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Amen.

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Okay, we're in Leviticus chapter 26.

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Tonight, look down at your Bibles at verse 21.

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It says, If you walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven

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times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

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I will also send wild beasts among you which shall rob you of your children and destroy

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your cattle and make you few in number and your highways shall be desolate.

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Here in Leviticus chapter 26, we find a very extensive list of things that will come upon

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the people of God if they disobey God, if they rebel against the Lord.

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And it's just kind of God threatening his people with various punishments that he can

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impose upon them for their rebellion.

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And one of them is that he will send wild beasts to kill them, to kill their children,

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to kill their cattle.

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It seems very extreme, but this is actually something we find throughout the Bible.

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And we're going to come back to this later on in this sermon.

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Go with him to 1 Corinthians chapter 9.

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First Corinthians chapter 9, we're picking up tonight where we left off this morning.

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The title of the sermon is Man's Relation to Animals.

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We went over part one this morning, tonight is part two.

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And let me just give you a little bit of review from this morning in case you forgot

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or were not here.

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Of course, we talked about the fact that animals play a significant role in the

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Bible.

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God esteems animals.

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He values animals.

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And there's a lot in the Bible to say about creatures that God created.

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We said, number one, that animals are not an afterthought in the mind of God.

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We never want to have this attitude that because maybe you've heard some bad

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story of some animal attack or people that esteem animals more than human

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beings, that somehow we should despise the creation.

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No, we have to realize that God esteems creatures.

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He cares for them.

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He's created an atmosphere and an ecosystem conducive to their reproduction

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so we can feed them and use them.

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And of course, God wants us to behold these creatures and glorify him because

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of it, right?

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And I'm sure all of us have seen some sort of creature on the Discovery

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Channel, on Instagram.

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And we looked at him and we're like, man, that thing is awesome, right?

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You've seen these octopuses that, or is it octopi?

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I don't know how you say it.

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We see these octopuses that basically can change colors and even try to mimic

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the creatures that are around them.

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There's even one in, I believe it's Indonesia, where they discovered this

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octopus that not only camouflages itself according to whatever background it's

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in, but it's also able to mimic a lot of the creatures.

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And in fact, new species of animals have been discovered because of the

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mimicking nature of this octopus.

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And I look at something like that, I'm like, man, praise God that you would

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create such an incredible creature.

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I like to, I love to look at God's creation and just marvel at the creator,

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right?

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Marvel that he has such a creative, you know, nature about him to make

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these animals and have us stand in awe of that.

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And so he cares for the creatures.

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He created them prior to creating mankind.

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Doesn't mean that they are somehow superior to man.

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It just means that they hold an important aspect in God's plan,

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especially when he created a sinless world.

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He made all creatures and he said that all things were good.

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We also said that animals are inferior to mankind and should be

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dominated by man, okay?

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You know, this is why it's important for us to realize that we should

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be advocates of tearing down the forest and building buildings there, right?

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Like, oh no, you know, we shouldn't get rid of these forests and all

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these, this is where the animals live.

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And there's so many animals that need that.

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Yeah, but we are more important than them.

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And if we need more buildings, we need places to live.

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We need places to shop, tear it down and build up cities, build up buildings,

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build up whatever is necessary for a society to, if you need to thrive.

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And so it's important for us to realize that that's God's will for our

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lives, okay?

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And in fact, you know, in the Bible, when a part of a signaling

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that God's judgment has come upon a city is when animals begin to take

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over actually.

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You know, anytime God would judge a particular nation and make it desolate,

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part of the punishment, part of the curse is that animals would begin to

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inhabit the cities and the houses that once belonged to mankind.

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And that was an indication that God was punishing that particular nation.

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And so God wants us to dominate the creatures.

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We see that in Genesis chapter one.

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And we talked about a couple of things in that regard.

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Number one under that was that the life of an animal should never be

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prioritized over the life of a human.

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You know, kill Harambe, save the baby, nuke the whales, whatever, you know,

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kill the whatever creature that has threatened the human being.

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And if it has gored a person, if it has injured an individual,

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they need to be put down, right?

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And what's interesting is that, you know, after the sermon, or

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after the sermon on Sunday morning, someone came up to me.

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You know, because we've got a lot of animal lovers in our church, you know?

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But someone came up to me and said, you know what?

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I actually own a lot of, or a good amount of dogs.

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And, you know, I love dogs, but you're absolutely right about that.

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They're like, I had this dog, and he named the type of dog or whatever.

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And it's just this massive dog with a huge head.

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And it was just like, it was a great dog.

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But it started attacking my other animals.

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It started biting my other dogs.

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And then it started kind of like being aggressive towards us.

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Like it started growling, becoming like as if it was going to attack us.

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And he said, the moment it did that, I was like, this thing's got to go, right?

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This thing has got to go.

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Because here's the thing, folks, it's an animal, and

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it's always looking to dominate you.

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So you've got to make sure you assert your dominance, your authority over

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that creature.

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And good thing he did get rid of that because of the fact that that does

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happen, it can happen.

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You can't necessarily trust animals all the time.

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They are animals.

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They don't have a moral compass.

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They are trained to be a certain way.

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And so don't be dumb.

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If you own a creature that is known to bite and attack people,

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attack you or whatever, it's time to get rid of your little puppy or whatever.

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And so why?

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Well, because the life of an animal should never be prioritized over the

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safety in the life of a human being, OK?

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Man is more important than the animal.

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We also said that animals, what is the purpose of animals?

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Well, aside from bringing glory to God, right?

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We obviously know that's the purpose there.

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But animals are made to improve man's quality of life.

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Animals just improve my quality of life just about an hour ago.

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I was back there.

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By the way, I want to say thank you to brother Jose, brother Alex,

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and brother Mark Barfield for making great meats back there.

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You know, pecania, you guys missed out if you didn't get a chance to go.

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There are salmon, pecania, pork butt, meat, drinks, and diverse washings.

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It was amazing.

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It was awesome.

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And they essentially manifested by point here

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that animals improve our quality of life, right?

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Ate all kinds of meats, got all the protein, filled my stomach up.

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They did not muzzle the ox to tread it out the corn.

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And so thank you guys for doing that.

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You know, that's what animals are for.

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And I'm not saying go home and eat your dog.

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I'm saying like in general, animals, the purpose of animals is to consume.

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That's what God specifically said, that that's what they're made for.

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Now look, you know, in the tribulation, you know what I mean?

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You're not taking the mark of the beast.

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You can't do it because you're saved.

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And you know, you got your little dog there and you know,

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got 75 days of great tribulation.

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You might have to, you know, cook that thing and eat it, okay?

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And so I'm not encouraging you to do that.

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You know, there's Chinese people who are like,

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we don't need the tribulation for that, you know?

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So they're made to improve the quality of life

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by giving us food and amusement and entertainment.

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So animals are there so that we can, you know,

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observe them, enjoy them, watch them,

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see how they eat, how they function, how they live,

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be in all of their creation.

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And so zoos are very much, you know, a biblical thing.

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You have Solomon who owned apes and peacocks.

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He would import all these exotic animals

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just for his enjoyment to tame them and show them off

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before his 700 concubines or whatever and do that.

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And you know what?

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That's exactly what they're for.

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It's for us to observe, to enjoy

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and to glorify God because of it.

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And then lastly we said that they are important

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because of the fact that they improve our quality of life

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through food, entertainment and companionship.

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So here's your justification to have your pet, amen.

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You know, if you like dogs, you're like cats,

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you like whatever, and you're like,

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oh man, is it wrong?

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Is it sin?

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No, you know, they actually do provide companionship,

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but here's the important aspect of that point

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is that they are not to substitute human companionship.

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Okay?

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You know, you should not relate to an animal

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more than you would relate to a human being, okay?

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And you know, obviously people can often become

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very close to and affectionate with animals.

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They love their dog.

