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Amen. First Corinthians chapter number 13, the verse that I want you to see is verse

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number 13 that says this, and now, by the faith, hope, charity, these three. But the

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greatest of these is charity. And the title of my sermon is this, the severity of charity.

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The severity of charity. And the purpose of my sermon is to remind God's people

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this morning on the importance of charity. How serious it is, how crucial it is, and how

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having true love towards one another is what God wants us to have, and He wants to make

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sure that we're actually having the love of Christ, not the love of the world. Amen.

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And also to remind people just how serious God expects us to love one another, and to

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care for one another, and to remind God's people as well that charity is not optional.

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You know, charity is a commandment. So if there's somebody here who loves the word

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of God, reads their Bible, loves so many, but you have a problem loving others, you

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have to work on that. You have to fix that. And the same way you can build your faith

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is the same way you can build your love or your charity is by just looking at the

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word of God and believing it, trusting it, and obeying it. So the first point I want

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to make is this. I want to talk about the severity of charity. How important is

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charity? How serious is charity? How crucial is charity? Well, it says right there

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that it's the greatest of all these. These what? Let's take a look at the list.

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It says, and now by the faith. And faith is very important. It is crucial. What is

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faith? Simply trusting God. Faith is super important. Hebrews 11.6, but without

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faith, it is impossible to please Him. Why is it so important to please God?

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Because if you don't please Him, guess what? He's not going to bless you. He's

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not going to protect you. He's not going to pardon you. He's not going to

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provide for you. Why? Because if you're not exercising faith, you're in

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sin. And you cannot win with sin. And if you have sin in your life, you got to get

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rid of it. Got to get rid of it. When people call an extra counsel, first thing

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to start telling them, got to start getting rid of the sin. Got to start

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getting rid of it. Yeah, we can talk about the basics, but we got to look at

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sin first. Got to get rid of everything you know is sinful. And as God

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reveals more to you, you got to get rid of it. It's not worth keeping. It's

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going to curse your life. Got to get rid of it. What is hope? Hope is

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suspecting God to keep His promises. For example, Psalms 37, 25, I have been

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young and now in mode. Yet I have not seen the righteous, forsaken, nor

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recede begging bread. And let me tell you something right now. The economy is

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just going to get worse and worse and worse. How bad? I don't know. Just

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give me the heads up. If you're waiting for $2 a gallon for gasoline, I'm

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going to say $2.87. Then eight until Donald Trump gets replaced. Why? Because the

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Iranian, they own this. In case you haven't figured it out, they practically

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won the whole thing. And they're not releasing any oil. So we're going through

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our reserves right now. Just so you know, innate assets are super, super low.

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The reason hasn't gotten up to seven or eight bucks so far is because we do

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have reserve oil in the US. It's not designed for wars, though. Absolutely

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not. It's designed for natural disasters, earthquakes, floods, you name it. So

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So if some facility gets taken out,

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we have reserves to be able to use and keep the price low.

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But at the end of the day, hey,

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we don't know what's gonna happen.

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And of course, if gas goes up, everything else goes up.

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Your food, your water, your electricity, you name it.

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But one thing I can guarantee you,

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no matter how bad the economy gets,

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I mean, who knows what'll happen tomorrow?

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I can lose everything, you can lose everything.

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We don't know, but one thing I can guarantee you

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is I will never be begging bread.

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Never.

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I trust God enough to believe this verse,

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but what is hope?

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Hope is expecting that it's gonna come true.

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That's what hope is.

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It says, never seen the righteous forsaken,

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nor his see begging bread.

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We ain't begging no one,

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and long as we stay righteous.

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This is some good motivation to stay righteous, is it not?

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Hey, it's time to get rid of that sin.

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Because if you're not a righteous person,

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you will be begging bread.

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Your kids will be begging bread.

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And there's countless examples in the Bible

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of people that have forsaken the Lord

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and they didn't go well for them.

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Let me just give you more Bible verses

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so you can see what I'm talking about.

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Proverbs 30, 17, the eye of the market that his father

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and the spices to obey his mother,

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the ravens of the valley shall pick it out

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and the young eagles shall eat it.

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So bottom line, anybody that mocks their father

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and the spices to obey their mother,

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you can take it to the bank, you will be punished.

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May it not be today, may it not be tomorrow.

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Yeah, go ahead and get caught and see what happens.

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I'll give you 10 years tops

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before something bad really happens to you.

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Why? Because God is that patient.

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God is that merciful.

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God is that love suffering.

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He's not willing that any shall perish

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but that all shall come to repentance.

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So I believe the word of God

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and I have hope that anybody that mocks their mother,

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disobeys their mother, mocks their father,

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I know something bad is gonna happen to that kid.

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I'm not a gambling man,

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but where's poly market when you need it?

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If you don't know what poly market is,

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is this gambling website, you can gamble on anything.

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You can gamble where the President Trump

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is gonna go to sleep in the next meeting.

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You can gamble whatever, you know, you name it.

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I'm gonna gamble that, hey,

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anybody who mocks their father that we know of,

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poly market, I don't have any money

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so I can't put anything down.

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But if I did, I will put everything down

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because I'm confident that guess what?

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I have hope that this will happen to anyone.

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Anyone that mocks their father,

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anyone that mocks their mother is a done deal.

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It's gonna happen.

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I have that hope.

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I also know that every wicked person out there

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has no peace.

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Yeah, they can smile.

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Go ahead and smile.

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Go ahead and live your wicked little life.

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But I know you ain't got no peace.

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I know you don't.

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Why?

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Because the Bible says it.

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There is no peace, saith the Lord unto the wicked.

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This is why these wicked people like to harass.

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This is why they'll call you at 11 p.m.

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Why?

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Because Parish 414 says this,

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enter knighted to the path of the wicked

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and go not in the way of evil man.

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Avoid it, pass not by it,

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turn from it and pass away.

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For they sleep not except they have done mischief.

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And their sleep is taken away

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unless they cost some to fall.

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Christians, unbelievers, when they're in wickedness,

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they want people to fall.

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They cannot go to sleep until they cost some kind of harm.

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They're envious, they're mad.

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Oh, they're big mad fam, they're big mad.

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And they have so much peace,

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then why are you bugging us?

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I don't think about you,

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but you sure like to think about us?

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I need help, like yo, bro, what was the guy's name

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that we kicked out that wicked dude?

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Yeah, that's his name,

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because just like wicked people

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don't like to retain God in their knowledge,

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I don't like to retain wicked people in my knowledge.

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I absolutely don't.

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So what is love?

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What is charity?

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Simply put, loving others the way Christ loved us.

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Simple enough, here's a verse.

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John 13, 34 says this,

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a new commandment I give unto you

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that ye love one another, how?

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However you want, you decide, it's up to you.

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Will you consider love?

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Nope, that's not what the verse says.

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This is what it says, that ye love one another

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as I have loved you.

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That ye also love one another.

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Notice he didn't say, a new suggestion I give unto you,

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a new idea I give unto you.

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What's it say?

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A new commandment I give unto you

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that ye love one another as I have loved you.

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You're still there in 1 Corinthians 13.

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Let's take a look at verse one.

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It says, though I speak with the tongues of man

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and of angels.

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What does it mean when it says tongues?

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Let's just keep it simple.

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It means language, language.

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Not some weird noise that you make with your tongue.

