 of chapter 5 also says,

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whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,

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and everyone that loveth him that begat

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love them also that is begotten of him.

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By this we know that we love the children of God

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when we love God and keep his commandments.

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So again, the emphasis in 1 John,

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I guess there's multiple, but one of the themes

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is specifically loving your brother.

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And this should just be the attitude of every Christian.

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And if you really love God,

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then you will love your brother.

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It's incompatible that if you love God

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and you hate your brother,

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these can't be true.

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They're mutually inclusive.

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The same as you accept the son, you accept the father.

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You don't accept the father,

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you don't accept the son, you don't accept the son,

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you don't accept the father.

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You cannot love God and not love your brother.

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The people who love God the most

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are the people who love their brother the most.

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The people who hate their brother the most

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hate God the most.

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So there's a correlation between these two things.

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Chapter 3, look at verse 9.

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Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin,

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for his seed remaineth in him,

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and he cannot sin because he is born of God.

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In this the children of God are manifest

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and the children of the devil.

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Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,

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neither he that loveth not his brother.

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For this is the message they have heard from the beginning,

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that we should love one another,

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not as Cain, who is of that wicked one,

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and slew his brother.

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And wherefore slew he him?

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Because his own works were evil,

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and his brother's righteous.

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What's one of the weighing reasons

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that people don't like their brother?

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It's because their brother's better than them.

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It's easy to not envy your brother

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when you're better than him.

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It's easy to get along with your brother

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when you're kind of the superior one,

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you're better, you're bigger, you're taller, you're stronger,

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everything's going for you.

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Why would you hate your brother?

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Because your brother's better than you.

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Not only that, if we go back to Genesis,

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the Bible tells us that God had respect

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unto Abel in his offering,

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but he did not have respect unto Cain in his offering.

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So we see a favoritism from God towards Abel,

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and then that makes Cain upset with his brother.

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Why? Because his brother is good,

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his brother is godly,

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God likes his brother.

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Does it make sense though to kill your brother

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because God likes him?

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Does it make sense to hurt or harm your brother

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if God is pleased with them?

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Yet that's the reason why Cain attacked Abel.

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It's because of God's favoritism towards Abel.

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But was he really showing favoritism towards Abel

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because Abel's like a better, inherent person?

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Or was it because he had good works?

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It's because of his good works,

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it's because of his righteousness that separated him.

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In fact, Cain is the firstborn,

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and Cain, according to the Bible,

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when Eve has Cain, she says,

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I've gotten a man from the Lord.

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You would think even the firstborn gets a double inheritance

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from the law and just from the precedent of the Bible.

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Like there's nothing making Abel better than Cain

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or preferred from Cain based on their predisposition,

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based on their inherent immutable characteristics.

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What made Abel better?

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He was righteous.

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What made Abel better?

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His good works.

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And God was pleased with his brother's good works.

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Why would he hate his brother then?

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It makes no sense.

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Yet this is what constantly happens,

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is that brothers will get mad at each other,

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and at the end of the day,

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it's usually because they're envying their brother.

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If we really to boil all this down,

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most sibling rivalries,

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most problems between brothers and sisters

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is some envy on some level.

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And so we have to be careful to not allow envy

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to cause us to dislike our brothers and sisters,

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literally, and our brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Now, look at verse 16, chapter 3, verse 16.

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Hereby, perceiving the love of God,

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because he laid down his life for us,

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we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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What should be the attitude?

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We should want good for our brother.

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We should want God to like our brother.

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We should want our parents to like our brother.

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We should be willing to lay down our own lives

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so that our brother's life is better.

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It's not about our life.

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It's about our brother's life.

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Jesus didn't come so that he could be glorified and worshiped.

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He came as a no-reputation servant,

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just simply to help us.

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Jesus Christ laid down his life

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so that we could have eternal life.

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He didn't look at us and say,

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you know what, I'm better than you.

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Hey, Peter, I'm better than you.

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John, I'm better than you.

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No, no, no. He washed their feet.

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He washed Judas' feet.

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He came here and he served them.

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He fed them. He taught them.

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In some cases, I would argue he's pretty patient

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because I'm pretty sure when you know everything,

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you probably just get a little tired of people being stupid.

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If you've ever been impatient with someone

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or thought this person's kind of stupid

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or how did they not get it, how did Jesus feel?

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How did he feel constantly explaining?

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I mean, just think about when he does the feeding of the 5,000

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and then he's just like, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.

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And he's like, is it because we didn't bring bread?

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And he's like, what's wrong with you people?

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Like, how stupid are you?

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Like, didn't you realize I can just make miracle bread?

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It's the real Wonder Bread, you know.

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The Wonder Bread today, it's a wonder that people call it bread.

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Jesus' Wonder Bread is that he multiplies it, okay?

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But at the end of the day, it's got to be difficult for Jesus

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to condescend the men of low estate much more than any of us

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in any of our circumstances or situations.

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And if Jesus is setting that example of laying down His life,

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how much more should then we be willing to lay down our lives

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when our lives are meaningless in comparison to Jesus?

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Yet, out of our own selfish ambition,

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we often have a rivalry with our brother

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because we envy our brother and we want to be the best.

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We don't want our brother to be number one, we want to be number one.

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We don't want to be, you know, basically the Mendoza

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watching our brother win the national championship.

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We want to be the Mendoza in the game playing.

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But if it's not you, why wouldn't you want your brother to be the one winning?

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Why wouldn't you want your brother to be doing good?

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Cain would rather kill his brother than let his brother win,

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than let his brother do good.

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And often that can get to all of us.

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There's something inside of us that just wants to be the better brother,

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that just wants to be the better sister,

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that just wants more attention from our parents.

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Like you just want to be the star child, right?

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You just want mom and dad to just glow all over you.

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You don't want it to be like, oh, they're the favorite.

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They're the one that my parents really like.

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You know, I'm just kind of the other sister, the other brother.

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You know, do you have any other here besides?

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It's like, yeah, this guy, you know.

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It's like whenever Samuel comes to, you know, Jesse,

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it's like, hey, we need a king.

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It's like, here's Eliab.

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It's like, nah.

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And he just keeps going on, listen, he's like, you got anybody else?

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It's like, we got David, you know.

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But, you know, of course Eliab, he wasn't sitting or thinking like,

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I hope they pick David.

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Eliab's like, I mean, it's me, you know, obviously.

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And again, there's something inside of man that just wants to be,

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I'm the best, I'm number one, mom and dad love me the most,

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I'm the star child, I'm the one that gets attention.

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And this can translate not only from your physical parents

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to our heavenly parents, right?

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In the sense of God the Father, we could sit here and kind of desire

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to have all the attention from God

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and not allow anybody else to get that attention.

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This is a dangerous, dangerous mindset.

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And of course, the devil would love to feed into your ego

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and get you to envy your siblings

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and have this rivalry that should not be there.

