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Page number 169, come thou found.

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page number 169. Sing it out on the first.

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Come thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace.

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Streams of mercy never ceasing, call for song.

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everybody, will the Rhyme just please open us up in a word of prayer?

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Thank you God for everybody's tears. I pray that you will fill us with the

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Holy Spirit now as we sing praises to you in Jesus name, amen. Amen.

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All right, if you want to take your hymns we're going to turn to page number 173.

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page number 173, Love Lifted Me.

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page number 173

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Love Lifted Me

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I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore

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Very deeply stained within, shrinking to rise no more

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But the master of the sea heard my despairing cry

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From the waters lifted me, now safe am I

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in me when nothing else could help love

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me when nothing else could help.

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To him I give, ever to him I give

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Blessed presence live ever his praises sing love so mighty and so true

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souls best songs faithful loving service to to him belongs

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could help love lift it

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completely safe

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by his love out of the angry waves. He's the master of the sea, billows his will obey.

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He your savior wants to be, be saved to

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Thanks for listening everybody.

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This is the time that we'll have our announcements.

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Alright, good morning everybody and welcome to Shire Foundation Baptist Church.

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Our verse of the week is Psalms 46-10 which says,

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Be still and know that I am God.

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I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

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That's Psalms 46 verse number 10.

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We're here at our Sunday morning service and this morning we're preaching part two of the

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soul-willing sermon that I was going to preach last week until everybody, including myself,

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got sick.

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So we detoured to John and then we didn't even have a second service.

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because everyone was sick.

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So yeah, we'll pick up like normal.

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We'll continue off in John,

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and then we'll do the soul winning sermon.

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I think this is gonna be the last part of this one.

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And then there's a couple other things I wanted to say

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about it, but I'll just wait

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until we get into the sermon actually.

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And then on Wednesday, we have first Samuel chapter number

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two, part number two, and that'll be the end

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of that chapter as well.

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So it seems like most of these ones in Samuel are gonna be

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just kind of two part sermons, maybe at the most.

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As far as soul winning goes though, we have a hundred

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So Kylie, as you can see, put it in big and bold, okay,

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just to shame me publicly, okay,

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that we had four salvations.

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But I think we took the credit for two salvations,

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is what it was.

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We split it evenly, okay?

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Just for accuracy's sake or whatever.

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But yeah, so we had four total,

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but we took responsibility for two.

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So that brings us to 140 salvations for the year.

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As far as the other upcoming events go, on the 25th, which is going to be next Sunday,

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we have the church picture day, so make sure that you're prepared for that and get your

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outfits ready in advance.

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And then next week, I believe it is, yeah, October 28th through the 30th, we already

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that far in October?

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Good.

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Man, time's flying.

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Yeah, we have VBS next week, which is going to be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday with the

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creation theme.

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That'll be at 6.30 PM, just like usual.

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And then for the Wednesday service.

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we're going to take a break I guess then from Samuel we're going to do we're going to do a

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sermon for the VBS instead and the November 11th we have the Pi Social night.

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So do you have to be social? Is that a requirement? What's up with that? We can't just have a pie night. It has to be social, okay?

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Well, a pie social night is what we're having on November 11th, so bring your best pie and invite a guest.

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And are we doing like a pie competition or is it just bring your best pie?

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No, okay. We've got to make it more competition based.

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Okay, yeah, just bring your best pie.

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And for the kids memory verse we have Psalm 68, verse number 19 that says,

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blessed be the Lord,

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who daily loaded us with benefits, even the God of our salvation

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sayeth law. So you can tell that my wife, kids, and you get a piece of candy.

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That pretty much wraps up everything that I would want to say for the

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announcements.

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We still got Honda's birthday coming up at the end of this year.

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of the month so we'll just do the prayer request and then we'll sing our song.

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Let's pray. Dear Father God, thank you so much for this wonderful day. Thank you so much for

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everything you do for us God. Thank you so much for this church God and for

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everybody that came to hear your word preach this morning. I just pray that you

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be with all the requests off of this list God. I just pray that you would help us.

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So thank you.

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Alright, if you want to take your Bibles or Psalm books and turn to Psalm chapter number

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11.

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Psalm chapter number 11.

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Psalm chapter 11, we'll sing it out on the first.

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In the Lord put on my trust, how say ye to my soul,

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Flee as a bird to your mountain, for lo the wicked bend their bow.

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They make ready their arrow upon the string,

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That they may privily shoot at the upright and hard,

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If the foundations be destroyed.

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What can the righteous do?

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The Lord is in his holy temple.

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The Lord's throne is in heaven.

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His eyes behold, his eyelids trite,

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the children of men.

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The Lord trieth the righteous, but the wicked.

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And him that loveth violence, his soul hails.

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His soul hateth upon the wicked.

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He shall ring snares, fire and brimstone hand.

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And horrible tempest, this shall be the portion of their cup.

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For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness as countenance.

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Doth behold, doth behold thee upright in the Lord put I my trust.

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Alright, excellent. Thank you everybody for the rematch. Please pray for the offering.

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Thank you so much again for everything you do for us, God. Thank you so much for everything you bless us with, God.

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I just pray that you continue to bless us as a church, God, and help us to increase in every area of our life.

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And I just pray that we would, again, always stay faithful to you and put you first in our life, God,

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and just have the faith and confidence that if we do that, you'll provide for us.

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And I pray that our actions would follow accordingly.

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I pray that you bless the service and be with us for the rest of the fellowship.

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Amen.

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Good morning everybody, welcome to the Shur Foundation Baptist Church.

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If you can open your Bibles with me and turn to Ecclesiastes chapter number 10.

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Ecclesiastes chapter 10 and we'll go ahead and read the entire chapter before the preaching.

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Ecclesiastes chapter 10 the Bible reads dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send

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forth a stinking savor so that the little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor

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a wise man's heart is at his right hand but a fool's heart

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At his left, yea also when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him,

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and he sayeth to every one that he is a fool. If the spirit of the rulers rise up against thee,

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leave not thy place, for yielding pacifyeth great offences. There is an evil which I have seen under

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the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler.

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Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

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I have seen servants upon horses and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

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He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it, and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall

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bite him.

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Whoso removeeth stones shall be hurt therewith, And he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

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If the iron be blunt, and he do not wet the edge, Then must he put to more strength,

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But wisdom is profitable to direct. Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment,

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and a babbler is no better.

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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

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The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous

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madness. A fool also is full of words. A man cannot tell what shall be,

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and what shall be after him, who can tell?

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The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

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Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning. Blessed art thou,

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O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season for strength,

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and not for drunkenness.

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By much slothfulness the building decayeth, And through idleness of the hands the house

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drop it through.

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry, But money answereth all things.

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Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought, And curse not the rich in thy bedchamber.

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for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

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Let's pray for the preaching. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you God for this church and thank you for

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everybody here. I pray you'll fill us all with your Holy Spirit. Please fill brother Remy with your

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Holy Spirit. Spirit and I pray God that we'll apply the preaching to our lives today. In Jesus name,

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Amen.

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Amen, you guys are there in Ecclesiastes 10, we're going to look in at verse number 10.

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Ecclesiastes 10 verse number 10 as I get there too on my physical button right here.

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Thank you.

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Ecclesiastes 10 10 the Bible says if the iron be blunt and he do not wet the edge then must he put to more strength

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But wisdom is profitable to direct time. I serve in this morning is so winning 101 avoiding pitfalls. Let's pray your mother God

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These was wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us God

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Thank you so much again for every that came to church this morning to hear your word preach

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God, I just pray that you would um bless everyone for that reason God

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And it's just pray that you'd be with people here that that couldn't make it today God whether it be for sickness

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or any other thing, God, I just pray that you would help us to...

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To be able to come to church when we can God, but I just pray that you would

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Help us as we go through these verses as well and that you'd help us to have wisdom

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We're going out so when in God and that everything that I preach in this room. I just pray that it would

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People would take it and really honestly examine their soul wanting and just make sure that we're doing things decently in order

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I pray that you keep me from saying what you would want me to say and help me to say boldly what you would do

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Want me to say and I pray you fill with your Holy Spirit. Just a pray. Amen

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How much one like I said?

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again is soul winning 101 avoiding pitfalls. We're here in Ecclesiastes chapter number

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10 and as I said the announcements will be continuing our mini series and this will probably

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be the last sermon as I was also explaining the announcements. Last week I preached about

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the logical order of soul winning and how

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We don't want to just wing our gospel presentation.

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It's very important that you have an outline that's ready to go in your mind,

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even if it's not the exact same thing every time.

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It's probably not going to be the same time, exactly every time.

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But we need to make sure that we have a baseline kind of idea of where we're even going in the first place,

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or it'll cause just a lot of confusion.

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And the Bible tells us to, you know, do all things decently and in order.