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Sorry, I can't do my tongue speaking as good as they can.

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But I hope you get the point.

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Let me just kind of talk about that real quick.

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Who's been here for less than six months?

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Who has been saved for less than a month?

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Anybody, anybody, anybody?

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All right, good.

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That's awesome.

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Well, let me just go over tongue

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since we're on the subject for a second.

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I'm gonna just take a side tour.

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Here's what I like to show people.

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Acts 2, 4 says this,

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and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

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So on Acts 2, they're all filled with the Holy Ghost

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and began to speak with other tongues

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as the Spirit gave them utterance.

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And when this noise, when this was the noise brought,

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the multitude came together and were confounded

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because that every man heard them speak

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in his own language, language.

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So tongues of man, that's just languages, languages.

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And that's a cool thing to know a lot of languages.

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I speak Spanish or what I consider, Spanglish.

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Where's brother John at?

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John at, he knows what I mean by Spanglish.

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He goes out with me and he speaks Spanish.

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And he's like, bro,

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some of your words, I don't understand what you're saying.

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Oh, bro, it's Spanglish.

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Don't even worry about it.

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It's like, hey, at least I get the job done.

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But hey, don't listen to everything I say.

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I don't even know the alphabet in Spanish, okay?

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But it's awesome because you can give more people same.

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Especially if you speak Spanish in this area,

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you have way more opportunities.

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So if anybody's interested in learning a language,

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please put French for your like eternal afterlife

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during the millennium, learn French during those times.

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The best language is Spanish in my opinion,

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because half the world speaks it.

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And in this area, you kinda need it.

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So if you're gonna invest time learning the language,

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German is great, French is great.

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I don't know what other languages people think are cool.

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I don't know, Swahili is great, but come on now, people.

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Common sense says, if you're gonna waste your life,

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waste it on Spanish, if you're gonna continue

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to come to faithful word baptism church,

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look where you're at, little Mexico.

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It's like every other door, no habla, no habla,

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no habla, no habla in English.

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And they're like, bro, it's a girl, come on down, man.

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I need some help.

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And I think it's possible to just pray

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for the ability to speak the tongues of men.

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That is a great gift, that is an awesome gift.

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Man, I wish everybody could speak Spanish,

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especially in this area, but still,

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what does the Bible say?

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It says this, it says if you speak,

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it's like, though I speak with tongues of men

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and of angels and have not charity,

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I am become a sounding brass or tinkling cymbal.

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What the heck does that mean?

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Bottom line, if you're a person

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that doesn't have love for others,

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you don't have charity, you're just loud and annoying.

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That's who you are.

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Because you're the type of guy that gets puffed up,

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you get high on your own supply,

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you don't care about others,

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and you're the one that's picking on others.

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You're the one that's bringing other sins up

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as much as you can.

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Why?

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To bring people down, to make yourself look good,

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and that's somebody who's not a loving person

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and we're about to find out as soon

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as we continue this sermon, amen?

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People that don't have charity,

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honestly are the most annoying people on the planet.

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Why?

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Because they just think about themselves,

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they don't think of others,

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and they constantly want to brag about themselves,

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they constantly want to elevate themselves,

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they constantly want to be the big show,

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they constantly want to be the center of attention,

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and the perfect example of that

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is our president, Donald J. Trump.

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Good night.

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If you don't want to think about him,

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he'll start a world war.

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He'll start two wars, three wars, four wars.

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I mean, how many wars has he started so far?

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Eight?

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You got Venezuela, you got Iran,

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I heard that he bombed Nigeria,

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why are you bombing Nigeria?

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He's bombing Nicaragua,

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he's thinking of, well, he's starving Cuba,

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and of course, if no one's talking about him,

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he'll begin to blow up the moon or something.

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He'll be like, Elon, we need to send some nuclear weapons

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into space, Elon.

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Mr. President, why is that?

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Because no one's talking about me.

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Just say two words, Epstein files,

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they'll talk about you.

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In case you haven't figured it out.

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But bottom line is that we need to be loving people.

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The Bible says this in Proverbs 10, 12,

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Hatred stirs up stripes, but love covereth all sins.

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It doesn't mean we're covering people's murder.

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It doesn't mean we're covering people who are railing.

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It doesn't mean we're covering thieves.

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We're not doing those things.

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It says that, hey, people that love other people

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don't bring up their stuff.

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Don't bring up their past mistakes.

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Because that's the person that has charity.

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That's the person that I like hanging out with.

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Somebody that actually cares about me.

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I mean, I hang out with you if you care about me or not,

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but at the same time,

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it's always cool when you care about other people

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just to let you know.

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First Peter 4-8 says this,

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and above all things, all things,

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more than faith, more than hope,

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have fervent charity among yourselves.

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For a charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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Proverbs 17-9 says this,

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he that covered the transgression seeketh love.

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Why don't I gossip about you?

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Why don't I say things that I know about you to other people?

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Why am I not a little tale-bearer,

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a little tattle-teller, whatever the case?

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Because I care.

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I don't want to hurt no one.

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And if I end up doing it, hey, I'm in the wrong.

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And I'm human, so I'm sure I have.

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And I probably will again.

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But if I catch myself, I need to slap myself.

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Amen?

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And say, bro, that's not a loving thing to do.

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What you doing?

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When you talk smack about your spouse,

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your friends, your pastor, pastors wise,

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I mean the assistant, don't let me catch you.

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Then it's all like Donkey Kong.

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Everybody else talks smack about me.

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Watch out, now I'm just kidding.

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But that's the thing about how severe,

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how important, how crucial having charity is.

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You will not succeed as a Christian.

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If you want to be a pastor,

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you need to have that big time.

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Because you're going to have all kinds

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of people walking through.

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And you can't be that person that rejects people

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right out to go just by the way they look.

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If that was the case in my first church,

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my first independent fundamental King James,

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only so many about this church,

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I probably never would have gone back.

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And let me be honest with you,

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I wasn't given the best vibes when I showed up.

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I was using profanity, I just got out the military.

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The F word was in every sentence

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and I didn't even know it.

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I struggled with it.

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I was trying to go to church,

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trying to improve myself.

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I started to learn to preaching

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and that's what kept me going.

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Besides the love that the pastor was showing me

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right out the go, he was showing me love.

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He was showing me respect,

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thanking me for coming,

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asking me if he can do anything for me.

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I'm like, no, I already did enough, man.

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Showing me how to go to heaven, that was awesome.

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I just came to check out Christianity.

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My first day I showed up looking like I belong.

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I don't even know.

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Like with some gang in Oakland, California,

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because I was just decked out in Oakland Raiders attire.

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And it wasn't cool attire.

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I was all puffed up.

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I mean, I wanted the attention.

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I could give Donald Trump a run for his money.

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I showed up with the biggest, puffiest,

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widest, most reflective jacket you can think of

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that says Oakland Raiders.

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Don't believe me, ask my wife, she was there.

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And she's like, look at this fool.

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It's got the beanie, the bandana under the beanie,

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the baggy pants, Mexican M&M over here.

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But what if they would have started mocking me?

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What if they would have started talking trash?

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What if I would have caught wind of it?

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I wouldn't be standing here by now.

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I would have got offended because I'm a baby in Christ.

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I would have left and be like,

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oh, these Christians are a bunch of trash talking,

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devil tongue, forget those people.

