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Good morning. It's good to see you this morning. Please turn with me to the book of Galatians.

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Galatians chapter 5. Galatians chapter 5 this morning. As is our custom, we'll read the entire

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chapter beginning in verse 1. Please read along silently with me. Galatians chapter 5.

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And in Galatians chapter 5 the Bible reads,

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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,

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and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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Behold, I, Paul, say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law,

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you are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

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For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision,

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but faith which worketh by love. You did run well. Who did hinder you that you should not obey the

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truth.

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This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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I have confidence in you through the Lord that ye will be none otherwise minded,

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but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment whosoever he be.

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And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the

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offense of the cross ceased. I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

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For brethren ye have been called unto liberty.

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Only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh,

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but by love serve one another.

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For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this.

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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But if ye bite and devour one another,

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take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

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This I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.

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And these are contrary the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would.

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But if you be led of the spirit, you are not under the law.

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Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these.

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Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,

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wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders,

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drunkenness, revelings, and suchlike, of which I tell you before,

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as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things

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shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,

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long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,

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temperance.

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Against such there is no law.

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And they that are Christ have crucified the flesh

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with the affections and lusts.

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If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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Brother Alex, will you pray for us?

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Please show us one of your things and fill us with your spirit to understand and take

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it to heart.

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In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Amen.

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We're in Galatians chapter number five there and let's look down at verse number 14.

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It says, For the law is fulfilled in one word, even this, thou shalt love thy neighbor.

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as thyself. But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed

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of one another." And this is an interesting way to say this, if you bite and devour one

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another. And I mean, biting and devouring somebody can be a lot of things, but it can

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be backbiting, it can be...

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It's basically talking about Christian cannibalism here, in a spiritual way, not obviously literally

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committing the act of cannibalism, but that's what it's talking about.

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And so the topic of my sermon is biting and devouring.

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As Christians, we're supposed to love the brethren.

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We're supposed to love each other and we're supposed to pray for each other.

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We're supposed to be in one accord as long as we have.

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the essential doctrines right? There's no reason why we should be fighting with other Christians.

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And you know sometimes I see things that happen and I'm just like we all believe

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pretty much the same thing and so why would you try to destroy another believer in Christ

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that might not be fully just on your your team on every single doctrine in the Bible.

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and then it turns into some kind of carnal biting and devouring.

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So, and in the days of the internet, it's a lot easier to do stuff like this.

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It's a lot easier to sit on your keyboard instead of being face to face with someone or calling somebody.

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And it's just that I'm just going to go through some scriptures this morning

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about this sin and how we should treat each other as Christians.

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So

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Let's look down again at, actually let's look at verse 16. So we're not supposed to

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bite and devour one another and we're not supposed to, we're supposed to take heed.

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So that means pay attention, be warned about this.

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It says, this I say then walk in the spirit and thou shalt not fulfill the lust of the

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flesh for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.

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And these are contrary, the one to the other.

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So you cannot do the things that you would.

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If you're letting your flesh control you all the time, then you're going to walk in the

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flesh and you're going to do things after the flesh which are put forth as a negative

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thing.

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Obviously we live in the flesh, we operate in the flesh in a lot of different ways, but

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This is Talk.

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about spiritually. We're supposed to put on the new man as Christians. We're not supposed to

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just forsake all those things, speak however way we want, and just tear other Christians to shreds,

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especially ones that believe the same things. I mean, the essential doctrines, that's always

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been something that New IFB has preached consistently that, hey, we don't all necessarily have to agree

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on every single thing.

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But then sometimes I see that if someone's not doing that,

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then they're torn to pieces.

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And it's like people from other churches

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are tearing people from other churches,

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are ripping on each other in chat groups

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and on Facebook live in front of the world.

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And it's like, well, if it's something that's essential, then yeah, let's fight that fight.

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And obviously, we're supposed to rebuke all sin, as pastors we're supposed to reprove,

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rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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But I mean, this whole concept of eating your own is preached against by the apostle Paul.

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And obviously, the apostle Paul has said some hard things.

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He's the one that wrote Romans chapter one.

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So we're not, I'm not talking about.

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I'm not talking about going to war against reprobates.

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I'm not talking about going to war against people

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that are committing wicked acts.

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I'm not talking about that.

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I'm talking about people that just might disagree

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with you on some doctrine.

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that's not essential. So what are the essential doctrines? How about salvation by faith alone?

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How about that we're King James only? How about that we believe in eternal security?

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Those things are essential doctrines. Those things, and even the rapture is not supposed, is not

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essential doctrine to some people. I mean, I think it's a doctrine that needs to be preached against.

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Yeah, but should we just completely disfellowship other people because they believe in the pre-trib

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rapture? No, because people can come our way on these things and not just

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just our way but the Bible way. So at some point they have to see within themselves that

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or just look at the Bible and go, there isn't any verses to prop up this doctrine.

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Look, we should prop up the things that are actually in the Bible and not something that

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is just our pet hobby horse doctrine, or man-made doctrines, or doctrines that might just be

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a slight variation of what the other person believes.

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It's just a wicked thing to do, and we should not bite and devour our brothers and sisters

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in Christ.

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So let's look down also at.

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So the works of the flesh are manifest which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

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lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, and then those are really wicked sins.

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But so is hatred when it's misapplied.

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Obviously God hates some people.

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The Bible says that he hates not only the works that they do but also...

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You know, he thinks that he does hate actual people, which there are several verses in

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the Bible that talk about that.

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But I mean, do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee?

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That's King David saying that.

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But then there's also not only that, but how about emulations where you're just copying

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what other people do and what other people say.

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That is a fleshly, that's listed as something that's a work of the flesh.

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It's weird to just copy somebody else.

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And back in the 90s we called that biting.

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You're biting their style or you're biting off what they're doing and some people they just you know

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Some people are just sycophants to you know, there's a lot of sycophants in this world that are hollywood star sycophants

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But you could be a sycophant to

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A pastor too you could have this weird

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um

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Attachment to someone and just try to copy everything that they do

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And it's it's called emulations

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and wrath

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And look, I'm not saying don't copy people.

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There's nothing wrong with copying something

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that somebody believes, obviously.

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But I'm talking about the way they dress,

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the way they talk.

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It can get weird.

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I'm sure everybody's had a friend in here

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that has been like that to them.

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Have some sort of weird emulations towards them.

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And then you got wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.

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So these are works of the flesh.

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And it's funny that whenever Paul makes these lists of things of the flesh, it's usually

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longer than the things of the Spirit.

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And that's not because the things of the Spirit are less, it's just that it's pretty much

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summed up that you should love your neighbor as your own self.

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And you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all

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your soul, with all your strength.

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So, what is, you know, so wrath and strife can be things that are works of the flesh.

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And so, when you're just constantly striving with people, just constantly trying to just

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bring up some sort of fight with somebody all the time, the Bible says that that's

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a work of the flesh.

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Now, there's nothing wrong with striving together for the gospel.

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There's nothing wrong with fighting over things that are major doctrines like the Trinity.

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I mean if somebody becomes a Trinity Trinity

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denying a person, then it's obvious that person was never saved in the beginning.