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You know what, you should be your brother's biggest fan.

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As a lady, you should be a cheerleader of your siblings,

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not somebody hoping that they tear them down

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or that they fail or that they're the worst.

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You want them to be successful, but whatever it is,

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the Bible teaches that many cases we don't have that attitude.

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Which tell me how did you beat?

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We're willing to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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Verse 17, but who so hath this world's good

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and seeeth his brother have need

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and shuddered up his bowels of compassion from him,

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how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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You know, the Bible says, if you have money

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and you don't give it to your brother,

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when they're, notice this, have need.

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This isn't like want, this is like need.

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He's like, how could you ever claim that you love God in any way?

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If you're withholding money from your brother

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and you have the ability to give,

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it's not like you're having to max out your credit card

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to help your brother buy a Corvette, right?

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It's like you got abundance that you don't even need

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and he's starving over here and you're just,

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hey, God's giving you this abundance,

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maybe to help supply their need.

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And you're gonna not give your abundance to your brother.

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The Bible says you don't love God.

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If you're withholding your abundance from your brother

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when they have need, you do not love God, okay?

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It's crystal clear in the Bible.

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It says, how dwelleth the love of God?

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It's like you have like zero love of God in you.

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Like this isn't even like the biggest picture of love.

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This is like a lower level.

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The high level was giving your life.

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How, I mean, if you can't even give your brother 10 bucks,

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how could you then lay down your life for your brother?

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This is like a basic level.

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You have extra money you don't need

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and you won't even give it to your brother's need.

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He's like, you have no love.

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Don't lie to yourself.

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I love God, but you can't even give your brother

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from your abundance?

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Now again, we all, most of us, even in America,

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with as much abundance as our country,

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a lot of us probably live paycheck to paycheck.

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I mean, a lot of us are probably barely scraping by.

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I doubt many of us are just sitting here just piling

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just tens of thousands of dollars every month away.

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Probably not very likely.

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God is not expecting you to rob your children of their dinner

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so that you can help your brother, right?

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That's not what the Bible is saying.

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But there are some people that genuinely have abundance

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that God has blessed, and if that person was approached

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and this person had a need and you won't supply it,

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the Bible is saying you don't love them.

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You do not love them, and you do not love God.

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It's not that you don't love them, it's that you don't love God.

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It says in verse 18, my little children,

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let us not love in word, neither in tongue,

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but indeed in truth.

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Oh, I love you so much.

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Can you help me?

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No.

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Well, then you don't love them.

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In fact, words are cheap.

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Really, you know, I don't even care

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if my brother tells me he loves me.

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Honestly, as most of straight men are,

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we probably don't even want to hear it a single time.

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Like, I'm good.

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Like, if none of you guys ever come to me like, I love you,

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I'd be like, that's great, okay, I don't need to hear it.

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All right?

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Now, look, obviously I think that sincere men can be like,

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hey, love you, bro, I just want to let you know,

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just remind you like I love you.

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There's nothing wrong with it.

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But in general, do you really care?

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You know what you actually want?

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You want your brother to actually just love you.

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Actually think positive about you.

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Actually take care of you if you ever needed something.

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Be there when you're down.

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Encourage you when you're down.

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Want to do good unto you, right?

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Good actions, hanging out with you.

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Talk is cheap.

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Many people will say, I love you, bro.

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Oh, I just love you so much.

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Oh, we just love this person so much.

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But you know what?

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If their actions are mismatched, not only is it that they're lying,

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it's almost like salt in the wound.

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It's almost like even worse.

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Like, if you're not going to actually love me in like deed,

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then definitely don't say it.

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And what I've noticed is the people that are the loudest with their

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mouth about how much they love somebody are usually the biggest

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hypocrites with their actions.

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Because the guy that loves you with his actions,

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he doesn't feel the need to have to tell you.

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You know why people have this burden to tell you?

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It's because in their mind they're thinking,

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this guy probably doesn't think I love them because I haven't shown

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any love to them at all.

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So I need to probably say it a lot just to try and convince him and

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myself that I love this guy.

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That's why I love you.

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It's like, why are you saying that?

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Probably because you feel like you need to say it because it's not true.

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The guy that, you know, it could be like even like best friends.

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Typically best friends don't have to even tell each other that.

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They just know.

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But when someone's just constantly being like, I'm your best friend,

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it's like maybe you're not, and you're just trying to like say this

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because it's like you're trying to convince people of something that's

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not real.

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When things are real, you're typically not having to express it verbally

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that much because it's just shown by your actions.

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The guy at work that's always saying, oh man, I'm so busy,

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he's probably the laziest person at your company.

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The guy that's the hardest working never even tells anybody he's working.

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He doesn't have to go around and brag, oh man, I'm just working so much.

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You know, probably the biggest example of this was Tyler Baker.

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Now if you don't know who this is, count yourself blessed.

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This is a guy that used to go to church with the Faithful Word Baptist Church.

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He was a deacon there.

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He was going to start a church in Jacksonville.

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He got caught being a weird heretic.

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Now he's like a Calvinist.

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He was ordained by his dad.

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There's a lot of fun things you could say about him.

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But nevertheless, this guy, I worked with him at Faithful Word.

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We were doing a ministry together, a new church plant.

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And I kid you not, every single time I ever had a conversation with him,

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he brought up how hard he's working.

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It did not matter what the conversation was about.

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He was going to let me know he was working really hard.

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Now because I worked so intimately with him and close to him,

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there was plenty of times where I showed up where he's on the clock.

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And what's interesting is every time I was around him on the clock,

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I never caught him working.

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You know, you'd think like if you were just working all the time,

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you would occasionally be caught working,

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not just watching YouTube videos, having your feet up, doing absolutely nothing.

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Okay.

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And what was so funny about this is the guy that claims he worked so hard,

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he had to fill out a time sheet every day while he worked at Faithful Word.

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And he was filling it out by putting absolutely nothing in it.

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So for months and months and months, he literally put nothing down.

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We just put like 60 hours this week.

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I don't know what he did other than write 60 on the time sheet.

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But then at some point, he started writing stuff down.

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And I remember he wrote one thing down on one day,

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and it was like help Pastor Shelley with water for the North Church.

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And I remember that day.

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I don't know why.

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I just still remember it, I guess.

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But we had a North Church plant that was like 20 miles away.

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I work a secular job.

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And I just let him know.

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I said like, hey, we're out of water at this church.

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He's like, well, I need you to get water for them.

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He's like, why don't you come to the church and you can take the water to the church

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and you know, resupply it.

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And I was like, sure, fine, whatever.

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So I showed up.

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Again, he has no other job other than just working for the church.

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He can't do it.

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I have to do it, right?

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But this is what he did do, okay?

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He took the water that was near the fridge and moved it near the door.

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So when I showed up, I just had to get the water near the door and take it.