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But I'm glad that didn't happen.

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You know, it was one of the best days of my life

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going to that first service.

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I was like, wow, this stuff's in the Bible, you know?

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And it was the greatest day of my wife's

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outside of salvation because when she first saw me,

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amen, I made it easy, big puffy white jacket.

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And outside the pastor said,

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sir, in the very back with the big puffy white jacket,

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I'm like, oh.

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But they didn't talk trash, but they did warn though.

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They were wise enough when my wife

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was talking to the pastor about me

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because I started talking to the pastor.

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He was getting to know me.

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She's like, hey, you know,

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what do you think about this guy, pastor?

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What do you think of Brother Shigura?

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He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, please no.

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Hey, give him time.

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He has a big problem with the F word.

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He's like, let's just hang on, stand by.

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Let's just wait a little bit.

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So the pastor told my wife, stay away from Brother Shigura.

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Not to my face, but they were closer.

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She already been a longtime church member,

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been going there for a while.

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And obviously she just wants to be friendly and date me,

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but that's another story.

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And she's like, hey pastor,

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what do you think of me being friendly with homeboy?

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not yet.

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Give him time, who knows?

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He may be a Roman candle Christian, he's excited,

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he's coming every service, but who knows?

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He might just burn out, he's worldly,

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I'm gonna tell you that right now.

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Did you listen to what he was playing

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when he showed up in the parking lot?

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Where the music is at?

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The bump bump music is what he would call it.

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And he got mad at me one time

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and he was preaching behind the pulpit.

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And then he's like, next time somebody drives

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into my driveway blasting that crappy rap music,

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I'm just gonna go in your car and turn your vehicle off

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and maybe give you back the keys.

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He was talking about me.

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No one else was doing that.

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I mean, I had a nice bass system,

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oh man, my truck was decked out

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and my favorite music of choice was definitely rap

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and I just blasted that music as much as I could

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because I didn't know it was wrong.

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But I was growing little by little,

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but nobody was talking trash about me.

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Nobody was making me feel unwelcome.

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Nobody said anything that offended me.

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To my surprise, at least not in front of my face.

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Why?

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Because this church actually cared about people.

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And they gave me time

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and we should do the exact same thing.

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We should care about other people.

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Amen?

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Now let's talk about what kind of charity

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that Christ expects.

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I'm not sure where you're at,

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but it might as well send you somewhere.

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Let me send you to John 1513, John 1513.

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Don't worry, I'm not gonna preach that long.

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I'm 18 minutes in and I plan to finish

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in about 12 minutes.

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Psych.

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I got 12 pages.

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But don't worry, it's font size 20.

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So it's technically three pages.

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I'm just blind or I don't wanna go blind.

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So my second point is this is the charity

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that Christ expects.

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Christ commands us to love as he love does.

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You already saw John 1334 where he says,

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the new commandment of God went to you

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that you love one another as I have loved you,

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that you also love one another.

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But this all men should know that you are my disciples

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if you love one another.

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John 1512 says this, this is my commandment,

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that you love one another as I have loved you.

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Here's the thing, the greatest example of love

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is obviously Christ.

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John 153 says this, greater love has no man than this

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that a man laid down his life for his friends.

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That's a crazy verse.

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Cause that verse is saying, hey,

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if you're not willing to die for your friends,

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you need to level up.

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You need to step it up a little bit.

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And I don't know about you,

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but I know it's a hard thing to do.

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Even the Bible says that.

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For a good man, some would even dare to die.

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So we know that it's not an easy thing

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to put your life on the line,

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but it helps, it helps to live life

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when you realize, hey, others before me,

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that acronym, JOY, J-O-Y, Jesus Others Than You.

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Gotta remember that as much as humanly possible,

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I mean, when I was in the military,

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maybe I did, maybe I didn't,

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but I felt like I could die for any of my guys.

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I was constantly thinking that if the grenade comes,

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I'm gonna jump on it.

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Why?

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Cause I didn't really value my life that much.

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I wasn't married, so I was thinking to myself,

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well, if I die, who's really gonna miss me?

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If I die, I'd rather have my guys live.

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And I did happen to be saved when I went to war,

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so that made it even easier,

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because I was thinking if I die, I die,

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and guess where I'm gonna go?

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And even my brother, when he got saved,

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they were asking everybody, hey, are you guys scared?

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And he was like, nope.

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And they're like, what the heck?

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What's wrong with this cocky kid?

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And he straight up, they asked him,

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why aren't you scared?

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Cause if I die tonight, I'm going to heaven, Sergeant.

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That was his way of trying to preach the gospel.

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And I'm like, amen, cause I felt the same way.

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Not that I was suicidal in the military,

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but it was what it was.

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Sometimes when things got a little sketchy,

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I'm like, hey, let me take a look.

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Let me go around, let me kick that door down.

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Let me make sure if something's behind there,

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I get it first so y'all can live.

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Why? Because I was just trying to,

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I don't know, golden rule, I guess.

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You know, treat others the way.

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And I felt like, hey, I don't think

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any of my guys are saved.

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I wasn't super knowledgeable, but I knew one thing.

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I knew it was going to heaven when I was in combat.

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I knew one verse, or part of a verse,

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the gift of God is eternal life

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and knew it was by faith alone.

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You know, but then I read this verse

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and I'm like, whoa, I wasn't so crazy after all.

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I thought, man, if you love someone,

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you'd be willing to die for them.

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And here's the verse to prove it.

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So Christ, he did lay down his life for us.

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Therefore we ought to lay down our lives

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as well for the brethren.

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Doesn't say you have to, but we ought to,

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not necessarily by dying physically,

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but you can also sacrifice in other ways.

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Sacrifice with your time, sacrifice with your money.

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You know, sacrifice with whatever you can.

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You know, when I think about people

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that care about others, you know what?

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I think of a few members right out the go.

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And I don't want to embarrass anyone,

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but I'ma just start giving props when prophets are due.

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When I think about people that care

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and really care about others,

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I think of Mrs. Madison.

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I don't want to embarrass her,

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but man, she is faithful to the lady so many times

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all the time.

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And all the time she does it

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because she wants to help the other individual

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to be able to go so many and make it easy on them.

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And whenever there's some kind of conference,

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she's always jumping up,

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hey, what do you want me to do?

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What do you want me to do?

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Whatever, put up, take down, whatever the case.

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Always and always and always.

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Not just her, but Jenny as well.

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Jenny with the baby showers, the maternity showers.

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The only reason I know the difference

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is because of Jenny.

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Maternity, what is that?

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Baby shower, isn't it the same thing?

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No.

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Once for the mama, once for the baby.

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Thanks Jenny for squaring me away, amen.

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We're dudes, we think they're all the same.

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We don't know the difference, you know,

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until somebody explains it to us,

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but she's done so many of these

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that for crying out loud,

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it's kind of hard not to know the difference anymore.

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I can't get away with it like I used to.

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Baby shower, maternity shower,

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but it's a gravity, told you it's a baby shower

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this month.

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Okay, what's a maternity shower?

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That's for the mama.

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All right, all right, all right.

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Let's make it happen.

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But Philippians 2-3 says this,

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let nothing be done through strife or vain glory,

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but in loneliness of mine,

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let each esteem other better than themselves.

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Let not every man on his own things,

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but every man also on the things of others.

