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Of course now we are going into Jacob's travel into getting himself a wife and we know that in

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chapter 27 we have him subtly you know taking the promise, the birthright, the blessing from

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his brother Esau by being a subtle person, a cunning individual and of course because of it

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Esau wants to take his life, he wants to kill his brother and so Rebecca who is their mother

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plots to essentially deliver him unto her brother and remain there in that land until Esau's anger

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goes away and he no longer wants to kill him and so this is basically the result of trying to get

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the right things the wrong way. It complicates situations right? You have a situation where

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the promise is supposed to go to Isaac, it's supposed to go to him and it's going to go

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but they feel like they need to do you know Isaac and his mother feel like they need to become cunning

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and trying to you know construe the situation and conspire in order to receive the blessings of God

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but you know at the end of the day we need to realize that if God wants us to have something

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you know we're to be completely honest, we're to have integrity in how we do things

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and then just have faith that God will come through right? Not be dishonest, not be liars,

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not be individuals that lack integrity and go about things the wrong way, trying to get the

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right things the right way instead of obtaining them in a wrongful manner. So now we have him

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about to go to his uncle's land in order to obtain a wife. It says in verse number one

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and Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and sentenced him. Now shall

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not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan arise, go to Pandanaram to the house of

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Bethuel thy mother's father and take thee away from Thence of the daughter of Laban thy mother's

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brother. So it seems as though Jacob has now accepted the fact that the blessing is officially going

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to go to Isaac. Obviously he originally intended to bless his son Esau but instead it went to Isaac

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and now he's kind of accepted this but he's adding some stipulations, he's adding some

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conditions, he's saying look you're going to receive the blessing but I want to make sure

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that you marry right. Don't get anybody from Canaan, don't get anybody from Canaan land,

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make sure you get someone whom we approve as your parents and obviously in chapters prior to this

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you have Esau marrying the daughters of the land and it specifically says in chapter 26 verse 34

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Esau was 40 years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Birai the Hittite

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and Bathshamath the daughter of Elon the Hittite which were a grief of mine unto Isaac

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and to Rebekah and so you know the parents were definitely not happy about Esau first and foremost

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being a polygamist but also marrying the daughters of Canaan obviously we know that Canaan those of

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Canaan essentially picture the world those who are unregenerated those who are not God's people

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and in fact they're really characterized by a lot of perversion wickedness idolatrous cultures

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that you know have no part with God's people and so you know the principle that we can learn here

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in Genesis 28 is that we need to adhere to the advice in the council and even the preferences

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of our parents right specifically especially if they say hey you know find someone in church right

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find someone of the house of God someone who is saved you know don't go out to Canaan land

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to find a spouse there and you know sometimes Christians just don't listen to that you know you

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may not you say well I don't really have a parent that puts that condition upon me yeah but the

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Bible puts that condition upon you know right the Bible commands you to marry only believers be

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not unequally yoked together with unbelievers the only people you should be marrying are those

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in the Lord now obviously you have instances because people bring up well you know my spouse

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was not saved but then later on they got saved and it ended up working out praise God for that right

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but the exception proves the rule and it's kind of like playing Russian roulette at that point

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where if you think well I'm going to find someone out in the world I'm going to get me a Canaanite

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I'm going to get me a Judith I'm going to get somebody get someone out there you know on

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Instagram or on social media and then through the process of time I'll be able to win them

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over to the Lord yeah that's possible but that's a huge risk though okay you know it's

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better to just get someone who is a believer pursue someone who is a believer and I would

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even say this you know narrow it down a little bit okay you know because Jacob is not just like hey

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you know don't go to Canaan he's like I want you to go specifically to pandan around he's very

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specific of who he wants him to date and I would even say this you know marry a believer of course

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that's like foundational right but you know you should probably marry like a fundamental

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Baptist too okay you're like well you know as long as they just call themselves a Christian

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yeah but you're in for a world of hurt if that's all if that's your preference if that's how low

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your standard is you might be in the world of hurt because once you get married to this

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person who claims to be a Christian and once you want to get serious about serving God

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you start realizing that this person doesn't really believe the things that you believe

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they're just Christian only name right or they're the kind of Christian that you know they

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they're actually Catholic and they call themselves a Christian or you know they're a

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Christian but they've delved into Mormonism or whatever or they might be a part of some

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non-denom church that doesn't use the right Bible they don't believe in the right salvation

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you know they have very loose standards and you know what that can cause a lot of problems in

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a marriage it's very important that you find someone who has the same core values as you

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and I've said this before obviously the person that you marry doesn't need to be perfect because

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no one is but they got to be teachable right going in the right direction and so it's important

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for you to you know stay off these dating websites or whatever you know Christian mingle or you

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know in the new ip they there used to be something called the new ip singles and so you

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know definitely don't go on there you know just do the old-fashioned meet someone in church

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pray someone down and get her done amen instead of like well let me see who's compatible with me kjv

