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I just want to start off by thanking Pastor Shelley for the opportunity to preach.

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Also just want to make mention that he will be back on Wednesday.

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So if you're a visitor, maybe you're here for the first time, please come back next

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week.

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Come back Wednesday to hear our pastor preach.

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But nonetheless, I am thankful to be here this morning.

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And I want to focus on verse number 20.

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Notice what the Bible says in verse 20.

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And they watched him and sent forth spies which should fame themselves just men.

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That they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power

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and authority of the governor.

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Notice in this verse, because of the hatred that the Pharisees had, the

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scribes, the hatred that they have for Jesus Christ, they sent forth these spies.

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They sent forth these deceivers and the Bible says that they

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fame themselves just men.

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What does that mean?

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It means that they appeared as if they were righteous.

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They appeared as if they were on the same team as Jesus.

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It says they fame themselves just men.

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What was the purpose?

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So that way they could have something to accuse them of, to their authority,

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right, to the governor, to Pontius Pilate, people that could execute

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some type of judgment, some type of corrupt government, instituting some

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type of judgment upon Jesus.

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And the title of my sermon this morning is Posers and Pretenders.

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Posers and Pretenders.

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Now, typically the word poser, it's a slang term if you're not familiar with it.

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And it's used primarily, I kind of found it funny, it's kind of used

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primarily within like the skater community, right?

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A lot of skateboarders, they will call somebody a poser if they walk

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around with a skateboard, but they don't actually know how to skate, right?

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Or they wear some type of garments, whatever, T-shirts, some rock band,

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or whatever, but they're just a poser, they're just a pretender.

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They don't actually believe the things that they're, or care about, or they're

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not involved in the things that they're promoting, right?

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So I found a definition of, what does poser mean?

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It's an English slang term to describe individuals who adopt behaviors, styles,

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or attitudes to appear part of a group without genuinely embodying its values or skills.

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Now, I can think of a lot of posers when I was growing up in high school.

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There's definitely, I was like thinking back like how can I think of some applications,

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some people that I could really identify.

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And when I was in high school, there was this chick that moved from the big city,

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Stillwater, to our po-dunk little town.

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And she was just a complete goth, satan-worshiping freak.

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And that's how she dressed, right?

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But it's funny is like that there was a group of boys in my class that were kind of nerdy,

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they didn't really fit into any group, and they just like attached themselves to this chick.

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And they started being a poser, like wearing these metal band shirts and acting like they're

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just really edgy and cool and punk rocker.

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And it was clear to all of us, these guys are just a bunch of posers.

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They don't actually believe a lot of this.

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Now, her, on the other hand, she was 100% satanic.

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I have no doubt about that.

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She worshiped the devil, I believe that.

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Or there was this one guy, and he was my friend, I will say that, but

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you'd have people who try to act like they're a gangster, right?

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Try to act like they're just this real tough gangster.

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I'm like, dude, you're white.

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Bro, come on.

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Your parents are happily married.

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You grew up in the country, you're not a gangster.

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But yet that's what he wanted everybody to think, and he listened to that music,

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he dressed that away, and he was a complete poser.

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And listen, there's nothing more irritating than people who are fake, pretenders, posers.

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The ultimate posers?

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How about transvestites?

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A bunch of disgusting freaks, worthy of death.

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What do they do?

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They try to pose as the opposite gender, right?

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They're not fooling anybody.

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We all see right through it.

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It's disgusting.

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Go kill yourself.

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Man, do us all a favor.

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Just to kind of piggyback on the Massa Conference, right?

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That spirit is still upon me.

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It's disgusting to see transvestites posing, right?

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Nobody wants to see that.

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It's disgusting.

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And you know what's interesting is, as you serve God,

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man, the Bible just starts to come to life, does it not?

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You know, we just read this passage where you have people who are spying on Jesus

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so that way they could put them to death.

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They hated him.

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But what did they do?

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They feigned themselves as just men.

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They feigned themselves as somebody who's righteous, somebody who's on his side.

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And you know, this is what I've kind of realized as I've, you know, gone through the Christian life

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to the point that I'm at now, you know, that when you actually start serving God

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and you really get dedicated and, you know, you really start living how the Bible asks you

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and, you know, not even just ask you, commands you to live, then, man,

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the Bible just really starts to just come to life.

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It starts to just pop right off the page where, you know, and hold your place here in Luke 20.

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Go to John 15 real fast for me.

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Go to John 15.

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You know, I remember being in my early 20s and just being really zealous and wanting to serve God,

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but just, you know, not doing, you know, all the things I should have been doing,

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right?

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Just not being ignorant in a lot of stuff.

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I wasn't a soul winner.

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I wanted to be.

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I wanted to try and I would go out.

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We just failed miserably.

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You know, this guy that I was friends with that went to the church that we went to.

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And I just remember like reading the Bible at that time in my life

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and just some gnarly stories in the Bible and just thinking like,

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man, this is crazy.

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You know, this is cool, but this stuff doesn't actually happen anymore.

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You know, and I look back on that moment in my life where I'm,

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where I can just picture myself just having this puzzled,

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this puzzled look on my face, reading the Bible and just not understanding

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so many aspects of the Bible.

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And looking back on it, it's because I wasn't actually living the Bible.

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I wasn't actually dedicated.

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I wasn't actually serving God the way God wants us to serve Him.

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And when you start serving God, when you stop being of this world

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and you start following Him, listen, the Bible is going to be

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just jumping off the page of you have so much application in your life.

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Notice what the Bible says in John 15 and verse 18.

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It says,

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Remember the word that I said unto you,

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the servant is not greater than his Lord.

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If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

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If they have kept my saying, they will also keep yours.

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So what the Bible is saying is when you stop being of this world

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and you start serving Jesus Christ, you start going soul-winning.

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You start coming to church.

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You start reading your Bible.

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You start cleaning up your life.

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You start dressing like a woman or you start dressing like a man

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and you start acting and behaving yourself

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as if your conversation is in heaven.

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Well, listen, then you're going to actually face some real persecution in this life.

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You're going to be in a similar situation that Jesus was in

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where people are backstabbing Him, doing Him dirty,

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going against Him, persecuting Him.

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And the Bible says if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

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You are not above your Lord.

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If they have persecuted our Lord, they're going to persecute us, the servant.

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And this is something really important to understand

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is that we shouldn't look at somebody who's getting backstabbed,

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who's being persecuted, going through severe persecution.

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Be like, oh man, he brought that upon himself.

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Or if he would have...

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And of course, I think of somebody right now

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who's just going through a lot of persecution, Pastor Stephen Anderson.

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He's being attacked left and right.

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His family's being attacked left and right.

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And you might have this thought,

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oh well, man, it seems weird that all these weirdos,

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all these backstabbers, these posers, these pretenders,

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just seem to just flock to His church, right?

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And the reality is that the reason that's happening

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is because He is serving the Lord greatly.

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It's because He is sacrificing a lot to serve God.

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That's why He's got the big target on His back.

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It's not anything that He has done.

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He's just not of the world, right?

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And when you're not of the world,

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you're going to face the same type of persecutions

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that the Lord Jesus Christ faced, the same things He went through.

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Go back to Luke chapter number 20.

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Luke chapter number 20.

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There's lots of different posers and pretenders in this world.

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Social media kind of gives everybody a platform to be a poser.

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You have a lot of fake people on social media,

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and the things that they post on social media

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is not their real life.

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And so it would be silly to judge your life

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and compare it to somebody else's based on their social media page.

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Because you could look at it and be like,

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man, it seems like they're living the greatest life.

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They seem so cool.

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They have issues.

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They have problems.

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And in a way, social media kind of gives people an opportunity

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or this platform to be a poser.

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How about the Calvinists, the pseudo-intellectuals?

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Right?

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A bunch of posers.

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People, they don't even know what they're saying half the time.

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You know, they can use these great swelling words.

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They can use these big words that make them seem

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like they're intellectuals.

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But the reality is they're complete idiots.

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Why?

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Because they don't believe in salvation by grace through faith.