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Let this mind be in you,

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which was also in Christ Jesus.

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And when I think about those

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that have their minds on others,

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I ain't just recently just thinking about people.

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You know, where's our brother Fidel?

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Brother Fidel constantly is just

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going up to people saying hi,

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making their day, smiling at them.

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I don't know if he's here right now,

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he's probably counting.

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You know, but he's the type of guy

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that I think just loves to just

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be friendly, loves to make people's day.

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I mean, when I see him and he starts smiling

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and he's giving me a fist pump,

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it instantly helps me out.

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And I'm thinking, man, I want to be more like this guy.

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It's like, wow, that's kind of what I want.

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It's like, Lord, I want me to be more like brother Fidel.

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And when it comes to, I don't know,

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like just going above and beyond,

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you know, we had a brother, who is he?

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Man, where's he at?

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He just cleaned our windows,

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but his name is escaping my brain.

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There he is, my man with the tie over here.

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Colton, sorry, I'm up here trying

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to think of a hundred things at once.

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So brother Colton just sends me a text

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to say, brother girl, you know,

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when can I come by to clean the windows in the front door?

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I'm like, windows in the front door, what do you mean?

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I'm like, anytime you want, sure enough,

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he decides I'm going to sacrifice some time.

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He's showing some love, because I would like to do it,

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but sometimes I don't have time to do it.

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He gets in his car with three of his kids.

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He doesn't have a gigantic car.

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He just drives all the way over here

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and he goes above and beyond.

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I thought he was just going to get a spray bottle,

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some towels, start spraying, start wiping.

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I'm thinking, bro, you know, we can do it,

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but yeah, if you want to come,

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I'm not going to say no.

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You know, it's like, I could use the help,

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but he shows up and he's like ready for battle.

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Like he's putting on a belt, he's got a squeegee.

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He's like flipping his bottle.

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And I'm like, what the heck is this guy going to war

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with this window or what?

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And he's like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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All right, this will take a minute.

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Boys, go sit down on the couch.

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I got this, man, he went above and beyond.

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It looked great.

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And then we mess it all up.

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But that's the kind of guy that's sacrificing his time,

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he's sacrificing his energy, his convenience.

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He could be doing something else right now,

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but out of the blue he calls me,

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hey, I want to clean the windows.

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I'm like, come on by.

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So he took time out of his day and get in his car

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with $4 and 44 cents a gallon,

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drove all the way down here for what?

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To make our lives better by making it look nicer.

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And when things are clean,

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things are nice looking.

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Everybody benefits.

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Everybody starts feeling good,

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whether they know it or not.

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If this place was all trash,

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a morale will start going down quickly,

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like, ew, this place is a mess.

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But love isn't just talk.

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First John 3, 17,

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but who's will have this world's goods

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and see if his brother have need

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and shut up up his vows of compassion from them?

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How dwelleth the love of God in him?

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My little children, let us not love in word,

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neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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And listen, anyone can say I love you.

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True?

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But charity proves it through your actions, amen?

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And not just that, we gotta remember

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whether you like it or not,

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I'm pretty sure if you have it today,

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you'll have some tomorrow.

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The haters, the haters,

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those that absolutely hate your guts.

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I'm not talking about reprobates,

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I'm just talking about your enemies.

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Whether you like it or not,

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hey, you have to love them.

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You have to love them.

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As mad as they make you,

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as angry as they make you,

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as much as they try to destroy you,

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it is what it is.

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The verse is still there.

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We're supposed to love our enemies,

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do good for them, pray for them,

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and Jesus did it.

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Look 23, 34, then said Jesus,

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Father, forgive them,

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them, for they know not what they do.

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Who are the dem?

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The people that are putting him to death.

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Murders.

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These people weren't accidentally crucifying it.

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They were crucifying him because they hated him,

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because their deeds were evil

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and he was exposing them,

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but yet he still had enough charity

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to pray for his enemies.

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His murderers, they were crucifying him.

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He's not the only one.

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Joseph is one of my favorite stories.

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Joseph at age 17,

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all of his brothers were out to kill him.

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And except for one, Ruben.

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Ruben was trying to save his hide.

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He's like, don't do anything to him.

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Everyone else, if you're ever like, man,

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you know, there's this guy who just is out to get me.

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Like he just wants to kill me.

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Well, guess what?

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In the Bible, Joseph had more than one.

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He had a bunch.

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They tried to kill him and they were gonna kill him

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until they came through the census

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and the love of money took over.

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And they're like, hey, better than killing him,

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let's just sell him and make some money.

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But what happened?

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Years later, for 10 years he suffered.

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His brother's caused him suffering

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for 10 long, miserable years.

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And if you know the story of Joseph,

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he lost the best years of his life

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from 17, 18, 19, 20 up until 30.

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He was just a slave.

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He was imprisoned, falsely accused of rape.

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I mean, he could have just gave up

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and said, screw this life, screw serving God.

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I'm not interested anymore.

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I got 12 of my brothers.

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They all tried to kill me.

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What in the world?

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No longer can I be with my dad.

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I love my dad.

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Now I'll never see my dad again.

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Lord, I don't know what you're up to,

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but I'm sick of it.

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I'm done.

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I'm hanging myself tonight.

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But that's not what he did.

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That's not what he did.

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He kept on keeping on.

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He kept on pushing.

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He kept on going forward.

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And Joseph at age 17, all the way to whatever,

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he suffered and he suffered bad.

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And he didn't know when it was gonna end.

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Even when he was like,

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hey, guys, I told you your dreams, right?

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Don't forget about me.

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When you talk to Pharaoh,

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kind of mentioned my name to get me out of here.

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I was falsely accused

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and now I'm in prison for no reason.

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And he didn't know that we're gonna mention him.

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But God had a plan.

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And I don't know about you,

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but every time I read the Bible,

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those that stick with God,

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those that suffer, there's always a happy ending.

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Even if you look at Stephen in Acts chapter number seven,

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it was stone to death.

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Hey, the Bible says,

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Cluny, the God will give you the desires of your heart.

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Hey, he said,

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he said, Lord, you know, receive my spirit.

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He's like, hey, I'm coming to you.

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I wanna go.

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Maybe he realized just like the people in Hebrews,

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I don't wanna get delivered.

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Hey, there were saw on the Sunday,

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they were cut in half,

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they were made fun of.

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They're like, you know what is gonna be worth it.

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Why?

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Because they didn't just have faith.

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They had hope.

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And they never gave up hope.

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And as somebody who obviously has been serving God

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since 2003, there were times where I'm like,

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I don't know if I wanna continue.

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I don't know if I can live this life,

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but I'm glad I did.

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I'm glad I stuck with it.

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But besides your enemies,

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God wants us to serve each other.

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Mark 10, 45, for even the Son of Man came not to minister,

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came not to be ministered onto,

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but to minister and to give his life a ransom,

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not for some, but for many,

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for many God himself,

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he came to minister because he loved,

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he loved this creation

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and he didn't come to be ministered,

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he came to minister.

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And I think some of the greatest examples

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of people that had charity,

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obviously the good Samaritan.

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What did he do?

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Hey, a priest passed by the guy that was beat up,

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the Levi passed by to Samaritan.

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He stopped, he bandaged him,

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he carried him, he paid for him,

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he promised some more if they needed

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in order to get this guy back on his feet.