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check you know soul winner check you know you gotta actually talk to people see them face to face

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observe their character and see if you even like being around them okay but here's the thing

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is just like well you know I know this one girl she goes to this Pentecostal church

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I think it's a fantastic fit you know she's a Pentecostal yeah she's Pentecostal or whatever

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yeah you may overlook that right now but six months from now when you're already married

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one thing that's gonna bother you is the fact that she thinks she can lose your salvation

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and you're gonna be like whoa what do you mean what do you mean you think that Jesus is

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god the father what do you mean you think you could lose your salvation and you run into

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all these doctrinal issues within marriage get someone from pandan around get someone from the

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house of god you're like well this is this is problem though you know there's not enough people

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in church you know well here's what i've learned over the years is that one of the reasons you

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may feel as though there's not enough people in church to kind of mingle with and talk to

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and find a spouse it's probably because you're just not ready okay because every single guy that

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I've met that has gotten married you know they they found someone

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I don't know how that works like you know they just talk to the guys they'll just say like I

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met them in church or I met them in a different church or whatever another Baptist church just

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ended up working out and so you know you have to pursue you got to pray it down but don't lower

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your standards of what you're looking for in a Christian girl just because you're desperate

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or something okay you know don't lower your standards and and think to yourself well

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I'm just never going to get married well here's the thing I obviously am an advocate of you getting

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married right you should it's what God's will is for mankind in general but here's the thing is

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that don't be so desperate that you end up making the wrong decision and then it becomes the

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right decision because you can't get divorced and then you're just miserable for the rest of

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life okay because that is a real thing out there okay and so choose wisely but you know if you're

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parent thank God if you have parents who are directing you that are helping you make the

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right decision in that regard you know Jacob is telling excuse me Isaac is telling Jacob hey

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go to Pandan Aram this is the kind of wife that I want you to marry and he's kind of like

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implying don't be like Esau your brother who you know got Judith over here and you

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got these women from the Canaanites and now they're a grief of mine you know to me and your mom

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you know go to Pandan Aram and actually make us proud son okay and so you know and attached to

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this he says in verse 3 God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that

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thou may as be a multitude of people and give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to

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thy seed with theme that thou may as inherit the land where and thou art a stranger

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which God gave unto Abraham so he's kind of tying in this marriage to the fact that you know God's

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blessing is going to come upon him that God had promised Abraham and of course his immediate

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descendants regarding the land and how he's going to make of him a great nation now let me just

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say one more thing before I move on from this again and that is that you know when I talk

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about marriage obviously I'm referring to the fact that you know yes you should choose someone

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from the house of God you should choose someone who's going in the right direction

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you should do that and you're going to run into people who didn't do it that way

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okay and they're going to be like look at me I'm fine but just remember this

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the exception always proves the rule and you are you know rolling the dice if you choose to

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marry someone even of a different denomination I'm just telling you right now it is a thing

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and it you know I'm not saying that if you marry someone of a different denomination

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they can't become and believe like you but here's the thing folks once that once you've tied the knot

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once it's down you once you've already made the decision made the covenant before God

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man you better pray a miracle that that person ends up adhering to the things that you believe

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because it will be a cause for conflict later on I promise you that and you know what once

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the honeymoon is over and you've been married for a couple of months and now it's just like

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let's go to church and and she's like or he's like want to I want to go to my church

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you know I want to go to the purple lights I want to go to the smoke and mirrors and the soft

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preaching you're just like that's not what I'm about it's just like well it's too late that's

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what that's what you got okay and so make sure you don't just jump into marriage

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flippantly and not take it into consider like well I'm so I just want to get married

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right now if I could just get married right now I get it okay because of that it sucks being

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single I get it I was one single too I know okay so I'm not hating on the desire to want to get

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married for sure it sucks to be single I get it and people are like no you know you should be

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content where you're at I was content where I was at and I still thought it sucked to be

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single okay I was like I'm content I'm serving the Lord but you know I want to get married

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I get it but don't let that desperation cause you to make a really bad decision okay

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and you know I'm not necessarily for and look I would never command us from the pulpit because

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you are not my children but you know with my kids I will I will I don't I'm not an advocate for

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overnight marriages you know it's just like we found each other's true love let's just get

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married tomorrow you know it's just I'm not an advocate for it because I've just seen too many

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people make that decision and then it ends up turning really bad in the long run because

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they were hasty in their decision okay and so you know think it through pray through it get some

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godly counsel don't allow your passions to get in the way of these things be mature about these things

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and and you know you're like well you know in the new fb everyone just gets married right away

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you know not necessarily okay not everyone has done that okay you might have heard of a couple

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stories like that but not everyone has done it that way and even the people who have done it

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that way my pastor friends who have done it that way they would even tell you that's probably not

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the best option to do to just get married right away they would even tell you that they're the

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exception to the rule and so you know if you're going to get married and you want to get married

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amen to that you know but take your time okay now I get it some of you the clock is ticking