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And if that applies to the church, you know, as far as how it's ran,

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and that it's because it's a high-

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So God needs to be done decently in order how much more with is also applied to his gospel as well the most important thing

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On this planet in terms of getting people saved

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So we've we focused on the the the logical order of the gospel last week

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But this week we're going to transition into pitfalls

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Because I think that there is a lot of situations out soul winning that are very

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Avoidable that as long as you know about them in advance, I know how to deal with them in advance

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But I think a lot of these things

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will cause us to be less profitable because of, you know, I don't want to just, I just

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think that sometimes we just kind of lose the main idea why we're out soul winning

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and it causes us to waste a bunch of time. But you need to realize at the end of the

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day, the reason we're out soul winning is to get people saved. So anything that's hindering

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that goal is not profitable for us because we're not just there to play 20 questions

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with people. We're not just there to, you know, spend time with people or to get into

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debate with people, we are there to preach them the gospel.

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and to fulfill the ministry of reconciliation.

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So we have to keep these things in mind

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while we're out there preaching.

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And so that's why I wanted to do this sermon

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so that we could talk about things

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that are avoidable out soul winning

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and how not to fall into them.

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And I think these are gonna be healthy reminders

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for every single person in this room.

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But before I get into the sermon itself,

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I wanna say two things, okay?

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Number one is that I'm planning on doing

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a soul winning tutorial either next week or the week after,

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maybe even the week after that, I'm not 100% sure yet.

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If there's an interest from people.

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Obviously if you're a seasoned soul winner that's probably not what you'd be interested in, but that's why I want to do it in between the services so that I don't have to take a whole sermon to do that, but that also the people that would want to go soul winning that day that are seasoned can just go out and then the people that want to learn how to preach the gospel or get better at it would be able to attend that.

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So if you're interested in that, let me know. I know a few people are already interested in that already, so just let me know kind of what would be a good week for you guys for that because I don't want to do a tutorial with nobody there.

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I mean obviously we would have an online reference which I think is good as well just for other people

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So I don't have to just keep doing that every single time

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But you know for the first one it would be nice to have people there

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So yeah, if you're interested in detaining that let me know and right on top of that. I'd say as well

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I made a list of soul winning verses that I go to in my gospel presentation most of

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the time that I'm going to hand out to people.

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I think I'm going to do that next week as well.

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And I think that in combination with having that sheet in front of you and then watching

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someone preach the gospel with, you know, and seeing how they expand those verses, I

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think it will be very helpful to the people that are new to soul winning or they just

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want to become a talker when you're out soul winning.

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With that being said, okay...

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We're getting into the sermon proper right now.

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What we're talking about is avoiding pitfalls,

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and that's why I have you here in Ecclesiastes 10.10.

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It says, if the iron be blunt and you do wet the edge,

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then must he put more strength,

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or put to, he must put to more strength.

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That's kind of an interesting word here.

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But wisdom is profitable to direct.

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So what the Bible is teaching us here is that,

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The solution to our problems is not just always brute force. It's not always just, you know,

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like a caveman just like, whoo-hoo, and just like, you just gotta bust through it or whatever.

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Like, sometimes the answer to doing things more effectively is taking a step back is what the

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Bible is saying here, and examining your tools and examining your tactics and making sure that

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you are equipped with the best tool and the best tactics possible. And obviously it applies it to

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an axe right here, though I don't know if we're chopping down trees in here probably, okay?

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But what the one thing it is relatable this versus to me is that when I worked with the water department in the city of Portland

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We'd have to change out these water meters these big old water meters and for whatever reason

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When they put these vaults in the ground that are like five feet deep

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They give you like two inches of space on each side not literally but that's how it feels

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Okay, when you go down there and you have to like get these bolts off and in theory you're supposed to break them with wrenches

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And kind of get them off, but they're always so rusty you never can so what you end up having to do is get a sawzall

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If you guys know what that is, the lady's in here, okay?

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It's like an electric saw, basically, okay?

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With a little thin blade.

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The blade's replaceable.

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But you have to like, contort yourself

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and get down to try to cut these bolts.

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And most of the time, when you get a new Sawzall blade,

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it took like, you know, seconds to cut these bolts off.

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But, you know, once you get into like, you know,

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a few of these bolts, cutting them off,

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the blade wears down.

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And you have an opportunity there, which I probably should have took more often than I did, okay?

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In applying this verse, to like be like, to get out of that position and ask for someone,

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Hey, can you give me a new blade for the Sawzall?

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But most of the time, for whatever reason, okay?

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Maybe just because you're comfortable down there already, as comfortable as you can be,

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you're in a position or whatever,

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there'd be like two more bolts that I would try to cut and it would take like minutes to cut them.

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And then I just like, in hindsight, I look back at that, I'm like, why was I doing that?

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But I think that the reason I'm telling you that story is because I think it's very applicable that-

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that if you just try to do the same thing over and over and over again,

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you're going to get the same result as well. So out soul winning,

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the reason I'm applying this to soul winning is that we're going to,

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we're, we all have our different ways of presenting the gospel,

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but we need to take a step back no matter how seasoned we are or how new we are

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to soul winning and just make sure that what we're doing is the most effective

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when we're out soul winning, finding the verses that work. And then, you know,

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weeding out the verses that are harder for people to understand using analogies

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that people understand and getting ready.

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of analogies that confuse people, you know, going to passages that are, you know, filler

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versus, you know, just keeping in what's necessary.

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So all these things as a soul winner, you should be constantly looking and evaluating

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and seeing like, hey, if people keep stumbling at this analogy, maybe it's not because, you

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know, maybe it's not because they're just dumb.

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Maybe it's because the analogy is not the best analogy, right?

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So I think that this is important.

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But obviously, I would say about this, because it's about wedding the acts.

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Obviously, we know that when we're going out soul winning, we're equipped with

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the sharpest weapon that there is. We're equipped with the King James Bible that's sharper than any

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two-edged sword. So it's not the King James Bible that needs to be sharpened up though, it's us

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though. It's we need to hone in our skills and we need to focus on how to properly use that weapon,

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the sword of the spirit, the King James Bible that we use. And so in this sermon I think that

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if you apply these things to your soul-warning presentation I think it'll make you more effective

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as a soul-winner and if you're new to soul-warning I think it'll...

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give you a lot of, you know, good advice to look out for when you're initially

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going soul winning, okay? So just, I think this will be edifying for everybody. So the

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first thing I want to talk about in this sermon though is go to Mark 16 verse

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number 15, Mark 16 verse number 15. The first pitfall I want to talk about is

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the pitfall of not going soul winning at all. Mark 16 verse number 15.

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Because in my life, I'm sure you guys have experienced out soul winning door to door too as well.

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You know sometimes meet people that'll like be like, oh wow you're doing such a good job.

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I'm so glad that you're out here spreading the word of Jesus Christ, preaching the gospel.

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And sometimes a lot of people are like, oh yeah, do you go soul winning too?

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You're like, no I don't do that. That's just not my calling. That's just not my

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personal ministry. And it's like, here's the thing though, is soul winning just an optional ministry?

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Is it just an optional calling just like it would be?

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to do the song ministry or to play the piano or something like that.

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No it's not because that's why I have you there in Matthew, or excuse me, in Mark 16.15

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because I want you to understand that soul winning is not just like a ministry that you

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can partake in if you want to just be feeling a little bit more spiritual.

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This is a commandment from God Almighty himself.

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This is what it says in Mark 16.15, it says, and he said unto them, go ye into all the

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world and preach the gospel to every creature.

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That's not a suggestion, that's not just a recommendation.

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This is a commandment from Jesus Christ.

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And I know I said this before,

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but it illustrates the point so well.

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This is the last commandment that Jesus Christ left us with

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before he left this earth, was to go and preach the gospel.

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But if this is true, then why is it that so many churches

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have little to no focus on solony,

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little to no emphasis on going out and preaching the gospel?

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This obviously must be pretty important

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because it's the last thing that Jesus commanded us to do

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before he left up to heaven.

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And no marvel because we understand

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from the scripture as well that...

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Once Jesus Christ left, he gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

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That's why it's so important, okay?

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Because in...

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Second Corinthians 518 it says this it says and all things are of God are of God who have

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Reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation

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So who is the ministry of reconciliation given unto us us those that are reconciled to Jesus Christ

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It's now their job to go out and reconcile other people to Jesus Christ and the Bible teaches us if our gospel be hid

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It's hid to them or a loss

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When we just sit on the gospel and we don't read people with the gospel, we are not obeying

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this commandment from Jesus Christ here of going into all the world and preaching the

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gospel.

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And how dare we do that as Christians anyway?

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It's like, how dare we have the free gift of salvation and just sit on it and not tell

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other people about how to get to heaven when they die?

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How dare we as Christians when Jesus Christ says, freely you've received, freely give,

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how dare we not freely go out and preach to the gospel people and give them the clear

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message of salvation knowing that this world is so confused?

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knowing that this whole world is dying and going to hell,

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that people are dying in their sins,

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for what reason?

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Because all they need to do is receive this gift

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of salvation that God is freely offering.

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But why is it though that there's so many people that we meet that like they've never even heard about the gospel before it's because

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Christians are not doing their job. That's why it's because Christians are so focused in building some other ministry in their church

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The choir ministry or whatever other ministry, okay

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Which I have nothing against those ministries, but they get so wrapped up in those things that they don't focus on

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What is the biggest ministry for us reaching this world with the gospel?