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They love their cat.

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They love their whatever animal they have.

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But you never wanna become this weirdo

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where it's just like, well, you know,

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this is enough for me.

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I don't need friends.

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People are just weird.

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I relate more to this dog than I do.

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Really?

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Cause the dog eats its own crap.

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So it eats its own vomit.

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It uses the restroom everywhere.

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It can't speak English.

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And it's kinda weird that that's what you would relate to, okay?

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Oh, I just think, I just feel more connected to it.

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Well, reprobates feel connected to animals too.

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I don't think you would want to have that type of affection.

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You know, we need to realize that there needs to be

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an appropriate companionship with animals,

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but that it will never replace your friendships

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with your family and other people and God's people.

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Of course, I'm obviously speaking to Christians.

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So we need them for food, entertainment and companionship.

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And so that's important.

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And we obviously know that, you know,

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God gave us animals for food and coverings.

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We see that in Genesis chapter three,

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when we went over that, we talked about Solomon importing

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the exotic animals and so forth.

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Now let's get into the point number three.

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I started this in the morning,

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but I'm gonna go through it right now.

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And that is that animals are meant to illustrate

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spiritual truths.

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So another purpose that animals have in our lives

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is that you could actually observe them

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and they have a certain function

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that could actually teach us an actual spiritual truth,

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to teach us character and godly attributes

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that God will want us to learn.

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And in fact, he spends much of the book of Proverbs

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talking about animals, telling us how not to be

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like slothful people, sluggards, right?

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But also teaching us to be like the diligent animals

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as well.

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And we talked about that.

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We talked about going to the ant thou sluggard

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instead of being lazy and not working

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and not doing anything that you would observe the ant

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and see how diligent that ant actually is.

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It puts in work.

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He lifts heavier than his own size.

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He gets the job done.

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He's reliable.

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He's sacrificial.

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And he foresees evil, meaning that he knows

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that he's gonna need food in the harvest.

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Therefore he prepares in the summer.

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These are some great qualities that we can learn

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from animals and creatures and insects and so forth.

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Now here's another example.

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Before we get into 1 Corinthians chapter nine,

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Proverbs 26 gives us a picture of a dog

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returning to his vomit and saying soulful

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return it to his folly.

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So we make fun of the dog and we're like,

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ah, look at this stupid dog.

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He just threw up and now he's eating his own vomit.

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Yeah, but that's what you do

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when you go back to your own sin.

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So when you get right with God

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and you're not sinning anymore,

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you're like, oh, I don't drink alcohol.

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I don't smoke weed.

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I don't fornicate.

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But if you go back to that,

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you're as filthy as the dog that returns back to his vomit.

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So just as disgusted as you should be,

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by the dog, eating its own throw up,

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well, in like manner, God's saying

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you should feel the same way

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when you go back to your own sin.

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Okay, soulful return it back to his folly.

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So just as we laugh and are disgusted,

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at the same time, God kind of is disgusted with us

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when we return back to our folly as well.

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And obviously that passage of scripture is there

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to kind of prevent us from doing so, okay?

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Prevent us from going back to whatever vice,

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whatever sin that we're tempted with,

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whatever ideology, whatever it may be.

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You know, whatever you're enticed with,

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God's saying don't be like the dog

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that returns back to his vomit.

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Make sure that you abstain from that sin.

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You confess your sin, you forsake it

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and you live a sanctified life before the Lord, okay?

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We also see in Proverbs chapter 30,

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he gives us illustrations about the ants,

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the locusts, locusts teaching us teamwork,

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the conies, the conies are those

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which build their houses upon the rocks.

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Now, why does the conie do that?

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Well, because of the fact that it has a lot of predators.

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And so, you know, and it's very weak.

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So it can't necessarily fight off its predator.

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So what does it do?

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It builds his house in the rocks

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in order to prevent predators from actually reaching them.

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And what's the spiritual application there?

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Well, you know what?

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We are also weak, the flesh is weak,

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the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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We have an enemy known as Satan

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and the way we can avoid the attacks of Satan

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or overcome the attacks of Satan

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is by building our house upon the rock,

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which is the Lord Jesus Christ, right?

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Making sure that we read the word of God,

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have the word of God as our foundation and so forth.

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So we have the ants, the locusts, the conies,

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the spiders, the lions, the greyhounds, the goats.

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All of these are given to us in order to teach us

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spiritual behavior, to learn character,

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diligence, boldness, and so forth, okay?

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Isaiah chapter one uses the ox and the ass

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recognizing their owner

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in order to illustrate Israel's rebellion against God.

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He's saying, how is it that the ass, the ox,

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understands who's in charge,

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but you, oh Israel, you, oh Judah,

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are in complete rebellion to God,

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even though you have the oracles of God,

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you have the prophets, you have the knowledge,

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yet you don't know who your Lord is.

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It's a great illustration there.

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Probably one of my favorite illustrations of animals

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to use to teach us a spiritual truth

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is in Matthew chapter 10, verse 16,

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that says to be wise as serpents

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and harmless as doves.

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Now keep in mind,

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not every time that the Bible talks about serpents,

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is it in a negative connotation?

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We obviously have that idea because serpents in general

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are a symbolic representation of Satan, right?

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But serpents just kinda carry a connotation of being cunning.

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Another word for being cunning is to be wise, okay?

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So the Bible is telling us here,

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hey, be wise as a serpent,

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but make sure that you are harmless as a dove.

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So when you're dealing with persecution,

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you're dealing with people who are trying

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to push your buttons,

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they're trying to cause you to fight them,

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they're trying to cause you to lash out,

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they're trying to cause you to behave

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in an un-Christian manner, just understand this,

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be wise as a serpent, be cunning, be subtle,

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but make sure that your subtlety

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doesn't carry you off into violence or something.

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You gotta be harmless as a dove, okay?

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And you know, obviously I'm not perfect at this.

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I don't think any man is.

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I think any man here would say that if someone

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just started talking trash to your face

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for being a Christian and they started swinging on you,

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you would probably react, right?

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You probably just hook them or give them a cross

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or something, knock them out, or you try to fight back.

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I think that's just the natural tendency

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for every man to do.

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But here's the thing, folks,

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the Bible tells us to be harmless as a dove, so.

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And so we need to make sure we have restraint and duck,

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okay?

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Or take off, run away, flee from that type of confrontation.

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I know we all have in our minds that we wanna be

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like a hero or something, and you know,

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be able to beat someone up for doing something like that.

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But the Bible tells us that we need to be harmless.

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The weapons of our warfare are not carnival mighty

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through God to the pulling down of strongholds, okay?

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And then we have another example in 2 Peter 2.22,

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teaching us that reprobates are as dogs and sows

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in order to illustrate their apostasy and corruption.

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And so that's important to note there.

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You can read that on your own.

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Now, Deuteronomy 25 in verse number four

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is where 1 Corinthians chapter nine,

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is what 1 Corinthians chapter nine is actually quoting.

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Okay?

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Let me read it to you.

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Deuteronomy 25 verse four says,

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thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.

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Now, initially when that's written,

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God is literally saying, hey, feed your ox.

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Okay?

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If the ox is plowing, it's working,

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it's plowing the field, it's doing its job,

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make sure you give it some food, right?

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And that's just common sense.

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You know, whatever vehicle you have,

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whatever machines you use,

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you need to be a good steward of that particular tool,

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that vehicle, especially if it's helping you

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to succeed at your job, right?

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Well, in this particular case, it's the ox.

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The ox needs to be taken care of.

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Now, in the New Testament, this scripture is quoted

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not to negate what it's actually saying regarding the ox,

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but to illustrate a spiritual truth

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regarding those who are laboring in the word and doctrine.

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Okay?

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This is also stated in 1 Corinthians chapter five,

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but we're gonna look at it at 1 Corinthians nine.

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Look at verse seven.

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Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?