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So if you're just wrong on the Trinity, obviously there's nuances within that too.

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But obviously we believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

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These three are one, the Bible says in 1 John 5.7.

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So here's some other works of the flesh.

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beans.

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And envy is a really bad sin something that you can't necessarily see in people automatically murders

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drunkenness revelings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have told you in

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Time past that they which do such things should not inherit the kingdom of God

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Now, of course if you commit these sins after you're saved then this that nullifies this verse obviously because we can't lose our salvation

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so you're not gonna just

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not inherit the kingdom of God because you're

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sin as a Christian. It says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering,

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goodness, faith, meekness.

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temperance against such there is no law so the and that's what that's the fruit of the spirit the

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spirit of god is the one that produces that fruit and so so obviously the other things are things

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that are not for the spirit we have two natures within us after salvation you know you're saved

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forever and you have the new man but you also have to walk in the new man in order for you to

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have the best life as a Christian.

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and to fulfill what God has required of us, His will, if you will.

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So, but, you know, we should, there is no law against these things.

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Love, joy, peace, long suffering. Long suffering means...

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that you suffer long. It's not really a complicated word in the Bible, that you suffer long.

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You know, sometimes people can be irritating and we're supposed to be long-suffering

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like the Spirit is long-suffering.

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I mean, these are things that we should, you know, obviously we have the new man,

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the new man is the Holy Spirit in us forever.

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And look, you're not going to walk in the Spirit if you're fulfilling the lust of the flesh.

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because it says in verse 23, meekness, temperance against such there is no law. And they that are

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Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also

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walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another, envying one

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another.

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So we're not supposed to provoke other Christians to try to fight.

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We're not supposed, I mean, what's it saying? One another.

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Is it talking about the world? No. Is it talking about reprobates? No.

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This is talking about how you should treat other believers.

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I mean, at least that's the way I read it, that we're not envying one another.

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We're not provoking one another.

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And we're not desirous of some vain glory where people are going to give us praise, that men are going to praise us.

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and

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It's just very plain and simple in the Bible.

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We should not be cannibalistic towards our own.

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And again, especially people that believe exactly like we do.

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You know, if you can't get along with them, then just don't be friends with them or whatever.

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That's fine.

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Like nobody is making people be friends with people.

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But if you're just purposely setting traps, purposely trying to watch every move that

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somebody makes because they might preach something that you don't 100% agree with, that's bizarre.

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Mind your own business.

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It's like if it's not your church, then why are you just constantly watching somebody else's sermons that you don't like?

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To me, it's just bizarre.

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And it's ungodly actually to try to just catch somebody doing something that, oh he believes a little bit different on this.

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Well let me go report it to Pastor So-and-so.

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It's stinking weird.

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And it's like, why are you doing it?

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Why are you hate watching people that believe just like you?

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Oh, because you think that there might be a reprobate.

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So I mean, how many times has it been preached not to just go

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around hunting these reprobates?

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and going after people in church.

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The Bible says that we're supposed to grow together

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and at the time, at the end, then we'll know

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who's not good and who is.

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And obviously these reverberates will manifest themselves

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in our presence.

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It kinda happens like a sleeper cell agent.

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They just all of a sudden will just start winging out

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and saying that they believe a bunch of weird stuff.

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So, I'm like, well, that person had me fooled.

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Yeah, Judas had everybody fooled too.

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So.

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But let's look, so my first point though is the carnality of biting and devouring.

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So when church members spend their time backbiting and just trying to pick apart and envying people

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and just trying to cause other, you know, fights and strife and wrath, then you're walking in the

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flesh, not in the spirit. I mean it says specifically that

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Oh, emulations, hatred, variance.

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strife sedition heresies now obviously heresy

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There's two levels of heresy in my opinion, okay

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There's there's damnable heresy which are denying the essentials of the faith

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Because if you deny maternal security if you deny salvations by faith alone if you deny

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You know those things

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Then you are a heretic by definition and it is very evident that they're not one of us. So

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Let's look at another, let's look up James chapter 4 verse 11.

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James chapter 4 verse 11.

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And so if we're Christians and we're just totally carnal, totally just dismissing what

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the Bible says about these things, then we are in sin.

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I mean, I don't think that works of the flesh are not sin, they are sin.

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Those things that are listed are sinful things.

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So, we'll look at James 4.11, it says,

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Speak not evil of another, brethren.

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What was that talking about?

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Brothers and Christ, brothers and sisters of Christ.

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He that speaketh evil of his brother,

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and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law,

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and judgeth the law.

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But if thou judgest the law,

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thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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So James is telling us hey, we're not you know, we're not supposed to speak evil of our brothers in Christ now, obviously

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I'm sure that we've all failed in this area at some point in time

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but again

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intentionally just going after

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fellow believers

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It's like I've noticed something that's really just strange in the last couple years that we don't have all these homos trying to attack

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It's all the time. We don't have the Jews trying to attack us all the time. We don't have like

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I haven't seen any mass

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of outside forces try to mess with us in a long time.

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So why is that?

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Well why would the enemy attack us when we're attacking ourselves?

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It's like why are you hitting yourself?

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Why are you hitting yourself?

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Why are you hitting yourself?

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I mean it's just stupid.

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Like out of all people that you should get along with it's the people that believe like

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you and if you don't like them personally then you don't have to associate with them.

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But stop stalking them and stop just trying to catch everything out of their mouth.

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That's what the Pharisees did.

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You know, they just followed people around and waited for Jesus to try to say something

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that they didn't like, which he never did.

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But you know, as men, we are going to say things that are wrong from time to time.

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We're not going to have a hundred percent take that you might have.

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I never said that anybody has to believe every single thing that I believe.

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And I tell you what's my opinion and what's not my opinion.

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So, and obviously I don't always do a great job of communicating those things,

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but that's just the way it is.

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So, let's look at verse, Proverbs chapter 6 verse 16.

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So, look, when the Bible says you're speaking evil of yourself, you're setting yourself

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up above God's law.

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You're a judge of the law, and not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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It says in Proverbs 6.16, these six things that the Lord hate, ye seven, are an abomination

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unto him.

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So if it says it's an abomination, it's detestable to God.

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He hates it, and he says burn it with fire.

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I mean, pretty much, or stone it with stones.

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an abomination is. Something that God just really hates a lot. So a proud look, a lying

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tongue and hands that shed innocent blood and heart that diviseth wicked imaginations.

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Feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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a false witness that speaketh lies,

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and he that soweth discord among brethren."

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So it's wicked to sow discord, of course, among brethren.

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It's one of the things that God hates.

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And you're like, well, those sins

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aren't all in the same category.

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I know.

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But God still thinks that they're an abomination.

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So, and when it's talking about brethren, again, it's talking about people that are

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saved.

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We're not supposed to have discord, constant sowing of discord, constant trying to undermine

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people's friendships, pastors' friendships, church members' friendships, by bringing

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up divisive things that you know you're just doing to get a rise out of people.

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And look, I'm not saying don't preach the whole Council of God.

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That's what we should do.

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We should preach the whole counsel of God.

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But if you're doing that just constantly to cause strife and cause problems with fellow believers.