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Making sure that people don't die

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and go to hell or at least giving them a chance to hear how they could be saved and go to

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heaven when they die.

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And so I'm bringing this up though because I just, people, like I was saying, I detoured off of that,

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but that people will tell us sometimes when we're out door knocking like,

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oh, I'm glad that this, I'm glad this is your calling, but that's not my calling.

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No, no, no, it's everybody's calling.

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If you believe on Jesus Christ this morning, this is your ministry, this is your calling.

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So wanting is not just a gift, it's a commandment from God is what I want you to understand.

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That's what people say, like, that's just not my gift. I'm just not a good public speaker.

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Well, enjoy.

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the club okay not like but but here's the thing like about that as well like

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it's kind of funny but it's true like window camp commandments has become

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optional because we're not good at doing them like if you if you're not a good

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reader that doesn't give you an excuse not to read the Bible if you're bad at

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focusing on God when you're praying that doesn't give you an excuse not to pray

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so likewise if you're not good at speaking to people that does not give

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you an excuse to not go out and preach the gospel to them you got to do it

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anyways it's the same thing with you know the Bible it tells us that we're

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Thanks for watching!

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We're supposed to sing loud and to God our strength.

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We're supposed to make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

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What if you're a bad singer?

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Sing anyways.

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He said a joyful noise, right?

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He didn't say you have to be, you know,

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who's a good singer?

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I want to say Carrie Underwood, okay? I don't even know who that is. I'm not trying to like Mick.

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Like, who's not the worst singer ever? Okay. I don't even, I can't even tell you the song that she sings.

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But anyways, okay? You don't have to be, you know, some, you don't have to be Johnny Cash to sing along with the hymns at church.

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And by the way, can I just tell you that? The Bible tells us that we're supposed to be singing to ourselves in songs, in hymns, in spiritual songs.

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So when we come together and we're singing in the service, you should be singing during the song time.

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Like, I understand there's some things that distract us.

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sometimes but like especially like I mean I'm gonna hyper focus on this

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because I'm also a song leader here but there's nothing more I just didn't say

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nothing more annoying it's just annoying though as a song leader like you'll be

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leading sometimes and you're just singing a solo up here like this isn't

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supposed to be a special that's not what this ministry is it's supposed to be all

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of us singing unto God it's a commandment from God to do these things so

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at least if you're not gonna sing just have the decent music out of the room and not

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have me look at you just staring at me while I'm leading a song service okay

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I'm being harsh but I'm just like, this should just be like common sense that we have.

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That everybody in the room is singing so you should take part in the singing as well.

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Anyways, I'm getting off track though.

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I'm talking about the gospel.

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How do we get to singing?

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I don't know how this happened.

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But, yeah, but I mean, it's true though.

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Like, when we're singing, it is a commandment of God to sing unto Him.

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So when we're coming together, this is good. It's good for people anyways.

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Like, if visitors come to the church and only the song leader is singing,

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that's a terrible look for the church, is what we understand.

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Like, everybody's gonna come in and be like,

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what's up with this church? They're dead. They don't even want to sing to God.

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Like, this is one of the easiest things you can do in the service.

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And the hymns are awesome anyways. Why wouldn't you want to sing the hymns?

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Why wouldn't you want to sing the Psalms? It doesn't make sense.

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It doesn't make sense. So anyway, like...

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Like when you're in the song service, you should be singing the song.

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But coming back to the gospel now, okay?

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This is how we got off on this.

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I was talking about even if you're a bad singer, you're still supposed to sing under God.

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If you are not a very good public speaker, you're still supposed to go out and preach

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the gospel to people.

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It doesn't, it's not just a gift, okay?

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And even if you are bad at it, you're misunderstanding why the gospel is effective.

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The gospel is not effective because I'm super great.

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The gospel is effective because God's gospel is super great, right?

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People get saved not because I'm super awesome, it's because the God that we serve is awesome.

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And His gospel is awesome, and His gospel is powerful.

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The Bible says it's the power of God unto salvation, as a matter of fact.

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So you're misunderstanding. It's not you, it's not by your great work that people...

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are getting saved it's by the power of Jesus Christ that people are getting

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saved. But here's the thing I was talking about people being scared. People just get

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like you know they get nervous because that's the reality. We both say this is

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not my calling what they're really saying is I'm just too scared to preach

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the gospel. That's the reality okay. They're too scared to go and confront

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people with what they believe. But the Bible tells us in 2nd Timothy 1 7 it

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says for God hath not given us the spirit of fear but the but of power and

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of love and a sound mind. Even if you are scared as a Christian you know what you

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need to do sometimes? Bubble down and get

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Learn to stop being scared of man and start fearing God instead.

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Learn to stop being scared of all the possibilities that could happen in this world.

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Like, what if we went to someone's door and they tried to fight us or something like that?

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I've never seen that in all the years that we've been out sewing, okay?

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The worst I've seen is a dog trying to get you, okay?

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That's what the Bible says, but where are dogs though?

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Not really.

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Go to Ephesians 6, verse number 19.

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Ephesians 6, verse number 19.

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Even I cuz that's what I was about. I understand that it's nerve-racking to go and talk to people

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I I literally relate to that because as ironic as it is, I'm not the best at talking with people

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But it's just like you just got to do what you even when you don't want to do something you have to do it as

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A Christian that's what I'm trying to stress to you right now

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That and if you think like you're just waiting for moment to be like I'm just waiting until I'm ready to preach the gospel

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You'll never be ready to preach the gospel.

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There's just some things in life where you have to just step out by faith and just have some boldness and just be like,

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Hey, even if I don't feel ready, I'm just going to rely on the power of God that he's given me all the tools I need to succeed.

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I know the first to show people. So let me just try and preach the gospel to someone.

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What's the worst thing that can happen? You fumble and you have to pass it off to your silent partner.

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That's pretty much the worst thing that can happen. It's really like, but then

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In my experience because I've done that before when I was first so when I've done that before you like you just get lost

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You're just new and you're nervous you pass it off and you learn from it though

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That's the key part of part of learning how to be a solonar is failing as a solonar as well

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Because you only get better by practice

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There's some things in life you only get better by doing them and soul winning is definitely one of them

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Okay, aphesian six verse number 19, but that's about about you're never gonna feel ready

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I think I told you guys that store before but it's pretty funny that like my

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My old pastor, when I first started going to one of those,

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I was like 16 or 17.

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He asked me one day when we were going out and sewing together, he was like,

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Hey, are you ready to preach the gospel now?

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I was like, nah, just give me a couple weeks, okay?

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He's like, oh, okay, okay.

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And then we go to the door and he starts to ask this guy like,

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Hey, do you want to know what the Bible says about going to heaven?

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And the guy was like, yeah, he's just like super low hanging fruit.

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And he was like, well, actually, brother Remy here is learning how to preach the gospel right now.

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Would you mind if he gave you the gospel instead?

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The guy was like, yeah, why not?

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I was like, this caught me completely off guard.

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Okay.

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I won't do that to you if you're my son or partner.

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Nor should anybody else in this room, okay?

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But I tell you that story because here's the thing,

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I was ready to preach the gospel

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because I went through the whole gospel with that guy

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and it wasn't a big deal.

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I mean, I was not the most fluid with my work

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when I was talking to him, but I got the job done.

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Because again, that's what I'm saying.

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It's not us that gets people saved,

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it's the power of the gospel

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that's getting these people saved.

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So rely on God's gospel,

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rely on the sword of the spirit to do it.

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job and you focus on doing your job which is obeying this commandment okay so

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because that's why I have you guys there in Ephesians 6 verse number 19

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my whole point of bringing this up because obviously we're on different levels on the

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soul-wanting pipeline if you will okay

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My goal is not to get you from being someone who's never gone out before to being a talker tomorrow.

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My goal in this sermon is to get you to get to the next step from wherever you're at right now.

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So if you don't go soul hunting at all, then my goal with this sermon would be to encourage you to go out and be a silent partner.

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And if you're a silent partner and you've been a silent partner for a while,

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my goal would be to get you to be someone who speaks at the door for soul hunting.

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And if you're someone that does go out soul hunting consistently,

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my goal would just be to remind you to refine all the different practices.

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that you have while you present the gospel to people, okay?

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Ephesians 6 19, the Bible says,

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and for me that utterance may be given unto me,

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that I may open my mouth boldly

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to make known the mystery of the gospel

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for which I am an ambassador in bonds.

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Look what Paul says here, this is Paul speaking,

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notice this, he says,

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and therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.

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Even the apostle Paul is asking for boldness.

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He's asking people to pray for him.

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to have boldness. So you know what that tells me? It tells me that Paul wasn't always the most

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confident when he was going out and preaching, right? Sometimes he's probably nervous because

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we're all humans, right? We all get nervous. Even if you've been out soul hunting for 10 years,

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for whatever reason, once the blue moon, you'll go to a door and you're just nervous that day,

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for whatever reason it is. And we see here that Paul's asking people, Hey, pray for me so that I

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can speak boldly as I ought to. So this is going to be common to all of us as man, but Paul's

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The excuse wasn't to just not go out sewing then.