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They think it's God that chooses who goes to heaven or not.

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How about, you know, this might step on some people's

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you know, toes, but what about just your appearance, right?

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A lot of people are striving to give this persona about themselves.

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That's fake.

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That's not real.

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I mean, I think of like people who have a lot of money, famous people.

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What do they love to do?

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Plastic surgery, right?

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What are they doing?

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They're trying to be a poser.

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They're trying to be a pretender.

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They're this 80-year-old Dolly Parton

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that has had so much plastic surgery.

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Her face looks like it's like stapled back, you know.

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She's a poser, right?

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And you see this a lot with, and you know, unfortunately,

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I think a lot of women, they see these people

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and then they, you know, they think that this is the way

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that I should act or that this is what beauty actually looks like.

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The reality is, hey, listen, if you're all just embrace it,

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you know, when I started to realize my hair was falling out,

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you know what I didn't do?

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I didn't just like grow it out longer

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and try to comb it over, right?

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Something that irritates me so bad is when old guys

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who have no hair start trying to do the comb over,

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like nobody, you're not fooling anybody, dude.

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Just embrace it, embrace age, right?

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There's a lot of great things that come with that.

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Listen, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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That's why I tell my wife all the time.

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She's beautiful the way God made her.

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And she doesn't need to put on all this makeup

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or get Botox or plastic surgery for me to be attracted to her.

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I'm attracted to her the way that God made her, you know.

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And I believe that the longer, you know, our marriage,

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you know, as Lord willing, we'll be able to have a long marriage.

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I'd be able to live a long life.

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And I believe that the older I get,

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I'm only going to be that much more in love with my wife

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and that much more attracted to her.

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And, you know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Don't be this person that's pretending to be somebody

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that you're not, right?

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Don't pretend to have a bunch of knowledge

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in an area that you don't have knowledge in.

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It's okay to say I don't know.

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You know, people ask me questions from time to time.

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I don't know the answer.

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It's just like, sorry, I don't know.

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You know, that's a good question.

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Let me do some research.

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Let me try to find that out.

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It's okay.

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You know, if you're on the job, and you see this a lot

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within like the workplace, you go for an interview

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and you want to impress the person

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you're trying to get the job with, right?

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Well, there's that proclivity of that,

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maybe that temptation to just like, you know,

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they ask you, hey, do you know X, Y, and Z?

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Oh yeah, of course I know that.

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Man, I've been in a situation where I've,

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you know, been in an interview room

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where you're interviewing somebody else

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and you ask them these questions.

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Oh yeah, I know this.

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Debits and credits, I got it.

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Balance sheet, financials, I got it.

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And then you put them in the seat

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and you realize real fast,

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these people have no idea what they're talking about.

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They've never done this before.

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They've lied.

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It's okay to say you don't know.

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Listen, if you don't know,

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just have a willing attitude to learn, right?

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To, you know, get to know more about that topic.

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Don't be a pretender.

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Don't be a poser.

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You know, and obviously the sermon

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is going to be directed towards spiritual things.

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So yes, all those things are important,

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but even more so,

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it's important not to be a spiritual poser,

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a spiritual pretender, these holier than thou's.

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You know, something that really aggravates me.

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And I guess I just took it for granted.

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I didn't realize it or how bad it was

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growing up in an IFB church.

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But man, in most church circles that you,

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if you've ever been to just a random Baptist church

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or just any church in general,

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most people when they're going to church,

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they start speaking Christianese, right?

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Or this King James ease where it's like,

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you know, praise the Lord about everything.

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And just over the top, you know,

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speaking in King James language,

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they're using these and thou's.

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It's like, dude, you know,

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you're not fooling anybody, right?

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And it's honestly embarrassing.

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And so I'm just encouraging you,

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hey, don't be that person.

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You know, growing up in an IFB church,

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there's a lot of people

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who are a bunch of posers and pretenders, right?

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They're trying to feign themselves as just men,

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feign themselves as somebody who's really righteous,

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these holier than thou's,

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but the reality is that inward,

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they're just a bunch of ravening wolves.

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They're wicked people or they have a bad heart.

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You know, we don't want to be these types of Christians.

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We want to be real Christians, right?

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Just be real with people, be honest, be transparent.

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So I have three points this morning

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that I believe the Bible kind of highlights

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posers and pretenders, you know,

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that we're going to see,

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that we're going to come in contact with.

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And I think it's really important on this.

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Of course, we're looking at this first example here

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in Luke chapter number 20.

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But notice what the Bible says in the next verse,

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verse number 21.

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The Bible says,

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And they asked him, saying,

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Master, we know that thou sayest

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and teachest rightly,

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neither acceptest thou the person of any,

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but teachest the way of God truly.

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And my first point is people who pretend to be righteous.

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People who pretend to be righteous,

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they feign themselves as just men.

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But notice what they said to Jesus.

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Notice what they said.

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We know that thou sayest and teachest rightly,

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neither acceptest thou the person of any,

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but teachest the way of God truly.

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Now is what they said wrong?

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No.

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The Bible says that they call the master.

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We're not to call anybody master,

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but Jesus Christ.

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So they weren't wrong for calling Jesus master.

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They weren't wrong for making this statement

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that what he teaches is right and true.

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But the problem is they didn't actually believe it.

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The problem is it's a fake righteousness.

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They're pretending to be righteous.

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They're pretending to believe the things

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that they're saying.

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They don't actually believe it.

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And this is what the Bible calls flattery, right?

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They're flattering Jesus Christ.

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Now Jesus has the ability to read people's hearts

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and he identifies this right away.

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First of all, we don't have that ability

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to read people's hearts.

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We may not always know.

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Somebody might be saying something that's right,

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but it could be flattery.

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I think this is why it's really important

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that we are aware of these things

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so that way when a backstabber

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or somebody who's a pretender or poser gets exposed,

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we're not offended by those things.

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That we kind of realize like these people

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are going to exist.

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There's some things we can pick up on,

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but if we're in this position,

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we may not necessarily identify these people

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that have feigned themselves as just men

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as being posers or pretenders.

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And I'm gonna kind of get to the attitude

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we should have at the end of the sermon,

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but obviously we want to give people the benefit

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and for the doubt, right?

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We want to see the good in everybody,

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but in the back of our mind,

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we should just know like there's a potential

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for people to be flattering us

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and we don't want to fall into that snare

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and to that trap.

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The Bible says in Proverbs 29.5,

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a man that flattereth his neighbor

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spreadeth a net for his feet, right?

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So what is it that they're doing?

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They're flattering Jesus

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so that way they can ensnare him in his words.

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They're trying to get him to say

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something negative about the Roman government,

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about Caesar, right?

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They're trying to get him to say,

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hey, you don't have to pay your taxes, right?

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And of course, Jesus perceiving this,

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he gives them the correct answer,

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which is hey, pay your taxes, you know?

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Render unto Caesar with Caesars

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and render unto God what's God's.

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Go to Matthew chapter number 23.

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Matthew chapter number 23.

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Matthew chapter number 23.

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The Bible says in verse number 14,

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this is a really famous chapter

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about Jesus just going hardcore

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and rebuking all the scribes and Pharisees,

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the hypocrites of his day,

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just calling them out for all their hypocrisy,

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their fakery.

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He's calling them out for being posers and pretenders.

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Notice what he says in verse 14.

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It says,

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what one to you scribes and Pharisees,

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hypocrites, for you devour widow's houses

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and for a pretense, make long prayer,

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therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.

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Now that word pretense there just means

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that they're basically, they're pretending, right?

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They're using deceit that they're trying to make a show,

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right?

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That they're righteous.

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They're doing it for pretense.

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And you'll see this a lot within Christianity as well

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is where people,

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they'll try to make themselves appear

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righteous by just doing these over the top works,

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right?

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Doing things where they're trying to get the attention

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of everybody.

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Hey, look at me.

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Look at all the great things that I've done.

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You know, the Bible also brings up somebody

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who blows a trumpet when they give alms, right?