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That is the one thing he wrote on the timesheet.

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So that day, you know what he accomplished?

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He said, help Pastor Shelley with water.

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You know what he did?

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He picked up water near the fridge.

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He's like, you just take water from there to near the door.

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That is what you put on your timesheet for the entire day.

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Wow.

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But again, you run into this guy.

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I'm just working so hard.

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Wow.

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I don't want to distract you from that really difficult work.

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Why am I making this point?

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I'm making this point that people that say things all the time typically are not the doers.

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The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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You know, in all labor there is profit.

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When you're working hard, you don't have time to just constantly talk and blah, blah, blah.

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Obviously, there's some jobs that involve talking.

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But if you don't have a job where you're involved in talking and counseling and selling or doing whatever,

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you need to shut up and work.

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Okay.

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Obviously, there's some jobs that include a lot of talking.

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So if you've got a talking job, talk.

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Right?

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If you don't have a talking job, shut up and work.

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And here's a job that we all have, is loving our brother.

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And you know what you need to do?

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Shut up and just love him by your deeds.

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Not by just telling, I just love you so much.

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I just love Steadfast Baptist Church.

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But I never help anybody.

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I never do good to anybody.

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I lie and gossip about all the people in my church, but I just love them so much.

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You're a liar.

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You're a liar and you don't even love God.

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Look at chapter 4 verse 7.

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I love this entire book.

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Chapter 4 verse 7.

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Beloved, let us not love one another, or let us love one another for love is of God.

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And everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love.

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And this was manifest love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten son of the world that we might live through him.

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Here it is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins.

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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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Let me ask you a question.

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When you read the New Testament, when you read the Bible, did Jesus go around and be like, hey Peter, I just want to let you know that I love you.

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Love you, John.

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How did Jesus show his love for Peter and John?

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It was dying on the cross.

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It was his deeds.

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He didn't go around just telling everybody how much he loved them.

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He loved them through his actions, through what he did.

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Again, we should not be a lover of this by our words, but by our actions.

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Again, don't get me wrong.

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I am a very pro, like verbal affection type person in the sense that I think that, hey, it is good to confirm your love with your mouth often.

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But you know what, you better make sure that your deeds are matching and lining up.

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I tell my kids that I love them every day.

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I tell my kids that I love them every day.

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I tell my kids that I love them every day.

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I tell my kids that I love them every day.

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I tell my daughters that they are beautiful every day.

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I compliment my wife all the time.

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I compliment my wife ad nauseam.

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To her when I am just not complimenting her, she thinks I am mad at her.

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Like, the level of rude in our relationship is me just giving her a so-so compliment.

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And I am pro that.

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Look, you read the Song of Solomon, I mean, it is just, you are just showering her with a compliment.

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But on the other hand, it is just me just ignoring each other with compliments.

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And again, all these things are relative in general.

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I am pro saying you love your wife.

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I am pro complimenting your spouse.

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I am pro telling your kids you love them every single day.

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But let me tell you something, a dad that tells his kids he loves them every day

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and does it with his actions is a hypocrite, doesn't love his kids

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and doesn't love God and is meaningless.

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You know if your dad loves you.

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Pro saying it.

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If a dad doesn't say it but shows it through his actions, hey, that's still better than

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someone that says it and doesn't do it.

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But what's the most important thing?

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That we do it.

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And you know, with our brothers and sisters in Christ, with our church, you know, what's

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more important than saying that I love you guys is just doing things that show that I

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love you.

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Doing things that actually look like loving things.

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Of course, that's what's important.

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You know, what would be a loving action of a pastor?

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Telling you things that you probably don't want to hear.

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Telling you things that might cause you to get mad at me.

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Do you think I enjoy people being mad at me?

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Do you think I enjoy dealing with issues and problems and conflicts and people having weird

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faces?

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I don't love that kind of stuff.

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Honestly, if you knew me by nature, I'm kind of a people pleaser by nature.

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I'm kind of a type of person that tries to actually avoid conflict by nature.

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I mean, growing up, I mean, people could just say and do anything to me and I would just

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totally just ignore it, let it go and not want to bring it up and just act like it didn't

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happen because I just didn't want to deal with it.

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I mean, that is the type of person that I am.

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But as a pastor, I can't really necessarily do that.

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That wouldn't be a good leadership quality to always ignore these things and just always

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act like that.

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And you know what the loving person does is they don't just let everything go.

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You know, they don't suffer sin upon their neighbor.

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But you know what?

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They rebuke their neighbor.

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They correct their neighbor.

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The pastor that only preaches the flowery, sweet and sugary sermons does not love you.

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He might say it, oh, I just love you guys so much.

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We have the greatest church.

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But wait a minute.

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What is he doing?

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You know, I like that I preach that way because I'm never going to change.

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I don't have to change.

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I don't have to change my preaching at any point.

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Like I don't have to get harder.

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I mean, I don't know if I could, I would try.

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But I'm just saying, like, I don't think I necessarily need to preach harder sermons.

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I'm not like nervous, like thinking like, I don't know if I can say this thing.

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I don't know if I can go to this passage in the Bible.

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I don't know if people are going to be able to handle it.

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I'm just thinking like, I think people are going to want me to say this.

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I think people are going to like saying this.

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That to me is what makes a great church.

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Not sitting here and saying, oh, well, we just make everybody feel so good every Sunday

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morning or every Sunday night.

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You know, you can just tell, I mean, telling somebody that you love them, that's not going

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to harm them.

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Telling them, hey, you got this screwed up.

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Hey, you're messed up.

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Hey, but not only are you screwed up, here's how you can fix.

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Let me help you.

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Let me show you how you can fix this.

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Let me come alongside you and encourage you to get right.

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Let me try to fix this problem that you have.

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That is what real love looks like.

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You know, going soul winning, soul winning is a really positive thing.

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And there's a lot of people that are genuine and decent soul winners, but sometimes they

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say stupid things.

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Sometimes they make mistakes.

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You know, the loving thing would be like, hey, that was kind of a dumb thing to say

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out soul winning.

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Hey, you shouldn't act like that.

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Hey, you shouldn't talk like that.

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Hey, this is a better way to say this.

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That's the loving thing to do out soul winning.

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Is to try and correct people and help people and encourage people.

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Or maybe someone's timid or shy and giving them encouragement, confidence, not being

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like, well, I just want to get the next door because I got to get my, you know, 165 salvations

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this year or whatever.

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You know, maybe it's more important to encourage your partner to get a little better at soul

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winning.

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Maybe it's better for him to encourage him to get him get a few more salvations rather

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than you just sitting here.

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I mean, I've been soul winning with people.

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You're like, you're kind of like walking to the door and it's kind of your door.

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But then they're just kind of like, and you're like, OK.

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I mean, hey, it's better than Joe was witness that don't want to knock the door.