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And it was funny because I forgot

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I did a favor for Fidel

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and he was talking about,

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I forgot who you were talking to,

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where he's like, hey, Breast of Good,

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I know he loves me,

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you know what he did one day for me?

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And I'm not trying to boast,

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he already said it,

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but I totally forgot about this.

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He's like, one time I come to church

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and I go to the parking lot

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and I got a flat tire.

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Remember what we were saying?

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Who are we talking to?

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Moses.

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So he's like,

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let me tell you something about Breast of Good.

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And he's like, yeah, I got a flat tire.

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You know what Breast of Good does?

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He goes into his office,

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he gets the little, whatever,

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jack,

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he lifts it up,

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he takes the tire off,

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he throws it in his car,

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he takes it to the tire shop,

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he pays for the guy to fix it,

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then while they're fixing it,

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he takes me out to eat

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and then I realize he eats a lot,

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but he paid for my meal.

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Then when we went back to the shop,

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got the tire,

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went back to the building,

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he slapped it on there,

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makes it nice and tight,

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brings it down to jack,

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throws it in his office

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and says, hey bro,

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hey, you're knowing you, I guess.

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I don't know.

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What did I tell you after that?

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And I was like, I did that.

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Well, I guess I did.

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He said it, so it must have happened.

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But at the same time I'm thinking, bro,

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I did that because I love you, man.

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That's why I did that.

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Because I love you and golden rule.

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If I was in that situation,

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go to the parking lot,

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I got a flat tire,

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it's already gonna drive me crazy.

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So I knew they were going crazy.

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I'm like, bro, I'm gonna help this guy out.

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I happen to have the best jack in the world.

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Boom, bop, bop, bop.

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Makes it easy for me.

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Let me show you how easy it is

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with my jack that I have.

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Just a little side story.

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I don't know how many of you guys know

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that one day there were these guys trying to jack my van.

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They were trying to car jack my van

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outside of my office.

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And I heard a bunch of noise

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and I'm thinking to myself,

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what's going on out there?

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So I thought it was maybe the landscaper.

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I was like, what are the landscaper's doing?

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So I opened the door

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and this dude was like trying to like open my van door

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and I'm like, whoa.

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And then I'm like, dude,

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he looks at me all crazy

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and then there was another guy.

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I realized there were two guys

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and boom, they take off in the sprint.

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So I go back into my office.

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I'm like, what the heck just happened?

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So I'm looking through the windows like,

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bro, they were trying to steal my car.

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So they broke the handle.

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They're trying to get into my van.

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It's not even an expensive van, but whatever.

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So then I'm like, you know what?

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I'm just look around, make sure it's safe.

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Hey, I'm gonna call the police,

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but I wanna see if I can find them.

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And so sure enough,

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I end up getting in my van

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and then right before I turned it on,

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I looked to my left

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and I noticed this vehicle I've never seen before.

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And I'm like, whose vehicle is this?

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So then I had the window down.

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So I quickly got out while keeping a lookout

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and I look inside

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and they have my license plate in their car.

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So I opened it up and man, did the rage kick in.

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Like the hawk, like, ugh.

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So I opened it up, grabbed my plate

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and I threw it in my van.

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I'm like, you know what?

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You wanna play this game?

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I'll play this game.

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So I went to the back of my van,

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grabbed the jack, threw it underneath the car,

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lifted it up, took the tire off.

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I'm like, while looking around,

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I'm like, bam, bam, I'll take your tire

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and steal it from me, I'll steal it from you.

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I popped the tire out and then boom.

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I'm like, I wasn't even careful.

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I didn't care about their brake pass.

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I'm just like, boom.

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Bring, grabbed my thing, grabbed their tire.

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I'm like, I'm out.

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Open up my door, boom.

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Went inside, threw it into my office.

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Wow.

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Grabbed their plate and I'm like,

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in case they break my window,

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I'm gonna lock up their plate.

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So I threw it into my office, locked it up, boom.

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Got in my van, drove off, called 911.

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Hey, I wanna report car jacking.

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All these guys that were trying to jack my car.

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And I'm on the phone, what did it look like?

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Couldn't really tell, blah, blah, blah.

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Then the guy comes back.

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So I'm like, hey, the guy's coming back.

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He just jumped in his car.

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All right, we got some police officers.

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Boom, they show up really quick.

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They had nothing better to do.

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They light this guy up, he's in there.

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And sure enough, they start talking to him.

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Who knows what they say.

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And then the cops ended up driving up to me

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because I was in the back of the road.

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And they're like, yo bro, what happened?

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Man, they were trying to jack my vehicle.

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They were in, I was gonna take out car 911.

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I saw this vehicle was there.

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I looked inside and had my plate.

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So I got mad, I took the tire.

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They're like, what?

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Okay.

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Five minutes later, another cop comes up.

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Can you tell me what happened again?

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Bro, I already told you.

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These two were trying to jack my car.

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And then they took off.

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I noticed that their car, I took the tire.

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I'm like, okay.

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And then later it's like, bro,

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can you tell us the third time?

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I'm like, I took their tire.

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Okay, where's it at?

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It's in my office.

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Okay.

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And then sure enough, the guy that was inside,

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they're like, bro, where are you going?

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Oh, I'm just making a phone call.

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I was about to drive off.

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He's like, you didn't know you don't have a tire on?

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They're like, what?

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The guy comes out, looks at,

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didn't even know I took his tire.

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Then the cops later say, bro,

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we didn't mean to laugh so hard,

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but I've never heard of some carjackers

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having their tire jacked.

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While they're trying to carjack.

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So all three tempi-pedia officers

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just laughing their butts off.

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So you took their tire, took it in.

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The carjackers got their tire jacked

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by the person they were trying to jack.

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That's right.

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It's like, all right, we need the tire back.

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I'm like, all right, whatever.

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Where's the plate in my office?

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I gotta unlock it.

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Unlock it, here's their plate.

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Yeah, that's what I did.

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They took my plate, I took their plate.

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I had enough time somehow to grab a drill.

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Vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom.

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Take mine, I'll take yours.

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But that's why I was able to help brother Fidel.

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You know?

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Because I still had that jack.

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Worked pretty good, right?

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He's like, bro, the whole time he did all the work

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and he was in his suit.

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That's why I don't buy $1,000 suits

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because you never know when I have to change a tire.

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Right?

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All my clothes are from Amazon.

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But I did it because I love them

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and there's people here who have done so much for us

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because I'm sure you guys love us as well.

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And that's what God loves to see.

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And another person, obviously Stephen,

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he was stoned to death.

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Let's keep looking at other examples.

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Barnabas, he sold his land,

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gave the money to help believers.

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He didn't want any recognition.

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It was just charity from Barnabas.

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Dork guys or Tapatha,

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hey, what was she known for?

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For making garments for people.

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That's one thing that she did

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which she was known for her works

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or good works and her arms need.

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And they even showed Peter,

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Peter, look at all the clothes in the garment

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she made for us.

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Paul, Paul sacrificed himself so many times

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I can't even count.

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He got beatings, he was shipwrecked,

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he was thrown in prison, he was stoned.

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Why did he do all this?

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Just spread the gospel because he loved people

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and that's what he was doing,

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saving people from hell.

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That's what kept them going.

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And if you want to keep going,

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you have to have charity.