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They're giving of charity.

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They're helping somebody,

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but they want everybody to know

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that they're doing it, right?

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They're making a big show about that.

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And this is an identifiable marker

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of somebody who's a poser,

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somebody who's a pretender.

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They're making long prayer.

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They're trying to make themselves appear

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as if they're very righteous,

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as if they're just.

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And it brings up other examples in this chapter.

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Skip down just a couple of verses to verse number 27.

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Verse number 27 says,

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Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,

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for you are like unto whiteed sepulchres,

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which indeed appear beautiful outward,

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but are within full of dead men's bones,

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and of all uncleanness,

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even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,

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but within you're full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

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Something that's just a common characteristic

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of a poser and a pretender

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is they're usually somebody who has bad motives.

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There's somebody who internally

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is a wicked person, very wicked.

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And you know, some of the most obvious examples

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in our world today

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that would fit the Matthew 23 Pharisees

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and scribes would be Catholics and Protestants, right?

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What do they do?

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Love to go around in long robes.

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They love to pontificate about how righteous they are.

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They'll wear their backwards collar, right?

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They want everybody to know that they're super righteous,

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but yet these people are some of the most wicked

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individuals on the face of the planet.

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When you look up statistically,

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people who have been abused in church,

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it's overwhelmingly by a Catholic priest, right?

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By somebody in a position of authority,

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a position of power,

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somebody who is doing all these outward shows

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of how they're so beautiful on the outside.

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They're these whiteed sepulchres.

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And I like the example that Jesus brings up here

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because the example is that, you know,

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the grave is beautiful.

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It looks pretty. It's beautiful.

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But on the inside is just dead men's bones, right?

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It's a dead man.

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And that's a perfect example of the Catholic priest, right?

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The Orthodox priest.

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These Protestant bishops that worship idols

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and, you know, are preaching, you know,

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a false gospel that are believing

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all kinds of heresy when it comes to salvation.

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You know, these people,

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they're just inwardly dead men's bones, right?

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And many of them are twice dead.

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And we see that example being brought out in their works.

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The things that they do kind of helps us to understand

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that these are twice dead people.

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These are people who have no hope of salvation.

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And of course, that's what Jesus Christ said.

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You know, he said that,

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how can you escape the damnation of hell?

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Right?

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Because there's no salvation for these people.

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They're wicked individuals and they're posers and pretenders.

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Our world is filled with a bunch of religious posers.

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You know, that's why it's so important

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that you're picking a good church, right?

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A church where the pastor is sincere

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and honestly he's handling the Word of God sincerely, right?

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He's not twisting scripture to his own liking.

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He's not just getting up and telling you what you want to hear.

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He's telling you what you need to hear.

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You know, regardless of what, you know,

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what feelings might get hurt in the process.

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You know, that's the type of church you should desire to go to.

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It's one where the pastor's just gonna get up

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and tell you exactly what the Bible says, right?

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And not leave anything, any stone unturned.

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Go to 2 Timothy chapter number three.

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2 Timothy chapter number three.

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And this is really just a point

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we could just park it on the whole sermon

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and just hit so many verses

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because there's so much information in the Bible

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about pretending to be religious,

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pretending to be righteous,

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pretending to be somebody that you're not through your works.

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2 Timothy chapter number three.

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Look at verse number one.

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So this is talking about, you know,

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what's gonna happen in the end times

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or as we get closer to the day of the Lord.

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The Bible says,

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this know also that in the last days

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perilous time shall come.

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And it gives us a list of things that we can look for,

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things that are gonna be prevalent,

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that are gonna be prominent in this time.

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Let's skip down to verse number five.

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It says, having a form of godliness

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but denying the power thereof from such, turn away.

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So the Bible says in the end times

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or as we get closer to the day of the Lord

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that there are gonna be more people

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who are gonna masquerade as being righteous

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on the outside.

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They're gonna appear as being righteous on the outside

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but they don't actually know God.

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They're not actually saved.

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Why? Because they deny the power of God.

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They're not actually putting their faith and trust in God.

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They don't believe the things that they're saying.

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They don't believe the word of God.

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It's like, how can you be a Christian

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and not believe the word of God?

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That makes no sense.

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It's like, why are you a Muslim?

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Because you believe the Quran, right?

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Why are you a Hindu?

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Because you believe in whatever weird book that they have.

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Nobody ever knows what book they have.

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Some book out there, I'm sure.

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Why do you follow the religion?

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It's because of the teachings, right?

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It's like, how can you be a Christian

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and not believe the Bible?

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I mean, talk about being a poser.

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You're like the skater with the skateboard

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walking around, right?

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That's never skated in his life.

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I mean, how many Christians are like that?

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They're walking around with the Bible

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that they don't even read.

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They don't even know what it says.

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And then they get offended

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when the preacher gets up

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and just clearly preaches

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what the Bible is saying.

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Hey, fags should be put to death.

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That's what the Bible says.

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Leviticus, 2013.

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You know, these wicked false prophets,

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these pedophiles,

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hey, put a millstone around their neck

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and cast them into the sea.

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Put a bullet in their head.

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These people need to die.

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They're only a harm to our society.

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People like this faggot,

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weird-loving freak Gordon out here, right?

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What a freak.

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Is he not getting the memo?

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Like everyone that he's partnered with

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is either in prison.

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They're just too apathetic

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to even come protesting in the longer.

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I mean, they're not steadfast.

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That's for sure.

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I mean, what a reprobate freak.

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You know, these people deserve the death penalty.

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And you say, you know,

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how can he say that?

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Well, that's what the Bible says.

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And we just believe the Bible around here.

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We're not a bunch of posers.

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We're not a bunch of pretenders.

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And I'm sick and tired of all these

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apathetic Christians that don't

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actually believe the Bible.

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Go to Titus chapter number one.

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Just flip over a couple pages.

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Titus chapter number one.

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This is talking about false prophets.

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And we're going to learn a little bit

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about false prophets to help you this morning.

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Notice what the Bible says in 16.

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It says,

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So again, we see that the false prophet

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is a pretender, their poser.

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They profess that they know God, right?

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How many people do you see these Catholic priests,

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these Baptist pastors?

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You see all kinds of people getting up

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and professing that they know God.

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But how do we know, you know,

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the person that's the true prophet

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versus the false prophet?

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Well, it says in works they deny him.

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So you say, well, and I've heard

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different interpretations of that.

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Like, you know, them trusting in their works

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to go to heaven.

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That's how they're basically manifesting.

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But I believe the Bible just tells us clearly

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what the work is that makes them manifest

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that they're reprobating.

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Notice the very next two words.

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It says being abominable.

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You know, what is it that the works

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that they're doing that deny the Lord Jesus Christ,

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that deny their faith in him for salvation?

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It's being abominable.

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You know, I don't have to worry or wonder.

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It's like, is Kenny Baldwin safe?

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No, he's a faggot.

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Hey, put him to death.

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Yeah, right.

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Like, what are we even talking about here?

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Why are we even, you know, having this conflict

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in our mind whether or not the guy saved or not?

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Oh, come on.

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You know, he's, he's professed himself.

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He's shown himself not to be a true prophet.

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It's not like, oh, oh, well, he said some good things.

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I don't care.

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So what?

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You know, I knew this pastor once

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where I went to this church.

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And, you know, this is one of the reasons

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I stopped going to the church.

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And I like the guy.

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I want to like the guy.

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I believe he saved.

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But, you know, his dad basically got caught

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as being a pedophile.

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And he was a pastor, a Baptist pastor.

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Got caught as being a pedophile in California.

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He got locked up.

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He's in prison.

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And, you know, that information kind of came to me.

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And I approached this pastor about it,

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just asking him, like, where is he at on this?

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Because I know, you know, he seems like a good guy.

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Went soloing with him.

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You know, he preaches a good gospel.

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And he's just like, yeah, I think my dad saved.

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And he's getting people saved in church.

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And when he gets out, I'm going to welcome him back

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into my church.

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And I'm just like, see ya.

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I'm out of here.