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Who planteth a vineyard,

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and eateth not of the fruit thereof?

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Or who feedeth the flock

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and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

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Sayeth these things to as a man,

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or sayeth not the law the same also?

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For it is written in the law of Moses,

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thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox

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that treadeth out the corn.

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Now, the apostle Paul is making an argument here

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that people who labor in the gospel

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should live of the gospel.

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In other words, full-time Christian workers,

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pastors, evangelists, deacons,

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those who are laboring in the church,

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should, they merit, they earn a paycheck.

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They earn to make a living off of that

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if that's the work that they're doing,

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especially if they're being successful at it, right?

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And then he addresses Deuteronomy 25.

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He says, doesn't even the law say

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that you shouldn't muzzle the mouth of the ox

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that treadeth out the corn?

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In other words, it's just common sense

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that you feed the beast who's putting in the work, right?

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Then he says here,

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doth God take care for oxen,

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or say eat altogether for our sakes?

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So the answer is, yeah,

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obviously God takes care for the oxen,

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but the ultimate application of that verse

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is that he's applying it to New Testament spiritual truths

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of allowing those who are in full-time Christian service

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to live of the gospel, okay?

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He says, for our sakes, no doubt, this is written,

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that he that ploweth should plow in hope,

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and that he that thresheth in hope

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should be a partaker of his hope.

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If we have sown unto you spiritual things,

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is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

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So what is he saying?

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He's saying, look, it's just common sense

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that the pastor should earn a living

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if he's preaching the word of God,

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people are getting saved, the church is growing,

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people are being reached, then pay the man.

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And look, this is important to talk about

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because of the fact that

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a lot of people don't have this philosophy, okay?

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Now, this is not a problem here.

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My church takes care of me very well,

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and thank you all for taking care of me and my family

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over these last nine years or whatever.

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We've never had an issue with that.

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And in fact, you guys take a little too good care of me,

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I mean, you know, all these meats and stuff.

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You guys are, you know, our church is a very generous church.

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Never had anybody complain about stuff like that.

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Everybody believes this here,

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but it's important to talk about

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because there's churches out there that don't believe that.

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You know, those people are all like, oh, you know,

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he should do that for free.

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Yeah, he should do it for free

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if his preaching sucks.

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He should do it for free if no one's being reached,

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the preaching sucks, no one's being edified,

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no one's learning doctrine, people aren't being trained,

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but you know, if people are being reached,

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souls are getting saved, 500 salvations in a month,

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thousands of salvation over the last couple of months,

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you know, people's lives are being changed

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through the word of God,

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people are, visitors are coming to church,

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people are being changed through the preaching

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of God's worth, that man deserves a salary, okay?

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He, his bills need to be paid,

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he needs to be able to take care of his family

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and take care of the man so he can do more for God.

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So he can spend more time investing into the house of God

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doing what God wants him to do,

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reaching more people and growing the church.

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And you know what, this was an issue, you know,

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and the old IEP at times where, you know,

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this is, you know, people who would have

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like a deacon board or something

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and they would determine like,

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how much this pastor should be paid.

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Bro, just pay him whatever he needs to be paid.

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Don't try to look for like the least amount

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you can give the man to do the work of God.

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You know, this man has an important job,

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you know, he's counseling people,

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he's preaching the word of God,

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he's teaching you the Bible,

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take care of the ox that treads out the corn.

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And the Bible specifically says

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that some oxes are just worthy of double honor

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because they're laboring in the word and doctrine,

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people are growing in the church

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and the knowledge of the Bible,

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they're learning doctrine, they're becoming

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better Christians, that merits

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taking care of the man of God.

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And so here we find a great application

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to using an animal in order to illustrate

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the spiritual truth.

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Take care of the ox, don't let that thing

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be all, you know, starving and everything,

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missing meals, he's putting in the work in the field,

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he's trending out the corn,

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people are getting saved,

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people are learning the Bible,

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reprobates are being thrown out,

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you know, the flock of God is being taken care of,

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you know, everything's going great,

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the children are being taught,

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people are being protected,

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people are learning the word of God,

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people are being trained how to preach the gospel,

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take care of the ox, right?

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No, this is not a cry out for you to take care of me

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because again, you guys already do that, right?

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So I really appreciate that.

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Go to Romans chapter one, if you would,

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Romans chapter one, Romans chapter one,

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Romans chapter one, and again,

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you have churches out there just like,

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well just give that man the least amount possible

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and you know, let him figure it out or whatever,

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that's not right to do.

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And again, you know, if it's a guy

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who's just like preaching a 15 minute sermon head

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every week, you know, a 20 minute sermon head,

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you're not really learning anything,

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the church is absolutely empty,

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it's just him, his family,

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and maybe a couple of people

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sprinkle throughout the building or whatever,

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and it's not really growing, you know, okay,

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Pastor, you're gonna have to start,

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you know, get on social media or something,

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start making some content,

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start going viral,

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start getting people in the church,

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start putting it in the work, right?

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You know, tread that field, work that field.

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And so I get it, you know,

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if there's a church out there like that,

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where the pastor's not really laboring,

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okay, what do you expect, you know?

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Can't expect your church to take care of you

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if there's no one in the church to take care of you, right?

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How do you expect to earn the salary

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if you ain't reaching nobody?

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And the people you are reaching,

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they're not staying because they're not growing, okay?

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And so animals, back to the subject of animals,

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they are created or are meant to illustrate

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spiritual truths and provide practical applications to man.

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And I would encourage you to just do

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a topical study in the Bible regarding animals.

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It's fascinating what the Bible has to say

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as far as the application of these creatures are concerned.

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All right, let's move on to the next point here.

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Regarding animals, and that is that

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worshiping animals precedes degeneracy, okay?

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So God wants us to behold the animal

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and be like, man, that lion is awesome.

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Like praise God for that,

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that God created such a beautiful creature, you know?

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And you know, I'll be honest with you,

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I don't think all creatures are beautiful, you know?

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Rats aren't really beautiful to me.

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I don't really think rats are,

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I don't think opossums are beautiful

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or those things are ugly, especially when the mama

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has all the babies on top, it just looks nasty, you know?

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I don't consider spiders beautiful.

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Maybe some of you do, you know?

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I'm not a big fan of snakes, especially just,

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I don't have a phobia, I just don't like them, okay?

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Especially now during the summer,

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they're just popping out of nowhere

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and you just worry sometimes, right?

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But there are creatures out there

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that I'm just like, man, look at this bird.

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This bird is just absolutely beautiful.

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I think of one particular bird from Guatemala,

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which is the national bird, it's called the Quetzal.

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It's extremely beautiful bird.

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It's a green bird with a red chest, a long tail

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and when it flies in the air,

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it looks almost like a serpent

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because of the tail that kind of, you know,

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moves like a serpent, just a beautiful creature.

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And so, you know, there's nothing wrong

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with actually observing animals and saying,

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man, this is such a beautiful creation of God.

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God is just amazing, he's so powerful, he's so creative.

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And so, you know, may animals cause you

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to worship God, right?

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Not cause you to worship the animals.

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They're like, oh man, these animals are so good,

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they're so much better than us, right?

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And look, I'm gonna tell you right now

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is that when you find a society that worships animals,

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just mark it down, it's a society

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that is a reprobate nation.

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It's a godless nation, okay?

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I mean, look at all the false religions of the world

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and how much they worship serpents.

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They worship cows, right?

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In India, they were literally starved,

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even though you got a good, you know,

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four by four walking by, right?

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You got pecania walking by,

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you got all this good food walking by

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and they're just like, we're just dying of starvation.

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Yeah, cause you're eating dung instead of cows.

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You're choosing to eat garbage

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and I'm not joking with you, this is what they do.

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They choose to eat garbage and filth and literal dung

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instead of killing that cow

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and making some good food out of that thing, right?

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Oh man, how can you say God exists with all this evil?