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I'm not saying don't do this and preach against sin.

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Of course we're supposed to preach against sin.

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Of course we're supposed to preach against these things.

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But I'm specifically talking about fellow believers that are actually saved and actually doing great works for God.

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So look at 1 Corinthians 3.3.

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1 Corinthians 3.3.

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Paul had to write a lot of negative things to the church at Corinthians.

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So much so that he wrote a letter called 2 Corinthians.

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People were actually accusing Paul.

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of being a reprobate. People are accusing Paul of not being a legit apostle. And where did that come from?

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Well, it comes from strife. It comes from envy. You know, they're always just trying to cut people.

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People are just always trying to cut people down. And he's preaching these things to the church.

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He's saying, don't do these things. And I mean, there's so much scripture on it, we just can't even go

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begin to go through all of it. But it says, for a year yet carnal.

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For whereas there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are you not carnal and walk

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as men?"

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So look, if there's envy and strife and divisions going on within the body of Christ,

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then you're carnal, the Bible says.

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Paul says you're carnal.

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I mean, he says that he's carnal too in Romans chapter 7.

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But, look, we're not supposed to be constantly in being constantly striping, constantly backbiting

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because the Bible says that that's carnal.

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Okay, so we don't want to bite and devour our own.

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I mean, it's just, you know, Christian cannibalism is what it is.

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Look, humans aren't supposed to eat other humans.

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Believers aren't supposed to eat up other believers. So

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And it's look it's it's showing that you have a carnal and prideful heart

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When you can't stand to see other people serving God and they just don't are not just like you lock and step

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We should never get to that point where that's you know, what our movement is becoming. So

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it says

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Let's turn over to John 13

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John 13, verse number 34.

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Well, like I said, there's a difference between essential doctrine and non-essential doctrine.

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And look, we shouldn't be fighting over things that are not essential doctrine.

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They're like, well, every doctrine is essential.

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It is, but look, we have individual soul liberty to believe what we want on certain things that might,

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and look, if it's not super clear.

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then it shouldn't be something that we fight about.

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So people fight about a lot of different things.

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Like some of the pastors in our movement believe

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that Hebrews 6 is talking about reprobates.

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Some of them think that it's talking about believers

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that are not living right.

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Some people think it's not in our movement,

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but that you could lose your salvation is what it's teaching.

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But obviously that's not the right interpretation of it.

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But we don't need to fight about those things either.

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Somebody's right somebody's wrong and God will sort that out because he is the judge, you know

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So it's not us. They're supposed to be judging our brothers in this way. So or sisters

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So I mean I saw a comment

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I don't know if it was yesterday the day before or a Christian called another Christian a cuck

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Which is a pretty bad thing

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I don't want to even define what it is because we got children in here, but it's just not

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something.

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You're calling someone that when you're not married, when you don't have children, and

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you're talking to a man that is a husband, is a father, and not just a husband, but a

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good husband, and a good father.

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And you're going to call them that name and then you'll go, oh, I'm just joking.

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It's not a joke.

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That is not a joke to call someone that.

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It's just weird, number one.

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It's a weird thing to say.

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And then it's also to dog pile on people

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when you're just wanting to be on somebody's side

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just because it's being a respecter of persons.

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It really is.

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And we shouldn't be calling each other things like that.

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It's not like those people aren't saved that are using that kind of language.

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But look, we should be able to agree to disagree on things.

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As long as it's not essential doctrine.

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It doesn't have to become this name calling and all this other stuff when there's no need

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to do that.

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You're not dealing with somebody that's unsaved here.

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You're dealing with someone that is saved.

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And so we should be different about those things, obviously.

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Obviously, we're supposed to love the lost.

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We're supposed to win them.

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But what do people see when they look at some of the posts

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that we put online, and then people are just

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fighting to the deadly death and won't let it go?

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I just want to be right to death.

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And look.

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I don't have to agree with everything that you all believe, and you don't have to agree with everything I believe.

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Let's just focus on the things that are clear in the Bible, and obviously we should focus on all Scripture,

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but there's no reason to fight about these things. There's no reason to name-call.

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There's no reason to say stuff like that to other people. I mean, that person that got called that, their wife is a stay-at-home mom.

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They homeschool their children.

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The father works outside the home and that's the way it's supposed to be so oh, but that person's a cuck really

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Okay, well. What are you someone that can't get can't find a wife and how old are you now?

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It's like why why is why is that happening? Why are you not able to find a wife?

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Well, you know the this is preached about to how people are single and just eternally single and look there's nothing wrong with that

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But if you're just on the hunt for a wife,

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and every one of them keeps falling apart,

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maybe you have a problem.

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Maybe you're the one that has the issue.

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And it's not everybody else.

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It might be you.

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Now look, there's some things that obviously

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people disagree on.

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And that's OK, as long as it doesn't devolve

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into some name calling contest.

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And where people are mocking and making fun, you know, over something that's not essential.

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It's just bizarre.

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And especially if it's a disputed passage.

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So, I don't know.

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That's just, you know, what the Bible says, honestly, that we're, you know, supposed to,

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what, not walk as carnal as men.

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We're not supposed to be envying and causing strife and divisions.

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And look, if you're some hate watcher of my sermons, or some hate watcher of other sermons

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of other people on the new IB, and that's all the reason why you're listening, then

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you've got a problem.

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You're fixated and being weird about stuff.

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It's just like, don't you have other things to do besides worry about what other people

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are doing in other churches?

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What other leaders are doing inside their churches?

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I got enough to worry about with my own.

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I've got enough to worry about with my own people.

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I don't need to go to other people's churches snooping around on what they're wrong about

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and snooping around about what fights are going on in their church.

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I don't care.

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And I'm not going to interject myself into somebody else's ministry and go after somebody

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else's leaders because I feel like the pastor of that church should be doing those things.

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And if that pastor doesn't have a problem with it, then you should just leave it alone.

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It's not your business.

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You know, it's just not.

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So the second point though is that the character of those that we are commanded to protect.

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I told you to turn to John chapter 13 verse 34.

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Now look.

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You're not a Christian because people know that you love the brethren.

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You're a Christian because you're saved and you believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But look at what it says here. It says,

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A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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That you also love one another by this shall all men know that you're my disciples if you have love

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One to another look I'm not saying there's never a reason to fight. There's never a reason to have strife

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There's never a reason for these things

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But look if it's just you know stuff that's like again not essential not not necessarily

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You know damn double Harris here something you know we're not supposed to just go after people

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Jesus said that all men will know you're my disciple

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disciples if you have love one towards another.

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And look, yeah, you can preach sermons in love

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that are very negative.

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And the way that the sermon is being preached

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is designed to help that person.

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I'm not saying that you're just,

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peace, love, white dove all the time.

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Obviously there are strives and things

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that we need to fight about,

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but it doesn't have to be every single thing.

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Oh, if you don't believe exactly like me,

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then I'm gonna attack you.

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If you don't believe exactly like me,

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I'm gonna go tell the other.