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You can't just have faith.

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You can't just have hope.

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You have to have it all.

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But if there's one thing you're going to work on the most

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or you should work on the most

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it's the greatest of all these

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which is charity.

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And so the other point,

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even my last point on my third point,

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37 minutes in, I'm taking this an hour.

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Point number three is the consequences

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of not having charity.

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And yes, there are people that I've noticed

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that can work on this, including myself.

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Because here's the bottom line,

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without charity, you are nothing.

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Nothing.

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If you're still in 1 Corinthians 13,

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let's just wrap this sucker up.

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1 Corinthians 13, 2 says,

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and though I have the gift of prophecy,

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maybe you're a good summoner,

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maybe you have the gift of prophecy

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and understand all mysteries,

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maybe God bless you with a great brain

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to be able to understand things right away.

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And all knowledge, maybe you know a lot.

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And though I have all faith,

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maybe you're a guide that's just high on life,

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high on faith,

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so that I can remove mountains

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and have not charity at the end of the day,

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you're nothing.

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You're nothing.

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You will burn out.

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If that's you who all you want to do is study,

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you don't want any friends,

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you don't like anybody here at church,

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you're constantly concerned

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about somebody being saved or unsaved.

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We'll get to that in a second.

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But at the end of the day,

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doesn't matter how good you are at prophecy,

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doesn't matter if you got the gift of prophecy,

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doesn't matter if you can preach very well,

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doesn't matter if you're a good summoner,

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doesn't matter if you're smart,

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doesn't matter if you have all knowledge.

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If you don't care about people

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the way Jesus cared about people,

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you're gonna find yourself falling away,

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in my opinion.

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Because you have to have a lot of reasons

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to serve God,

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not just I want to have treasures in heaven.

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I want to pull people out of the fire.

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I want my family,

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after I'm dead and gone,

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to continue in the faith.

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And obviously if you're doing big things for God,

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the devil's coming for you

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and he's gonna come for you hard.

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So just expect,

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expect the fight every day until you die.

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You're not gonna fight every day,

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but you should be ready to die daily.

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Amen?

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To pick up that cross and follow God.

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No matter how talented,

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no matter how much you sacrifice,

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hey, it is what it is.

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You gotta have charity,

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and without it,

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you are in sin.

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Because it is a commandment.

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I already read 1 Peter 4, 8,

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that says above all these things have

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fervent charity,

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not just charity,

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but fervent charity.

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And if you don't have it,

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you really can't say that you know God.

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A lot of people that have noticed that claim

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that oh yeah, me and God, we're good.

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You know, these people hate other people,

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but they wanna claim like oh no, no, no, no.

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I love God.

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God is love.

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While you're basically hating on certain groups.

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1 John 4, 8 says he that loveth not knoweth not God,

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for God is love.

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Not only that,

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but if you're somebody who is just constantly,

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in my opinion,

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if you're somebody who just constantly

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rubs people the wrong way,

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you're constantly falsely accusing people.

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You know what, I kinda doubt sometimes

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if you even say it.

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Why? Because you're coming to church

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three times a week,

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you're claiming you're reading the Bible,

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you're claiming you're serving God,

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and then you treat certain people

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like they're the plague.

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If you think they're unsafe,

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let me tell you something,

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you're taking a shot at me

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and you're taking a shot at Pastor

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because we're the leadership.

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We're the ones saying he's good to go.

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You're the ones saying but I don't know.

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So what that's basically showing us

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is that you're basically thinking that we're idiots

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and we're just gonna let somebody here

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in church knowingly,

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unsafe, just roam around.

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At the end of the day,

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there are certain things that get you kicked out

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and if people aren't doing them,

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if people are here,

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hey, they're good to go.

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I'm not saying that for sure, for sure they're safe.

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I'm saying that, hey, don't worry about it.

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If we let them stay,

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if they're here,

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look to your left, look to your right.

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Those are the people that you should be loving.

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And if not, then you're just in darkness.

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The Bible says,

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but he that hated this brother is in darkness

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and walketh in darkness

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and knoweth not whether he goeth

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because that darkness has blinded his eyes.

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And your prayers will be hindered.

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The Bible says that your prayers have been not hindered.

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Talking about husbands and wives,

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but that can be something else as well.

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It could be a relationship with your friend.

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If you guys have evil in your hearts,

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hey, that'll hinder your prayers as well.

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Why?

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Because if you have iniquity in your heart,

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I say it a million times,

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the Lord will not hear you.

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And God will not show mercy

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to people that don't show mercy.

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James 2.13 says this,

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for he shall have mercy,

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judgment without mercy,

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that has shown no mercy

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and mercy rejoices against judgment.

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So let me just quickly finish it by saying this.

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If we don't have charity among ourselves,

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our church will become divided and destructive.

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That's what's gonna happen.

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The Bible says,

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but if you bite and devour one another,

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take heed that you be not consumed one of another.

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It's bound to happen.

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If we don't start looking at each other,

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like we're ready,

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or at least be willing to lay down our lives for each other,

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you can take it to the bank.

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You're probably gonna get worse and worse

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and worse and worse.

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And it just happens to even the best of those in the Bible.

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People that start out great,

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they end up just becoming bad people.

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And I guess a perfect example is Solomon.

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Solomon was the wisest man in the world in what happened.

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He got into sin,

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next thing you know,

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he's trying to kill people.

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Same thing with Saul.

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Saul started little in his own sight.

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He started out great.

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And what happened?

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He started to hate.

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A little 11, 11 at the hole up.

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Next thing you know,

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he's trying to kill his son.

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He's throwing javelins at his son,

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trying to kill innocent man like David

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and ends up killing like 80-something priests,

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their wives, and their children.

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He murdered a lot of people.

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A lot of people.

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But he started out great.

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But let's just finish it up with this.

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I'm 43 minutes in.

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How to recognize charity.

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Well, let's take a look really quick,

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right there in 1 Corinthians 13.

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This is something super important

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because without it, you're nothing.

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You ever wonder, do I have it?

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Am I somebody that God looks down and says

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this person has a lot of charity?

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Well, the list is there.

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Charity suffers long and is kind.

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That means you can hang with people that aren't perfect

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and not just hang with them because you have to.

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You hang with them because you want to.

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And the reason we know is because you're kind to people.

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Charity envies not.

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That's a big one.

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The Bible says not to covet.

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To be aware of covetousness for a man's life

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doesn't matter when it comes to what they have.

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Charity wanted not itself.

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What does that mean?

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Love doesn't brag about itself.

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It's not puffed up.

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It's not arrogant.

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Does not behave itself unseemly.

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What does that mean?

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Love does not act in a rude, improper, or disgraceful way.

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Or simply put, love has good manners.

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Love is respectful.

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Love doesn't act shamefully.

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Love doesn't embarrass or dishonor others.

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You lift up others.

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Seeketh not her own.

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Love is not selfish.

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You know, it's not about you.

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It's about others.

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It's about God.

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And he'll take care of you when you take care of others.

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Love doesn't always insist on getting their own way.

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Love puts others before itself.

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Love isn't only concerned about itself.

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Love looks out for the good of others as well.

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It's not easily provoked.

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Love does not get angry easily.

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How many of you guys know Jocko Willink?

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Like about 10 people.

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Jocko Willink is a former Navy SEAL commander.