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Look at all these people that are starving.

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Oh, you mean the people who rather eat dung than a cow?

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That's their fault.

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They have food walking around them all the time.

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Yeah, but they believe it's their ancestors.

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That's nonsense.

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You say, what are their ancestors?

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It's called hell.

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Because if they believe what they believe,

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they've split hell wide open.

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Oh, you know, you're just so insensitive.

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It's just the truth.

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People will literally live and die in India,

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never getting to taste the deliciousness of a ribeye.

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What a shame.

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All because of a false religion, my friends.

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All because of a stupid religion

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that tells them to abstain from meats.

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Just be like this for the rest of their life,

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thinking that they've obtained some sort of spiritual

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aptitude of just being the best

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because they can keep their hand like this

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for 40 years or whatever,

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never eat meat and just die and go to hell

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and they can finally lower their hands or whatever.

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It's nonsense, but this is what false religion does.

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Now look at Romans 1 verse 20,

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for the invisible things of him

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from the creation of the world are clearly seen.

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Being understood by the things that are made,

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even his eternal power and Godhead,

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so that they are without excuse.

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This is basically saying that creation

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testifies that God exists.

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They're clearly seen.

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You look at the heavens,

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you look at the forest,

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you look at the animals

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and you're just like a creator made this.

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That alone can't save you,

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but it testifies of the power of God, of a creator.

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You don't look at it and be like,

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man, this all came from promoting a soup.

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No, you look at it and be like,

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intelligent design is involved here, okay?

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And the Bible says so they are without excuse.

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So even if the pygmy dies and goes to hell,

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because supposedly he never got the gospel, guess what?

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The reason he never got the gospel

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is because he rejected the fact

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that creation testified to the creator.

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He's without excuse.

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He knows that this testifies of a creator.

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He knows that all life and all of creation

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testifies that God exists and he rejected that.

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Therefore, the gospel didn't go to him, okay?

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And he has YouTube anyway,

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so he hears about Jesus all the time.

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Verse 21 says,

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because that when they knew God,

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they glorified him not as God,

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neither were thankful,

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but became vain in their imaginations

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and their foolish heart was darkened.

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This is basically saying

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that when they look at the creation,

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they know that God exists.

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What do they do?

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They choose not to glorify him.

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They're like, oh no, all this was made by a raindrop

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that fell into the ocean and created Japan, you know?

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Just some stupid story out there.

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What does that call?

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It's called being vain in your imagination, right?

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It's a nonsensical, you know,

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fable that doesn't exist.

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That people created their minds

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in order to excuse God away, okay?

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Their foolish heart was darkened,

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meaning that light is removed from them.

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The truth begins to be removed

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because they can't even accept

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the most fundamental beliefs of just humanity

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that there is a creator based on this creation.

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He says,

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professing themselves to be wise,

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they became fools.

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And I want you to notice this

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and change the glory of the uncorruptible God

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into an image made like to corruptible man

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and to birds and four-footed beast and creeping things.

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So what happens when a person

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rejects the creation as being the byproduct of a creator?

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They begin to worship creatures.

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They begin to worship birds, four-footed beast

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and creeping things the Bible says.

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So they start looking at animals

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and saying this is our ancestor.

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Don't eat it.

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It belongs to our ancestor.

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Well, you believe in reincarnation?

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Eat that thing.

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Your ancestor will go into another one.

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You're good, bro.

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Bypass it.

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Bo, you say, well, that's so offensive.

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Yeah, because they're vain in their imaginations.

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They've rejected the truth

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and now they're worshiping animals.

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It says in verse 24,

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wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness

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through the lust of their own hearts

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to dishonor their own bodies between themselves

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who changed the truth of God into a lie.

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And I want you to notice this

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and worship and serve the creature

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more than the creator is blessed for ever, amen.

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So the Bible says here

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that when a person rejects the initial lie

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given to them of the creation,

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they become vain in their imaginations.

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They begin to change the image of the corruptible God,

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the incorruptible God to an image

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made like the corruptible man,

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meaning that they make a God in their own image, right?

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They start thinking,

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well, I think God actually looks like this.

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I think this is God,

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this devil-looking thing is God, okay?

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And look, folks, if you ever want to see truth

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and plain sight regarding demonic entities

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that people think are divine, just look at Hinduism.

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They don't hide it at all.

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That thing just looks demonic.

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There's nothing comforting about that image.

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God, six arms, it looks all red, it looks like a demon.

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And the Bible says that when they begin to do that,

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God gives them up to vile affections, okay?

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Why? Because they're rejected into truth.

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So he gives them up to vile affections.

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Obviously we know that this is referring to sodomy,

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it's referring to phagotry and so forth, okay?

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And it says that because of that,

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they begin to serve the creature more than the creator.

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They begin to worship animals.

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And so this is the progression

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when it comes to degeneration.

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Turn with me if you would, go to Exodus 22, Exodus 22.

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I'm gonna read to you from Deuteronomy chapter four,

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verse 15 says,

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Take ye therefore good heat unto yourselves,

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for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day

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that the Lord spake unto you in horror,

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out of the midst of the fire.

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Lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image,

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the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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the likeness of any beast is on the earth,

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the likeness of any winged fowl that flyeth in the air,

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the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,

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the likeness of any fish that is in the waters

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beneath the earth.

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So he's basically saying, hey, you know,

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the progression here is that when someone begins

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to reject the God of the Bible,

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they're tempted to become these creature worshiping

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type people and they begin to make images and idols

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out of these animals.

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Second King, 17, verse 16 says this,

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and they left all the commandments

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of the Lord their God and made them molten images,

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listen to this, even two calves and made a grove

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and worship all the hosts of heaven and served Baal.

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So what happened to Israel when they would forsake God?

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They worship calves, they worship animals, right?

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As soon as Moses goes up to meet with God,

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they think that he's not gonna come back,

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what do they do?

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They make a golden calf.

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They start worshiping animals.

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And what does it lead them into?

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Degeneracy, start taking off their clothes

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and worshiping false gods and saying,

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this be your gods that brought you out of the land of Egypt

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and start acting abominably before the Lord.

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In Ezekiel chapter eight, for example,

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when Ezekiel is grabbed by the hair from the Lord

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in spirit and he shows them the greater abominations,

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he digs through a hole and what does he see?

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Just people worshiping creatures, creeping things

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in secret.

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Why?

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Because worshiping animals precedes degeneration.

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That's what people begin to do

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when they reject the God of the Bible.

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Now, let me give you an example of this.

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Let's talk about the uncomfortable subject of bestiality.

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And I hate talking about this

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because it's so disgusting and filthy and perverse

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and just nasty.

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But it is in the Bible for a reason, though.

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Okay?

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And you think to yourself like, yeah,

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but pastor like people in the United States,

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are they really into?

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Well, here's the thing is that there are cases

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in the United States of people doing this stuff.

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But let me just tell you,

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it is a thing just globally though, okay?

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And it is a result, listen to me,

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of worshiping false gods.

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It's a result of rejecting the God of the Bible, okay?

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When a nation rejects the God of the Bible,

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even if they think they have the truth,

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even if they're in close proximity

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to the geographical location

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of where the truth came out of, guess what?

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They will become degenerates

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and will be involved in bestiality.

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You say, well, like who?

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How about Islam?

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Islam is a perfect example of this.

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Bestiality is relevant because of the fact that,

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you know what?

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Muslims participate in bestiality.

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Bunch of freaks and weirdos and perverts.

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And it boggles my mind how Christians like,

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hey, don't go after the Muslims,

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you know, because therefore they're against Jews too.

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Oh, you mean the one who commits bestiality with a goat?

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You mean the one who worships Muhammad,

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who married a six-year-old girl

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and consummated the marriage at the age of nine?

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You mean that pervert?

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It's funny, you know,

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I know you wanna get on the Epstein files,

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but before the Epstein files, there was Muhammad.