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ticking I get it okay the clock is ticking you're like I don't know everything I'm just

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going to go for whatever whatever looks at me cockeyed you know I'm just I'm just going to do it

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you know I get it but I'm just I'm just trying to admonish you here that you know you don't

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want to just make a hasty decision think it through pray through it gets know the individual

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and you know live happily ever after after you feel like hey this is this is the one okay

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so anyways the blessing is tied to him getting married to this individual says in verse 5 it says

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Isaac sent away Jacob and he went to pandan aram until laban son of beth you will the Syrian

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the brother of rebecca jacob and esau's mother when esau saw that isaac had blessed jacob

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and sent him away to pandan aram to take him away from fence and that as he blessed him he gave

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him a charge saying thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of canaan and that jacob obeyed his

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father and his mother was gone to pandan aram and esau seen that the daughters of canaan pleased

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not isaac his father then went esau unto ishmael and took unto the wives which he had mahalath

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the daughter of ishmael abram's son the sister of neighbor joth to be his wife so what do

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we have here we have esau's like oh maybe that's what i should have done but here's the thing this

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is an example of doing something just it's a little too little too late okay in other words he's like

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how can i recover the blessing from my father how can i get him to favor me oh i should have

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married someone of god's people the people he charged me to go to instead of taking of the

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women of canaan so he goes to the people of ishmael he takes into him a wife

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mahalath and thinking that that's going to somehow give him favor with his father but again too

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little too late you know accumulating another wife adding another wife is not going to help your

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situation okay and you're like how do you know it didn't help the situation well this is the

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last we hear about it we just hear him make this decision and that's it now look folks it's

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important for us to obey our parents and do what our parents tell us to do and you know it's also

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equally important to do what god commands us to do but we need to make sure that we're doing the things

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for the right reasons too okay do things for the right reasons you know it's kind of too late

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for you esau to get the blessing just be a good husband now to your wives you know do that

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which is right at this moment and don't try to fix the situation that is already beyond recognition

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it's already that ship has sailed okay you know and so the principle that we can learn there is that

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if you've made irreparable damage in your relationships and times past you know instead

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of trying to go back and constantly trying to fix that just make the right decisions from here

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on out you understand you know and this could be applied in any area of life right sometimes

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we're so fixated on trying to fix past situations past relationships and really it's kind of like a

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waste of time you know we need to forget those things which are behind and press forward to

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those things which are before and not try to like well let me see if I could just fix this

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situation fix this relationship if it's beyond recognition just move forward okay it's it's

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better to just invest your time and energy and making the right decisions from here on out

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than to revisit the past past relationships past failures that you've made and try to fix that

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situation it's just not worth it do right from here on out okay it says in verse 10 and jacob

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went out from brashiba and went toward hayran and he lighted upon a certain place and tarried

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there all night because the sun was set and he took up the stones of that place and put them for

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his pillow and laid down in the place to sleep so you know jacob is by himself he doesn't have

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his parents with them and obviously he's already older at this moment but he's isolated he's by

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himself he's kind of got himself into a weird situation because he's conspiring with his mom

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forcing him to leave his family leave his place of home to find a wife in a different land

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and so he is about to sleep the guy doesn't even know how to put up a tent he grabs a stone in

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order to use it as a pillow and this is where he begins to dream the dream he has the visions from

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god because at the end of the day though jacob is a conniving person god still wants to use him

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okay he still wants to use him he wants to preserve the promise through jacob but you know

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shed a little of the old man and put on the new man and god has to work through him so

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you know even though this wasn't originally god's will for him to go into hayran god's

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going to use it to get it for good now if obviously spoiler alert we obviously know

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what's going to happen here he gets defrauded majorly right with laban laban is like a really

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bad you know father-in-law you know he's just he's conniving he's deceptive he conspires he tricks

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jacob and it's like jacob gets a taste of his own medicine right you know he reaps what he sows

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in other words and here's the thing folks is that you may have made a bad decision in the past

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that is causing you to reap what you've sown but that doesn't mean that god can't work that together

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for good because even though bad things are going to happen to jacob and he's going to be defrauded

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and we're like really mad at laban we're like man this guy is a jerk this guy is so deceitful

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i can't believe this guy you know he's not necessarily someone who we're a big fan of

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you know god does use that to kind of refine jacob's character you know in order to make him

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the kind of man that god wants him to be okay so we're together for good so all these things though

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not and not initially god's will god ends up using it in a big way to teach jacob some important

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principles it says in verse 12 and he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the

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top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of god ascending and descending upon it so

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we have jacob having this dream he lays his head upon a stone and through this dream he views a

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ladder that reaches unto heaven angels ascending and descending upon it now because you've read the

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bible because you've read the new testament we obviously know who this is referring to the

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ladder is jesus christ right and in fact in john chapter one and verse 51 jesus christ essentially

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references this story and asserts that just as jacob saw that ladder you know the same thing with

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jesus he they're going to see angels ascending and descending upon him why because jesus christ