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The thing about Jocko that he said,

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and I don't agree with everything he says,

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one of the things that he said

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is that in his 20 years of service,

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dealing with a bunch of arrogant Navy SEALs,

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dealing with who knows how many military people,

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but he said that he can count on the one hand

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how many times he blew up on these guys.

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And I'm thinking, really?

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I think they're like every week in the military.

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And I'm thinking, whoa, in 20 years,

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he can count on one hand?

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That's pretty stinking good.

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But the reason he was able to do that

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is because he loved his guys.

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He loved his fellow Navy SEALs.

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And he was patient with them.

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He would correct them.

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But he knew when there's a guy who ain't listening,

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it's time to bring a man close the door

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and let him have a big bucket of profanity, amen?

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I'm not against profanity

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if you use it in the right way.

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Love isn't short tempered.

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Love doesn't lose its temper easily.

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Love isn't easily offended.

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Love doesn't fly off the handle.

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Love thinking no evil.

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Love does not assume the worst about people

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or keep a record of wrongs.

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Let me say that again.

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Think it no evil.

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Love does not assume the worst about people

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or keep a record of wrongs.

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In simple terms, love doesn't keep score people's mistakes.

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Love doesn't assume bad motives without evidence.

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Love doesn't hold grudges.

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Love doesn't dwell on how others have wronged them.

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Rejoice has not in iniquity.

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Love does not take pleasure in sin.

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Love doesn't enjoy wrongdoing.

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Love isn't happy when people sin.

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Love doesn't celebrate evil.

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Love doesn't find entertainment and wickedness.

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Going back to our president of the United States.

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He loves to rail on the lift cars,

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on the Democrats and he do stupid stuff.

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The Democrats do weird crap with this gender stuff

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and if the shoe fits, wear it.

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But a lot of times it's just railing accusations.

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I mean, he blamed that mistake that he made

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on that reflective pull in Washington, D.C.

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on Joe Biden.

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I don't like Joe Biden no more than the next guy in this room

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but no, we're not even supposed to rail against the devil.

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But I've seen Christians give thumbs up

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to some of the railing accusations

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that our president makes.

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And I'm thinking that is wrong.

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Yeah, the Democrats deserve a lot of ridicule.

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They're part of the reason the president is in power

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and now they're crying about it.

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They went too far with this transgender crap.

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They just did.

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Well, Americans got sick of it.

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Conservatives got sick of it.

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It's like, hey, I already know what y'all gonna do

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for the next four years.

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I'm gonna gamble with this guy

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and the gamble didn't pay off.

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But at the end of the day, our president loves to rail.

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He loves to say things about people that aren't true.

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And shame on you if you're like, yeah, thumbs up.

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And he's stuck it to the lips.

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Yeah, stick it to the lips if the shoe fits.

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But if it's a railing accusation

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and we're not supposed to rail against the devil,

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you think we're supposed to say anything that's not true

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against even people that we consider our enemies?

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No, that's not charity.

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That's wickedness.

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That's hatred.

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Making up things, lying, saying whatever.

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Just because he says it against people you may not like,

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hey, doesn't make it right.

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Two wrongs don't make it right.

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If he says something that's true

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and the shoe fits, then I'll aim in it myself.

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But when they're saying crazy stuff,

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this isn't even true, you know,

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just because he's trying to deflect or blame someone else,

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we shouldn't be partaking in that evil deed.

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We just shouldn't.

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We should not rejoice in iniquity.

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Love isn't happy when people say,

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love doesn't celebrate evil.

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Love doesn't find entertainment and wickedness, amen.

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But rejoice is in the truth.

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Love is happy when the truth is honored and obeyed.

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That's when you know you're a person with love,

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you're a person with charity.

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When you love the truth, when you don't get offended,

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you don't get mad at the pastor for telling you how it is.

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It'll help you, it'll fix you.

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I remember this one time when I was in boot camp,

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oh no, it wasn't boot camp, it was School of Infantry.

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I was in School of Infantry

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and I was kind of getting sick of saying,

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yes Sergeant, no Sergeant, yes Sergeant,

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no Sergeant, yes Sergeant, no Sergeant.

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So I tried to be sneaky.

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So we had like this one Sergeant

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who wasn't really strict.

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But we had another Sergeant who was just tall, thin

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and had a really deep voice.

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He was a scary guy.

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But this one guy, he was kind of last, he didn't really care.

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So I got sick of saying, yes Sergeant, no Sergeant,

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yes Sergeant, no Sergeant.

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So one time we were just looking at serial numbers

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on rifles and I'm just reading it off

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and I'm like, hey, where do you want this one?

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Over here, how about this one?

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Over here, how about this one?

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Over here, how about this one over here?

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Where do you want this one?

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Here, there, everywhere.

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And next thing you know, this guy's like,

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hey Marine, are you ever gonna say Sergeant

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any time soon?

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I'm like, yes Sergeant.

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And from that point on, it was yes Sergeant,

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yes Sergeant, no Sergeant, no Sergeant.

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And that's why a lot of times I just say yes sir,

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no sir, yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir.

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And I have that guy to thank.

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I'm glad he chewed me out.

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I'm glad he rebuked me.

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Because he knew what I was doing.

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I was being disrespectful in a sneaky way.

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That's what I was doing.

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But I'm glad he chewed me out.

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And ever since then, yes Sergeant, no Sergeant,

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yes sir, no sir.

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I get out, people are like, don't call me sir.

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I'll work for a living.

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Yes sir, stop it.

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They don't want me to say it, but they sure love it.

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And even if they don't, it's like,

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man, I'm too old school now.

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It's tuning grain to me.

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I'm gonna say yes sir, because I respect you.

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Hopefully I don't get fired for that, sir.

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But I'm not doing it to be a jerk.

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I'm doing it because that's how I show respect.

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You know, so I have to say this so much,

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they kinda liked it.

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And they're like, yeah, keep it up.

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Barithol things, did I go over that?

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Love patiently endures and puts up with the faults,

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weaknesses, and hardships that come with loving others.

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We don't just give up.

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Love is willing to put up with a lot.

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Love doesn't give up when relationships become difficult.

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Love patiently endures hardship.

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Love keeps loving even when it's hard.

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A friend loved it at all times.

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And I can say it with like all the conviction I got,

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I love everybody in this room.

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I love everybody in our church.

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I don't think so, I don't think you like me.

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I like you, trust me, I like you.

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I heard this, I heard that.

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I don't care what you heard, I'm telling you right now.

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I love every single person in this room.

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I'm not just saying that, I really love every person.

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And I hope if it were to come down to it,

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I would jump on a grenade

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to save everybody in this room.

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I mean, for crying out loud,

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I literally was willing to do that even for homos.

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We had one in our squad, we got rid of them,

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but we had one at the time, I wasn't against them,

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now that I know how perverted they are.

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And if you're wondering how perverted they are,

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see they like to put the normal-looking ones

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in front of our faces, right?

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They like to put the John,

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what is it, the Don Lemons in our faces.

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They like to put Dave Rubens in our faces.

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Even the Lindsey Graham's in our faces.

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I mean, to me, Lindsey Graham didn't seem like a homo.

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But now, as soon as he died, everyone was like,

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yep, yep, yep, I did something with this dude.

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Yep, I got the pictures of this dude in the scene.