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Before Epstein, you know, before all these Jews,

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you know, Muhammad was doing this long ago.

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And you know what?

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He was, I mean, he wasn't,

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but his followers participate in bestiality.

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Muslims do this stuff.

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97% of Pakistan's population is Muslim, okay?

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And this is where this stuff comes from.

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97% of them are Muslim,

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and they appear near the top of historical Google searches

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involving animal pornography alongside

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Muslim-majority countries such as Iran,

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Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and so forth.

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Pakistan has also experienced

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multiple officially documented bestiality cases

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in 2021, five men were booked for sexually assaulting

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and killing a goat in Okara.

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This is gross, I'm sorry,

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but I'm just, I gotta tell you that this is real.

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In 2022, police formed a nine-member investigation team

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and arrested suspects involved

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in a case involving an alleged pornography ring

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that used a trained dog.

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What is it showing us?

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It's showing us, by the way, these guys are Muslims.

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I know you think Muslims are like,

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oh, isn't that from Iraq or something?

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Well, Pakistan, they're all, 97% Muslim.

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And you might have other Muslims like,

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oh, we don't do that.

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Yeah, but what about these guys, though?

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These guys participate in that nonsense

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and that abomination, but why do they do that?

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I'll tell you why, because they're a degenerate nation

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that is evolved in a godless, false religion

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that rejected the God of the Bible

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and led them into degeneracy,

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where they're worshiping the creature more than the creator.

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And look, folks, when we read these verses in the Bible,

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the condemnationality, God's not just pulling this

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out of a hand, just like,

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well, let me just make something up real quick.

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Just make sure they never do this.

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He's using the example of the surrounding nations, okay?

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What happened here in Exodus 22?

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Is that where you guys are at?

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Yeah.

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Yes or no?

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No.

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Look at verse 19.

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Who serve a lieth with the beast,

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shall surely be put to death?

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You said, why isn't he expounding on that?

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Does he need to?

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You said, why is he even mentioning that?

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Because the nations that they're about

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to inherit geographically were involved in that.

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They're like these Pakistani dudes doing that stuff.

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Look at Leviticus 18.

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Leviticus chapter 18.

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You're like, oh man, that actually makes more sense now

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that why the land vomited out her inhabitants?

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It wasn't just because of sodomy,

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it was also because of bestiality.

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Well, let me just tell you, bestiality and sodomy

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are one and the same in like the Bible, okay?

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Look at verse 23 and verse 18.

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It says, neither shall thou lie with any beast

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that defile thyself therewith,

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neither shall any woman stand before a beast

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to lie down there too.

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It is confusion.

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Chapter 20.

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Go to chapter 20 if you would.

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Chapter 20.

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And verse 15 says that if a man lie with the beast,

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he shall surely be put to death

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and ye shall slay the beast.

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And if a woman approach unto any beast

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and lie down there too,

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thou shall kill the woman and the beast,

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they shall surely be put to death,

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their blood shall be upon them, the Bible says.

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So these verses are very obvious to us.

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We know about these things.

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I'm just explaining to you why God had to put him there

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in the first place.

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It's because they came from nations

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that had rejected God.

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The Canaanites were nations that rejected God for centuries.

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They were in close proximity to the truth.

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They didn't believe in the God of the Bible.

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They knew about God.

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They knew about his judgments.

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They knew what happened to Egypt.

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They know about it all.

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And despite that, they still didn't get saved.

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I mean, if you remember in 1 Samuel,

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you know, when the Ark of the Covenant,

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the Philistines take the Ark of the Covenant.

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You guys remember that story?

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This is where Hafti and Phineas die

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and they take the Ark or whatever.

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They end up staying in the land of the Philistines

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for quite some time.

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And then God ends up cursing them, right?

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And he curses them with like an infestation of mice

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and hemorrhoids.

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We were talking about this earlier.

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You know, weird conversations, I know.

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Not that anybody had, we're just talking about the story.

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Okay, let me clarify that.

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You know, God cursed them with hemorrhoids.

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Okay, the Bible calls it emeralds,

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but that's what it's referring to.

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So, you know, God has a sense of humor for sure.

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You know what I mean?

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That's like, that's so embarrassing, you know?

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Like just the entire city just has hemorrhoids, okay?

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So they're infested with mice.

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Like mice are overrunning, you know,

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animals are overrunning the countryside there.

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And they themselves are afflicted with hemorrhoids, okay?

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And the priest of the Philistines says,

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hey, this is coming upon us because

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of the Ark of the Covenant.

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God's the one who's doing this to us.

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That shows us that they believe in God.

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They knew who God is.

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And they're like, this is what we gotta do.

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He goes, because this happy, and he even said,

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like the priest said, you know,

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don't you remember what happened to Egypt?

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How God, what God did to Egypt?

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And you wanna ask yourself like,

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yeah, so why are you guys still like he didn't and stuff?

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Why are you so pagan if you know about these stories?

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I'll tell you why, cause people just hate the truth.

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You and I don't understand how someone

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can reject the God of the Bible because we're saved.

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But you know, there's people out there

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that have full knowledge of the Bible.

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You know, they're being judged by God

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with mice and hemorrhoids,

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and they still remain pagans.

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Why? I don't know.

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It's reprobates.

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So it's like, this is what we'll do.

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We need to send an offering.

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When you send back the Ark of the Covenant

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with an offering, make golden mice and golden hemorrhoids.

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Idiots.

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Whose job was that?

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Leigh, I got another job for you.

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What is it, a key?

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No, it's not a key.

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I need you to make a mouse,

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and I need you to make one of these.

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Just take it.

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You know what I mean?

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It's just like make a ton of them

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because we got to send this off.

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This is gonna help us or something.

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Vain in their imaginations.

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You know, I'm sure the people of the land

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were just like, man, these guys are so smart.

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Yeah, professing themselves to be wise,

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they became fools.

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It's insanity.

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They know the truth.

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But yet despite that,

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they come up with foolish solutions

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because their heart is darkened.

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They don't know the truth.

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That's why the Bible says

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that the wisdom of this world

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is foolishness with God.

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Because the world by wisdom,

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they don't know God.

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They can't know God by the wisdom of this world.

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It's just like, oh man, hell is real,

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heaven is real,

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and the Lord Jesus Christ

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died across the pay for your sins.

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So repent of your sins to be saved.

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What kind of nonsensical,

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stupid solution is that?

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Repent of your sins to be,

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it do works to be,

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like they could have the full knowledge

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of the sacrifice of Christ

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and then still say,

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you gotta do works to be saved.

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What is that?

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That's someone who's rejected

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the knowledge of the truth.

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And so these people are committing

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these abominable acts of,

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these perverse acts with animals.

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I'm not trying to get into details here.

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And I'm not even encouraging to go online

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to even research Pakistan.

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But just,

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I don't typically say this,

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but I'll say this now,

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just take my word for it.

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Okay?

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This is a legitimate thing.

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This is what they do.

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And that's only two cases that I read about.

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There's way more cases out there.

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But let's just say there isn't any cases whatsoever

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that are known out there, okay?

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They still rank high

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on their Google searches for,

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you know, perverse things regarding animals.

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I should tell you something.

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And they're Muslim.

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That's the biggest point

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that I want you to understand.

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Okay?

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These are Muslims, okay?

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And you know what?

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I'm sick and tired.

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Just as I'm sick and tired

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of the false left, right paradigm

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of whether you're,

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if you're not a Republican,

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you must be a Democrat.

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If you're not a Democrat,

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you must be a Republican.

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It's like, oh, you're against Jews.

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You must be for Muslim.

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Oh, you're for Muslims

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or you're against Muslims.

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That means you must be

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on one side or the other.

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You know, if you're talking trash on one,

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if you're exposing one,

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that means you must be for the other.

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I'm against both.