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is the ladder that reaches to heaven in other words he is the only way to heaven bible says he's the

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way the truth and the life no man comes unto the father no man can reach the gates of heaven

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without jesus so this is a beautiful picture of the lord jesus christ right that he is that

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ladder that reaches unto heaven verse 13 says and behold the lord stood above it and said i am the

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lord god of abraham thy father and the god of isaac the land wherein thou liest to thee will

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i give it in to thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shall spread

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abroad though to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee and in

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thy seed shall all families of the earth be blessed now we see here in this chapter that isaac

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confirms the promise to jacob but then god also confirms the promises to jacob as well he's

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reinforcing what he's going to do through this dream it says in verse 15 behold i am with thee

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and will keep thee in all places whether thou goest and will bring thee again into this land

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for i will not leave thee until i have done that which i have spoken to the of and jacob

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awaked out of his sleep and he said surely the lord is in this place and i knew it not

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and he was afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god

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and this is the gate of heaven so this is a very profound passage of scripture and it's a

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very profound statement by jacob because he realizes like i was in the presence of god

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i saw the ladder and you know he was afraid right when he wakes he's just like he's

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awakened out of like a like a nightmare not necessarily like a dream the way we think

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it is the bible specifically says that he was fearing he was afraid and he specifically said

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this place is dreadful now what does it mean when something is dreadful it means

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it could have the connotation of being awesome it can have the connotation of being great

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but it means that it causes dread fear right now this is important because of the fact that

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this is completely the opposite of what people claim the presence of god is like today right

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when people talk about the presence of god is just like i just feel his presence right now you

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know i just feel enveloped in his love or something and obviously there probably are

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instances where we feel that way when we're broken hearted but in general god's presence is dreadful

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it's terrible the bible says right you know you would be afraid to be in the presence of god

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that's literally what god's presence evokes in a person is dread it's like your heart drops

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your stomach is in your throat you're just completely scared because god is someone who

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is worthy to be feared he's not coming like a teddy bear he's not coming just you know soft spoken

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he invokes fear and in fact this is something that the bible constantly talks about is having the

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fear of god right he's fearful he is awesome he's dreadful he's terrible these are things

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that he specifically says about himself okay and jacob realizes this he's like man i'm afraid

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i'm in the presence of god i am afraid and he specifically says this is listen to this

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the house of god later on he refers to it as bethel bethel is synonymous with the house of god

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now here's a couple things that we can learn from this particular phrase here and this verse

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regarding the house of god being dreadful you know obviously in the new testament the house of

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god is church okay and in fact the bible specifically says that the church is the pillar

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in ground of truth and it calls it the house of god and you know what church should be a

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dreadful place as well okay in both ways if you think about it why because you know the house

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of god should invoke you know that which is awe spiring for us to be in awe of the presence

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of god and in fact when we meet together as a church guess what god is in this place as well

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right go to matthew chapter 18 if you would matthew chapter 18 matthew chapter 18 here

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this is a passage of scripture that deals primarily with the excommunication of a believer

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for their trespasses against the brother and it specifically says in verse 15 more over if

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thy brother trespassed against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone

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if he shall hear thee thou has gained thy brother but if you will not hear thee then take with the

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one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established this is

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basically saying you know if your brother offends you they've trespassed against you they've

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sinned against you it's important for you to confront that person and reconcile the situation

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so that you guys can be at peace with one another you know the bible tells us that we

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should endeavor to keep the the the spirit of peace and the bond the the spirit of unity and the bond

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of peace meaning that we should endeavor to be peacemakers amongst ourselves you know if you if

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someone has offended you in church don't go and start gossiping about them don't start railing

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and slandering that person you should go to that person and say hey you offended me bro

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like you said this and i'm i'm greatly offended and i want you to apologize

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to me for that and you know what that person is supposed to do i'm sorry

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please forgive me you know and the bible says that we should forgive that person be ready to

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forgive that individual this is how it should function in church right not clicking up together

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and trying to accumulate people to be on your side to be against this person learn how to confront

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people when they've transgressed against you and not just go around and be a little busy body

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slandering that individual just go reconcile and gain your brother amen so he says at verse 16 but

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if you will not hear the then take with the two or one or two more than in the mouth of two or three

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witnesses every word may be established in other words if this person is like no i'm not asking

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for forgiveness you know i'm not sorry i did that i'm not sorry i said that i'm not sorry

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that i took that from you you know i'm not sorry for whatever then the responsibility

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falls upon you to take another brother and confront that individual meaning that that other

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individual should cause a little bit of peer pressure on that person to say hey you need to

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like apologize to this person you need to make this situation right if they refuse to do that

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verse 17 says and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the church but if you neglect

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to hear the church let him be into the as a heathen man and as a public and so in other

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words if it gets all the way to the top to the pastor the pastor is supposed to

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excommunicate this person because they're unrepentant of the transgression the trespass

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against their brother and the bible says that once they're excommunicated they're unto us as a