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This is not the type of place I want to be where,

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you know, the pastor's just attracting all kinds

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of filth and disgusting debauchery.

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Just these abominable people.

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What in the world, man?

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How can you be a Baptist preacher

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and believe the Bible and preach hard on sin

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and then look at somebody who has committed

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such an abominable act as pedophilia

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and then be like, oh, I think they can still be saved?

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What does the Bible say?

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It says that the reprobate,

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they're disobedient unto every good work reprobate.

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It doesn't matter even if his dad is in prison

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and he's even giving lip service to the right gospel.

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I don't give a rip.

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The dude is a reprobate.

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There's no coming back from that.

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He's worthy of death.

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They should just do us all a favor,

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save us some tax dollar money

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and put the bullet in the guy's head.

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Just put him to death.

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You know, we need to stop just pretending

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and having this weird mentality about salvation,

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about false prophets.

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It's like, okay, so what?

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So what?

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If somebody says the right thing about salvation,

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if they come out later as a literal faggot,

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they're worthy of death.

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They can't be saved.

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It's ridiculous.

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Go to Numbers chapter number 24.

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Numbers chapter 24.

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The second point I have for you this morning

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is pretending to speak for God.

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Pretending to speak for God.

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Numbers chapter 24.

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Here we have kind of this unique character in the Bible.

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I think on the surface,

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if you haven't really studied this particular character,

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you could maybe get confused as to the role

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that this guy's playing.

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I think it's, you know,

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if you're new to Christianity,

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you know, maybe you've only read through your Bible

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or maybe you haven't read all the way through your Bible,

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or maybe only once or twice.

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I can understand somebody getting kind of confused

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on this character, but, you know,

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the Bible clearly teaches that this guy Balaam,

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the son of Bezor, is a false prophet.

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And, you know, if you just read Numbers

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on, you know, by itself on face value,

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you can see the guy's kind of up to no good,

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but you can't really just put your finger on it, right?

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It doesn't, it's not just like 100% revealed.

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It's later on in the New Testament.

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And honestly, he gets, he does get destroyed by God later on,

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but in the Old Testament,

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but in the New Testament,

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the Bible is just super clear on this guy.

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But I want to point out this particular part where,

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you know, Balaam, he kept telling Balaak

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that he can't go beyond the word of the Lord, right?

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He can't go and curse the children of Israel.

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But it's not like he is because, man, I'm just,

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you know, I'm just righteous inside,

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and I just don't want to curse good people.

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That's not the reason why he didn't want to do it.

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The reason he didn't want to do it

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is because it wouldn't have mattered if he did it, right?

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God wasn't going to curse these people.

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He knew that he couldn't go beyond the word of the Lord

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to curse the children of Israel.

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It wasn't going to be effective.

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It wasn't going to be any good outcome of that.

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It didn't matter.

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And yet, even still knowing that,

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he's still kind of like skirted around the issue

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and still tried to do it multiple times,

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just in a way that, you know,

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maybe he wasn't as apparent or whatever.

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But what's interesting here is,

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kind of towards the end of this passage about him,

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he preaches the truth.

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He preaches something that's right.

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Notice what the Bible says in verse 16.

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It says,

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He hath said which heard the words of God,

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this is Balaam speaking,

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and knew the knowledge of the Most High,

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which saw the vision of the Almighty

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falling into a trance,

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but having his eyes open.

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I shall see him, but not now.

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I shall behold him, but not nigh.

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There shall come a star out of Jacob,

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and a scepter shall rise out of Israel,

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and shall smite the corners of Moab,

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and destroy all the children of Seth.

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And it goes on,

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it's kind of listing out all these different prophecies.

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But notice he's prophesying of the Lord Jesus Christ here.

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You know, it is what he's saying.

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Is it wrong?

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No, what he's saying is actually true.

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This is a true prophecy,

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but yet Balaam is a false prophet.

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And this is something I think people struggle with,

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as they see somebody get up and say something that's right,

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and then, you know, they have,

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you know, they fall into,

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you know, some type of terrible sin,

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and then they're confused.

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They're like, you know, why is this God?

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I mean, if he did something,

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if he said something right,

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how could he be a false prophet?

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Like they just struggle with

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reconciling these things in your mind.

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But the reality is that they're opposers and pretenders, folks.

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I mean, there are a lot of people that get up

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and can say and give lip service to the right gospel.

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They can get up and, you know,

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it's obvious the Muslims are unsafe.

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It's obvious the Gateway Church is unsafe, right?

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It's obvious, you know, that Hindus

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or, you know, some of these other religions

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or Catholics, they're not saved.

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Like we can obviously see these are false prophets.

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But you know, there's also people

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who put on sheep's clothing, right?

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They come in as a sheep.

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They wouldn't need to put on sheep's clothing

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if it was just obvious that they are a wolf, right?

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They put on sheep's clothing and they appear righteous.

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They appear as if they're one of us,

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but inwardly, they're ravening wolves, right?

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Inwardly, they're very wicked.

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In fact, these are probably more wicked

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than the outward ones, right?

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Those are the people that are more dangerous,

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the ones that creep in and, you know,

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want to destroy good men of God.

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And Balaam, he kind of fits this model

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because he's saying something that's right.

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He's preaching something that's true,

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but he obviously is a false prophet.

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Now, he finishes this prophecy

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if you skip down to verse 25.

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Notice what the Bible says.

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And Balaam rose up and went and returned to his place

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and Balaam also went his way.

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Chapter 25, it says,

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And Israel bowed and shed them,

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and the people began to commit hordom

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with the daughters of Moab.

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And so directly after this, what ends up happening,

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the children of Israel,

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they go and they commit fornication with the Moabites

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and God slays thousands of them.

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And on the surface, you just read these,

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you might be kind of confused about this story,

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but we're going to kind of clear some of this up.

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Go to second Peter chapter number two,

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second Peter chapter number two.

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The Bible says in Revelation,

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when Jesus is writing to the seven churches,

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he's bringing up an example of somebody

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that's causing sin to happen in the church.

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And he says that the sin that they're causing to happen

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is the same sin that Balaam basically used

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or the same deception that Balaam used

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to teach Balaak to cast a stumbling block

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before the children of Israel

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to eat things sacrificed unto idols

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and to commit fornication.

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So the Bible just clearly spells it out for us

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that what Balaam did is instead of,

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he couldn't curse the children of Israel,

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that wasn't going to have any effect,

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it wasn't going to have any power

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because God wasn't going to curse them.

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He didn't have any power in that one.

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So what did he do?

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He used deception to basically entice

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the children of Israel to sin, right?

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And so that's what the Bible just tells us

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and this is the reason why Balaam is a false prophet.

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He's not somebody to be trusted,

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even though he might have said some things

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that were true, some things that were right.

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Notice there in verse number 14,

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having eyes full of adultery

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and that cannot cease from sin,

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beguiling unstable souls and heart

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they have exercised with covetous practices,

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cursed children.

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When the Bible says cursed children,

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we're talking about false prophets here.

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You know what that means?

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That they're cursed.

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They have no hope of salvation.

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Just like Paul said,

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if any man preached another gospel,

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let them be accursed, right?

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These people have no hope of salvation.

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It says in verse 15,

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which have forsaken the right way,

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notice this, and are gone astray

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following the way of Balaam,

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the son of Bosar, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

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So Balaam, the son of Bosar,

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he is a false prophet.

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Why?

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Because he didn't actually believe

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the things that he was saying.

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He didn't actually believe

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in the prophecy of Jesus Christ.

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He didn't believe any of the things

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that he was saying that were true.

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He's just exercising himself

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in a way to where he can get gain, right?

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And notice how it's interesting

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how the Bible words this.

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It says that these false prophets,

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their heart, they have exercised

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with covetous practices.

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So this is something that they've

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thought a lot about, right?

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They're sitting around thinking,

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you know, I know I don't believe these things.

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I know I don't actually,

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you know, have any conviction

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about these things,

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but I'm trying to get some gain

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out of this, right?