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Both Islam,

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Muslims and Jews

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are going to split hell wide open.

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And I'm not interested

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in joining forces with Muslims

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who date goats,

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commit pedophilia

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to go against Jews.

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I don't need help.

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I don't need help

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fighting against Jews and Judaism.

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I got this, bro.

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I don't need Islam's help.

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Islam is a false religion.

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And let me just explain something to you

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because this is the problem

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with a lot of churches

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that expose false religions

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is they're not detailed enough

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regarding the right doctrines.

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Because what will happen is this,

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people will say,

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this is how Muslims try to infiltrate, okay?

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Because Muslims are cool with you

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until they outnumber you, okay?

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Number one.

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But number two,

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what they'll do is they'll find common ground

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with you as much as possible.

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Which right now, it's like,

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oh, you're against Jews?

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Me too.

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Brother.

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We're like, brothers, we gotta stick together.

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You know, the Arna Schwarzenegger

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and the black guy meme, right?

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It's just like, Dylan, you know?

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It's like Islam.

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And we're both gonna fight against Jews

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and destroy the tyranny of the Jews in Israel.

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And we're both against whatever, you know?

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But no.

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But let me explain what Muslims will do.

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They'll tell you this

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and it confuses a lot of Christians.

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Because they'll say, hey, whoa, no, no, no.

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We believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

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They will tell you that

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because they do believe that.

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So you didn't know that.

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They believe that.

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They believe Jesus is the Messiah.

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And then you're like, oh,

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maybe there is hope for these goat lovers.

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These goaters, you know?

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Oh man, they believe that Jesus is Messiah.

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And I'm telling you, they'll say this all the time.

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They're like, oh yeah, Judaism, Jews are evil.

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Thank you, brother, for exposing this.

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We believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

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He's not just a prophet, he's a Messiah.

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And they do believe that.

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And so in the Christians' mind,

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they're just like, well then,

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man, I thought they didn't believe that.

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No, no, no, let me explain to you what this means, okay?

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When a Muslim tells you that,

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say, oh, do you believe that he's God?

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And they will say no.

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Because them believing that Jesus is the Messiah

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does not equal them believing that Jesus is God.

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Because they can uphold him being as a Messiah

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without divinity.

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And let me explain to you another group that does this.

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It's called Jews.

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Jews believe in a Messiah, did you know that?

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They believe in a Messiah.

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But they don't believe their Messiah

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is a divine individual.

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They believe their Messiah is more of a political guy,

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a political ruler.

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So they can say, oh, we have a Messiah,

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but they don't believe that he's God.

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They don't ascribe divinity to their Messiah.

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Just the same thing with the Muslims.

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So don't be tricked by these Muslims

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when they tell you, oh, we also believe in Jesus.

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You don't believe in my Jesus,

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because my Jesus is God.

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And you know what?

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If you believe that he's the Messiah,

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not good enough, no, not enough.

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You failed.

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I want to hear that you said that he is God.

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Because they don't believe he's God

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and they don't believe he's the son of God.

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So they'll try to trick you.

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You know what I've asked?

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I'm like, oh, you believe he's God?

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Silence.

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Won't say nothing.

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Because they know Christians are so stupid sometimes

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that they don't know their doctrine.

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They're like, oh, he's Messiah.

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That's right, see, they're like our brother's right.

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They're kind of like, they're right, they're Ishmael.

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It's cool.

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They're Godars.

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They've rejected the God of the Bible.

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And by the way, Messiah simply means the anointed one.

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Okay?

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And you know what?

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Kings were anointed.

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They were also anointed.

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Here's the major difference between them and Christ

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is that Christ is divine.

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He's the son of God.

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He is God.

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He's Jehovah.

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He is the I am that I am.

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He is the eternal son of God.

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So you know what?

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It's not enough to say that he's a prophet.

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It's not enough to say that he's the Messiah.

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They have to believe that he is also God.

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Don't let Muslims trick you into thinking

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that they're somehow on your side in that regard.

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We do not agree.

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Muhammad was an illiterate pedophile.

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He is the Mormonism of the Middle East.

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It's a satanic religion.

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And it is the counterfeit antichrist of the end times.

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But you know what?

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If Muslims do not believe on Jesus Christ,

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meaning for salvation, meaning that he is God.

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And you know what?

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They can claim, oh yeah, he died for our sins.

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But folks, not enough.

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If they don't believe he's God, it's not enough.

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It's a false profession.

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Because you know what?

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Jehovah's Witnesses will say the same thing,

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but they believe in a false Christ.

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Mormons will say the same thing,

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but they believe in a false Christ.

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They have to ascribe to the doctrines of Christ,

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which means that he is God.

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And so you know, these Muslims,

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they will split hell wide over.

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We're not on the Muslim side, okay?

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And you know, obviously people want to put you

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in either category.

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They're like, oh, if you're against Jews,

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then you must be pro-Muslim and vice versa.

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But no, we're against both

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because both are false religions.

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And you know what?

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I can call out Jews all day long,

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and I do, but as soon as I mentioned Muslims,

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Muslims come up and they're like, oh, you've been bought.

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Oh, you're a traitor.

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Like bro, I've been against Islam like from the start.

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It's just Jews are an easier target.

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And the Bible's obviously more condemning towards you.

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It actually names them.

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Y'all didn't exist when the Bible was written.

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And so we'll come after you next.

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You know, and at the end of the day,

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in my opinion, Jews and Muslims,

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they actually do like each other, you know?

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At least some of them do.

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They're part of the same satanic umbrella

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that Satan's being forth in order to blind people.

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And it's causing people to become polarized

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even within Christianity.

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And I've had literally Christians,

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and obviously I'm saying that loosely

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as far as Christians are concerned,

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I've had them contact me and be like,

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hey, just my opinion,

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I think you should leave Muslims alone.

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We really need them in order to like,

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you know, you know, go against Jews and Israel.

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And it's just like, brother.

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And I don't call him brother.

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But I'm thinking of myself like, you know,

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have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.

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Be not unequally yoked together with unbelief.

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What conquer that Christ with Belial?

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What agreement have the heterosexual

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with the goer?

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We have no communion.

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There is no common ground.

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And you know, obviously I've had better conversations

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with Muslims that I've had with Jews for sure.

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But you know what, they're godless

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and they don't get a free pass either

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just because they're against Jews.

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And I know a lot of Muslims have been violated

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and they've been killed by Jews and by Israel.

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I know they're suffering at their hands.

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And you know what?

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I don't believe innocent people should die, okay?

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And Israel's godless for doing that,

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but we already know they're godless.

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They're a cursed nation.

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But Islam and every nation that pertains to Islam,

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they don't get a free pass because of that.

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It's not like, well, you know, you're a victim,

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so therefore you get a free pass.

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No, some of them are victims,

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but let's talk about Pakistan though.

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Right?

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And then you bring up the whole pedophilia thing

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with Islam and this is what they say.

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Well, how old was Rebecca though?

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Rebecca, where in the Bible does it say Rebecca

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was like nine years old?

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It doesn't even give the H.

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You know, they don't like you bringing up Aisha.

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They, you know, he married her when she was six

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and consummated at nine.

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They hate bringing it.

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They hate when people bring that up

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because it exposes them for being a pedophile religion.

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Nasty.

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And it's not just pedophilia.

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Again, it's bestiality as well.

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That's their relation to animals.

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And so, you know, the Bible says in Deuteronomy,

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go to Deuteronomy 27.

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Deuteronomy chapter 27.

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And obviously Islam's not the only one.

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There's other religions that produce this type of

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reprobation, but I mean, Pakistan is just really,

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I mean, that's like,

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you know what I mean?

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It's pretty bad.

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It just carries that connotation.

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Like everyone kind of knows that.

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There's terms that are used for those in Pakistan

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who are involved in that stuff.

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I can't say it behind the pulpit.

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You know, we'll talk about it after service.