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He went and tore up.

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the world for Jesus Christ, right? The goal then, if you are struggling with

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boldness and you are someone who's been a silent partner and you've been out for

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a while, pray to God for some boldness and pray to God for some faith and then

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step out in faith and preach the gospel and take a shot and if you have a person,

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I mean, if you have a person that's a seasoned soul owner next to you while

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you're a silent partner or you're in your kind of transition to being a

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speaker, then what can really go wrong? Nothing can go wrong at that point, okay?

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unless you start just preaching like mad hair.

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but I would hope nobody would do this.

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Go to Titus 3 verse number 9, okay?

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Because the whole point of the sermon is again,

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is avoiding pitfalls.

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And the first pitfall you should avoid

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is the pitfall of not going out,

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souling it all.

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Because the surefire way to not get people saved

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is by not even going and trying in the first place.

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You are guaranteed to get nobody saved

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and to lead nobody to Christ

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and to have nobody believe on Jesus Christ

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if you ref-

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refuse to go out in the first place.

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But here's another thing after like if you do go out and you become a talker, this is

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the advice I give you this probably for more someone who's seasoned is that you shouldn't

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waste your time with foolish questions at the door with people.

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Okay Titus 3 verse 9 it says, but avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions

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and striving about the law for they are unprofitable and vain.

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If someone comes to you right from the beginning while you're out so wanting and starts asking

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all these crazy

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Questions you should just follow what the Bible says here and avoid these questions ignore them

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Just let it be just reject their questions or just pivot to something else that you want to talk to you outright

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I've done this many times

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That's the way people just ask me like 30 questions because like I was telling you earlier

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We're not there to play 30 questions with people or 20 questions

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We're not there to just you know answer all these bizarre questions that people have and I'm talking about bizarre questions

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Not just sincere questions. We're talking about when people are like well

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Tell me why you believe the Bible when it's been translated millions of times and there's millions of mistakes in there.

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It's like, that's not a question, that's an opinion form as a question, right?

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It's just like, it's a statement, they're just trying to stumble you at that point, okay?

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Don't waste your time with people.

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When we're out soul-wanting, the Bible says these questions are unprofitable in vain.

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They're worthless, is what the Bible is teaching us right here.

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And what does it mean to avoid?

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Means?

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You don't have to answer, right? To get away from it is what it's talking about.

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So you should understand, because I think this is what happens to us.

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Is that someone presents us with a question that we can answer,

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and our pride wants to answer the question so that we can kind of dunk on someone,

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or so that we can show them how smart we are and how wrong they are.

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But that's why I was talking about the beginning of the sermon.

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You have to keep in mind the goal while we're out zoning.

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The goal is to preach people the gospel.

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The goal is to get people saved, not to strive about random questions about the law.

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Not to

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Like me and brother Ryan just had that guy that we were just talking to this doing the same thing to us

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Like it's like almost textbook. He's like talking about the King James

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This guy was definitely more interesting for really but he was like, you know, I don't have anything against the King James

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But it's just what he say a debauchery of a translation

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It sounds like you do have something against the King James

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And he was trying to say that King James wrote the Bible the King James Bible so that he could divorce his wife

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And I'm like dude, you're talking about Henry. You're not talking about King James

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He was like all mixed up, okay?

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But he was like,

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the King James doesn't have the most accurate translation.

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And I was like, what is the most accurate translation?

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He was like, I forgot.

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That's literally what the guy told the other guy.

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Are you serious?

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Like the King James is bad,

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but you know what the best one is?

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I'll get back to you on that, okay? I'll tell you later.

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He clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, right?

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And yes, that guy wasn't just trying to be super crazy.

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I mean, he was kind of being...

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He was just a talker is what he was. He was a yapper is what he was, okay?

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But once we got into that part, I just realized it's not going to be profitable

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and I just tried to get away from him as fast as I could.

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And I probably stayed with the guy longer than I should have anyways

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just because he had some crazy off-the-wall stuff.

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Sometimes, see, that's another thing. It pulls you in.

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You're like... It's so crazy that you can't help but watch sometimes.

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But you got to...

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remember the goal, okay? Like, hey, we were in Tri-Cities trying to preach the gospel

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and they have a little bit of limited amount of time, so we got to make sure that we spend

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that time wisely, okay? So a way to do that is avoid foolish questions. Avoid questions

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that are meant to trap you. Not sincere questions, but foolish questions. But even with a sincere

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question, if someone's asking just too many questions while we're trying to preach the

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gospel, I usually try to tell people, hey...

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Can we just like save these until afterwards and then I'll answer any question that you have to present to me, okay?

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There can be situations where it'll be a complete stumbling block to them if you don't answer their questions

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So you have to have some discretion while you're out soul-warning

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Some, or just some discernment is what I'd say while you're out soul-warning

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But for the most part if someone's just like, you know, asking about tongues, asking about this, asking about, you know, what we believe about

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Uh, what did he say about, what did he say? Women's pastors? Is that what that guy asked us at the door?

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I think so.

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Yeah, it was just like random stuff.

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And I was like, hey, we can, I didn't tell this to him

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because I wasn't trying to spend any more time with him

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than I had to, but it's just like,

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from a person that was sincere, I would just say,

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hey, can we just save these until after

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we're done presenting the gospel, okay?

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The second thing I want to bring up in this sermon,

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go to Titus, oh, you guys are right there,

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Titus 3 verse number 10, it's the very next verse, okay?

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Is that we should also reject heretics while we're out so wanting this is a good way to not waste our time

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Because this is the pitfall

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I don't know if I said this to you guys but the pitfall here is the pitfall of time wasters while you're out

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So we need to avoid these things

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Okay by rejecting foolish questions by avoiding foolish questions not worrying about winning a debate with someone but worrying about preaching the gospel

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But we should also just reject heretics what the Bible tells us it says a man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition

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Reject so what the Bible is teaching us?

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here is that if we go to someone's door and they just tell us straight up like

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you know what I'm like well I'm a cradle Catholic I'm gonna be Catholic till I

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die okay well then I'm gonna give him two shots to hear the gospel and then

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after that I'm leaving the door because what is the prophet at that point what

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is the prophet in sitting there and going circles with someone who the Bible

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says in verse number 11 knowing that he is subverted and sinned and condemned

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himself what's the point of going circles with someone like that

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It just becomes a pride thing at that point.

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Listen, this isn't like a change my mind.

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This isn't like a Steven Crowder debate that we're having when we're out door to door.

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We're saying, hey, you can change your mind or we're going to find someone that is interested

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in changing their mind.

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That's the reality of what we're outsolding.

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Because we know that the gospel that we preach is right.

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I'm not interested in hearing about the Catholic Church.

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I'm not interested in hearing about Calvinism.

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I'm not interested in hearing about Muslims or the Buddhists or anything like that.

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I'm interested in preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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And if they're all not interested, then I'm not interested in talking with them.

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reality. Where you guys at? You guys are in Titus 3 10. Okay, go to Acts 23 verse number

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six, Acts 23.

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Verse number six, what a mindset that we need to have when we're out so wanting is that people want to waste our time

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Whether they're out of a good heart or whether it's just spiritual warfare the devil setting up people to distract us

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People want to steal your time and you need to realize your goal is to reach the entire neighborhood with the gospel of Christ

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Or at least give them the opportunity to do it to hear the gospel of Christ. Okay

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Another thing I would bring up about this is that you should not allow people to dominate the country

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when you're out so this is a huge thing and again I was falling victim a little

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bit to this yesterday so don't do what I say not what I do okay but usually I

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wouldn't that I was telling you this guy was bringing up some crazy stuff it

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caught my attention okay this happens once a while people like because the

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people that are just like die-hards but they don't know what they're talking

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about it's not really interesting but like when someone comes up with some

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crazy stuff like that one girl that we met that was like I'm the reincarnated

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Mary Magdalene and and she was like and like we're in the body of God literally

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bro, like literally. It's so crazy, but you're like, this is kind of interesting.

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The time for, you know, interesting things is not when we're out so, okay. So, but, but this guy,

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he was just ramming around the conversation. Me and my brother Emerson were just out with that

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Catholic girl that was doing the same thing. Immediately when I got the door, she just cuts

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me off and just starts, you know, proclaiming how great the Catholic church is. In a situation like

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that, find the first opportunity that you can and cut it off and just leave the door. That's the best

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practice.

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Because it's not going to be profitable if someone won't even let you get a word in wires when you're supposed to be preaching to them

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They're not gonna get saved at that point obviously so just keep on keep on moving on you don't have to be rude

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I mean it like because I even that guy when I cut that guy yesterday. I was just kind of like hey

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This is really cool, but we're from Spokane and we're trying to reach this whole apartment complex with the gospel.

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And, you know, so I can't just take up too much time here.

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He didn't throw a fit about it. He seemed like he was pretty good-spirited about it.