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pastors that you're saying something different than they are. It's like what

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kind of you're a busybody you're a tail bearer you know and if you don't even go

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to that person's church either then why are you just being Mr. Reporter? Oh I'm

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gonna report this you know what why why are you reporting things to other

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pastors that you don't even go to the church you don't go to either church you

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don't go to any church or whatever and then you're gonna just report to pastors

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It's bizarre. It's like why are you doing that? What is the point of you doing that? Well, it's to cause envy and strife

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That's what it is. So

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Look, and if a man believes the essentials

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The deity of Christ salvation by grace or faith the atonement

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you know, the preservation of Scripture, then, and he's out, you know, and they're a soul winner,

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then, you know, obviously, we should not be doing these things.

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We should not be just trying to cut people down and destroy them,

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destroy the church that Jesus Christ built.

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Because that's essentially what you're doing if you're attacking leaders of other churches

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and trying to just bring them down any way you can.

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It's like, that's bizarre, especially if those people are winning people to Christ.

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There's not a lot of soul winning churches out there today.

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There just isn't.

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We need all hands on deck.

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We need as many people as we can out there knocking doors and preaching the gospel and

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preaching great sermons and trying to edify the people that you're in leadership over.

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The last thing we need is our own devouring those churches.

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It's like have you thought about what's going to happen if you just destroy that person?

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Have you thought about that there might not be a church in that place anymore?

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And why?

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Because they didn't believe something that was a nuance that people were having to dispute

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over?

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That's ridiculous.

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It's wrong.

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It's wicked.

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It just is.

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Turn to Philippians chapter 1 verse 15.

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Philippians 1 verse 15.

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Look and if you're a soul winner you're out on the front lines.

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You are the soldiers.

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You're God's street soldiers basically, where you're just out there knocking the doors,

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getting people saved, and it's like why would you try to destroy somebody that is a soul

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winner and doing great things for God?

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The apostle Paul said this in Philippians chapter 1 verse 15, he said, some indeed preach

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Christ even of envy and strife and some also of good will.

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The one preached that Christ preached Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add

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affliction to my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the

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gospel. What then? Now, I was standing every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is

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preached and therein I do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

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So the apostle Paul is saying there's some people that just literally were preaching

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Christ to start strife and cause problems for the apostle Paul when he's locked up and

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to make it worse for him.

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And he said, I'm still rejoicing over the fact that Christ is being preached.

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So to me, I think that...

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This is talking about not just someone that's an unbeliever,

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I think this is talking about people that are saved doing this.

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They're preaching for contention.

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They're preaching because they want to start strife.

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They're preaching because they want to cause problems.

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But Paul said, hey, I love those people too.

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But it's still not something that he thinks that you should be doing, obviously.

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So if Paul could rejoice over contentious...

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people that are

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That are actually saved then you know, why are we?

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Causing problems in the same, you know in the same manner

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Why would you preach something or why would you go after someone to try to intentionally start problems with them?

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When you don't have to do that probably 1717 says a friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity

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Hey, we're supposed to we need all the help we get we can get like I said

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There's a great harvest out there, and we're supposed to pray the Lord of the harvest that

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He will send laborers out in the field because the fields are white and ready in the harvest.

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So why are we spending our time just on endless debates against fellow Christians when you

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don't have to do that?

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I mean, look...

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Social media can be a problem. It can be a great blessing, but it also can be a problem where you turn into

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You know that someone that's just constantly fighting and striving like why aren't you doing something a little more spiritual than that?

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Why is it always some why does it always have to be some big fight that you that you want to get into?

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It's the same people that are just striving all the time the same people are saying over-the-top

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comments and

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Look, if that's a person that goes to your church as a pastor, you should be telling that person that they're wrong

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You know, I would and like if you don't take it then that's fine, but you know, I'm still going to tell you you're wrong for doing it

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Because I mean I think the scriptures are pretty clear here a friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity

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So number three God's command do not cut down the fruit trees

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So let's turn to Deuteronomy chapter 20 verse 19 and 20 obviously the the initial

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doctrine of this is that hey, you know, you want to still have some fruit trees in the land once you conquer someplace or once you

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Go against someplace and destroy them

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You don't want to cut down all the fruit trees that of the place that you're trying to get these bad people out

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You know in the Old Testament

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But

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It's also there's also a spiritual application to this

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so do draw me chapter 20

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Verse 19 and 20 says, When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, and making war against

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it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them.

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For thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down.

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So we're not supposed to employ them to a siege.

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

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thou shalt destroy and cut them down, and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city and make war with thee until it be subdued.

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So there's a difference in the trees.

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The trees that have nothing on them, the trees that are not bearing fruit,

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yeah, you can cut those down and use them to continue your battle.

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But he commands to not cut down the fruit trees.

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So let's look at Proverbs 11 verse 30.

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What does God say about a righteous tree?

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Well, it says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,

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and he that winneth souls is wise.

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So when you spiritually pair these things together,

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you know, God and Jesus made a lot of

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distinguishments in the scriptures,

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but he also preached a lot of parables

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that were geared towards farming and fruit

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and gathering fruit and things like that.

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So when it says,

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You know the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. Well, I believe that's obviously talking about a self replica

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Replicating Christian you've hit that the you've hit all three you can hit the grand slam basically

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So, because you can go out there and not win any souls and not bring forth and so on and

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so forth and then I would say that you're not really a producing fruit tree.

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I'm not saying that you should be cut down and thrown on the fire, okay, but you know

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God does want us doing these things.

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So if you're in the land, you know, and you come across somebody that's a fruit tree just

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like you are.

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We're not supposed to cut them down.

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We're not supposed to cut down God's fruit trees.

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So look, if someone's actually winning souls,

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a church is a soul winning church,

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why are you trying to cut those trees down?

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What is your problem?

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Well, just because you are too prideful

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to just let an argument go,

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because you're just so filled with strife

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that you have to just fight about every little single thing?

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It's ridiculous.

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You know, it's like, look, if you don't like them,

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don't like them.

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But there's no reason to cut down that fruit tree and destroy it when they're bringing

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forth lots of fruit.

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We need all the fruit we can get, don't we?

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Amen?

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So God's like, keep your carnal axes off my fruit trees.

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Keep your axes away from my fruit trees and don't chop them down.

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I mean, it's just real simple stuff.

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that we should take to heart.

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And so what if Pastor so-and-so doesn't believe with me

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on the rapture?

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And so what if Pastor so-and-so doesn't like,

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agree with every single thing I believe?

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We're not an echo, we're not supposed to be an echo chamber.

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You know, it's okay to have some other ideas

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about some scriptures as long as it doesn't go

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into complete heresy obviously.

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There are nuances that people believe, and again it's called individual soul liberty,

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it's a Baptist distinctive.

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And you're like, well what's a Baptist distinctive?

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It's not in the Bible.

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No, but individual soul liberty is in the Bible.

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And there's a little chapter about it in Romans chapter 14.

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So anyway, so the consequence of...

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of these things is that you're going to cause people to, you know, divide and have divisions.

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And look, we're supposed to be not divided in our own churches, but you know, we have a movement

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of people that believe great things. We teach and preach great things.

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And people are edified and people learn by these things.

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So why would you want to get rid of the ones that are actually on your side?

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It just doesn't make sense.