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And they're kind of like, you know, but it is just kind of like, it's not a competition,

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bro.

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If you want the door, have it.

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If I mean, I preached a lot this afternoon.

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That's why I can hardly even talk on a Sunday afternoon.

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I'm thinking like, please give me a talker, you know, give me somebody who wants to go

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in.

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You know, I'm not sitting here just like I have to get every door and I have to get

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every person say, you know, that's why I even try like to encourage our number counting.

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And what we put out there is like, hey, what did you and your partner get?

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Because you know, I don't want people to get this attitude like, well, but I got them

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saved, you know.

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It's like and look, please be a talker, please be the person showing initiative.

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I think that being a talker is superior to being a silent partner.

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But you know what?

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They're both going to be rewarded for their labor.

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And at the end of the day, sometimes it might be better to encourage your partner to become

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a talker or be a better talker than just for you to get all the glory.

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But there's that sibling rivalry.

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I want to get it.

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I want to be that person.

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Maybe it's more important that they get that person saved.

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Maybe they're even better than you.

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A lot of people, I mean, a lot of you are just like, I'm a better solar than this guy.

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You know, maybe their approach, maybe the way they word things, maybe just their demeanor

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could cause some people to want to listen to them differently than you.

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Don't don't think that you're always better.

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Look, I've been with people that I thought like this person is awkward.

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This person speaks weird.

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They're goofy.

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I feel uncomfortable.

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But then I watch them get people saying that I'm thinking like, I don't even know if I

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would have gotten that person saved.

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You know, and they're just so blunt or weird or awkward and just made it happen or are

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stuck with someone that I may not have stuck with or whatever.

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And I'm just thinking like, hey, God, if God can use this person, they can use anyone.

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And who am I to sit here and criticize other people and think I'm just so much better than

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everybody?

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Look, there are plenty of women in our church that are some of the best soul winners that

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we have.

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Oh, well, this is a woman.

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Sometimes women can be fantastic soul winners, older, younger.

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It doesn't matter.

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We all we all have different things to bring to the table.

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But again, that sibling rivalry wants to just be like, I'm the best soul winner.

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I better get every door.

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Now, look, if someone's doing a bad job, if someone's preaching things that are weird,

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yeah, let's step in.

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Let's take over because someone is too important to just let, you know, the gospel not go

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forward correctly.

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But if they're giving the gospel correctly and they're doing their job, you know,

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sometimes you just let your buddy get in there to get a turn to get that experience.

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You know, we should love our brother.

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We should encourage our brother.

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We should want good for our brother.

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Not just always like, well, I got more points than him.

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OK, great.

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How many assisted you have?

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You know, some people care more about goals than they care about assists.

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Or just team wins.

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They would rather score more goals and lose than have only assists and win.

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And, you know, at the end of the day, that's that sibling rivalry, that's the envy.

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We should just want the work of the Lord to go successfully.

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If God so loved us, we ought to also love one another.

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I mean, don't you think Jesus Christ could could just do everything better than us at

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all times?

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So then why did he have to bow out so early and just leave the disciples to go out?

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You know, I think that Jesus could have preached to the Gentiles better than the apostles,

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but he wanted to let us get in there.

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He wanted to teach them.

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He wanted to train them.

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He wanted to encourage them.

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He condescended the men of low estate.

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He spent years teaching and training these guys.

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I mean, maybe you could be frustrated being like, why do I have to spend years training

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you?

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You should learn this in like five minutes.

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You know, at the end of the day, we see the patience and the humility of Christ to condescend

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the men of low estate.

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You know, we should have the same attitude.

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Now I want to take this, go to go to Philippians chapter two.

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I want to take this sermon.

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I want to apply it to a few different areas.

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And you know, we could we could just we could really emphasize this point a lot.

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But I think this specific verse that we want to that I want to look at really kind of embodies

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what our attitude should be.

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Philippians chapter two, verse three, the Bible says, let nothing be done through strife

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vain glory, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves.

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Our attitude should be, hey, my brother is more important than me.

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And genuinely believing it.

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This is very hard.

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This is very difficult.

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This is not an easy task.

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It's not an easy task to look at someone else and say, you know, I think this person is

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more important than me.

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I think it's more important for this guy to be successful.

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I think it's more important for this guy to have promotion.

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I think it's more important for this guy's work to go forward.

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I think it's more important to get on board with this guy's vision rather than my own.

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That's very hard for us.

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But that's the right attitude.

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And that's Jesus Christ attitude.

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That's what the whole passage is about.

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That we're not about strife, vain glory.

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No, I'm number one.

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No, I'm the best.

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No, I got it.

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It's like that's vain.

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Don't care about all that.

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Just try to help your brother.

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But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves.

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Looking for finding other people and bragging on them.

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You know, it's easy to brag on yourself because that's what your flesh wants.

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Why don't you find someone else to brag on and lift up and talk positively about and

01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:21.760
get excited about?

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I mean, is there really not another person on this planet you can be excited about?

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Is there not another person that you can cheer lead and be excited for and encourage and

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be a fan of?

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Oh, you're just a new IFB fan club.

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At least I'm a fan of someone.

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At least I'm a fan of something.

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And I'm not just a fan of myself.

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You know, we could get a little bit too I in IFB that it's about I and me and I'm a

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pastor.

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I don't have no associations and I don't have no pope and whatever.

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OK, you with your 12 people in backwoods, congratulations.

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Like who gives a rip?

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You really can't find anybody to like.

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There's no one that you think's awesome.

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There's no one you look up to.

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There's you've you've you've just arrived and then you want to claim you don't have a

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pope because you made yourself the pope.

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That's why.

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There's nothing wrong with being a fan of good men.

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In fact, one of the qualifications of a pastor is to be a lover of good men.

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What's a lover of good men?

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It's someone that does deeds for his brother because it's not by saying it.

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It's someone that's actually doing it when they have need.

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You're there to supply it when they're getting attacked.

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You're there to defend whenever they're going through a hard time.

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You're the shoulder to cry on.

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Whenever they say something bad to you or mean or whatever, you're just like, I'm going

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to let it go because charity cover the multitude of sins.

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Hey, everybody has low moments.

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We all have times in our life that we're not proud of.

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And, you know, at the end of the day, the guy that loves you is not there to kick you

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when you're down.

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They're there to pick you up when you fall.

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To love you, to esteem other better than yourself.

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Many people want to watch others fall so that they're standing the tallest.

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Wow.

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Look at verse 19.

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The Bible says, But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send to Mothias shortly unto you, that

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I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.

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For I have no man like-minded who will naturally care for your state.

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For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ.

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You know, the proof of him that as a son of the Father, he has served with me in the

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gospel.

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The Bible is saying everybody's selfish.

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No one's going to naturally care about you.

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No one naturally gives a rip about you and your finances and whatever.

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You have to put on Christ.

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You have to put on the mind of Christ to actually esteem other better than yourself.