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How can I get some gain,

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some personal gain?

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So what will they do?

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They'll exercise their heart

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in covetous practices.

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Means in which

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that they can get some type of

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benefit out of their preaching, right?

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Whatever it is that they're saying,

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whatever they are trying to

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convince somebody of,

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they're just trying to get gain.

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And, you know, our mind

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probably goes towards

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the prosperity preachers,

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the Kenneth Copeland,

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Joel Olstein,

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Jesse Duplantis,

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like all these guys,

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these are guys with hearts

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that have exercised,

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they've exercised the heart

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to covetous practices, right?

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They're teaching things

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so that way they can get gain

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from their congregants.

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They can make merchandise

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of their members.

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And I want to kind of highlight

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this idea that

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false prophets,

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they will pretend to speak

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true things or

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they will say things that are true.

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They will agree with things,

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they will go along with certain doctrines

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just to get

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some gain out of it, right?

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And again,

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our mind goes with

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the prosperity preacher.

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They twist the Bible

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to basically fit their model

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so they can get rich

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off of their congregants.

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But, you know,

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there's other ways

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to even think about this, right?

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I mean, how many people

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have attached themselves

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to our movement,

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to our, you know,

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to our church

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and our friends of our churches

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or of our church

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where they say,

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oh, well, I'm pre-trib,

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or I'm sorry,

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I'm no longer pre-trib,

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I'm post-trib,

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pre-rat, right?

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Or I'm anti-Zionist,

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or they'll say,

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hey, I believe Jesus

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went to hell, right?

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And they'll preach that

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for a period of time, right?

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But the reality is

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they're only trying

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to get some type of gain

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out of that, right?

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They're just trying

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to manipulate,

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they're trying to deceive,

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they're trying to

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get people to come

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over to their side

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so then later on

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they can have

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gain from that person,

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they can make merchandise

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of them,

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they can get,

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you know,

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in their mind,

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they can be the prominent one,

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they can get all the fame,

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all the glory,

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and this is why

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people do these things

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is for covetous practices,

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right?

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That covetous heart,

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the, the,

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they love the wages

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of unrighteousness.

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And their motivation

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is to get gain.

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Go to Jude,

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the book of Jude,

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verse 16.

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The book of Jude,

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verse number 16.

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The Bible says

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verse 16,

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these are murmurs,

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complainers,

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walking after their own lusts

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and their mouth speaketh

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great swelling words,

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having men's persons

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in admiration

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because of advantage.

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Now notice the,

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the Bible is kind of

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bringing out this point

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that the false prophet,

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the person who

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pretends to speak

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the word of God,

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truly,

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what do they do?

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They try to,

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they,

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they give admiration

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to people

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because they really

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just have an

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ulterior motive.

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They want to get some type of

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an advantage

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of that person.

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I mean,

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they're using

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great swelling words,

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words of flattery,

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words of vanity.

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Why?

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So they can take advantage of people.

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They're not sincere.

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They don't actually

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believe the things

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that they're saying.

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Right?

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They're trying to

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get some type of

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clout

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or they,

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some type of recognition.

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You know,

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and I think

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the probably

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a really

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prominent application

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you could come up with

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on this

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is somebody who

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tells the

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the richest person at the church

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all the things that

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they want to hear.

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You know,

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they won't preach on their sin.

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They won't,

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you know,

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they'll do everything

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that they can

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to make them feel comfortable.

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Why?

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Because they know that

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they're the person

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that's supplying

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a lot of their salary.

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Right?

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A lot of their,

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their means to,

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you know,

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to,

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for the church to

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thrive and to,

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to,

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you know,

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to get gain from them.

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Right?

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And that's wrong.

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That's wicked.

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A pastor or a preacher

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should not be somebody

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who is giving respect to persons.

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Right?

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They shouldn't just be

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flattering somebody

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so they can get

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something out of it.

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They should be preaching

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with sincerity and truth.

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Right?

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Preaching things that are right

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and not just saying

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a bunch of things

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to make people feel good

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that,

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that to make people

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be your friend

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or to be on your side.

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They could preach things

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that are wrong

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so that way

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they could be

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lifted up in people's eyes.

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That they could be

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the prominent preacher.

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You know,

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Tommy Mamertry,

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you know,

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wanting to be

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the leader of the X new IB,

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the no IB.

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Right?

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So,

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you know,

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he's kind of put himself

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in this position

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where he says a lot of things

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he doesn't actually believe.

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You know,

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he gets up

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and preaches a sermon

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and basically states

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that men should be spanking

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their wives

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like in McClintock.

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Catherine O'Hare.

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You know,

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how she got

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woofed by John Wayne.

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And listen,

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that's a funny movie.

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I don't know if you've

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ever seen it.

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It's a good movie.

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I like that movie.

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That's one of my favorite parts.

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And he,

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but what did he do?

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He gets up and fatically is saying,

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you should be spanking your wives.

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He didn't actually believe that though.

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What do you say?

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He's like,

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oh, well,

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I'm just riling up the base.

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What a phony.

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What a poser.

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What a pretend.

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You know,

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I don't get up here

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and say a bunch of things

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that I don't actually believe.

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You know,

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the things that I'm trying to preach

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and get up

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and expound from the word of God

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and use examples,

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they're things that I actually believe.

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The things I actually care about

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that I'm zealous about

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that I think are important.

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I'm not just getting up here

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to rile up the base.

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Get a bunch of amens.

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You know,

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and honestly,

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the old IB is notorious for this.

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They just go around.

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They just say a bunch of crap.

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Just say a bunch of stupid nonsense

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just to rile everybody up

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just so they can get the guy

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on the front pew

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to stand up with this Bible.

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Hey, praise God.

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Because it makes them feel good,

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I guess.

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I don't know.

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It's like,

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what a joke.

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What a loser.

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What a poser.

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You know,

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my favorite example of this

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is Jeff Owens.

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Man,

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this guy,

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this old IB preacher,

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I don't really know.

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I never knew him.

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I never heard of him before.

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You know,

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he was exposed.

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But I mean,

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he preached this really fiery

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sermon about the sodomites.

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You know,

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and I can,

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you know,

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I can get on board with some of

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these statements that he said,

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you know,

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just a preface.

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You know,

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I would agree with these statements

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if our government

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was a righteous government

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and they instituted

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Leviticus 2013.

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I'd be right on board

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with the things he's saying,

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like,

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hey, sign me up,

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I'll volunteer

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to go and do some of these things.

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But,

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you know,

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obviously we shouldn't take

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the law into our own hands.

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So I do want to preface that,

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that we should not go out.

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Our goal is not to just go and

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murder a bunch of fags,

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right?

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But listen,

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if some psychopath murders

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a bunch of fags,

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I'm not going to be upset about that.

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I'm not going to cry over that.

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It's not going to,

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I'm going to sleep like a baby.

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It's not going to bother me a bit.

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But you know,

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Jeff Owens,

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he gets up in his sermon

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and I'll give him a little bit of

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credit because he starts

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each one of these

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statements off by saying,

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we need.

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I would agree.

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This is something that

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our country needs.

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Okay.

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So he says,

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we need to stop burning flags

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and start burning fags.

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Hey,

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praise God,

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let's do it.

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Hey,

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bring back Leviticus 2013.

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Jordan McCormick,

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I'm waiting.

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I mean,

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if I could vote for Jayden,

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I'd be doing it right now.

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We need

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hunt a homo week.

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I'm thinking like,

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how about hunt a homo month?

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Let's just do it like,

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you know,

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Jay who did the profits of Bale,

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just get them all one spot,

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just make them think

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like, oh yeah,

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we're going to celebrate you

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and just burn the house down

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on top of them.

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Let's do it.

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We need to take them all out

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and shoot them with a scatter

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shotgun.

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Hey,

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Pastor Oz,

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he already kind of coined

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that phrase, right?

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Just line them up against the

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wall and put a bullet in their

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head.

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Listen,

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I like these

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phrases,

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you know.

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And again,

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I don't think we should go out

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and do these things.