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And it is Christian cannibalism.

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It is biting and devouring.

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And the Bible is strictly against that.

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So have you ever heard that term if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it at all?

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That's not in the Bible, but it is a good principle.

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You don't have to just talk bad about people that don't agree with you on everything.

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It's just weird.

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It's wrong.

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So turn back to Galatians chapter 5 verse number 15.

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Actually, yeah.

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Let's go there.

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So what are the consequences of these things?

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Well.

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What happens when the church ignores God's warnings?

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What happens if you refuse to lay down that carnality and the strife and bitterness that you're causing

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and the pride and the other wicked devices against other Christians?

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It says, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.

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And look, I'm sure you've heard the term friendly fire.

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In the military, sometimes people get killed by their own people because they're being negligent,

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or they got some wrong orders, or the information was wrong, and so on and so forth.

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But we're not supposed to do that as Christians. Have friendly fire.

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Look, when the church is not fighting the battles without, and we're fighting a bunch of battles

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within all the time, you know, we're just turning our guns and aiming them towards our own church,

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and friends of our church, and pastors of other churches, you know, you're being

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you're doing friendly fire. You know, we don't want to kill other Christians

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through our friendly fire. It's not, and it's not very friendly actually. It's

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called that because you're supposed to be friends and you're supposed to be

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able to get along. But look, no movement and no church is gonna survive if

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you're just constantly fighting your own. You're constantly batting, all the strife

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is against your own people.

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It just shouldn't be done.

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Obviously there's reasons why you would go against some people, even save people sometimes

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from the pulpit and reprove them and rebuke them.

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But obviously these are for very major infractions.

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I'll just give you an instance of Pastor Jason Robinson just going full Church Father

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retard.

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I mean that's what he's doing.

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He's, you know, and look, I'm not saying that he's unsaved, but he's, he is, you know, going,

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he also believes a weird thing about the Trinity. So what is the deal with that? Well, I mean,

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that's something that can be attacked. There's nothing wrong with attacking that because it's

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heresy. And it might be damnable heresy. I don't know exactly what he believes, but if he's

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believing the Catholic version of the Trinity, then he's got a problem because that's not where

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where we get our definition of the Trinity.

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So Augustine isn't supposed to give us our version of the Trinity.

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And that we just, oh it's just because Augustine just thought it up.

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You know, on the surface the Catholic Church does believe the Trinity, but if you just

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dig down a little further, they don't believe what we believe.

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They don't believe that God is a literal being that you can see and touch and handle, basically.

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So they believe when the Bible says that God put His hand over the cleft of the rock, that's

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not really His hand.

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God doesn't have hands.

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God's just a spirit all the time.

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It's like, that's just not true.

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I mean Jesus Christ came down in the form of a man and God made man in his own image

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after his likeness.

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The Bible calls Jesus the second Adam.

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So you know Jesus Christ, so what does that mean in Genesis when it says that someone

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is made in the image of God?

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it means that there's a body.

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There's a spirit and there's a soul.

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Okay?

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And so does God have a body?

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Does God have a spirit?

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Does God have a soul?

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Yes, He does.

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He has all three of those things.

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So, and obviously there's the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, but

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even John the Baptist saw the form of the Holy Ghost descending upon Jesus like a dove.

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It doesn't say that he turned into a dove.

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It doesn't say that he became this spirit dove animal or something.

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It's just saying that that's the way he descended, like a dove would descend off of a power line or something, or off of a tree.

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So if God has a body, obviously that's God the Father putting His hand over the cleft of the rock,

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so that Moses doesn't die by accidentally looking at His face.

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So, and then obviously Jesus had a body.

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So but look if you're

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If you're taking on the Catholic form of the Trinity after you've been believing the right thing all these years,

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then you've got a real problem with your theology.

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Nothing wrong with attacking that.

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That's, I mean, I don't want people in our church to follow that.

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Why would I want that?

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And especially, you know, when that person just allowed his wife to go and slander Pastor Anderson

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over a bunch of stuff, you know, calling him all these names and stuff when they have no evidence

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of those things. It's just, you know, it's just wrong. It's wrong to allow your wife to do that.

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So, and obviously I believe that, you know, husbands are the head of the wife as Christ

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is the head of the church. I don't for one second disagree with that at all.

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So, and I don't think I preach anything other than those things.

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And do I think that she should obey me?

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Absolutely, I think that.

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Your wives should obey their husbands, that's what the Bible says.

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As Christ, we're supposed to obey Christ in the church.

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So, but, you know, this whole thing where people are thinking it's okay to hit their wives or something,

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like, where is that in the Bible?

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I kind of missed that part.

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We're like, oh, but she's your personal attendant and slave.

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The Bible doesn't say that, actually.

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It doesn't say that she's your slave.

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It doesn't say that she's your help meet, fitting for you.

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And we're supposed to be in this life with our wife or spouse.

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And people say, well, God, Jesus wouldn't beat the church.

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You know, he does sometimes.

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He does.

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But we're talking about two different things here.

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And if your wife doesn't obey you,

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you don't have the right to slap her in the face.

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It's just bizarre to think that that's true and it's OK.

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It's not OK.

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And I've stood against that from the very beginning.

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I've preached sermons, whole sermons about it.

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So I mean, and you're like, well, it's not your business

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to get into other people's marriages.

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I'm not trying to.

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I don't want to get in other people's marriages.

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But why are you trying to get in everybody's marriage?

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Why are you talking about so much?

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I mean, it's just like, let's move on from these things.

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I know what you believe.

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I mean, I've heard it like 150 times.

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So, I mean, especially if it's not something that's some major doctrine in the Bible.

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It's like, yeah, you shouldn't hit your wife.

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Your wife isn't a child.

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But wives shouldn't hit their husbands.

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I just preach a sermon about that too.

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Keep your hands to yourself.

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If your wife doesn't obey you, you shouldn't be just punching her and knocking her around

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the house and strangling her or whatever else that you're doing.

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I mean, obviously, Jesus doesn't strangle his bride.

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I don't think that's in the Bible.

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I don't think it's in the Bible where Jesus punches church members in the face.

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You know, so obviously I think that there's a certain amount of discipline that might

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be able to be given out in a way like if your wife is just slandering everybody online and

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won't stop, yeah, take the social media away.

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I don't have a problem with that.

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But I do have a problem with you beating her.

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I mean, you're like, well, that's not your business, Pastor Thompson.

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Okay.

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You know, the whole thing about the, you know, this discipline of spouses or whatever.

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I never even heard of this before.

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It's just not something that I...

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I mean I know in history that there was this rule of thumb where you could beat your wife

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with a stick as thick as your thumb or whatever.

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It was actually something that was in place in the United States.

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But obviously I don't think that's the best corrective measure.

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I would feel weird putting my wife over my lap.

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and giving her a spanking like that.

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I mean, I just do.

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And they're like, look, if your marriage is that bad,

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then maybe try to win them over in some way.

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Maybe you're doing something wrong, too.

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We all do wrong.

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Spouses do wrong to each other all the time.

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You know why?

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Because we're sinful.

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And why do women get uppity sometimes?

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Because they're sinful.