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Because if you don't put on Christ, if you're not walking in the Spirit, all you're going

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to care about is you.

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Your ambitions, your feelings, your attitude.

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People go to church for what they can get out of it.

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You already lost the battle.

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Why are we going to church?

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Well, number one, it should be to worship Jesus and to love Jesus.

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But here's the thing, if you love Jesus, how do you actually do that?

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It's by loving your brother.

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It's by esteeming other better than yourself.

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It's by looking upon another's things and caring for them and encouraging them and being

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positive towards them.

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Not being selfish.

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Not being selfish.

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Go to Proverbs chapter 20.

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Go to Proverbs chapter 20.

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You better buckle up because my voice isn't cracking yet.

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I can't preach as loud as I'd like to, but it's the message that matters.

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It's not how loud I can scream it.

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Proverbs 20 verse 6.

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Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find.

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You know what this tells me?

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Most people just suck, you know?

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But even the people that suck, you know what?

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They're going to tell you that they're awesome.

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Most men, it's just saying almost everybody is going to tell you that they're great.

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Almost everybody is going to tell you that they're faithful.

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Almost everybody is going to tell you that they love God.

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Almost everybody is going to tell you that they do right, that they're doing good.

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But then what does God reveal to us?

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God reveals this.

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That the reality is most people are actually bad.

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That it's almost impossible to find the guy that's genuine.

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I'll just be honest with you.

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When I was in 2014, somewhere in that timeline, I found some new IFB preaching.

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At the time it wasn't really a new IFB, but it was Pastor Anderson's preaching and stuff.

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I was really excited about soul winning.

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I was like, I want to go to a good soul winning church.

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I just couldn't find one in my area.

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Then I was like, maybe I should help get a church started or something because this is

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an important need.

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But then I was realizing, I can't just do that overnight.

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I'm not going to just ordain myself.

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Then eventually I found a church that was decent.

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They didn't have a soul winning program, but I was able to get plugged in.

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I felt there was a need.

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I said, man, if I'm looking for a soul winning church, there's got to be other people looking

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for a soul winning church.

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I entertained the idea, maybe I should go in the ministry.

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Eventually I ended up moving to Faith Award Baptist Church.

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I started going there.

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When I was going there, at some point Pastor Anderson started getting a lot of attention

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and started getting all these people coming out of the woodwork, just like, I want to

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be your friend and I'm going to be part of your movement and all these churches.

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I kind of just thought, I don't know if there's really a need for me to do this anymore because

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it just seems like there's just churches popping up everywhere and everybody's doing this.

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But then I remembered something.

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Most people suck.

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There's a lot of fake people.

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Then when Tyler Baker got exposed, I'm telling you, something changed in me again.

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I said, you know what?

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I still want to go in the ministry because I just know most people are just fake.

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Just fake.

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Fake as hell.

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It just pisses me off.

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There's so many people, they're just smarter than me and they're better preachers and maybe

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they're cooler and they have less sins in their past or whatever.

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I said, but there's one thing that I know that I have.

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I'm not fake.

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What you see is what you get.

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I knew this.

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I do love soul winning.

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I really love it.

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So, you know what?

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I was like, hey, I'm going to go in because I know people are just going to come and go.

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People are going to come and go, man.

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You're going to see pastors and churches.

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You serve God for a period of time.

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You're going to see just the craziest, wildest things.

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People are just going to come and go and come and go and fake and weird and creepy and everything

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in between.

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Why?

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Because most men will proclaim everyone is own goodness, but a faithful man who can find.

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And again, how does this relate?

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Because most people just are envious of their brother and they're all just, it's like a

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for pride and attention and vainglory.

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And you know what keeps happening?

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God just keeps picking them off and plucking them off because they're elevating themselves

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for the wrong reasons.

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That's why you see people coming and going constantly because they're all fake.

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And I'll tell you this, the guy that genuinely loves his brother, the guy that genuinely

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loves God, God will elevate him.

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I mean, if you really want to be elevated, try your hardest not to get elevated and just

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love people in private.

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You really, really want to get, you really want to elevate yourself, you can do it.

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But then God's going to be like, I don't like how, what you did.

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Bye.

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And he'll knock you all the way down.

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He'll make it where no one likes you anymore.

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He'll make it where everybody's ashamed of you, where you're an embarrassment to everyone.

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And what I'm trying to say is this, how did someone get to that point?

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Because of envy, they were standing on their brother's shoulders and neck and head to try

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and get a little bit taller instead of just simply loving their brother and doing good

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and allowing God to elevate them in due time.

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The sibling rivalry.

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And I'm just telling you, envy is destroying so many people.

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Stop being in competition with your brother.

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Instead of standing on his shoulders, lift somebody up.

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Pick somebody up.

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Find someone to pick up.

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Oh, you're just a fan of these other people.

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Good.

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I mean, didn't they have to hold up Moses's hands so they could win the battle?

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What if they were like, let's stand on Moses?

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Well, probably wouldn't have won the battle.

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Erin and her, you know, grab Moses's arms and they're just holding them up and they

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win the battle.

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Because you know what?

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We need other people.

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No one can do this on their own.

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No one is just the goat by themselves.

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We're a team.

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And you know what?

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The other day we need God on our side.

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And if we want God on our side, we have to genuinely love our brother.

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Go to Ephesians chapter one, go to Ephesians chapter one.

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I'm going to apply this sermon a couple of ways and then we'll finish.

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You know, this sibling rivalry is just gross.

01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:10.760
I hate it.

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It's disgusting.

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It looks gross.

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It sounds gross.

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And you see it all the time.

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And I'll be honest, I struggle with it just as much as anybody else, especially

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when I was younger.

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My mom was a licensed therapist who helped actual abused children.

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I know there's a lot of kids out there claiming they're abused.

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It's fake.

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OK?

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There are really abused kids.

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And let me tell you something.

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You can tell.

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There's a difference.

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She felt so bad.

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She had just a heart for people and a heart for children and stuff that she kind of like

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wanted to adopt kids all the time.

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And I remember asking me about that.

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Like how would you feel if we just adopted one of these kids or whatever?

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And I mean, I remember just being selfish in my mind and thinking like, I don't really

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want that.

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I want to bring that into our home or split attention or split finances or split whatever.

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Just being a carnal selfish little kid was just like, I don't want that.

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You know what?

01:12:13.200 --> 01:12:14.200
That's not necessarily the right attitude.

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And here's the thing.

01:12:16.800 --> 01:12:18.760
My parents didn't actually do it.

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But if they had, you know, what would be my attitude towards this person?

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Well, I could treat them poorly because I could say, oh, I'm their real son.

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They're just adopted.

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You know, that's a wicked, evil attitude.

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That's the wrong attitude.

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And when it comes to God, you know, we are adopted in this family.

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Look at Ephesians chapter one, verse five.