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You know,

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I don't think that

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this is something we should

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take the law in our own hands,

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but listen,

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you better believe

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I'm going to be rejoicing

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in the Lord

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if Leviticus 2013 ever comes

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back.

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You know,

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if our government actually

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cares about being a Christian

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nation and instituting

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biblical laws,

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I'm going to be rejoicing

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all the way.

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You know,

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I'm going to be all for it.

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And you know,

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if I was Jeff Owens,

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I wouldn't even be upset

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that I made these statements.

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You know,

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and even if,

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you know,

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oh well,

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he didn't,

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you know,

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make some,

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some preface,

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or he, you know,

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he didn't state,

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hey, you shouldn't actually,

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listen,

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I'm still okay with him

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making these statements,

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quite honestly.

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But

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here's the thing.

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He didn't actually

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believe this stuff.

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He's just getting up there

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to rile up the base.

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Because later on,

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when he was confronted,

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when he was called out

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for saying these things,

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this is what he said,

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nearly 15 years ago,

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I preached a sermon

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that promoted

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physically hurting gay people.

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He just doesn't call them

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facts any longer.

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He calls them gay.

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What a queer bait.

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He goes on,

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he says,

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I didn't even hold

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to the belief

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of hurting people

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when I wrongly made

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these comments.

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So,

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I mean,

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there you go folks.

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He's getting out there

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and preaching

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something he doesn't

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even believe.

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He had no real convictions.

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He's just trying to get

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some attention

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from his peers.

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Right,

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get some amends.

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You know,

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and we shouldn't be

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that type of a person.

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You know,

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there's plenty of people

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you could look at,

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Joe Olstein

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did the same thing

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on Larry King.

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All right.

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The Jew asked him,

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is Jesus the only way to heaven?

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He's like,

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uh, uh, uh, uh.

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You know,

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why?

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Because he's a false prophet,

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Billy Graham,

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same way,

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same thing.

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So,

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you know,

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there are going to be

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plenty of people

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that are posers

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and pretenders

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preaching

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or,

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you know,

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pretending to speak

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the word of God.

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The third point I have

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for you is pretending

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to be a friend.

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Pretending to be a friend.

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Go to Matthew chapter

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number 26.

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Matthew chapter

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number 26.

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You know,

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and this one

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probably hurts the most.

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Matthew chapter

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number 26.

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Matthew chapter

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number 26.

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Notice what the

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Bible says

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in verse 47.

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Verse 47,

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it says,

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and while he yet

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spake,

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lo,

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Judas,

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one of the 12 came

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and with him

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a great multitude

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with swords

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and staves

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from the chief priests

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and elders of the people.

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Now, he that betrayed him

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gave them a sign

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saying,

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Whomsoever I shall kiss,

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that same as he

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hold him fast

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and forthwith

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he came to Jesus

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and said,

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Hail master

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and kissed him

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and Jesus said unto him,

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Friend,

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wherefore art thou come?

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Then come they

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and laid hands

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on Jesus

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and took him.

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And you know,

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you have the betrayal

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of the kiss here

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by Judas Iscariot

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and you know,

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what does this symbolize?

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It symbolizes a closeness.

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You know, obviously Judas,

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he wasn't in the inner three.

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He wasn't like

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the best friend of Jesus,

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but he was a friend.

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Notice Jesus called him a friend.

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Jesus called him a friend.

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And that idea of the kiss

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obviously we're not

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talking about something

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faggity or weird.

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We're just talking about a

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greeting, right?

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And in the Bible

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and the Bible times

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in their culture,

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you know,

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it would have been like a handshake,

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right?

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It was something that

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they, you know,

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spent time together.

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They, you know,

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communed together.

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He considered him a friend

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and Judas

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just stabs him right in the back.

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He's the one

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that brings

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all the people to Jesus

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to bind him

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and take him

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before the rulers.

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And you know,

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the reality is that

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they're going to be people

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that pretend to be your friend.

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You know,

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and this does hurt.

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This is something that

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it's not fun to go through.

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You have somebody

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just backstab you,

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somebody you considered

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close

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or somebody

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that you invested in,

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somebody who you cared about,

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and then they just turn right around

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and just stab you in the back.

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You know,

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and I'm bringing this up again

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because I want us

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not to be offended

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when things like this happen.

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Yeah.

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I mean,

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unfortunately,

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they're bad people

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in this world.

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They're pretenders,

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they're posers

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and we will see

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or experience

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getting stabbed

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in the back by people.

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Go to Psalm 41.

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You know,

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maybe some of you

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have already experienced

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that in this church.

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You know,

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we've had

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you know,

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different transitions

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where,

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you know,

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you have people coming

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and going,

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people leaving,

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people being disgruntled.

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You know,

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people stabbing

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pastor in the back,

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you know,

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not being truthful,

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going over to his house

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and taking pictures

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of his house.

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What a psycho.

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What a freak.

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And I just don't understand that.

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That's just something

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that just like

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does not make any sense to me.

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But you know,

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it's just in the heart

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of wicked people.

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You know,

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wicked people

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are devising.

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They're feigning themselves

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just men

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to get close to people,

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just like Judas did.

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Notice in Psalm 41

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and verse nine.

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It says,

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Ye mine own familiar friend

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in whom I trusted,

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which did eat of my bread,

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hath lifted up his heel against me.

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You know,

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it really sucks

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to put your confidence

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and trust in somebody

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that you consider a friend

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and then they just

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stab you in the back.

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You invite them over to dinner,

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you spend time with them,

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you invest in them,

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you pray for them,

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you do all these things for them

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and then they just

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stab you in the back.

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Man, that hurts.

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That's a terrible feeling.

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You know,

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and it can make people jade.

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I understand why people get jaded

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when it comes to friends.

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You know,

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and we should not be people

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that are just quick

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to turn on our friends.

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You know,

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we should be people

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who are loyal to our friends.

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You know,

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we look at the people

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that you consider a friend.

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Hey,

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even if they do something

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that you don't like,

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hey,

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don't go around spreading that

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garbage to other people.

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You know,

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if it's such a bad offense,

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just go directly to them.

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Just talk to them about it.

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They're your friend.

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I mean,

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that's the person you should talk to,

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especially if they've offended you.

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If they're your friend,

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they're going to understand.

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They're probably going to feel bad about it.

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They're probably going to be able

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to reconcile that with you.

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How wicked is it for you

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to just go and just trash

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that person to somebody else,

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right,

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behind their back?

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You know,

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and unfortunately,

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you see this a lot.

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You know,

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people are fickle.

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You know,

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people are not very faithful.

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People are not very loyal.

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And it's a really bad quality.

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It's a bad characteristic.

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And something that none of us

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should want to,

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you know,

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to be that.

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We don't want to be that person.

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Right.

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And honestly,

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you do that,

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you backstab people enough.

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Listen,

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it's going to come back around to you.

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You're going to get what's coming to you.

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Go to 2 Samuel chapter 20.

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2 Samuel chapter number 20.

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Look at another example of this.

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Here's another poser,

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Pretender Joe Wab.

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Joe Wab is a really famous poser

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in the Bible.

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And again,

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he's one of those characters

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in the Bible

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that he's a complex character.

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You know,

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he does some good things.

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He does some things that are right.

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Ultimately,

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I don't think the guy is a good guy.

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I think he's got a bad heart.

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He only cares about himself.

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And he's not a very good friend.

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Now,

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notice what the Bible says

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in 2 Samuel chapter 20.

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2 Samuel chapter 20 verse 9.

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It says,

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And Joe Wab said to Amasa,

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now,

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Amasa's basically

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been given the opportunity to be the,

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basically the general of David's army.

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Okay.

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And David had a mercy on him.

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He had grace

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because he kind of got caught up with Absalom.

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And he basically

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makes him the chief of his army.

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And if you kind of study who Amasa is,

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he's basically the cousin of Joe Wab.

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It's Joe Wab's cousin.

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Like their family.

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Right.

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It's not just that they're friends,

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they're family.