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So you should just learn, is what I'm trying to say, to find a way to cut a conversation off without just being super rude and offending them.

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Have a balance as a Christian, okay?

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A couple other things before we get to the verse itself.

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Is that you should also when you're out so wanting ask someone to hear the gospel ask them to ask to preach them the Gospels

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What I would say because there's a lot of people

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And in my past is what I'm gonna say the past that I've been with we're like

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The the idea that the pastor thought was really good was to just put your foot in the door and just he was like

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They don't know that they need to be saved

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You just need to start preaching to the gospel right from the get-go

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So he would just put his foot in the door and just immediately start just going through the gospel with people

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This is a waste of time though. That's why

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under this branch, it's a waste of time

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because there's gonna be some people

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that just tell you to get the heck outta there

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when you try to do that,

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because they're not gonna put up with that.

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But then you're also gonna find people

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that are too nice to tell you to leave,

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but they're not interested at all.

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So they're just gonna sit there and let their eyes gloss over

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and just let you go through the gospel

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and just kinda be like, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh,

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just trying to get you out of the door as fast as possible.

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So out-soul-wanting, you should ask someone

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to preach them the gospel.

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Be like, hey, can I preach the gospel?

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Just because it'll...

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filter out these time wasters, what I'm trying to tell you.

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Also, when it comes to our presentation,

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that's another kind of random thing to this,

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but we should try to trim the filler

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out of our presentations as much as possible.

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Which is to say that there's some things

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that are really cool to talk about surrounding the gospel

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that's not the gospel itself,

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but unless you're talking to someone who's just like,

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super chill and has all the time in the world,

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because sometimes you meet these people.

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Sometimes you meet these people that just want,

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they're like a sponge and they want to hear

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everything you have to say.

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When you do that, hey, you...

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bring out the big old fancy gospel if you want to. But you also need to realize that there's going to be people that might want to hear the gospel but they only really have 15 minutes.

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Or they really only have 20 minutes or they only have 10 minutes. So you've got to be able to adapt in that situation. That again comes with time and having discernment and looking at these things.

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But like bringing up, you don't have to go back to Genesis and representation. That's what I'm saying. We're going to start at the beginning. In the beginning. God created that.

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We're talking about the gospel, okay? That's what we should be focused on.

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The only thing that we should focus on when we're preaching the gospel is not beating a dead horse as well.

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When someone gets a point, move on from the point.

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Like I was, I brought up Romans 3.23 last time.

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This is a great example of that though, that it usually does not take a lot to convince people that they're a sinner.

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So when they get it...

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move on from that, okay?

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And move on and don't just waste your time

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because what ends up happening sometimes is like I just said,

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someone will really only have 20 minutes

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and they have to leave to work

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and because you spent 10 minutes talking about

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them being a sinner even though they already knew

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that they were a sinner,

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they don't get to hear the rest of the gospel presentation, right?

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So just have a balance, like make sure that like

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when someone tells you, hey I get it

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and you actually think that they get it,

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move on to the next point.

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There's no reason to beat a dead horse

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while you're out someone.

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Like you don't have to be like, let me show you.

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you this in the Old Testament where Solomon says we've all sinned. Let me show you Romans

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3 10. Let me show you Romans 3 23. The Bible says that we're all liars, you know, that

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we're all wicked. Let me go to Romans 3 1 and show you. There's none that doeth good.

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It's like, hey, one of these things are going to suffice. And just keep moving at that point,

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okay? Lastly, okay, as far as this before we move on to the next kind of pitfall is

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**

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is that when we're out preaching the gospel,

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there will be people sometimes

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that you can just tell are really lonely

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and they want to just sit there and talk with you,

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but they don't want to actually hear the gospel.

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It kind of makes me sad with these kind of people

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because I feel bad that sometimes only people

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when we're probably the only interaction

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that they've had in a long time,

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you can just tell by the way that they just,

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they don't want to talk about anything,

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but it sucks that they don't,

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they want to hear about anything except for the gospel.

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This is what's unfortunate.

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Sometimes there'll be people and they're like,

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you know, my great grandson was in the military.

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and his cat died and his wife cried about that and it was terrible.

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How do we get here from the gospel?

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So for these people, what I want to bring this up is that you should find a way to nicely detach away from those people as well.

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Not just be super rude about it, but just like, again, we're not there to hear about someone's great-great-grandson

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and the military and all their achievements or anything like that.

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We are there to talk about the gospel.

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So with these kinds of people, I'll just give them an ultimatum.

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I'd love to talk to you about this stuff afterwards, but you know...

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Right now we're trying to figure out if people don't want to hear the gospel. Would you like to hear it?

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And if they don't want to hear it, then I'm gonna leave at that point.

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Obviously, I'll probably be a little bit less blunt than that, but it suffices for the sermon, okay?

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So point three about this sermon. So the first pitfall is avoiding foolish questions. The second pitfall...

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The first pitfall was not going at all.

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The second pitfall was wasting time.

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Just find, like, avoid people that are trying to steal your time out of someone.

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Whether it's for a debate, whether it's for, you know, whatever.

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Just don't allow people to steal your time.

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Your time is precious that we have out of someone.

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We go out for like an hour, an hour and a half.

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So you should just, this is how you really should think about it.

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When I'm wasting my time with a heretic for 30 minutes,

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I'm wasting 30 minutes of not reaching other people with the gospel.

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That's the mindset you need to have while you're out sewing.

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But then point number three is that we should avoid going into presentations blind.

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Okay, that's why you guys are there in Acts 23 verse number six.

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It says,

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But when Paul perceived that one part was Sadducees and the other Pharisees,

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he cried out in the council,

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Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee,

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the son of a Pharisee,

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of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called.

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question and when he had so said there arose a dissension between the Pharisees

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and the Sadducees and a multitude was divided for the Sadducees say that

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there's no resurrection neither angel nor spirit but the Pharisees confess

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both so obviously if you know the story here you'll know that Paul's basically

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like in a trial and he perceives that the half of the people are the Pharisees

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have the people are the Sadducees and the Sadducees for whatever silly reason

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do not believe that the resurrection is real like why believe anything then at

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that point it doesn't make sense

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But he perceives this so he's like hey I stand in hope of the resurrection of the dead right and then he causes him to fight

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What I'm gonna extrapolate from that is this is that it's very it's very good for you as a Christian or as a soul winner

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To when you're speaking with someone

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Don't just treat every person the same find out what the person believes that you're speaking with okay to use it to your advantage

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That's the that's the principle trying to apply to the story

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Because that speaking like it's kind of attached to the time-wasting thing too if I go to someone's door

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One of the first one of the first question when asked them is like what kind of church do you go to or did you go?

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to church growing up and that will tell me if they know the Bible or not and

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What they believe about the Bible or in what they don't believe about the Bible so if I find someone that says that oh

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I was a Catholic, but we didn't really go to church.

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I'm gonna assume that they probably understand the Trinity,

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so I'm not gonna deep dive on the Trinity.

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But then I'm not gonna just,

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and I'm gonna just focus on a faith-based salvation.

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Because the Catholics, their big thing is the works, right?

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And explaining how baptism doesn't save you,

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and how the Eucharist doesn't save you,

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and all these things.

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I'm gonna focus on that with that person.

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But if I find someone who's a former Jehovah's Witness.

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I'm gonna kind of flip-flop what I do or except besides the faith that that would be the same thing

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but as far as the Trinity goes I'm gonna make sure that I nail the Trinity because

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they don't believe that Jesus Christ is God and that is a

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Requirement for salvation and understanding that the Holy Spirit is not just a force. He's the third member of the Godhead. Okay

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These three are what the Bible says.

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I'm bringing that up to say that when you are asking people questions out the door,

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some of these questions should be what church you go to and what do you believe about the Bible.

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Because it helps you to be able to plan your presentation accordingly.

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Because you don't want to spend 20 minutes on the Trinity with a Catholic that already knows the Trinity.

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And you don't want to avoid talking about the Trinity with a former Jehovah's Witness that might not catch

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that you're teaching that Jesus Christ is God. You guys understand what I'm saying?

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So that's the wisdom I'm trying to pull from the Bible.

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this passage right here. Same thing with like if someone tells me like I know who Jesus

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is but I don't really know much about Jesus, I've never really been to church, then I'm

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going to switch my presentation up and I'm going to make sure that I'm really thorough

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to the best of my ability and focus on things that sometimes I would think that people would

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just take for granted. Like the fact that he was born of the Virgin Mary, like the fact

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that he was sinless, like the fact that he you know willingly went to the cross, you

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know all these things I'm going to just, the minor things that maybe I would like to

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like if I perceive someone understands, I'm not gonna like spend a lot of time on, I'm

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gonna slow down and make sure that they understand what I'm saying, okay?

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So this is just having, you know, relative wisdom when you're outselling.

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So that's why I'm using that story to teach that because, because Paul understands the

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differences in the beliefs between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he's able to use it to

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his advantage.

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Go to Matthew 10 verse number 16 if you would.

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Matthew 10 verse number 16.