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Having predestinated us under the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself.

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So we've been adopted into God's family through Jesus Christ.

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The reason why we are adopted is because our brother Jesus got us into the family.

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He wasn't afraid of us being adopted.

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He wanted us to be adopted.

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Look at Galatians.

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Just flip to the left.

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Galatians chapter four, just maybe one page back, verse five, to redeem them that were

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under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons.

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We didn't become adoption of servants.

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We're sons.

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When you're adopted, you're in the family.

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You're not like a second class citizen in the family.

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Go to Romans chapter eight.

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Go to Romans chapter number eight and look at verse 15.

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Romans chapter number eight.

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Look at verse number 15.

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The Bible says, for ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received

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the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, father.

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Notice that even though you're adopted, it's your father.

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It's not a different relationship.

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It's not a subservient relationship.

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It is your father.

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That's what real adoption looks like.

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We should not look down upon those who are adopted.

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They're just as legitimate as the non-adopted.

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Look at verse 23.

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He says, and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first roots of the spirit,

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even we ourselves grown within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to with the redemption

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of our body.

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I want to go to one more place.

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Go to Hebrew chapter number two.

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Go to Hebrew chapter number two.

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If anybody has a situation where you've been adopted, you have an adopted child, one of

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your siblings is adopted, you are adopted, it doesn't matter.

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Any of these scenarios, what an evil and wicked thing to say would be to put them down or

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to try and make some kind of differentiation like, well, I'm the real sibling and you're

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the adopted sibling.

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That's evil and wicked.

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Look at Hebrews chapter two.

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Look at verse 11.

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For both he that sanctify it and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause

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he is not ashamed to call them brethren.

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If Jesus is not ashamed to call me his brother, how much more wicked is it for you to be ashamed

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of your sibling even if they were quote adopted?

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I mean, we're talking about the God of the universe is not ashamed to call me his brother.

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And you're over here like, well, not really my brother.

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They're adopted.

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You're evil.

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That's an evil thought.

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It's a wicked thought.

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If Jesus is ashamed to call me his brother, then we should never be ashamed of someone

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who's adopted.

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Hey, that's my brother.

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And hey, that's their dad.

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That's their mom.

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And you know, what does it even accomplish?

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Even if it was true?

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What would it accomplish?

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You're not really a brother.

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All you're trying to do is tear them down and make them feel like trash.

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Why wouldn't you want them if they've been abandoned by their family or had a weird situation

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or whatever?

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Why wouldn't you want them to feel accepted?

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You know what?

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Praise God.

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Jesus makes me feel accepted in God's family.

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I don't feel like, well, I'm kind of adopted.

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You know, no, no, no.

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God loves me just as much as he loves anybody else.

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And we're all adopted.

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Praise God for adoption.

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Isn't that great?

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Adoption is a beautiful thing.

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Go over to Luke chapter 15.

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Go to Luke chapter 15.

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Again, just for a caveat, I don't agree with baby picking, which is sometimes labeled

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as adoption.

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But genuine adoption is a beautiful thing.

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Baby picking is where you go and you just like basically just find somebody and steal

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their child and give them a bunch of money and rob them from their mother right after

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birth.

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I'm very against that.

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Someone was telling me that there was like two fags or something that like hired some

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guy's wife to be the surrogate so that they could adopt.

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That is not adoption.

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That is pedophilia.

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That is tie a millstone around their neck and throw them in the depths of the sea.

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And what weird freak would allow his wife to go down that road?

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Okay.

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But look, there are genuine children in this world that are orphaned or have been abandoned

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or had a bad situation.

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Perhaps their parents died.

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And if someone took them in, praise God, that's a beautiful picture.

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It's a wonderful picture.

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It's a picture of the gospel.

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It's a picture of Christ.

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I'm very pro-adoption.

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I'm very against baby picking and all this other weird stuff.

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Luke chapter 15, look at verse 18.

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I will arise.

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This is the prodigal son.

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Let me give you a back story, I guess, before I read these verses.

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So point one, or the first application was adoption.

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Here's another one.

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What about just blood siblings?

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You could be mad at a blood sibling.

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This is wrong too.

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In the prodigal son story, it's two sons that are blood-born sons.

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These are not adoption scenarios.

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But the one went off and spent all the fathers living on riotous living and harlots and this

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kind of stuff.

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He comes back and he says this in verse 18.

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I will rise and go to my father and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against

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heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

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Make me as one of thy hired servants.

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So here's a brother who is a terrible brother.

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Not only is he a terrible brother, he's a terrible son.

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And arguably, he's the worst kid in the family.

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The black sheep of the family.

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Why is it the black sheep?

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Ever wondered that?

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Just throwing it out there.

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He is a screw up.

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There's no reason to like this guy over the other.

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But he feels like I'm not even worthy to be called a son.

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But you know, he is a son.

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And you know, it would be wrong to say, oh, you're not a son because you're a bad son.

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Nope, even bad sons are still sons.

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And of course, the father doesn't have this attitude.

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But when he arose and came to his father, but when he was yet a great way off, his father

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saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

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And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven in thy sight, and am no more

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worthy to be called thy son.

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But the father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe and put it on him and

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put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring it to the fattened calf and kill

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it and let us eat and be merry.

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For this my son was dead and is alive again.

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He was lost in his found and they began to be merry.

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Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard

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music and dancing.

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And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

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And he said to him, thy brother has come and thy father has killed the fattened calf because

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he hath received him safe and sound.

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And he was angry.

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What's his first, hey, your brother just got right with God, got right with dad.

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Dad's happy.

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And what's your reaction?

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You're mad.

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You're angry.

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You're upset about it.

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Again, sibling rivalry.

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Why wouldn't you be excited that your brother's back?

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Why wouldn't you be excited that your dad likes your brother?

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Why?

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Why is he mad?

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Because one guy's getting more attention from dad than him.

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We're having a party tonight and it's not about you, it's about him.

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And because of that attention, he got envious of that attention.

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He's going to tell us that he's envious.

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He was angry and would not go, he won't even join the party.

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He's separating from the new IFB.

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You know what I mean?

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Therefore came his father out and he treated him.

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And he answering said to his father, lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed

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I at any time thy commandment, and yet thou never gaveest me a kid that I might make merry

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with my friends.

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Now, the more I live my life, I realize that kids are liars.

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Let's just say this is even real.

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That dad never did anything nice to this one.

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That legitimately the prodigal son is the only one that got the feast.

01:21:33.700 --> 01:21:38.740
He got the special birthday party when he turned 12 and you didn't.

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You know what?

01:21:40.660 --> 01:21:43.700
Why would you still be mad about it?

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Why can't you be excited?

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Should I really think, I hope that my parents hate my brother.

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Wouldn't you be like, I kind of want my parents to like my brother.

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Why would I not?

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I want my brother to get good things to happen to him.