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heathen man and as a publican what does that tell you it means that we should treat them as an

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unsafe person whether they're saved or not meaning that they we should have no dealings

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with them we should be completely separated from their company verse 18 barely i say

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into you whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever you

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shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven again i say into you that if two of you shall

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agree on earth as touching anything that they shall they shall ask it shall be done for them

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of my father which is in heaven for where two or three are gathered together in my name

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there am i in the midst of them so this is all in context of church meaning that as

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we're gathered together here tonight hearing the preaching of god's word we are in agreement

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of what the bible says therefore god's presence is in this place okay you know it's we don't need a

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cathedral we don't need a fancy building we don't need a catholic tomb we don't need a tabernacle

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we don't you know as long as we're gathered together a green with the word of god the

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bible says that god's presence is here and you don't want you don't need to feel it either

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right it's not something that has to be felt i feel like god's presence is here right you know

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obviously you could potentially have that feeling you know but at the end of the day it's something

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that you don't necessarily discern with your emotions you discern with your spirit that god's

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presence is currently here because the preaching of god's word is being thundered forth okay so in

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the house of god god's presence is there right we ever see you know that god is omnipresent

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meaning that he is everywhere at all times his eyes run to and fro beholden the evil and the good

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however god's presence especially in a special manner is in the house of god when his word is

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being put forth according to matthew chapter 18 so when jacob said oh man this is a dreadful

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place this is where god is his presence is here it's showing us that god's presence should be in

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the house of god okay and you know it's not something we have to fabricate either with purple

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lights smoking mirrors a band you know all these extra bells and whistles that try to basically

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fabricate the feeling of god's presence being there god's presence should be discerned by

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a spirit based upon the word of god right and so and you're like well how do i know that god's

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presence is here like how would i be able to discern that god's presence is here well you know

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obviously there's there's a variety of ways to do that one of which is the most obvious which

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is the preaching of god's word but number two is the unity of the church is a demonstration

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that god's presence is there because the spirit of god creates unity right when you find a church

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where there's disunity there is discord there is infighting there is conflict between members

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and other members between members and the pastor that demonstrates that the spirit of god is not

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there you know because sometimes people will say well i know the spirit of god is not there

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because the preaching is just so mean you know i just don't think god's presence i don't feel god's

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presence well i don't think you even know what god's presence feels like because if you're basing it

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off of how nice the preaching is you don't know what you're talking about because you know at

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the end of the day if the word of god is being thundered forth the words that i speak

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into you there are spirit and they are life the bible says you understand you know the flesh

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prophet of nothing it is the spirit the quickness you know the spirit of god is discerned

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by the preaching of god's word but it's also discerned by the unity of the people in the church

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and look you know there's churches out there where you can literally go into that church

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and you immediately discern the tension in that church where you're just like

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i feel like there's like tension in here for some reason you know i sense tension i sense

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division that's not on accident that's a supernatural thing that's taking place in

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that church because there's disunity there you know how about this you know you know that the

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presence of god is not there when the leader is involved in some sort of perversion or sin

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you know he's rebelling against god he's involved in transgressions and sins you know there

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is a atmosphere of tension that kind of demonstrates that god's spirit is not there

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and you know i've had people tell me this where they went to like a church

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and you know obviously later on they found out that the pastor was involved in some sort of sin

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not reprobate stuff just like he's involved in sin unrepentant sin

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and people afterwards said like i felt weird at that church i don't know i have to leave

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i i felt like i wasn't learning there's something wrong there and i couldn't really

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understand what it was and this person told me that after one service the pastor would stand in the back

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and you know to to like greet the people and say goodbye and this person went up to the pastor and

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said either there's something wrong with you or there's something wrong with me

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i don't know what it is and this person didn't mean it in a disrespectful way

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and in fact when this person said that she probably meant that there's something

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more wrong with her than him but she said that like once she said that to him

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he never stood back there ever again and of course this guy ended up getting found out that

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he's involved in sin he's no longer a pastor and he's getting trolled by homos now okay

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i had a secular job you know he's still on his phone too you know i don't know what he was doing

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on his phone you know but you know this person said like oh afterwards it's like oh this is

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this is wise because he's involved in sin there's like an atmosphere and she even described it

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she said i feel like there's just like a dark cloud in the church and i just always thought it

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was my my fault like it was something wrong with me which is why i just had to leave

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because i felt like i had to just like get something right in my heart but it's not that it's just that

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the spirit of god wasn't there sin was prevalent there you know the little leaven had leaven to

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hold up it caused sin it caused division it caused railing it caused slander i mean there's

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all types of problem in that church problems in that church therefore the spirit of god was not

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there and so it's something that you can discern you know how do you know that the presence

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of god is in that church i'll tell you how it invokes all not of the pastor but just of the church

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in general right go to first king's chapter 10 let's go to first king's chapter 10 real quick

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hold your place here in matthew meaning there's just like man you know this church is awesome