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So we're talking about the pitfall of not going out so wanting, the pitfall of time wasters,

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the pitfall of going into a presentation blind. You should not only ask these questions to get

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a gauge of where they're at and their understanding, but also just, you know, um,

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It's good for you to understand maybe some of the different nuances that might have about different like terminology because that's what I was gonna say about the person who doesn't

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Um, who didn't grow up in church when it comes to church language or terminology

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I'm gonna focus on explaining those things more than them with someone else who was like I've been in church my whole life

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But that they think it's works based salvation

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Matthew 10 verse number 16 the fourth pitfall we want to evolve or that we want to be careful of is that we need to be

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wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Okay. Matthew 10 verse number 16, it says,

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behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, uh,

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be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as does.

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So obviously this is the two parts of this verse breaks into being wise as a

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serpent. And in this context, he is primarily talking about safety.

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That's why he says the sheep in the midst of wolves, right?

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So the first thing that we should apply from this is that when we're out

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sowning, when we send someone out two by two, or when we

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We send them out in a group of three when we have an odd number, stay in that group.

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I think I talked about that a little bit so I'm not going to go too far on that but it

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is just important especially when you're new because when you're new you get like really

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excited and you're like, let's just reach everybody so you're going to leave your partner.

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I've done that before but then it's like you're leaving your partner hanging though and it's

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not safe.

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That's why Jesus' example is to send these people out, the disciples out two by two,

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right?

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This is an example that we're following from Jesus Christ himself that he's sending them

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out two by two.

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So this is what we should do as well.

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takes, what is it, the 70 I think is what it says,

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and he sends them out two by two, yeah?

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Yeah.

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So we should make sure this,

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because even if we think like,

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oh nothing's gonna happen,

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how bad would you feel something did happen?

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You know, it would be really bad if you weren't there

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and something bad happened.

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Also, this is just like,

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this is gonna lead into point two of this,

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but you should just be aware of your surroundings

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in general while you're out soaring.

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You know, if the sign does say,

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beware of dog, you should probably beware of the dog,

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okay, right?

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Don't just go in there, maybe find out what dog,

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because sometimes it's fake news.

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on the sign and they just have it there just to scare people away but sometimes they got

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you know Kujo back there waiting to to bite your arm okay and it's it's just like

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Like, there's ways to, you know, because obviously you're gonna have a like a

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discernment while you're out there, but like a lot of times you can just shake the fence

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and see if the dog's gonna come out or whatever like that, but just be aware is

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what I want you to understand. Same thing as if we're in a sketchy

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neighborhood, be more aware. If you're on a really busy road when you're walking

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with your kids, definitely be aware because you know, working in traffic I

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know that people drive insane here. They drive insane anywhere, but like you know

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if we're on Francis or hopefully we wouldn't be with the kids on Francis, okay?

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Whatever.

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But like if we're on a busy street like this and we have to walk through it to get to the next place

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Be mindful of your kids and just be mindful of other people's kids if they're distracted

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That's what I say as well

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If your partner that's another reason why you shouldn't leave is that if your partner has kids and they're preaching the gospel

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You should try to watch their kids at that point and make sure that they're not you know

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Cause they're ruckus and and that you're making sure that they're safe as well

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The third thing about being harmless. Okay, is that our about being wise is what we're talking about is that?

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You shouldn't antagonize people while you're out soul-warning.

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And I did a big sermon on that about this guy that got shot because he wanted to.

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I mean, it didn't really say that he antagonized them, but I can only assume that these things

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are happening because this is just kind of natural for us as humans. When someone

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says something snarky to us, we want to say something snarky back to them.

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As a soul-winder though, this should never be what we devolve down into

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because we're not supposed to render evil for evil is what the Bible says.

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We're not supposed to give railing for

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railing, we're supposed to turn the other cheek, right?

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Especially out-souling of all places.

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But don't attack nice people because it is insane.

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It's not just that one story I told you.

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It's also, you know, I was just watching a prank video

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on YouTube, it just popped into my feet, okay?

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Not that I was seeking out a prank video, okay?

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But like it popped into my feet and this guy was just like

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bumping into people and he'd be like,

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whoa, what's your problem?

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And he's like, he purposely bumped into them

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just to try to like, you know, tick them off.

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This one guy he bumped into, he's like, what's your problem?

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The guy just went and reached for his gun

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like right away in the video.

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It's like how insane is that that he's willing to end someone's life because he bumped into him. That's insane

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But that's my whole point is like we don't know who we're dealing with we're going out into these neighborhoods

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So just be extra cautious with how you deal with people

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I mean obviously we were gonna trust that God protects us

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But you shouldn't be doing things that are unwise that would put you in a bad situation

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You also shouldn't be tempting the Lord your God right is what he also tells us

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And in Proverbs 22 verse number three, you don't have to go there because listen, you go to 1 Samuel 2 verse 16, okay?

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But Proverbs 22 verse 3 it says,

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A prudent man foreseeeth the evil and hath hath himself but the simple pass on and are punished.

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So when we see these kind of pitfalls in our way, we should try to make sure that we don't, you know, fall into them.

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Because it says that a wise man foreseeeth the, a prudent man foreseeeth the evil and hath himself, right?

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So we should keep that in mind.

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But then part two of that verse obviously was being harmless as doves and we should just realize that when we're out soulening

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We represent jesus christ. We represent the lord jesus christ. We represent this church

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We represent baptists as a whole when we're out soulening

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So don't go out and make a bad name for jesus christ and don't go out

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And cause damage to the name of jesus christ is what I want you to understand

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Okay, and like I just said the rendering evil for evil is part of that

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but just in any way shape or form like when you're disagreeing with someone you should

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just learn also to find a way to disagree without just leaving a bad taste in your mouth.

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Like I don't understand this with people like sometimes if someone disagrees they just want

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to stomp away just be all upset.

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It's like why our whole goal is to get people saved so they don't want to hear it.

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I mean obviously there's some things that people can do that can frustrate you but it's

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like for the most part if someone's just like hey I don't agree or if they're just like

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hey I don't have time for this right now.

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Our reaction should not be to throw a baby fit tantrum when we walk away from the door.

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It's so cringy when people do that and I have...

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been with people in my life that do that.

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And it just shows me that they're not going out

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soul-wanting in charity.

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They're just going out soul-wanting

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because they want some glory.

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They wanna boast about themselves, that's why.

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Because if your reaction, or if your heart for soul-wanting

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is that you want people to get saved,

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it should make you upset, it should make you sad

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when they don't get saved, when they don't hear the gospel.

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It breaks my heart when people like,

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sometimes there's people that are just so rooted

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in their corrupt religion, they just will not hear

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at that point.

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Sucks when that happens.

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My reaction isn't just the throw of.

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it though and be like, you're not gonna hear the gospel, fine then. Just walk away from

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the door. I see people not even say goodbye, just so they don't want to hear it, turn around

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and walk away. That's embarrassing, man. Don't be representing Shirt Foundation Baptist Church

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doing crap like that.

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First Corinthians.

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to verse number 16.

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This is another pivots we should avoid.

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We should avoid turning people off to the gospel

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before we even preach the gospel to them, okay?

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First Samuel 2, 16 it says,

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and if any man said to him,

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let them not fail to burn the fat presently

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and then take as much as thy soul desireth,

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then he would answer him,

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nay, but thou shalt give me it now,

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and if not, I will take it by force.

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Wherefore the sin of the young men

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was very great before the Lord,

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for men abhorred the offering of.

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Lord. And again, this isn't going to be a one for one for us.

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As you can probably tell.

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Okay. But the principle I think that we should grab from this is that when we're doing the

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Lord's work, again, we represent the Lord Jesus Christ. Right?

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So if these men are, you know, representing God in this story, Eli's sons is who this

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is talking about, Haphne and Phineas.

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If they're representing God and they're causing people to abhor the sacrifices of God by their

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terrible behavior, we should understand that we can do the same thing.

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We're out.

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So many.

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We could cause people to hate soul-warning and hate people going door-to-door.

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And the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses already give us a bad name anyway, so we're already at a disadvantage.

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But as a Baptist, like, we need to get, like, the reputation that when we go out, we're gonna try to preach them the gospel,

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and if they don't want to hear it, we're gonna go away from them and just leave them alone, right?

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The Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses try to linger with people,

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or they try to just, you know, tell them whatever's gonna tickle their ear at the door.

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So they already give us a bad reputation.

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So when we go out...

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zoning we need to try to give a good name for Baptist because when we go to

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the door unfortunately a lot of times it's just like oh I thought you were

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Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon it's like oh I'm sorry to hear that okay do I do I

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look silly to you okay no okay I've never changed my face what's going on

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okay go to 1st Corinthians 13 verse number 2 1st Corinthians 13 verse number

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2

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is where you guys are because we're talking about, you know, not making people of horror

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the work of the Lord because this is what Eli's sons caused people to do. They he caused they

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caused them to hate the sacrifice of God because of how wicked they were being and out-souling.

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If we just act like a jerk the whole time, we're going to cause people to hate the the Lord's work

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of souling the Lord's work of going out and preaching the gospel. Like we understand we are

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uninvited guests when we go to someone's door. They weren't expecting.