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Is it really bad?

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I mean, is there a bad thing that dad was nice to my brother?

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Wouldn't you be mad if dad was not nice to your brother?

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Wouldn't you be mad if dad didn't do good under your brother?

01:22:08.620 --> 01:22:10.020
Wouldn't you be mad?

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Why is it bad that dad did something good to your brother?

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It's because you're envious and selfish.

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That's the problem.

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The problem is not that dad loves your brother.

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The problem is that you're envious and that you're selfish.

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And you say, I never got in this party.

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I never got to go on the fishing trip.

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I never got.

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Look, I've heard this kind of crap a lot growing up.

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It was just like, I never got that kind of a car.

01:22:44.460 --> 01:22:46.460
I never got to play this.

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You know, I love my brother and sister, OK?

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But they had this story a lot.

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It was like, I apparently got everything I could ever wish for, supposedly.

01:22:57.380 --> 01:22:58.100
And they didn't.

01:22:58.100 --> 01:23:00.340
It's just like, oh, John, I never got that.

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You know, John gets all this and John gets all that.

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It's like, yeah, but OK.

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I know that they got serious gifts and huge chunks of money at periods in their

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life that I never got.

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They don't want to bring up that part.

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It's like, yeah, but I didn't get this.

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It's like, bro, I'm sure you got something.

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Dad probably didn't zip you 100%.

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But even if he did, you know what?

01:23:25.420 --> 01:23:28.660
Why don't you just see mother better than yourself?

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This guy probably needs the party more than me because I'm not going anywhere

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anyways.

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This guy's getting the party, so maybe he'll stay.

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So maybe he'll get right with dad.

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So maybe he'll do good.

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Look, it's stupid to get mad when something good happens to your brother.

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It's wicked.

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It's evil.

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It says in verse 30, but as soon as this thy son.

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Notice it's not his brother.

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It's thy son, right?

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He's got to distance himself.

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Was come, which hath delivered thy living with harlots.

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Thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

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And he said to him, son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

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It was meat that we should make merry and be glad for this thy brother was dead and

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is alive again and was lost and is found.

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Again, what is the parable?

01:24:12.900 --> 01:24:19.540
It's probably most applicable to just Hebrews being mad that Gentiles got saved.

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Because didn't the Gentiles have a lot of riots as living and a lot of prostitutes and

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a lot of harlots?

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Yeah, probably.

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And then it's like the Jews are just mad that now they're saved and now dad's excited

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to have them and dad's throwing them a feast and now they're in the church and now

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they're being used.

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And you got pastors named Tomothius and you got pastors named Titus and it's not, you

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know, Weinstein or whatever.

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It's not Hawk Flem and they're just kind of thinking like, ah, why aren't you just happy

01:24:47.820 --> 01:24:49.580
that Timothy's a pastor?

01:24:49.580 --> 01:24:51.780
Why aren't you happy that Titus is a pastor?

01:24:51.780 --> 01:24:56.700
Why aren't you happy that there's churches literally everywhere, all of Asia, going into

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all these parts of the world?

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Now it's got to be Jerusalem.

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Well your stupid envy and pride is ugly.

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It's just ugly and no one likes it.

01:25:07.180 --> 01:25:08.180
And you know what?

01:25:08.180 --> 01:25:09.580
Why don't you just be excited for your brother?

01:25:09.580 --> 01:25:11.020
But you know what?

01:25:11.020 --> 01:25:14.340
People just get so mad about parents having favorites.

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And you know, at the end of the day, most parents, they don't really even have a favorite.

01:25:19.580 --> 01:25:20.580
It's hard.

01:25:20.580 --> 01:25:21.580
It's hard for me.

01:25:21.580 --> 01:25:24.180
I have seven children.

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And I'm not lying when I say like, if someone's like, what's your favorite kid?

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I can't pick one.

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And it's not because I'm a liar.

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If I had one, I'd just be like, this is my favorite kid.

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But they're all different.

01:25:36.420 --> 01:25:39.300
They're all so different and they have so many cool different aspects.

01:25:39.300 --> 01:25:42.020
They have some different hard aspects too.

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But it's like, hey, I like them all.

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I love them all.

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But sometimes you give some kids more attention than others, don't you?

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And in the story, who's getting the most attention?

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It's the troubled kid.

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Sometimes you get, sometimes your brother or sister's getting more attention because

01:25:59.180 --> 01:26:00.180
they're troubled.

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Maybe they get more attention because they're older.

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And look, your parents are probably going to connect with the older kids the most because

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they're more mature.

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They spent more time with them.

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Get over it.

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If you're the if you're the runt of the family, just be happy that they still have a good

01:26:13.300 --> 01:26:14.900
relationship.

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My sister and brother always had closer relationships with my parents than me.

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You know what?

01:26:19.780 --> 01:26:20.780
I'm not mad about that.

01:26:20.780 --> 01:26:23.740
I'm glad they got to have a good relationship with my parents because my parents are great

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people.

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I have great parents.

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Why would I be mad that my brother gets to hang out with them?

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Look, my brother lives here.

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And when my dad comes to visit, he spends three fourths the time there or more.

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And I'm not sitting here just like it's like great.

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I'm so glad.

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Praise God.

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Why are we we're not in a competition.

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If my parents just even said, I like them more than you.

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Praise God.

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I don't care.

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Get over it, you big wussy.

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It's better than if they said, I hate your brother and sister.

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That's a problem.

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I'm not we shouldn't be upset when our parents love our brothers and sisters.

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For sake of time, I'm not going to go to go to Proverbs 27.

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I'm not going to read the story.

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What's another one? How about mixed families?

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Isn't Joseph's brethren?

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When he tells them about the dream, the Bible says they envied him and they want to kill

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him and destroy his dreams.

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Why? Because God's showing favoritism to him.

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And here's the thing, not only do our parents sometimes have favorites, let me tell you

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something. God has favorites.

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And you know what? Sometimes God gives a little bit more attention to somebody other than

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you.

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And you know what? Instead of being mad about God showing attention to someone else, you

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know what? You should be excited for that person, that God is showing them attention.

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You know, many people want to do is they want to kill them to steal that attention, like

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Cain did to Abel, like Joseph's brethren did unto his brethren.

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It's wicked. It's evil.

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Proverbs, chapter 27, look at verse number four.

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Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous.

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But who is able to stand before envy?

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So why do people separate from the new IFB?

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Envy.

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Why are they mad at us?

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Because they don't like the attention that God is showing them.

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They don't like the attention that God has shown different pastors.

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Why do they separate from Pastor Anderson?

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Because they want to be the online guru, because they want all the fame, because they

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want all the salvations.

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But you know what? They don't want to work for it.

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They don't want to work for it.

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They just want to tear him down or others down so that they can look like they're on

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top. And you know, it's not just Pastor Anderson.