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right it's just like the work of christ is being done here the preaching is great the

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fellowship is awesome you know and and i just don't want to leave and you know we have people

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like that here is just they just don't want to leave i'm not saying to go i'm saying like to go home

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people just like being around each other the fellowship is great the unity is awesome the

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food is great you know the coffee is good the the red bulls are great now i'm just kidding

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you know the unity the fellowship is just fantastic and you know what there's no division

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in the church it's like the spirit of god is there and i've had people come to this church

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and say like man this is just so different here like the spirit is just different here right

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and what is it it's god's spirit that's there and it reminds me of uh the queen who went to see

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Solomon it says in first king's uh chapter 10 let's look down at verse number three it says in

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Solomon told her all her questions there was not anything hid from the king which he told her

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not and when the queen of sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom and the house that he had built

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and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers

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and their apparel and their cup bears and as a scent by which he went up into the house of the lord

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there was no more spirit in her so like she goes there and she's like man this place is awesome

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like the ministers are awesome the singing is awesome the preaching is awesome the just

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everything is just great there's no it's just like she's breathless she was left speechless right

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says in verse six and she said to the king it was a true report that i heard in my own land of

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thy accent of thy wisdom how be it i believe not the words until i came and my eyes had seen it

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and behold the half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame which i heard

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happy are thy men he says happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee

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and that they hear thy wisdom blessed be the lord thy god which delighteth in thee to set

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thee on the throne of israel and so forth you know it should be that people come to this church

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and praise christ the way the queen of sheba prays Solomon because Solomon is a picture of Jesus

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and may they say like this church is awesome like these people are actually happy

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which by the way side note you know you come on Sunday morning put a smile on your face amen

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stop looking like such a grump you know uh stop having the r face right

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you know you guys know i'm i'm gonna leave out that middle middle letter there

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i'll say the the rbf face which is the resting brat face i you thought i was gonna say that

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got a resting brat face gotta make sure i just keep saying brat

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you know you know get rid of that face come to the house of god with a smile on your face

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so that when someone comes an unsafe person comes to our church

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they're not lying look at this girl with this rbf face

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you know or look at this girl why this guy got a rbf face on you know why is he like

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man this place looks miserable you know actually have some joy about yourself

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i'm not saying be fake but i'm saying you know be filled with the spirit

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be happy to be in the house of god you know sing with your heart when you're in the house of god

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you know sing the hymns the way you would sing your stupid drake song it's not better

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sing you know the hymns the way you would sing you know whatever worldly song you're singing

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in the shower in your car on the way over here

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someone just gave himself a way

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sing unto the lord as the way you would put passion into any other worldly song

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or whatever it is that you do you know put some passion and zeal into

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what you do here for the lord right why because you know we have the queen of sheba visiting

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we have a lot of unsay people coming and you know they they heard about our church

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they seen it on instagram and we want them to walk out saying like the half has not been told

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like the preaching is great man just everyone is on board everyone is singing you know when you're singing

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okay i'm not gonna i'm not gonna do a solo don't worry

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you know don't be like and then when you finally catch eyes with me you're just like

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like actually sing

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like you know like lift up your voice like a trumpet

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like you're loud everywhere else why aren't why aren't you loud when you sing

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you yell at your husband you yell at your wife you yell at your kids you yell at your screen

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you yell at your video game you know you do you you can raise your voice you're yelling at the

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audience you're all my mexicans out there you know like actually sing unto the lord and you're like

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oh i'm just so embarrassed or whatever but if you're doing it as unto christ why would you be embarrassed

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you know i sit here and when i'm sitting here seeing i i've belted out as much as i can

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because i want to encourage everyone else to sing out as well you know like well i just

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don't want people to hear me you know what you should be concerned if god hears you

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and he wants you to make that joyful noise okay and so you know how she says here in verse five

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his assent by which he went up to the house of the lord there was no more spirit in hers like man

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this place is not just a doctrinally sound church it's a church where people are actually

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they have joy they're singing unto christ they're singing the hymns you know hymns get they

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catch a bad rap and they're like well hymns are boring yeah because people sing them boringly

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that's why because you sing them boringly that's why because you're boring when you sing hymns that's

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why it probably sounds like that's other people you know because you're boring you know the the

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the piano player and the orchestra they play their hearts out you know and i i appreciate brother

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alex playing like a man you know i appreciate the the cello and the violinist and the the the

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flute and you know the the the rock and roll guy here the brother chevy you know he gets into it you

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know i think that's great i love when they're tearing up the strings and they're just putting

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they're all into it and the song leaders up here you know now it's time for you to do your part

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too amen and sing out so like the last song we sing tonight that's how it should be amen

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a little song is it let's see i don't know if i know it oh come down foul perfect i know it

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you know come down foul we all know it amen but the point that i'm making here is that when we

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come to the house of god it should invoke all man that message was great man the hymns were great

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man the people's attitude in the church was great people came to greet me you know they