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He's basically the daughter of Zaria's sister.

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Right.

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And if you know anything

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about the Old Testament

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in the life of David,

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it's like there were three brothers

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that were kind of just this burden to him.

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They're great fighters,

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warriors,

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but they're kind of a burden.

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And he always kept saying,

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he's sons of Zaria.

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Right.

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You're constantly this burden unto me.

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And he's talking about Joe Wab,

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Abashai and Azahil.

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And so for one,

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I think Joe Wab probably gets a little disgruntled

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because Amasa is made the chief

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of the armies of David.

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And that's probably the position that Joe Wab wanted.

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Joe Wab liked to be in that position.

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He liked to have the preeminence.

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And that's kind of just myself reading into

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a lot of the texts there.

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It seems to be that's maybe the reason.

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Also, just maybe it's envy too.

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You know, he sees his cousin

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getting some love from his uncle David.

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And, you know, he wants to be in that position.

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But notice what he says.

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He says, and Joe Wab said to Amasa,

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art thou and health my brother.

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So even a family member,

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like he's coming to him.

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And he's feigning himself to actually care about him.

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Right? He doesn't actually care about Amasa.

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He cares nothing about him.

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And we're going to see this here in a minute.

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But he's calling him brother.

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He's asking about his health.

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He's seeming to be somebody who is genuine or sincere.

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And it goes on.

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It says, and Joe Wab took Amasa by the beard

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with the right hand to kiss him.

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Notice again, the Judas Ascariot kiss.

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This betrayal where he pulls him in close.

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It's kind of a picture of somebody who is caring for them.

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He, you know, is trying to act like he's sincere

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about his love for his family member.

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So he pulls him in close to greet him, to embrace him.

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Verse 11, verse 10, it says,

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But Amasa took no heed to the sword

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that was in Joe Wab's hand.

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So he smote him therewith in the fifth rib

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and shout out his bowels to the ground

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and struck him not again and he died.

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So Joe Wab and Abishai, his brother,

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pursued after Sheba the son of Ikrai.

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See, Joe Wab wanted to be the guy

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who brought Sheba the son of Ikrai to justice, right?

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He wanted to be the guy that went out

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and did the work that Amasa was supposed to do.

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And again, maybe I am reading a little bit into it,

59:40.280 --> 59:42.060
but to me it seems like Joe Wab

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was pretty envious of Amasa.

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He wanted his position.

59:46.600 --> 59:47.380
He didn't like it.

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So what did he do?

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He stabs him in the back.

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And this is a brutal killing

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because the Bible says that a lot of the men saw what happened, right?

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Masses literally on the side of,

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he's in the middle of the road,

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just like bloods just coming out of his mouth

01:00:01.580 --> 01:00:03.720
and they have to like drag him off the road.

01:00:04.180 --> 01:00:06.360
So it was a very public thing that he did.

01:00:06.660 --> 01:00:08.120
He just stabbed him in the back,

01:00:08.380 --> 01:00:11.980
just no conscience whatsoever, you know?

01:00:12.080 --> 01:00:13.320
And that's why I don't think Joe Wab

01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:14.700
was probably a pretty good guy.

01:00:14.700 --> 01:00:15.680
I don't think he saved.

01:00:16.460 --> 01:00:18.540
And it seems like he's somebody who had a double heart.

01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:20.740
He's somebody who, you know,

01:00:20.780 --> 01:00:22.660
people who like to flatter and have a double heart,

01:00:22.900 --> 01:00:25.120
those are people you want to really be careful

01:00:26.140 --> 01:00:29.960
because usually inside they're full of iniquity.

01:00:30.180 --> 01:00:31.440
They're full of, you know,

01:00:33.520 --> 01:00:35.300
just a very corrupt sinful nature,

01:00:35.640 --> 01:00:37.680
just really hating people.

01:00:38.500 --> 01:00:41.260
And, you know, these are dangerous people to be around.

01:00:41.540 --> 01:00:43.240
Go to Proverbs chapter number 26.

01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:45.880
Proverbs chapter number 26,

01:00:46.020 --> 01:00:46.580
the Bible says,

01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:48.840
faithful are the wounds of a friend,

01:00:49.620 --> 01:00:51.740
but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

01:00:52.900 --> 01:00:55.100
You know, and sometimes this is going to be hard to see

01:00:55.100 --> 01:00:58.400
because, you know, I believe that we should all

01:00:58.860 --> 01:01:00.520
give people the benefit of the doubt.

01:01:01.020 --> 01:01:04.200
You know, and we should want to have close friends.

01:01:04.720 --> 01:01:05.720
You know, I was thinking about this,

01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:08.900
it's like we shouldn't let Judas cost you the Jonathan.

01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:10.060
Right?

01:01:10.600 --> 01:01:15.120
Jonathan was a great friend to David, right?

01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:18.900
He was like his, they were of the, you know,

01:01:19.160 --> 01:01:20.820
they just loved each other greatly, right?

01:01:20.900 --> 01:01:21.620
They were great friends.

01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:23.840
I can't, I kind of forget how the Bible words it,

01:01:23.860 --> 01:01:25.440
but the Bible indicates like,

01:01:25.500 --> 01:01:29.180
hey, they were just super close, great friends.

01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:31.780
But, you know, he also had people who backstabbed him.

01:01:32.600 --> 01:01:33.740
You know, you have Hithafel,

01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:36.640
Absalom, his own son, Joab.

01:01:37.380 --> 01:01:39.120
I mean, you have many people who backstabbed David.

01:01:39.120 --> 01:01:41.300
But, you know, we should allow the Judas

01:01:41.300 --> 01:01:43.460
to cost us the Jonathan in our life.

01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:44.920
You know, I will be honest,

01:01:45.020 --> 01:01:46.520
this is something that I probably struggle with

01:01:46.520 --> 01:01:47.980
is I just don't, you know,

01:01:48.060 --> 01:01:50.240
I struggle with allowing people to get really close to me.

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You know?

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And I don't think that's a good thing.

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Like we should have good friends.

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We should have people that we're close with.

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But the reality is, and I don't want you to be offended,

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but when you do that, guess what?

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There are going to be some wicked people

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that will flatter you,

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and they'll have a double heart

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and they will stab you in the back.

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You know, and the more you serve God,

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the higher those chances become.

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And that's just the reality.

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If you make a choice,

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if you draw a line in the sand and say,

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hey, I'm not crossing this line,

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I'm not going into sin,

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I'm not going to live like the rest of this world,

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I'm going to be conformed into the image of Christ,

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guess what?

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Your chances of being backstabbed,

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of being persecuted,

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of experiencing a Judas Iscariot kissing you,

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if you will, backstabbing you,

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it only goes up.

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Right?

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But we should not allow that to discourage us

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from making close friends,

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or being close with people.

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We don't want to get that attitude.

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And we just have to have the solace of realizing

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that God is going to take care of these people.

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Hey, God is going to take care of the backstabber.

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He's going to be on our side

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if we're just doing what's right.

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If we're sincere,

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we're doing things with honesty and truth,

01:03:01.660 --> 01:03:03.180
and we're doing things in the light,

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hey, God is going to be on our side.

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Notice what the Bible says in verse number 24.

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It says,

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He that hath dissembleth with his lips,

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so dissembleth just means to deceive.

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Right?

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So the person that hates you

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is going to deceive you with their mouth,

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with their words.

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They're going to say,

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aren't thou in health, my brother?

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Right?

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They're going to try to draw close to you,

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but they're not actually sincere.

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These are wicked people.

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It says in verse 25,

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when he speaketh fair,

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believe him not,

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for there are seven abominations in his heart.

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You see, the Bible is painting this picture

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of people who flatter,

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people who have a double heart.

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They're very wicked people.

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These are dangerous people.

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You know?

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And if you catch somebody

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with a double heart or flattering you,

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hey, you should remove yourself far from that person

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because you need to understand

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that that person is somebody

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who has an evil heart.

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There's somebody that can do a lot of damage.

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Notice in verse 26,

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it says,

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whose hatred is covered by deceit.