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They weren't expecting someone to just bring up the fact that they're going to heaven or not when they die.

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Sometimes it catches people off guard.

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Or sometimes they really do have something going on.

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Obviously, we know that the Bible is the most important thing.

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So we're thinking, no matter what you're doing, it's not as important as going to heaven.

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But they don't think like that because they're carnal, right?

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So we need to go to the door with this understanding.

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Because in 1 Corinthians 13, 2 it says,

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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,

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in all knowledge and though I have all face

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that I can remove my mouth.

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and I have not charity, I am nothing.

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And what does he say?

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That charity suffer long and that it's kind, right?

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It's kind.

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We're supposed to be kind to people when we're out so wanting.

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And again, we're supposed to be kind all the time,

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but certainly, if you're gonna not be kind anywhere

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and then be kind somewhere else,

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be kind when you're representing Jesus Christ.

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When you're handing out a flyer

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that is preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, right?

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That's the time to reel it in the most as a Christian

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and make sure that you're.

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Thanks for watching!

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properly being an ambassador for Christ, right?

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So don't be a jerk to people,

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and if someone doesn't wanna hear,

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just cut your losses and call it a day, okay?

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And like I said, learn to disagree with someone

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or to tell someone that they're wrong even

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without being a jerk to them.

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You know that's possible as well?

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Like, if you're talking to a Catholic,

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and I keep using the Catholic because they're just super easy,

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but it's like, if I'm talking to a Catholic

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and they're just like, oh yeah, we love Pope Francis,

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it's gonna be like, they're gonna be like,

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yeah, well, we don't believe that the Pope

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was a local from the Bible, okay?

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That's a fair way, but I can also be like,

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You know, the Bible's referring to him as like, you know, the mother of harlots at the end times of the revolution, right?

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Or something like that. Like, you know, this is not the way to handle these things, you know?

01:08:12.200 --> 01:08:15.200
Like, that's what I'm trying to say though, like, it's like, you can find a way to tell someone,

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hey, you're wrong about this without just coming off as a huge jerk.

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That's what I'm trying to stress right now, okay?

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That's a silly example, but that's just true.

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You can be like, hey, the Bible teaches that if you believe this, you're gonna go to hell when you die.

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That's just a hard reality. That's kind though. I mean, it's true.

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But you could also be like, you're going to hell when you die, buddy. Have a good day.

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and just turn around and leave.

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You see the difference in these things?

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We should be aware of this as a soul winner, okay?

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And obviously some of these things are common sense,

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but what I've learned going out soul-wanting people though

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is that sometimes people just don't have common sense.

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I mean, it's just terrible.

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Just like, I'm like, this should just be kind of like,

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you know, a standard practice.

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And I'm not talking about all these things,

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I'm just talking about like,

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just being a decent Christian while you're out soul-wanting

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should be the most obvious thing in the world.

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It should be.

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Like not acting like a jerk,

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not bringing a bad name for the name of Christ

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while you're...

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out soul winning this should just be the basics I shouldn't even have to tell you that while

01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:08.280
you're out soul winning so but again I'm not all these examples but there's been quite

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a few that are like real examples it's shameful that's true okay um the second thing I want

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to bring up though from these verses I talk about um

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you know, not turning people off of the gospel,

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or even start to preach the gospel,

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is that you shouldn't allow silly things

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to prevent people from hearing the gospel.

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And what I mean by that is that like,

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there's like just little norms that we do in America

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that are just not in the Bible,

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but they're just kind of expected

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because we're Americans, right?

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Like in America, you don't just walk through someone's grass

01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:37.680
to get to the door, you go around,

01:09:37.680 --> 01:09:40.240
because people worship their grass in America, okay?

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They like spend all this time

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to make the most pristine garden.

01:09:43.440 --> 01:09:44.320
I just couldn't care less.

01:09:44.400 --> 01:09:47.000
But in America, that's how some people are.

01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:49.840
They're just like, gotta make sure it's like, you know,

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no more than one inch.

01:09:51.120 --> 01:09:51.960
I don't even know the length of it.

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What is it supposed to be, okay?

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We need Brother Kyle, he probably know, okay?

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But, but like, this is not what we do in America, okay?

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Or just leaving someone's gate open.

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Like, however you found the gate,

01:10:03.140 --> 01:10:05.600
leave it the same way it was when you first got there, right?

01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:08.000
Or just like, don't knock like you're the police, right?

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Don't just be like.

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Sure Foundation Baptist Church open up!

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It's like, scare people like, what in the world is going on?

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It's like you could knock and I don't know people sometimes people knock twice

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I don't always do that but like just have you know some discernment. Okay. Also just like if they have a sign on their door

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It's like night worker, you know, please don't knock maybe don't knock on the door. Okay, you're like no you need to hear the gospel

01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:36.880
Okay, you got to find them on the night shift then okay, just just ignoring their sign. This is not it's that's not wise

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Okay, it's just not a good look for for us as Christians

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Also, just some other things like don't be touching people's stuff. Don't let your kids touch other people's stuff. Don't

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be sitting in people's outdoor furniture without their permission, okay?

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It's just like, you know, some of these things we do gotta touch on.

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Sometimes kids do crazy stuff, but I'm not saying like you're...

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Kids will do things that are silly sometimes, but as a parent just correct them when they're

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doing things that are silly, yeah?

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That's all you can do.

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Smile when you're at the door with people.

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Don't just come on there with your mean mug on there, okay?

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Like, hi!

01:11:07.280 --> 01:11:08.280
Okay?

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Not too much though, the Mormon Kool-Aid smile is too much, okay?

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because people keep telling you.

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fake right that's why it's important when you go out so when you actually have

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charity in your heart because people can tell when you're there just to fulfill

01:11:19.040 --> 01:11:21.740
the role or when you're there because you love them and you want them to hear

01:11:21.740 --> 01:11:25.340
the gospel and people can tell by the way you talk to them these two different

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spirits so make sure that when you're going you are going out and love we

01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:32.080
should be how can how can we receive the free gifts of salvation and then not be

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patient and kind with people who haven't received it yet

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first Corinthians 9 verse number 20 is that where have you guys that I don't

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know if I heard you from there but go there if you would okay

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We're getting to the very end of this sermon, okay?

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And no exaggeration, we have one page left, okay?

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So we're on good pace.

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First Corinthians 9 verse number 20.

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it says, and unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews, to them that are under the law,

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as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law, to them that are without law, as without law,

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being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without the law, or without law,

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to the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak, I made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

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So this is what I was using with all these principles, you know, some of these customs in America that we do,

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we do my.

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not have a bible verse behind it but just realize as the Americans I mean you

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aren't American maybe okay as an American though deal or when you're

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dealing with Americans follow the American customs right follow the things

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that aren't gonna offend people but when you find people that are of different

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you know religion or a different culture you should try to respect their customs

01:12:36.240 --> 01:12:40.680
as well okay it is just um good things because because this is what people get

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wrapped up as an answer like that's so stupid why would they care about it but

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it's like if it's so silly and so minute though then why don't you just follow it

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So that it's not something that hinders them from hearing the gospel, right?

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How dumb would it be to like basically sour someone to the gospel because you didn't want to just go around their grass

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You had to just cut through it for no reason, right?

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It just be silly, right? Where you just like go on there banging on their door like you're trying to beat it down

01:13:01.500 --> 01:13:03.780
Okay, then they're gonna come to the door ticked off

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Which I've had that before and that's not that your fault because in Sacramento especially they have those stupid screen doors

01:13:09.580 --> 01:13:13.380
They're like the metal and you have like there's no way you kind of like just when you hit it

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it just sounds like

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Like you're just trying to batter and ram the door down.

01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:18.080
I mean, you can't always do something about that, right?

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But like, just, we should learn that like,

01:13:20.920 --> 01:13:23.260
we shouldn't try to be doing things that tick people off,

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okay?

01:13:24.100 --> 01:13:25.680
Or some things that we even think are small

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that would prevent them from hearing the gospel, okay?

01:13:27.640 --> 01:13:29.880
So lastly in this sermon, okay, go to Proverbs 11.30,

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it's the last place you're turning to, okay?

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Proverbs 11, verse number 30.

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We've been talking about a lot of pitfalls so far.

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And the last couple I want to talk about,

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and I don't even know if I'd say these people,

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I would just say that these are kind of just,

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like not just like, not just like, not just like,

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but just extra curriculum to this, okay?

01:13:47.260 --> 01:13:48.940
They're kind of a separate thing,

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but I brought these up last week,

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so I'm not gonna go really far into this,

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but I just want to say two things

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that I think are very important, okay?

01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:57.620
The first one is, is that when you're out sewing,

01:13:57.620 --> 01:14:00.740
you should not be a robot when you're out the door, okay?