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didn't just stare at me they didn't just leave me alone they came to check on my salvation

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they knew the bible too you know they were very friendly you know be a friendly person at church

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don't be a weirdo okay you know you're like well i'm still kind of new you know why your news

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because you haven't gone out to meet anybody else okay like actually get up and go like greet people

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like well i've been coming here for so long and i still don't know their name because you don't

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go ask them for their name go greet people meet people and uh you know have that spirit within

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you have that joy have that cause people to be like man this place is awesome this place is awesome

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and i'm thankful that like you know i've had people visit our church and even like my mom when she

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when she started really coming you know she's just like i'm just like inspired by these young

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guys who are just you know they're getting work done they're they're friendly they're singing

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you know it causes all right this is the effect that we want to have here happy are thy men happy

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are these thy servants but let me also say this you know when when jacob said this is a dreadful

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place yeah we could apply it as in it invokes all but you know the house of god is a fearful place

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too it should be a place where you would be afraid to be in if you're a wicked person

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right number one if you're involved in like sin and you think you're just going to be able to like

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covertly come to church involved in sin and no one find out be sure your sin will find you out

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because the house of god is dreadful you know and here's the thing you know no one needs to gossip

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to me about your sin i'll find out somehow or i won't find out i'll just preach against it and

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you'll think that i found out because that happens too where i'm just like you know i'm going to

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preach on this for some reason and then it's just the Lord's just like you're just telling me about

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you know he's just showing me he's just like yeah you should preach on fortification preach

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drunkenness and then i preach on people like oh man like how does he know you know how do you

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know that i'm doing that i don't know but this is a dreadful place for you though it's a

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dreadful place for people with unrepentant sin all right if you're a drunkard this is a dreadful

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place for you because you're gonna get thrown out if you don't repent of that sin if you're a

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fornicator this is a dreadful place for you to be in because god does not permit fornicators to

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just stay in church unrepentant he wants them to get right with god it's a dreadful place

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but you know it's also a dreadful place for just absolute reprobates and apostates too okay

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you know if you are in our church and you hate me this is a dreadful place for you to be in

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for more than one reason okay you know if you're just like oh i i'm attending that church secretly

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and they don't know that i'm there you know this is a dreadful place for you to be in

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because you could get found out at any moment and it happens all the time it's a dreadful place

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for first of all it's a dreadful place because you might get found out but also it's a dreadful

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place because of the fact that you have to listen to me even though you hate me and guess what i'm in

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charge here that's even more dreadful for you so you have to listen to me preach to you for three

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hours a week yell at you for three hours a week and you can't do anything about it

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you're like oh man i'm just forced to be here sucks for you that sucks for you i'm just

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forced to be here and i hate this place yeah it's dreadful huh sucks can't do anything about that

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but you know there's people out there that exist like that they will literally come to a church

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they hate the preacher they hate the doctrine they hate the church all you know they have to

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anonymously comment online why because they are afraid of being found out

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so you know if there's people out there like that who come to our church you know

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sucks sucks to be you because it changes nothing here you are the one who has to like

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sneakily go to facebook and just can you believe he said this i heard this on Sunday night

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and i'll say it again and what are you gonna do about it nothing you can't do anything about it

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i'll keep preaching against feminism i'll say that pedophiles deserve a bullet in the head

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here let me clip farm real quick you know pedophiles deserve to be shot in the head

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clip that

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you know and what are you gonna do about it

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it's like oh i'm gonna repost it please do so

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do so you know just you know i got haters who who you know make clips for me

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it changes nothing so it's a dreadful place for you to be in because you're actually spending gas to

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come here you get dressed you gotta act you gotta play the part the entire time you gotta act like

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you're a good christian you gotta act like you like me you gotta say hi to me you know you have

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to greet me if i come to you if i want to conversate with you you're forced to do it

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because you got to play the role that sucks for you but i'm not a fake person so it doesn't

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suck for me i'm just like you know and you can post as many clips about my sermon as you want

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it will never bother me it will never bother me you know yeah but we'll post it on the

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nifb archives well here's the thing like the xnfb archives yeah do it post it everywhere

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put it everywhere and you're like yeah but then you'll see it well i can't because i'm blocked so

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i'm banned from from that group because i talked too much crap on there you know the house of god

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is a dreadful place for someone who doesn't want to be in the house of god well i only go once a week

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sucks for you sucks for you because you know what no amount of clips that are put out there will

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ever determine what i preach and it never stopped me for preaching things you know there's a

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clip that's that's circulating right now about me praying for john macArthur's death

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even though he's already dead you know and people are like this clip is going around it's just like

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sounds good sounds good oh i can't believe you said that and

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believe it it's out there you'd be able to apologize and be like oh man i yeah i was a lot

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younger back then ah bro that was like five years ago and my views have not changed you see you're

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still praying for it no because he's already he's in hell already he's on it's mission accomplished

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oh how can you say that about john macArthur oh how about because he was a damnedable heretic