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It's not about him. It's about someone that God is showing favor for and using.

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What's another guy? How about Jack Hiles?

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Someone that God showed a lot of favor towards and used greatly and got a lot of people

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saved. So you know what a lot of Baptists did?

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A lot of Baptists said, so when he doesn't work.

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Wow. Quick prayerism.

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Why? Why do they say that?

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Because they want to take away those numbers to make it seem like God didn't really use

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them because they're envious of the attention that's so obvious that God is giving

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unto them because they don't want anybody to look at and say, hey, wow, God really likes

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this person. God really used this person.

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So you have to strip it away and then to say, oh, it was all fake.

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Oh, and by the way, some of his kids are bad.

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We're talking about Jack Hiles.

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Sorry if you got confused on what I was talking about.

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Oh, and there's a bunch of active Jason's.

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Oh, and he preached really mean.

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Sorry, God used him.

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So you'll notice when people separate, you know what they try to do?

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They attack soul winning. They attack numbers.

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They attack all these things.

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Why? Because they don't like the attention that God is giving to that person instead of,

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you know what, loving their brother and being like, I'm so glad you got that person safe.

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I'm so glad that God is using you.

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I'm so glad that you're doing great work for the Lord.

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And let me tell you something, somebody that gets a lot of people saved, someone that does

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great works for the Lord will be attacked because they're envious of that and they're

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going to try and tear that person down and claim it's fake.

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They're going to claim that they didn't work for it.

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They're going to claim there's something off about it.

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Why? Because they want to steal the attention for themselves.

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Just be ready.

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Any person that is doing great works for the Lord, having big numbers, doing big soul

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winning, they will be attacked by many because they want to steal the vain glory for

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themselves.

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And they will say mean, nasty, horrible things about them, assign motives to them, try to

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tear them down.

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Why? Because they don't they don't want to work to get people saved.

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They want to work to tear people down.

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Sometimes you have to ask yourself this question.

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What are you doing? Are you trying to do work that's good or are you just trying to

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destroy things and harm other people and tear other people down?

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What are you building? What are you creating?

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What are you bringing to the table?

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How are you helping?

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Sibling rivalry.

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One sibling is trying to lift the other up.

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One is trying to tear the other down.

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And at the end of the day, you know, it's a wicked, evil attitude when we're trying to

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step on our brother's head to get ahead.

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We should be trying to lift him up and encourage him and help him and bless him and be

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his fan.

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You know what? Find someone in this church to root for.

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Find a pastor to root for.

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You know, as a church, we should find other churches to root for.

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Don't be mad.

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Don't be mad if your parents like one of your brothers or sisters or does something good

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for them. Oh, well, they got a better birthday party than me.

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Who cares? Oh, they gave them more attention.

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Oh, they gave them more money.

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Oh, they got this. You know what?

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Just be happy for them and encourage them.

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And you know what? Walk in the spirit and not in the flesh.

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We're all going to struggle with this.

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But you know what? The more that we have the mind of Christ and the more that we're

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esteeming other better than ourselves and the more that we're loving other people.

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Let me tell you something. The more that you're loving God.

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Don't just, I love God, then show us that you love God.

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You say, how do you how am I going to show God that I love him?

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By loving someone in this room, by loving someone in this world.

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And if you don't love anybody but yourself, you don't love God.

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You better love other people, esteem other people better than yourself.

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And you know, we should all, you know, take that lesson.

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And you know what? I love the new idea.

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Love other pastors. I love other men.

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Because, you know, that's that's what it's about.

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If you don't love other people, do you really love God?

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And the answer is no. And when we see someone

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not loving their brother in Christ, take it to the bank.

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The person does not love God.

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They're a wicked person. They're not right.

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I don't know if this guy loves God or not.

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Well, does he love his brother? No. Well, then he doesn't love God.

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Let us not be sibling rivals.

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Let us be sibling supporters.

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Let us be fans. Let us encourage one another.

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I didn't scream at you as much as I wanted, but I'm trying to encourage you. All right.

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I'm for you.

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We should lay down our lives for the brethren.

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And so much the more as we see the day approaching, it's only going to get worse

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out there, guys.

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I want to be around people that want to lift me up, not tear me down.

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And we should try to encourage each other and edify each other and build each other up.

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Let's go to prayer. Thank you, Father, so much for the love that you've shown us

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through your son. Thank you so much for his sacrifice.

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Thank you so much for his example.

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I pray that we would have a great appreciation and respect for the process of adoption

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that would never tear someone down because of adoption.

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I pray that we wouldn't tear people down when they're being greatly favored

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by their parents or favored by God.

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I pray that we would find people in this world that we can be fans of, that we can love,

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that we can support, that we can root for.

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I pray that you would help us to put down our own selfish ambitions

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and that we would love one another, not in word, but in deed and in truth.

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I pray that you would help us to be doers of the word

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and not hearers only, that we would not just sing our praises

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and say that we love things when we don't.

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I pray that you would help us to have genuine people, faithful men

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who are real and that you would encourage us to love one another

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as we love God in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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All right, for our last song this evening, let's go to song number 410.

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Song number 410.

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Song number 410.

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Faith is the Victory.

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Song number 410.

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Song number 410. Let's all sing that together this afternoon.

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In camp along the hills of light,

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Ye Christian soldiers rise,

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And press the battle where the night

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Shall fill the glories skies.

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Against the foe,

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In failings low,

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Let all the strength be heard.

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Faith is the Victory,

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We know

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That overcomes the world.

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Faith is the Victory,

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Faith is the Victory,

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O glorious victory

01:36:24.580 --> 01:36:26.580
That overcomes the world.

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His banner over us,

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His love,

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Our sword, the word of God,

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We tread the road of saints above,

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With sounds of triumph run.

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By faith they like the world when fresh,

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Sweat thaw more every fear.

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The big fire this day conquered death,

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Is still our shining shield.

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Faith is the Victory,

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Faith is the Victory,

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O glorious victory

01:37:13.460 --> 01:37:15.460
That overcomes the world.

01:37:17.460 --> 01:37:19.460
On every hand the foe we find

01:37:21.460 --> 01:37:23.460
Drawn up in dread array,

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Let's test the beast we left behind,

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And onward to the fray.

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Salvation's helmet on each head,

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With truth the bird of God,

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The earth shall tremble

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Neath our treads,

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And yet the whip was shot.

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Faith is the Victory,

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Faith is the Victory,

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O glorious victory

01:38:02.340 --> 01:38:04.340
That overcomes the world.

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To him that overcomes the hurt,

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By faith it shall be his,

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Before the angels we shall know

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His name was cast in heaven.

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Then onward from the hills

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The fight of hearts filled

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With love of flame,

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Will vanquish all the hosts of night

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In Jesus' conquering name.

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Faith is the Victory,

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Faith is the Victory,

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O glorious victory

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That overcomes the world.

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Thank you.