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Oh, the NDA is no longer valid.

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What's up?

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Yeah, this guy was a pervert.

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He was a homo.

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They're like diamond in my left and right.

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They're like, Mike Johnson, this guy, that guy.

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Oh yeah, like it's all coming out.

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At the time, I didn't even know it was bad.

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But if you ever want to remind yourself

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how bad it is, there's this guy on YouTube.

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I think his name is Olivera.

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He's constantly exposing bad stuff.

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He exposed the Jews over in Jersey.

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Who knows what I'm talking about?

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What's that guy's name?

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What's his name?

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Tyler.

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Tyler, what?

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Tyler Olivera.

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You ever want to remind yourself how bad they really are?

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He did some kind of like special

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on banning the LGBT flag.

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And so he first started going to the worst place

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you can start out, but at least it shows

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how bad they are.

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San Francisco, California.

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During the Pride Parade.

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He's there just trying to get their opinions.

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What do you think of, I think it was Dearborn Michigan.

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What do you think of Dearborn Michigan

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banning the LGBT flag?

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Whoa, it's terrible.

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This is against freedom of speech.

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They're standing or whatever,

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but they banned it on public places,

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but you can have it in your home if you want to.

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But it's mostly Muslims.

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So they're like, no, we don't want this stuff.

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We don't want this in our government offices.

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We don't want this on any government building.

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We don't want that.

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We don't believe in that.

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You know, we think it's haram.

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Brother.

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Uh.

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Uh, brother.

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Uh.

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If you know, you know.

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So then he goes to San Francisco

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and there's literally a bunch of homeless everywhere

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with no clothes on.

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With kids everywhere.

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This old dude that he recorded,

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that allowed himself to be recorded.

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He literally has nothing except those little stringy

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backpacks.

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He has no clothes walking around San Francisco.

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No clothes.

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And he's like, bro, is this legal?

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There's kids everywhere.

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Oh, well, it's pride, bro.

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You shouldn't bring your kids to pride, man.

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And it wasn't the worst.

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The worst one was the Spider-Man.

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Who's seen this video?

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I don't know.

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It's rated G for like Godless.

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So be careful watching it,

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but it doesn't show anything massively crazy,

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but it shows you there was this guy

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in a Spider-Man suit.

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But guess what was exposed?

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His private part was exposed.

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And they're like, bro, is this even legal?

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Yeah, as long as, you know, whatever doesn't, you know,

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whatever.

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And they're like, really?

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So then he goes to the cops and he's like, yo, officers,

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can I just like, you know, like take off my whatever?

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You know, y'all gonna arrest me?

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You do what you want.

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It's pride, bro.

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It's pride.

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And there's kids everywhere.

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And then this family shows up with their kids like,

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kids are like, hey, why are you bringing them to pride?

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Oh, I want them to be accepting, loving.

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Oh, and they have them experience another side of,

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you know, another culture or whatever.

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And then you do realize there's guys in thongs,

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there's guys wearing nothing.

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There's a Spider-Man.

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Why Spider-Man?

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Why Spider-Man?

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Because he sticks out like a sore thumb.

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He wants the most looks, the most attention.

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He wants the most kids staring his way.

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And after I admit this,

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some people just don't know, is that an ignorance?

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Hey, I don't know if I ever said this before,

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but my mom took me to a gay pride parade

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and she never took us again.

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She tried to get us out of the house.

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She wasn't part of that lifestyle,

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but we were always in the house.

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She didn't want us to get into gangs or anything.

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She's like, hey, let me take you guys out.

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Took us to a parade.

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We quickly realized it was a gay parade

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and they were doing some filthy stuff.

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We're like, mom, we're out.

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We don't want to be here.

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They're like, okay, let's go meet Juan

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and know it was this bad.

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So she got us out of there.

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But that's just how it is when it comes to this,

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this culture.

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But we shouldn't put up with those things.

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Love the things that God loves.

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Hate those that God hates.

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You know, but at the end of the day,

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we need to have the love of God,

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not the love of the world.

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Amen?

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So let me just finish up with these few.

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Hope is all things.

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Love never gives up hope for people.

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Love remains hopeful.

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Love believes people can change.

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Love doesn't give up on people too quickly.

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Love respects God to continue working.

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And those that don't repent,

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God will take care of them.

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You take that to the bank.

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That's where faith and hope come in.

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Hey, I have faith that God's word is true.

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All of it, all of it in the King James Bible,

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all of it is true.

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Every single thing in there is 100% true.

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And I have hope.

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I expect our enemies to be punished.

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I expect Wittenberger to get destroyed.

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It's not gonna be shocking to me one bit.

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Maybe you, but not me.

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Every day that goes by, I'm like,

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hey, God is patient.

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God is long suffering.

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You better hurry up.

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But hey, it's gonna go bad for this man.

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And everyone else, everyone else who goes against

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real churches, Bible-believing churches,

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churches that God approves of,

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you're not fighting against us.

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You're fighting against God, you dummy.

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And when the Bible says,

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do my profits no harm, guess what?

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That is not a suggestion.

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That is a commandment.

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And it comes with a serious punishment.

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So like I said, in dirt all things,

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love remains faithful through every trial, hardship.

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Love doesn't quit.

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Love keeps going when things get hard.

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Love preserves through difficulties.

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Love doesn't give up on people

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or doing what's right.

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So at the end of the day, the severity of charity is real.

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This is a serious thing we need to take into consideration.

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We need to work on this as much as possible.

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Go to 1 Corinthians 13, look at the list,

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look at it, stare at it,

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because I'm guilty of some of those things.

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I'm like, what, NBA?

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I've lost it when I shouldn't have lost it.

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I'm like, what the heck?

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You know, I forgot how evil that is.

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That's why God's word is powerful.

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It'll wake you up and it'll remind you

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as that glass to show you what it is.

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There's times when I haven't been patient.

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There's times when I yelled at my kids

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and I'm thinking, why did I even yell?

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You know, I need to do the jockel thing.

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Yell when I really need to yell.

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And if profanity is needed, you do what you gotta do.

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But it should be rare, extremely rare.

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Five times in 20 years?

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Oh man, I'm NBA's of that.

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But before we go, I just wanna say one thing.

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Part of this sermon was because there's someone

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that we know that needs help

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and I don't know exactly what to do,

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but he needs our help as a church

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and I don't really wanna talk about it too much.

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I don't wanna live like a cliffhanger or anything like that,

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but it's serious where this person may not live long.

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So he's asking for financial help

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and so I don't know,

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I didn't know if anyone wanted to bring it up.

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He said not to bring it up,

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but other than that,

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when the time comes to help,

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I think financially I was so impressed

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with what happened with Miss Lola.

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I hate to bring up the Kevin thing

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because to me it's still very, very sad,

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but that's how you give, that's how you hop out,

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that's charity, that's God's people pulling through

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when someone needs it.

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So let's just make sure when we get opportunity

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to do good, we do it.

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Amen, let's pray.

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Dear Father, we thank you for all that you've done, Lord,

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and we ask you to be with us for the rest of the day

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and bless our pastor as well.

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Keep him safe, give him strength,

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give him faith, give him hope,

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give him whatever he needs, Father.

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And the devil is coming hard

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and we ask the Lord to just give him the strength

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to be able to fight back

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and we ask you to do this in Jesus' name, amen.