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So they'll smile.

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They'll act like they like you.

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They'll come up to you.

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They'll come and eat at your table

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and tell you all kinds of good things.

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But then they're just waiting

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for that moment to stab you in the back.

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Whose hatred is covered by deceit.

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His wickedness shall be showed

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before the whole congregation.

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And that's the soulless,

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is even though they might have a double heart,

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and they might be able to do some damage,

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guess what?

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We're all going to eventually figure it out.

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We're all going to,

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they're going to expose themselves.

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We're all going to know exactly who that person is.

01:04:42.540 --> 01:04:45.680
You know, I think of this idiot Daniel Hernandez,

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isn't that his name?

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What a piece of trash.

01:04:49.600 --> 01:04:50.280
What a joke.

01:04:52.660 --> 01:04:55.320
You know, try to get as close to Pastor Anderson

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as you possibly can

01:04:56.520 --> 01:04:58.360
and then just stab him right in the back.

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What a wicked person.

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That guy, I mean, what I've heard,

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you know, I listened to the sermons in Massa.

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That guy sounds like a faggot.

01:05:09.160 --> 01:05:09.940
You know, he sounds like

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he's got seven abominations in his heart.

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What a wicked person

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to deceive people to symbolize with your lips.

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Listen, man, these are people

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that are very wicked people.

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These are people that are very dangerous.

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But notice what the Bible says in verse 27.

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Whoso dig at the pitch,

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shall fall therein.

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And he that rolled the stone,

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it will return upon him.

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Listen, if you're somebody who has a double heart

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and just a fake person,

01:05:37.400 --> 01:05:39.060
a poser, a pretender,

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and you're backs that many people in the back,

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guess what?

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Your antics are going to come back around to you.

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It's going to come right back around.

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You dig that pit,

01:05:48.060 --> 01:05:49.180
you're going to fall in that pit.

01:05:49.860 --> 01:05:50.960
You're going to be exposed.

01:05:54.380 --> 01:05:56.880
You know, maybe he'll pull somebody over

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and, you know,

01:05:58.620 --> 01:06:00.060
because apparently the guy's a cop, right?

01:06:00.820 --> 01:06:02.320
Well, maybe you'll pull the wrong person over.

01:06:03.100 --> 01:06:04.060
You know, that'll have a gun

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and be willing to use it.

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Some gangster.

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That's not a poser, a pretender.

01:06:10.460 --> 01:06:11.480
Hey, I wouldn't be,

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I wouldn't shed a tear.

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Lying reprobate.

01:06:17.080 --> 01:06:19.020
You know, we need to have the right type of mentality

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when it comes to these people, you know?

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You know, our eyes should not pity.

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And we shouldn't look at people

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that are like this

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and have a soft spot in our heart,

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Tommy McMurtry.

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I mean, what kind of a freak and weirdo

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is going to have a soft spot

01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:35.500
in their heart for a pedophile?

01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:38.660
For a betrayer, for a backstabber.

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Give me a break.

01:06:42.020 --> 01:06:42.720
You know, these people,

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they're going to get what's coming to them.

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Notice in verse 28, it says,

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a lying tongue hated those that are afflicted by it

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and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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You know, these people,

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they're just out for destruction.

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They want to cause violence.

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They want to separate families.

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They want to do just the most harm possible.

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The wicked, you know?

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And we should have the right mentality,

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realizing, hey, you know what?

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These things are going to happen.

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These things are going to be evident in my life.

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The more I want to serve God,

01:07:13.180 --> 01:07:14.840
the more righteous I want to try to be,

01:07:15.200 --> 01:07:18.240
the more Christ-like I want to try to be,

01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:20.460
that these things are going to happen.

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We should see these things.

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And when we see them,

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I don't want you to get offended.

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I don't want you to be discouraged

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or to think like, oh, well, now I can't go to church anymore.

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Why would I serve God when there's people like this at church?

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And you hear this a lot from the world.

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A lot of people won't go to church

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because they've been hurt in church.

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They've had somebody do something evil to them

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or backstab them.

01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:52.020
All manner of things.

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And it could be a legitimate reason to be disgruntled

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or to be upset,

01:07:57.140 --> 01:07:59.280
but it's not a legitimate reason to forsake God.

01:08:00.300 --> 01:08:01.520
You know, we should serve God

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and realize that this life is going to be filled

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with a lot of wicked people

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that we're going to have to deal with.

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And we shouldn't allow that to not...

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You know, to put ourselves in a position

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where we don't let people get close to us.

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Go to Matthew 10 in there.

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Go to Matthew chapter number 10.

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Matthew chapter number 10.

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Verse number 16.

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The Bible says,

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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.

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So think about this.

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Jesus, he's sending...

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And of course we're talking about soul winning here

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in the context.

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He's sending them out two by two.

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But he says that he's sending them out

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as sheep in the midst of wolves.

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He's letting them know,

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hey, there's going to be evil people.

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You're going to be serving alongside of around.

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You're going to come in contact with.

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Notice what he tells them.

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He says, Be therefore wise as serpents

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and harmless as doves.

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We should be wise in realizing,

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hey, these are the things that are going to happen.

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People are going to be wicked.

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You know, they're going to be posers and pretenders.

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But at the same time,

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we should also be harmless as doves.

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Right?

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We should think the best about people

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and tell us just obvious that they're,

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you know, somebody who's wicked.

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That they're a backside.

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We should try to get people to benefit from the doubt.

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We should try to love people.

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We should allow people to get close to us,

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to be friends with them.

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And just realize that, you know what?

01:09:31.390 --> 01:09:33.150
If you get backstabbed,

01:09:33.230 --> 01:09:34.890
you know, it just means that you're in the same company

01:09:34.890 --> 01:09:35.270
as Christ.

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And, you know, that's something to at least kind of

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look back on and be like, all right,

01:09:41.390 --> 01:09:42.690
well, at least I know I'm doing the right thing.

01:09:43.050 --> 01:09:45.130
You know, at least I'm in good company

01:09:45.130 --> 01:09:47.830
and realizing that even Christ was betrayed.

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Even Christ was backstabbed.

01:09:50.190 --> 01:09:52.890
And so I think it's okay if you allow yourself

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to be a little bit vulnerable.

01:09:54.650 --> 01:09:56.390
Allow yourself to think good about people,

01:09:56.790 --> 01:09:59.430
not be jaded, to be friends with people

01:09:59.430 --> 01:10:01.170
and just understand that if it happens,

01:10:01.370 --> 01:10:02.610
hey, at least you're in good company.

01:10:03.990 --> 01:10:08.370
And so, again, posers and pretenders abound

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in the Christian life.

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We're going to see it happen time and time again,

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but let us not be moved by those things.

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That's the end of word of prayer.

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Dear Heavenly Father,

01:10:16.510 --> 01:10:17.850
God, thank you for your word

01:10:17.850 --> 01:10:19.550
and just the comfort that it brings

01:10:19.550 --> 01:10:22.010
and understanding that, you know,

01:10:22.010 --> 01:10:23.790
your son suffered many of these things

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and, yeah, even worse things

01:10:25.150 --> 01:10:28.290
than most likely any of us will ever go through.

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God, I pray that you would help us

01:10:30.270 --> 01:10:32.810
to be wise as serpents on this topic,

01:10:33.150 --> 01:10:35.150
realize that there's posers and pretenders, Lord,

01:10:35.270 --> 01:10:37.610
but that we would also be harmless as doves, Lord,

01:10:37.690 --> 01:10:41.470
that we wouldn't stop trying to be Christ-like,

01:10:41.610 --> 01:10:44.430
that we wouldn't stop trying to be charitable

01:10:44.430 --> 01:10:47.390
and loving and good brothers and sisters

01:10:47.390 --> 01:10:50.130
to our fellow brethren here in the church

01:10:50.780 --> 01:10:55.490
that we would allow ourselves to still make good friends

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and to spend our life together serving

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alongside other good people to give you honor and glory.

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We pray these things in your son's name. Amen.