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Okay.

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But this is what they do.

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And this is the result of reprobation.

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Okay.

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Look at Deuteronomy 27, verse 21.

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Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast

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and all the people shall say, amen.

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Why are they cursed?

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Because it's indicative of a nation

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that has rejected the God of the Bible.

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They're adhering to a false gospel,

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therefore they're accursed.

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And their bestiality is a byproduct of that.

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All right, my next point.

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Go with it if you would to, let's see here.

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Go to 2 Kings 17, if you would.

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2 Kings chapter 17.

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That's all I'm gonna say about the whole bestiality thing,

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but just to let you know that this is, it is a thing.

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Because in times past it's like,

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why would I even preach against that?

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It's even a thing, but it is a thing

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amongst these false religions.

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That's what happens, okay?

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It's disgusting, it's vile,

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and that's what happens when you're a part of Islam.

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My last point here, and I'll just kind of breeze through

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this is that God uses animals to judge mankind.

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So, you know, God wants us to appreciate the animals.

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He wants us to admire them, to glorify him because of them.

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He wants us to eat them.

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He wants us to be amused by them,

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to use them as companions, you know, just as Adam did.

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You know, he wants us to use them for positive things,

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to learn from them, to take their example

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and learn from the way that God wired them

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and kind of extrapolate biblical principles from that

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and learn character and attributes and so forth.

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But, you know, if you start acting up,

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God can also use these same animals to kill you, okay?

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And this is something that's found throughout the Bible,

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where God uses animals consistently to kill people, okay?

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Now, we already know of a lot of these,

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like for example Jonah, right?

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Was swallowed by a great whale.

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He prepared a whale to swallow him up, okay?

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Obviously you have animals in the plagues of Egypt

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as well that he used to judge the nation of Egypt.

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In 1 Kings chapter 20,

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a lion slays a man who refuses God's command.

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So he disobeys God and then God prepares a lion to kill him.

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He doesn't eat him, he just slays him, okay?

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Acts chapter 12, verse 23,

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you have worms eating Herod, right?

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After not giving glory to God.

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And then of course we already read in Leviticus 26

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where he threatens this.

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He says, I will send beast among you.

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And it says that will rob you of your children,

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it will destroy your cattle and make you few in number.

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Deuteronomy chapter 28, you don't have to turn there.

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Verse 25 says, the Lord shall cause thee

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to be smitten before thine enemies.

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Thou shalt go out one way against them

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and flee seven ways before them

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and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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And thy carcasses shall be meat

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unto all the fowls of the air,

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unto the beasts of the earth,

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and no man shall fray them away.

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So another way that God uses animals to punish people

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is by dishonoring them.

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Because God, obviously we see this throughout the Bible

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where we like to honor our debt.

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When someone dies, there's a memorial for them,

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place them in a coffin, we give them honor,

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we speak well of them.

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Part of the most dishonoring thing to do

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is for an animal to consume that carcass.

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And God specifically says like, hey, if you disobey me,

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your carcass is gonna fall in the field

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and I'm gonna allow the birds of the air

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to come and just eat your carcass and no funeral.

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That's basically what he's saying.

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And one of the greatest examples of this is found where?

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I think we have a coyote in the church.

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I'm just kidding.

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You know, Revelation 19, right?

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Revelation 19 is the battle of Armageddon.

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All these armies are destroyed before the Lord

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and then the great supper of the day is come

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where God calls all the fowls of the air to come

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and just literally eat the flesh of captains,

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the flesh of servants, the flesh of the bond and free.

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Just everyone in that field just is like,

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come on and eat, come on.

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It's like the way we were back there.

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Just like we're just flying in on Jose and just eating.

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That's what the fowls of the earth do.

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And you're like, man, why does he do that?

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Cause it's a dishonoring thing.

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It's done with the intent to dishonor them.

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No funeral, no coffin, just vultures and animals

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just eating away at the carcass.

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It's pretty nasty, huh?

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But it's kind of cool, you know?

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And look, they have this in like pagan cultures too.

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I forgot what it's called.

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Does anyone remember what it's called?

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You can literally have a funeral

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where they place your body.

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I think it's like in Tibet or something like that.

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They place your body and then they just call vultures

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and the vultures come and just eat your carcass.

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It's like a pagan thing.

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But it's just like, I guess that's,

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they're literally fulfilling what God says, okay?

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First Kings 13, a lion slays a prophet as well.

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Second Kings chapter two,

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bears kill children who mock the man of God.

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Okay, and the children are making fun of Elisha,

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saying go up thou baldie, right?

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They're making him fun of his bald head.

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Go up thou bald head.

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And then, you know, he's just like,

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he curses them and she bears come

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and just kill all the children, you know?

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And you know these atheists like, oh yeah,

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what do you think about that?

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That's, yeah, don't make fun of the man of God, yeah.

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What's, you think that's right?

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Everything that the Lord does is right.

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And if God wouldn't approve of it,

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he wouldn't have allowed Elisha to be able to do that.

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Elisha's not the bear whisperer.

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He's not like some Indian or some Native American

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who's just calling the bears or whatever to come.

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No, he's just, he's the man of God.

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God's on his side.

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And so, God allows these she bears

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to come and kill these children, okay?

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Showing us that God does not like it

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when people mock the man of God.

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Look at 2nd Kings, chapter 17, verse 24,

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says the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon

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and from Ctha and from Ava and from Hamath

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and from Sefar Vaeim

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and placed them in the cities of Samaria

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instead of the children of Israel.

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And he possessed Samaria

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and dwelt in the cities thereof.

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So what's going on here is that

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Samaria is sending forth their own kind of profits

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to inhabit the cities of Samaria

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and they're making kind of like an amalgamation

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of a religion between the religion of Israel

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and pagan religion, okay?

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It's kind of like Catholicism, right?

01:00:25.600 --> 01:00:26.380
It's just like kind of like

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putting them, blending them together.

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Well, look at the result of there, verse 25 says

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and so it was that at the beginning

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of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord.

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Therefore the Lord sent lions among them

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which slew some of them.

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Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria

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saying the nations which thou has removed

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and placed in the cities of Samaria

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know not the manner of the God of the land.

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Therefore he had sent lions among them

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and behold they slay them

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because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

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So they're coming into the land

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making this bastardization of the religion of the Bible

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and God's like, oh, you're making a mockery

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of my religion.

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I'm gonna go ahead and send lions among you

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to kill you guys.

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These idolaters is what they are.

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And look, this is a real thing even today.

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Look at the story of the man-eaters of Savo, okay?

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Took place in India where you have these workers

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that were being terrorized in railroad camps.

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They were like these workers to create these railroads

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in 1898 and these two male lions

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basically terrorized them

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and killed 135 workers.

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They're Indians that they kill.

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Okay, you're like, well, isn't that just like,

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doesn't that just happen?

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No, I think God sent lions among them.

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You know, I'm pretty sure these Indians

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were like idolaters, you know?

01:01:50.260 --> 01:01:52.800
They're probably idolaters worshiping false gods,

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mocking God in their heart.

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Oh, you're just kind of making that up.

01:01:57.300 --> 01:01:58.040
You don't really know that.

01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:01.500
I just know that based upon what the Bible says, okay?

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That he will send lions among them.

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And so it's a very unique case,

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but it's happened throughout history

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where God will send animals

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just like the man-eaters of Savo.

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Let me see if I can pronounce this.

01:02:15.060 --> 01:02:19.560
The Champawat Tiger, which is a female Bengal tiger,

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killed 436 people in Nepal and Northern India.

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She primarily attacked women and children

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gathering firewood or tending livestock near the forest

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often in broad daylight.

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Her attacks brought entire villages to a standstill, 1907.

01:02:36.980 --> 01:02:38.980
Hunter Jim Corbett tracked and killed her

01:02:38.980 --> 01:02:42.060
after she murdered a 16-year-old girl.