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Well, if they don't deserve to get punched in the face for that, or slapped, or spanked

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with some, you know, implement of some sort.

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I mean, I don't know, I've been married for a long time, I've never had to do that.

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So I mean, there's times when I wanted to, though.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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I know it turns the hand into the fist, but I'm not trying to do that obviously.

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So, but I mean, look, and all this stuff about the bedroom and, you know,

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I think that we should talk about that kind of stuff as little as possible.

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I believe that the Bible is very clear about, you know, that we're not supposed to defraud each other, you know.

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Neither one is supposed to defraud each other.

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And look, I believe that. I agree with that. I think it's true.

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That's what the Bible says.

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But then the whole, you know, if they're not doing what you want after six months,

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then it's okay to just jump on top of them or whatever.

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I don't agree with that either.

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Sorry, I just don't.

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If you think that's fine, okay, we'll just try doing it and see what happens.

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I mean, it's not going to end well.

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It's like, oh, my marriage is so bad that these things are happening.

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I think that there's other steps to take before going to that point, which I just don't think

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you should go to that point.

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Look, I have a daughter that I love and cherish, and if I found out that that was happening

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or that he was beating her or something like that, I would just probably show up and act

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like nothing was wrong, and I would just punch him in the face as hard as I could.

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Sorry, I would like oh, that's not your business leave and cleave. Yeah, I understand that but I also love my children

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I'm just saying that like, you know, sometimes

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You know men get this idea that that's okay to do these things like and look people will take the things that are preached

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And then they'll take them to these far extremes

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That's what I actually am seriously concerned about is that people will take these

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extremes and just say oh it's okay because pastor so-and-so said it's like

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That's why it's okay.

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Why don't you just do some study on your own

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and come to your own conclusion, obviously.

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I'm not trying to control what you believe,

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but I'm just saying if you do those things,

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your marriage probably isn't gonna be better.

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I mean, I just don't see how that makes it better.

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The one last thing you do before she divorces you

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and throws you in prison is you force yourself on her.

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I mean, I just don't think.

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that that is something that we should be doing.

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But obviously I don't think women should be just not

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giving it to their husbands.

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You know, if you know what I'm saying,

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you know what I'm saying.

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It's wrong, it's wicked too.

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It is.

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And I've never preached anything different than that.

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It's wrong for you to defraud each other.

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That's what 1 Corinthians 7 is talking about.

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not defrauding each other.

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But where does it say in that passage

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to go ahead and just force them to do something

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that they don't want to do?

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I'm not saying I believe that there's spousal rape

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or something.

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I think it does exist possibly in marriages

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where people aren't believers.

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But I just can't imagine someone who's a Bible-believing Christian

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doing that.

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And if you do, well, I mean, you're

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going to pay the consequences for it.

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So, I'm not going to sit there and preach that people should do something the Bible

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doesn't say anything about.

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It just doesn't say that.

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I mean, we're supposed to base what we believe based on what the Bible says, not what the

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Bible does not say.

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So, you know, I mean, that road works both ways.

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You know, if it doesn't say that specifically, then why are you saying that that's something

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that should be done?

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And especially if it's just a very far outlier that might take place.

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If it's a very far outlier that might take place,

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then why is it being talked about so much?

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Why?

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Why does it have to be talked about that much?

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It's just ad nauseum, like, dude, turn the page.

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Stop with the hobby horsing.

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There's other stuff to preach about.

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Because if it's not happening, which I don't believe it really

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is, I really don't believe it really is,

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but the exception proves the rule, doesn't it?

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I'm sure it does happen where someone, a husband is forcing himself upon his wife.

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I'm not talking about forcing the issue. There's a difference between forcing the issue and saying

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like, you know, when they're just like, oh, I really feel like I got a headache or, you know,

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whatever the excuse is. Look, I'm not saying that you should not say, oh, hey, come on, you know,

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it's been a couple of weeks, you know, I need what I need or whatever.

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Or, hey, come on, you don't have to do anything.

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You know?

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Which again, I don't want to be too, you know, crude or whatever.

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But I'm just saying that like, look, to try to coerce your spouse that doesn't feel like

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doing that act, you know, I don't think that's wrong at all.

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I think it happens all the time.

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And I don't think it's some wicked thing that we need to record and send into people, send

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into the police or something.

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That's bizarre also.

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Look, there should be balance in the things that we believe,

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and we shouldn't be striving over things

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that are not necessarily clearly laid out.

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It's not clearly laid out to do those things.

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But it is clearly laid out that you're not supposed

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to defraud one another in the bedroom.

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That is clearly laid out.

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So...

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But, I mean, look, and look, I understand that feminism is a strong force in this world,

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and it is wicked.

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And these feminists are going to die alone with their cats, and, you know, with Toxoplasma

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Gandhi or whatever, where they turn into serving the cats, serving the beast, and serving the

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creature rather than the creator.

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They're called crazy cat ladies for a reason.

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I don't think that that the book true feminism is you know where women are just controlling

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Men and women are you know apart from their husband or apart from I mean there's this this video

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That's trending where this lady said I'm gonna teach my baby to hate men and to you know to

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and also stuff is like

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Why would you teach that?

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Because she's a stupid feminist. That's why

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And she's just, you know, wanting to, you know, cut her husband out of all the decisions

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and she's like, I'm going to teach my baby this and I don't care what other people think.

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And she's just like this RBF, you know, crazy lady.

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She said nobody likes her.

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Well, there's a reason why nobody likes you because you're just contentious and weird.

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And you're a feminist.

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You know, feminism is dying out in this country, I hope.

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But I don't think that we should be Christian feminists either.

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I mean I've heard that I know people that say they're Christian feminists.

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That's weird. What do you mean you're a Christian feminist?

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I mean it's bizarre to even say that and let those words even come out of your mouth that you're a Christian feminist.

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But I've met them. You know, they want to wear the pants of the family, literally, and they do.

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And they run their husbands. I've seen women at churches run their husbands into the ground, run them down in front of other people.

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It's wrong. But it's also wrong to do it to your wife too.

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It's wrong to disparage them in front of other people and divulge secrets between you two.

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I think that husbands and wives should take care of their issues.

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And if there is some kind of major issue, then someone probably should be allowed to step in.

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But look, if that person isn't.

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Involving people into their marriage that we should stay out of it. You know as long as

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You know things are not going super crazy or whatever

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But obviously if someone's trying to kill you you should get away from them

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You know I mean and look I don't think that this is necessarily happening where men are just trying to kill their wives or whatever

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But it does happen there are outliers, but again if it's something that's not

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specifically spelled out in scripture and it's not a major doctrine in the Bible that's just talked about over and over and over again

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Why are we cutting each other down over some over such things?

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Because look what my position isn't really that popular, you know with some people and that's fine. I

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Still I can talk about these things without you know getting super mad about it

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But I think that we should be careful because there have been people in the past

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and probably people now and people in the future

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that will take something that's said,

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and even if it's not meant to be said,

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oh, you should violently attack your wife,

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nobody's saying that.

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I know that that's not being said,

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that you should violently attack your wife,

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but how do you make it happen if they say no?

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Well, if you have to resort to violence to do such things,

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then I believe that's wrong.