01:14:00.740 --> 01:14:03.260
Like, okay, but I would caveat this immediately

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and just say, when you're new,

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you're gonna be kind of a robot,

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because you're

01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:09.600
new right you're just gonna be reading the verses this is understandable okay

01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:12.320
someone's gonna understand that you're new to it I'm sure but I'm about like

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when you're like

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Get a little bit of you know experience out of you should work on trying to not feel like you're just you know going off

01:14:19.120 --> 01:14:21.360
Of a script, but you're actually trying to have a conversation with someone

01:14:21.360 --> 01:14:25.420
You're trying to actually preach with someone and that they can understand that you're not just like an a bot

01:14:25.420 --> 01:14:28.940
I AI bot that's programmed to preach the gospel right this should be like oh, this is a real person right?

01:14:28.940 --> 01:14:32.760
This is a living soul that I'm speaking with okay, because sometimes like I was you that example last week

01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:36.740
But I think it's the best one to be like do you know for sure if you'd or the blue be like you know

01:14:36.740 --> 01:14:40.640
Do you do you go to church? Yeah? Do you go to church at all? Do you believe in God? No? I'm an atheist

01:14:41.800 --> 01:14:43.800
Do you know for sure if you die today you go to heaven?

01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:46.800
It's like, it's just like robotic, it's like singing in the script, it's like,

01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:48.800
I just told you that I'm an atheist, right?

01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:53.800
This is like, you gotta learn to like not just follow a script too hard, okay?

01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:56.800
And again, that just comes with experience, so if you're new to that,

01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:58.800
don't even worry about that from the get go.

01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:01.800
Worry about just getting the verses memorized and knowing where to flip to, okay?

01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:03.800
Knowing the arguments to deal with.

01:15:03.800 --> 01:15:06.800
But I'm just talking about like if you're a veteran soul winner, okay?

01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:09.800
If you're a veteran, thank you for your service, okay?

01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:15.020
If you're a veteran, just make sure that some of these more advanced things that you're

01:15:15.020 --> 01:15:17.000
actually applying to your presentation, right?

01:15:17.500 --> 01:15:23.360
Also, I would say again, this is the last thing I learned on is that you should ask open-ended questions when you're not so wanting

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It is probably like as far as the non like Bible stuff goes

01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:31.080
It's probably the most important thing that you could do when you're not so wanting because again

01:15:31.480 --> 01:15:34.760
people will string you along and they'll just kind of just

01:15:35.280 --> 01:15:39.480
They know they know the game because again it comes to like our culture like we're too nice to tell people to leave

01:15:39.480 --> 01:15:42.840
We're passive aggressive. So what they do is they just realize they don't want to tell you to leave

01:15:42.840 --> 01:15:45.500
so they're just gonna pay attention to the answers that you're giving them and

01:15:45.500 --> 01:15:49.020
And it'll just regurgitate them out real quick so that you'll leave as fast as possible.

01:15:49.020 --> 01:15:50.020
That happens.

01:15:50.020 --> 01:15:54.940
That's why you need to make sure that you're not just be like, so does a person need to

01:15:54.940 --> 01:15:56.620
believe on Jesus Christ to be saved?

01:15:56.620 --> 01:15:57.620
Yes.

01:15:57.620 --> 01:15:58.620
Okay.

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Next point, right?

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It's be like, what does someone have to do according to what I showed you for the Bible

01:16:02.180 --> 01:16:03.580
to be saved?

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That's the open ended questions I'm talking about.

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Not just like feeding them all the answers because it'll look like you're doing good

01:16:11.800 --> 01:16:13.500
on the surface but then the

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And they'll just be like, you'll catch them in like a different...

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Sometimes you'll just ask something in a slightly different way and it just completely throws

01:16:19.260 --> 01:16:20.260
them off.

01:16:20.260 --> 01:16:21.260
You're like, oh, they weren't actually paying attention.

01:16:21.260 --> 01:16:25.380
They were just trying to regurgitate back what I said to them so they could get me the

01:16:25.380 --> 01:16:26.380
heck out of here, right?

01:16:26.380 --> 01:16:29.860
And again, that comes with the sermon and time and realizing when people are just confused

01:16:29.860 --> 01:16:33.260
because you're not explaining something properly or if they're just trying to yes you to death

01:16:33.260 --> 01:16:35.020
so that you get out of there.

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But as a Christian, a great filter for that, as a soul-winter's lesson says, a great filter

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for that is keeping these open-ended questions.

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You know like in the beginning I said that we've all done something that's bad like what does that call or something like that not be like

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The Bible says that we are all sinners. Do you agree with that or something like that?

01:16:52.200 --> 01:16:54.440
I don't know. That's not a perfect example. Just something along those lines.

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You guys know what I'm saying? Like just like finding a way to make sure that someone's paying attention.

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Because the thing is we don't want to just lead someone through a little quick presentation so we can add a number.

01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.640
That is... we lost the whole plot if that's our point where as a church, right?

01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:16.040
We want the numbers to kind of encourage us and to, you know, show that the work that we're putting in week in and week out is effective, right?

01:17:16.040 --> 01:17:16.600
That we're making a difference.

01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:21.280
in this world but we don't want to be lying about things or just like leading people along

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so that we can get some glory in a group chat right?

01:17:23.640 --> 01:17:26.920
We need to make sure that we're thorough with our gospel presentation and that we're not

01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:30.720
just stringing people along and just praying because we know we can get them to pray.

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It's not a good thing.

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We want people to believe in Jesus Christ.

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That's why this is the main focus in our church.

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That's why I have you there in Proverbs 11 30 because it says, the fruit of the righteous

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is the tree of life and he that win his souls is wise.

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wise if you win souls what the Bible says.

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And if this is something that you aren't doing as a Christian to kind of recap the sermon.

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You're not obeying the Bible. As a Christian, we are all commanded to preach the gospel.

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And it's not just when we're out sewing it all the time, but we are commanded to preach the gospel.

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And there's a difference even than that too that it's not just the lifestyle evangelism.

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Just show people how good you are and they'll get saved. It's like, what if you did both? What if

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what if you did like what Jesus did where he's being a perfect person, but is Jesus just not

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preaching the gospel to people though? No, he is preaching the gospel, right? Because it's the

01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:20.120
gospel that has the power and the salvation, not your testimony, not-

01:18:20.200 --> 01:18:23.920
your lifestyle right? I mean it's it's the it's not your testimony it's the

01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:27.280
testimony of Jesus Christ that gets people saved right? It's the lifestyle of Jesus Christ

01:18:27.280 --> 01:18:30.680
that got him saved not by showing us that that's how we have to live to get

01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:32.400
people saved but to

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to preach to them the gospel of Jesus Christ,

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the life of Jesus Christ, right?

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That's what has the power of God unto salvation.

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So again, in summary for this,

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I just say the most important thing is this,

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wherever you're at on the soul-wanting pipeline,

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as far as then becoming a soul-wanderer,

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either not going or a silent partner,

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or someone who has been a silent partner for a long time

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and won't talk, or you're talking,

01:18:52.220 --> 01:18:55.060
but you're just not going out to the soul-wanting services,

01:18:55.060 --> 01:18:57.200
or the soul-wanting times like you should be.

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fix whatever your area is in that,

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and take the things that apply to you,

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and just realize, like,

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cause you're not gonna just go out overnight

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and become a solider.

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That's not how it works, right?

01:19:08.180 --> 01:19:08.900
But...

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We need to make sure that this is a goal of ours and that we're making steps that work towards this goal.

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And that will give us progress in this goal, okay?

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With that all being said, let's pray.

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Dear Lord God, thank you so much for this wonderful day.

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Thank you so much for everything that you do for us, God.

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Thank you so much for this church, God, and for people that want to hear your word preached.

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God, I just pray that you would help us as a church, God, to keep our focus on you and on soul winning God

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and on the Great Commission and getting people saved and getting them baptized,

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getting them to come to church and to go out and get...

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people save themselves. God, I just pray that you help us while we're out soling

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to have thorough gospel presentations. God, I just pray that we wouldn't just try

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to get people to, you know, do a repeat after me one, two, three kind of prayer. We

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just want people to actually believe the gospel. God, and I'm confident that

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because we're showing people the gospel and we're showing people these verses

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that they are getting saved. God, I just pray that you help us to be the most

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effective that we possibly can at that. God, help us to refine our presentations

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and help us to strengthen and to

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sharpen up what we need to as Christians.

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Do you say I pray? Amen.

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All right, if you want to take your head rolls, we're going to turn to page number 64.

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page number 64 shall we gather at the river

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Shall we gather at the river

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Where bright angels' feet have trod

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With its crystal tide forever

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Flowing by the throne of God?

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Yes, we're...

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The beautiful, the beautiful riii...

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By the throne of God

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We are

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And sorrow never meet the glory of the throne.

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for the beautiful red

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By the throne of God

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the shining river lay we every burden

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Soon we'll reach the shining riii-

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Our pilgrim's age will cease.

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Soon our unhappy hearts will quiver with the mellow

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by the throne of God.

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Alright, excellent singing everybody. By the range, please close this in order of prayer.

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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you God for preaching today, Lord, and pray God that we'll take the

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up our soul-witted presentations and to supply those things to our gospel presentation.

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In Jesus' name, Amen.