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But we see this in Leviticus 26.

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He says, I will send beasts among you

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and they will rob you of your children.

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So he said, what's the point of like saying that,

01:02:51.540 --> 01:02:53.020
pastor, you're making me feel uncomfortable.

01:02:53.660 --> 01:02:54.760
I'm trying to teach you that God is loving,

01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:56.480
but you know, he's also judgmental as well.

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And he don't play around.

01:02:59.200 --> 01:03:01.800
So you better fear him, okay?

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And you know what?

01:03:03.060 --> 01:03:05.040
This is motivation for you to serve God,

01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:06.040
to obey the Lord.

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Oh, are you using scare tactics

01:03:07.940 --> 01:03:09.140
to try to get people to serve God?

01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:11.020
Yeah, yeah.

01:03:11.400 --> 01:03:14.820
It's called, you know, lions, for sure, yeah.

01:03:15.560 --> 01:03:18.280
Oh yeah, I can't believe you would do these pastors

01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:20.200
to use all these scare tactics

01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:22.160
and fear to try to get people to serve God.

01:03:22.500 --> 01:03:23.840
Yeah, you know, how about hell?

01:03:24.500 --> 01:03:26.980
God uses hell to motivate people to get saved.

01:03:29.100 --> 01:03:32.100
Some save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.

01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:35.180
There are no lions here, there's mountain lions though.

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And you know what?

01:03:38.680 --> 01:03:40.120
I want to make sure I stay right with God

01:03:40.120 --> 01:03:41.080
because I want God to bless me,

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but I don't want to be consumed.

01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:44.360
The worst way to die is to be consumed

01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:45.240
by some sort of animal.

01:03:46.200 --> 01:03:47.200
Probably the worst way to die.

01:03:48.080 --> 01:03:48.400
Right?

01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:49.400
Why don't you think that?

01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:51.560
Like for a mountain lion to just eat you

01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:55.280
or you know, what other animals have we got around?

01:03:55.520 --> 01:03:57.360
Bears to eat you or something, you know?

01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:00.200
We have this recorded throughout history of this happening.

01:04:00.340 --> 01:04:02.320
There's also another case of a great white,

01:04:02.420 --> 01:04:04.540
I think it goes off the coast of Rhode Island

01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:06.340
who terrorized the city as well,

01:04:06.500 --> 01:04:08.500
ate a lot of people for a period of time.

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And I don't believe that's just like a random thing.

01:04:11.160 --> 01:04:12.720
I do believe that something was happening

01:04:12.720 --> 01:04:15.640
in the hearts of the people of that particular region

01:04:15.640 --> 01:04:18.340
where there might have been cursing God in their heart,

01:04:18.640 --> 01:04:19.720
they're mocking God,

01:04:20.120 --> 01:04:22.240
they're just blaspheming God in their heart.

01:04:22.500 --> 01:04:23.860
And then God says, oh, you think that's funny?

01:04:23.980 --> 01:04:25.180
Let me send lions among you.

01:04:25.420 --> 01:04:26.400
Let me send a great white.

01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:30.800
Let me send a Bengal tiger to just consume your people

01:04:31.160 --> 01:04:32.500
and see if you find that funny.

01:04:33.300 --> 01:04:35.520
He sent she bears, right?

01:04:36.220 --> 01:04:37.120
To destroy the children.

01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:38.000
God's not messing around.

01:04:38.260 --> 01:04:39.720
I am trying to instill fear in your heart.

01:04:39.860 --> 01:04:41.940
To fear God, to love him with all your hearts,

01:04:42.060 --> 01:04:43.480
mind and strength, stay right with him

01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:45.800
lest this should befall you, okay?

01:04:48.420 --> 01:04:49.640
That's pretty much it, you know?

01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:51.320
There's other examples,

01:04:51.540 --> 01:04:53.480
but you know, I don't have time to go through it all.

01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:56.320
One notable example that's always worth mentioning

01:04:56.320 --> 01:04:57.660
is the dogs that eat Jezebel.

01:04:59.900 --> 01:05:02.100
They just, they left her hands,

01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:03.940
I think her hands and her feet, right?

01:05:04.740 --> 01:05:05.920
Her hands and her feet.

01:05:06.920 --> 01:05:07.860
Was it the skull?

01:05:08.700 --> 01:05:09.740
Who can verify that?

01:05:10.060 --> 01:05:10.600
Is it the skull?

01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:11.940
I know they left her hands for sure,

01:05:12.360 --> 01:05:14.980
but they ate the majority of the corpse, right?

01:05:15.560 --> 01:05:16.580
And as part of a punishment,

01:05:16.700 --> 01:05:18.400
it was God's judgment upon Jezebel

01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:19.840
for being a blasphemer,

01:05:20.460 --> 01:05:22.660
for being such a wicked person, okay?

01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:27.020
Lions, they ate Daniel's accusers.

01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:29.700
So he was thrown into the lions then,

01:05:30.600 --> 01:05:32.040
nothing happens to him,

01:05:32.700 --> 01:05:34.000
but once he comes out,

01:05:34.080 --> 01:05:35.120
they throw the other guys in

01:05:35.120 --> 01:05:35.840
and the lion's like,

01:05:35.880 --> 01:05:37.240
hey, the master said, these are the guys.

01:05:37.820 --> 01:05:39.780
And then they go and they make a mastery

01:05:39.780 --> 01:05:40.860
of them and their families

01:05:42.300 --> 01:05:43.900
for accusing the man of God.

01:05:45.520 --> 01:05:47.040
And then the last example

01:05:47.560 --> 01:05:49.980
is the locus tormenting men for five months

01:05:49.980 --> 01:05:51.400
in Revelation chapter nine.

01:05:51.720 --> 01:05:52.100
You're like, all right,

01:05:52.140 --> 01:05:54.240
they're talking about like animals on earth.

01:05:54.380 --> 01:05:55.440
I'm just talking about any animal.

01:05:56.120 --> 01:05:57.020
And these are creatures,

01:05:57.400 --> 01:05:57.820
they're not just,

01:05:58.300 --> 01:05:59.660
they're not spiritual creatures,

01:05:59.860 --> 01:06:02.520
they're supernatural creatures, okay?

01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:05.020
And they torment men for five months.

01:06:05.300 --> 01:06:06.180
And why is that?

01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:07.400
Because they're wicked,

01:06:07.580 --> 01:06:08.920
godless people on this world,

01:06:08.980 --> 01:06:09.700
they're reprobates

01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:11.900
and they don't repent of their sorceries.

01:06:11.980 --> 01:06:14.140
They keep doing idolatrous things.

01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:16.120
They murder their thieves

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and then they'll repent of their ways.

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So God is just doing it just to judge them.

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What's the point of the sermon today?

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Well, the point is simply this,

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just to help you to understand

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our relation to animals, right?

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Let's keep it on this side

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where we are worshiping God

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because of the animals he created,

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use them for their original intent,

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which is that food, companionship,

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entertainment and so forth

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and recognize that God can also use these animals

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to turn on us in order to judge us.

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If we stray and disobey God

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and we get to make a mockery of the things of God,

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he can definitely do that to us.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we thank you so much for your word.

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Thank you for animals, Lord.

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We're so thankful that you created

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these magnificent creatures

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and that we can stand in all of your power

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and your creativity.

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I pray that, Lord, we continue to do so.

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Lord, help us to be good stewards of the animals

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you led us to come in contact with, Lord.

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And may we never be cruel to animals

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and but also recognize that animals are,

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though a good companion,

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they are insufficient for us as Christians,

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as human beings.

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We need human contact.

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And I pray that, Lord, you help us to remain in the way

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so that you would not send a lion to consume us

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as you did with the prophet who disobeyed you, Lord.

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And I pray, Father God,

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that you help us to stay in the way to do so.

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In Jesus name we pray.

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Amen.