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So call it whatever you want.

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But I just think it's wrong to do those things.

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So, alright, so look at what the Bible says.

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Proverbs 26 verse, I'll just read this verse.

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Proverbs 26 verse 20.

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Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out,

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and where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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And look, people that like the tail bearer and like the gossip, they're going to go and

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try to cause problems.

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But if you just cut out that tail bearer, if you just take away the source of the fire,

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which is the wood, then the tail bearer will strife.

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Strife will cease.

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So how do you stop the fire that is consuming believers? Well, you got to get rid of the wood

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You got to stop the tail bear you got to stop listening to gossip and you got to refuse to let people

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Pour out their carnal poison into your ears

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so

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And someone's just gossiping to you and you know, it's gossip then you should just tell that person that I don't want to hear this

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You know, it's real simple.

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But I mean, it's been talked about how to do it all over and over again, but people love to gossip.

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And they like to, you know, say it's a prayer request.

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Oh, so-and-so has a prayer request. Let me tell you about it.

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And it's like, totally not your business.

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Nobody asked you to pray for them on that situation.

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You just happen to know the information or whatever.

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And it's, you know, not something that we should be doing.

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We should not go up and down as a tale bearer.

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So it comes...

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Also, this comes from pride

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Proverbs 13 10 tells us plainly only by pride cometh contention

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But with the well-advised is wisdom

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So what what causes contention pride causes contention?

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envy causes contention and

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Just wanting to strife and envy over everything is not a godly attribute. So

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The Bible says it's an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling

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So if you're just meddling in other people's matters all the time you're meddling in other people's churches all the time

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You're meddling with things that don't concern you then you about what the Bible says every fool will be meddling

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That should not go up and down as a tail bearer among the people neither shut out stand against the blood

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thy neighbor I am the Lord so that's Leviticus 19 verse 16 so I mean

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This still holds true from the Old Testament

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it's still a sin in the New Testament to be a tale bearer and a gossip in a busybody and

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It's kind of like if you're a man doing it. It's a womanly attribute

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So they're like well why because women are more likely to be gossips the men

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But you know in this day and age the men are dressing or you know they're dressing like women

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And they're letting women, their women control everything.

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So I can see where someone would say,

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well, that person's weak, that person's a feminist.

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There are men feminists.

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I don't know how that works either.

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And I was just like, oh, yes, yes, honey.

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I'll carry your purse into the restaurant.

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I mean, you're like, well, why wouldn't you carry

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your wife's purse into the restaurant?

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Because I don't want people to think I'm freaking weird.

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That's why.

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If I'm carrying a purse around,

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then people are gonna think I'm a weirdo.

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You're like, well, what if your wife just had surgery?

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Well, come on, let's use some common sense here.

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OK?

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And it's just like, let's use some common sense

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when it comes to the things in the bedroom.

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Not everybody always feels like doing something.

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Now, if it's going like six months, a year, or whatever,

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there's real problems.

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And you should work on those things in your marriage.

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You know, and, but like, it's funny, I saw people that I know for a fact, or not these

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alpha male Christians, making some of the worst comments on this post that I was looking

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at.

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So, it's just like, bro, I know things about you that I don't want to divulge, but I do

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know them.

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Okay?

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And, it's just, you know, you're like, well that's gossip at Tilbury.

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No, it's just because I've had to deal with stuff in my church.

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with certain individuals that aren't part of our church.

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And I've seen these people that used to be in our church

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that want to just take these hard stances when, you know,

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they had to move away and move in with their mom and dad again

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because they couldn't control things in their marriage.

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How is that being some alpha male?

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Just please explain that to me.

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How are you, you know, pounding your chest about these things

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when you're not what you're supposedly saying that you are?

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I mean, that's hypocrisy.

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You're talking about someone who does have their wife in subjection.

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They do have their children in subjection.

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They are the model of a Christian family.

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They are good people.

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And it's like, oh, let's cut them down because they don't agree with your nuance.

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It's ridiculous.

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It really is.

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And then like, you know, and look, I'm not saying that other people are saying that you

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should violently attack people.

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They've never said that.

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Nobody I know has said that.

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But if you're leaving the door open where people are just thinking that that might be what you're talking about,

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I just think that we should clarify what we're talking about.

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So, I don't know.

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People, you know, I've seen they don't want to explain their comments,

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but then they go on and explain their comments on a video.

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Or they go in and explain their comments in a post.

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It's like, well, that's good.

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I'm glad that you don't feel that way, but like sometimes the preaching doesn't sound like that.

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It sounds like you're saying something else and it concerns people.

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It's not like everybody agrees on this stance, especially when there's no verse to do those

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things.

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So in conclusion to this whole sermon, the conclusion is that we will look at Ephesians

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4.

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turn to.

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Okay, the second to the last one.

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Sorry, I missed the page there.

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And look, don't misunderstand what I'm saying.

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I don't know how many times I have to say this, but I do believe that wives should obey

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their husbands.

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I don't think anybody really disputes that.

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If you dispute it, you are a Christian feminist.

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I don't I think that men, you know should love their wives like Christ loved the church and sometimes, you know

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There's gonna be contention. Sometimes you do have to tell your wife

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No, sometimes you do have to like say hey, no, hey what you're saying is wrong. Stop doing that. Stop saying that

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I don't think there's anything wrong with correcting your wife at all

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But when that correction becomes some weird, you know

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where you're just thinking that you have to slap your wife in the face every time they say something that you don't like in public.

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That's weird. Okay?

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And I don't want weirdos like that in my church.

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So...

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And you're like, well how dare you call someone a weirdo?

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You're judging another...

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Look, I thought that it doesn't happen.

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It does happen though in some instances, but

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look, we can also dream up doctrines that people start believing and then like...

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It's like, why are you doing that?

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Well, I mean, that's what I heard you're supposed to do.

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It's like, no, dude, you're taking that out of context.

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You're taking what that person is saying out of context.

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It's not what they're saying.

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But like, we should not be confusing with what we're saying.

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We should have terms that are very clear

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and concise about such things.

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Because bad actors...

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Bad people will take these things and run with them. How many times we've seen this was just any doctrine

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Oh, you guys believe the reprobate doctrine so I can't wear pants to church. It's like

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What?

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Or people say that we have a dress code in our church

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I mean obviously if you're wearing something that's revealing and making people just stare and gawk at you

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Yeah, I don't think you should be wearing those things at church obviously and I probably would ask someone to leave that's wearing something

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That's highly inappropriate or I would just ask them to not wear that again or change or whatever

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You know, but

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Look, we don't have a dress code. I don't say you must wear a shirt and tie to come to church

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I don't I don't teach that I don't believe that

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So, I mean, we're just, and women, if a woman comes to church in pants, you know, they obviously

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still just need to learn some things.

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And I remember when our church first started, we would go, people would go right to that

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person and say, you know, it's a sin to wear pants in church, right?

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It's like, hold the phone there.

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Just hold up.

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You know, let the pastor deal with those situations.

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Look, it's not.

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People are going to change on those convictions based upon hearing God's Word preached.

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And obviously if you're wearing something that's just outrageous or out of control,

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yeah, I mean, I'm going to say something.

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But if some woman's just wearing pants to church because she doesn't believe what we

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believe about that, I think she's wrong.

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I think she should not wear pants to church.

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But it doesn't mean that I think that there's some kind of a reprobate or something.

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or that they just are not new IFB or whatever.

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It takes time for people to learn doctrine.

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I didn't know everything.

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I told you before, I was wearing a tank top and basketball.

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I was wearing a blazer jersey and shorts while some preacher came.

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And he preached a sermon that you should probably try to wear your best

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and that you shouldn't just be wearing sleeveless shirts to church, things like that.

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Obviously, these are standards, okay?

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But again, I did think that, well, maybe, you know, if I was seeing Donald Trump, you know,

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if you don't like Donald Trump, it doesn't matter. I'm just saying any president.

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If you knew you were going to meet with the president, do you think that you'd really

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show up wearing basketball shorts and like a tank top, a wife beater shirt or something?

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You wouldn't. Nobody would. You know, you're going to wear what's best. So,

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like, why wouldn't you want to wear your best to church? Like, that's just, and again,

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those aren't commandments.

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But I don't say, hey, you better start wearing a suit and tie when you come to this church,

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or else you're not going to stay here.

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It's like, that's bizarre.

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You know, we shouldn't be like that.

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But our church doesn't do that anymore.

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And it's just training that's made us, you know, hearing God's word,

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hearing these things preached from the pulpit,

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is going to help people to get the right doctrines.

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And it's not our job to just, you know, roast somebody that's coming to church for the first time.

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Even trying to get people to go souling, I don't think there's a problem with that.

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But a lot of people will just start souling when they,

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hey everybody else is doing this, let me check this out.

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Or hey, I'm convicted by the preaching and I'm going to start doing this because I know it's right.

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But for us to just consistently bombard new people that come to our church and just say,

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if you're so winning you're not right with God and just like, I don't know. I just think that

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there's a limit to things that we should be saying to people and striving and having strivings about

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the law and having vain conversations and strivings against the law. These things are

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are unprofitable in vain, the Bible says.

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Unprofitable in vain.

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or fighting about Bible passages that aren't essential, that is vain.

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It really is.

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So, and if you don't agree with me, I don't care. I still love you.

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And you can still come to our church.

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If you don't want to come to our church anymore because I believe that, well,

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that's your problem. So, that's fine.

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So, and again, we don't all have to agree on everything. So...

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Just because I believe in a post-trip pre-rapture doesn't mean I think that a guest at our church

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should automatically believe that when they come here. That is what we believe.

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I wouldn't want them going around trying to convince somebody else of something, you know,

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convince somebody that something else is different.

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But you know, it is kind of a big deal.

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And I think it's more of a big deal than sometimes it's been made.

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I think that we should know, we should understand sound doctrine and that pastors need to clearly

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preach sound doctrine, what the Bible says, not what the Bible does not say.

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So it's time to...

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You know, we can't afford to lose, like I said, we can't afford to lose a single fruit tree.

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And when people are doing great works for God, and for you to try to cut that fruit tree down,

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this is wrong. It is wrong.

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So, last verse this time is for realsies.

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Did I have you go to Ephesians 431?

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Okay.

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Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from

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you with all malice and be kind one to another.

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Imagine that, Christians are kind to one another.

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Tender hearted, forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

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God's...

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Forgiven you for a lot of things. So why are you unforgiving with other people?

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Like well, they don't want to believe what I believe well, okay

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Well, let them come to that conclusion on their own. They don't have to believe exactly like you. That's the point

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We do have choices and things that we can't I can't get up here and force you to believe what I believe

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I can just preach what the Bible says and then you can like it or lump it, you can receive

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it or not receive it, and look a lot of things do go over people's heads.

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But you know, look, we shouldn't be destroying and biting and devouring one another over

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these things.

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The Bible says, be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks and look well to thy herds.

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It doesn't say to other people's herds and other people's flocks and other people's leaders.

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So, you know, if you just have some agenda to destroy a church, there's something wrong

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with your heart.

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If you just want to destroy someone that is a believer that believes pretty much everything

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the same thing you do and they don't agree with you on one nuance, it's like, come on.

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That is ridiculous.

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And people are just jumping into the strife because they want to be part of it or whatever,

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then you're wicked for doing it too.

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Because if that person is saved, that person is a soul winner, that person believes like you,

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then why are you doing that? It just doesn't make sense.

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And you know why it doesn't make sense? Because the Bible strictly

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rebukes those things in several verses that we've looked at. So that is the end of my sermon.

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And we should just take these things to heart.

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We should be aware when people are trying to feed us gossip,

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when people are trying to be a tale bearer.

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And it'll be disguised in many ways.

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Disguised as a prayer request.

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Disguised as, you know, I'm just concerned about this person.

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Well, why are you so concerned with them

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that you're hate watching every sermon that they preach?

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I mean, I don't do that.

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If I don't like someone, I just stop listening to them.

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Tell you guys to stop doing that and then like I get you know I get grief over it

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But it's like look. I'm just trying to protect you. That's all so

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As my it's my job as a preacher to do that as the pastor of this church

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I'm supposed to you know ward away the wolves and obviously you can believe whatever you want on some of these things that I that I

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Talked about that are kind of challenging, but one thing you can't disagree with is how we should treat each other by this shall all men know

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That you're my disciples

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I mean, that is clear as a bell.

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You can get mad about all the things I said or whatever,

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but your Christian conduct and your Christian character

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are things that you should hold dear.

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And you shouldn't lose that.

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because you want to fight with somebody over something that you don't agree with them about.

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What that's not essential, okay?

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I got to keep saying that because people will just take me out of context

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and say, oh you're talking about, you know, no.

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I'm just saying things that are not essential, not essential doctrines.

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We shouldn't be just striving with people and hating their guts and hate watching their sermons.

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And I think it's weird when the ex-NUIFB does it too.

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You know, they're just constantly...

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just trying to drum up strife.

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They'll agree about something,

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and then they'll just turn around and say the opposite.

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So, I don't pay attention to that very much.

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I get told things from time to time.

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So, I'm trying to not live my life online right now,

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but sometimes people are like,

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hey, do you know what's going on online?

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Well, I do now.

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You know?

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I do now.

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It's like, well, it's just evolved into some crazy.

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you know, strife session, you know, think about what people, other people are seeing.

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Especially if it's a public post, you know, and then you're just seeing people just devour each

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other and that is what the Bible is talking about, biting and devouring one another.

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Like, it shouldn't be done. I mean, I don't know how much more clear it can be, but...

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Let's pray. Lord, we thank you so much for the Bible and I pray Lord you'd help us to discern

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things and help us to believe the truth and help us to be guided by your Spirit, Lord,

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that we'd know the things that are acceptable to you. And Lord, help us, you know, maybe there's

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people in here that have been striving or have been hate-watching other people's sermons or whatever.

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In order to catch them in their words or whatever they're doing

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I pray Lord that you'd help us with these things help us to be long-suffering help us to be forgiving and

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Help us to not have envy and pride and strife

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Over these things in Jesus name. We pray. Amen