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who taught damnedable heresy who mocked the blood of jesus christ and said you have to repent

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of your sins to be saved how about the fact that he's responsible for millions and millions

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of people who are currently in hell right now how about that oh but he did so many great things

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like what well just because you read his books just because you visited his church

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he's a false prophet because anybody who teaches a false gospel is a cursed

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oh man you're just gonna scare so many people away from the yeah i want this house to be dreadful

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to people like that because that's exactly what the house of god is you know this is the exact

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opposite of how churches are today they don't want it to be dreadful i want the house of god

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to be dreadful i want people to be afraid to be involved in secret sin to be slanderers and

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railers for fear that they might get kicked out they're gonna get called out it should be that way

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and they're like oh man i'm never gonna go to your church yet because you're scared that's why

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mission accomplished i will never go to your church yet because it's dreadful huh

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it'll be dreadful to be in a church like this and be someone like you

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but you know there's tons of people who still love to come to this church because it's not

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dreadful to them you know the dread that they feel is just the awe they're just like this place is awesome

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i love coming to the house of god i love fellowshiping with god's people you know

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and so you know the house of god is a dreadful place to the infiltrator for sure

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you know you're like is there an infiltrator i don't know maybe maybe not i don't know there

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might be you know there might be an absolute infiltrator who hates everything we do here

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and it's just like you're outnumbered buddy

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and you better not slip up you better not slip up in conversation with me or with anybody else

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you know you better watch yourself like man aren't you scaring your congregation no because if the

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congregation is a righteous what do they have to be afraid of right you got nothing to be

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scared of unless you're just an absolute wicked person then you then you do have a lot to be afraid of

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be very afraid because it's a dreadful place go back to genesis

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because it's how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god

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this is the gate of heaven and then he says in verse 18 and jake up rose up early

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in the morning and took the stone that he put they had put for his pillow and set it up for

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a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it now this is amazing is it not because he says he

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takes the stone he sets it up for a pillar and then he puts oil upon it now we obviously know

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that the stone there can be you know it can be symbolic of the lord jesus christ

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he is the stone which the builders rejected right but the bible also says in first peter chapter two

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that ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house so as he's mentioning the house of god

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he then states that he rises up early in the morning takes the stone that he had put his

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put for his pillow and set it up for a pillar so what is the church made of it's made of

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believers right you know thou are peter and upon this rock i will build my church

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john the baptist said think not to say within yourselves we have abraham to our father

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for god is able of these stones to raise up children unto abraham and these stones he probably

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pointed to some legitimate physical stones but the idea here is that he's pointing to the

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Gentile believers because who ends up being the seed of abraham and the new testament Gentiles

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the lively stones that build up the spiritual house that become the pillars of the church right

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but also the pillar there is significant because it's referring to the house of god in general

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it's the pillar and ground of truth and lastly the last little element there is that it says

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he set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it meaning that the house of god

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is anointed with the spirit of god okay you know we are anointed by the spirit of god obviously we

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have the spirit of god dwelling within us at the moment of salvation once you believe on Jesus

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christ you're sealed with the holy spirit of promise unto the day of redemption he's sealed

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there you know he will never leave thee nor forsake thee you have the spirit of god

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eternally in you but here's the thing is that we as a church also need the spirit of god

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to come upon us as well right meaning that we need the power of god okay why why so well because

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of the fact that you know we have to win souls to christ the preaching of god's word has to be

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thundered forth but also we need the spirit of god in order to just live godly lives

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and this is just your weekly reminder that every morning when you wake up you should be praying

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for god to fill you with the spirit pray for that when you wake up in the morning lord

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help me to walk in the spirit to not fulfill the lust of the flesh help me to be filled with the

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spirit because we often associate being filled with the spirit with boldness which is absolutely true

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right we need the boldness we need to be able to thunder forth the word of god to stand on truth

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but we just need to be filled with the spirit just to kind of just to live life to make the

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proper decisions to discern to be the right type of husbands wives to fulfill responsibilities

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at work you know before you go into work you should say lord please fill me with your spirit

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help me to be filled with the spirit as i'm working today so i can be a hard honest worker i can be

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a problem solver i can be an asset to this company because i'm filled with the spirit right hey

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before you hit the gym ask god to fill you with the spirit hey man that's that that's a sure

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thing anytime i go under the bar i always ask god to fill me with the spirit so that i'm able

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to lift this weight up off my back and you're like oh that's silly yeah yeah to the person who

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never asked for the filling of the spirit yeah but i rely upon the spirit for all things that's

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how we ought to be we ought to live our lives endeavoring to walk in the spirit now obviously

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i fail sometimes there's times when i don't ask that but in general my goal my target is to be

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filled with the spirit to walk in the spirit in order to be used of god and you know i want

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to be sensitive to the holy spirit to be able to discern things to make the right decisions

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i have a lot of people i'm responsible for sermons that i have to preach but you know what the same

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responsibility falls upon you as well okay you know you think yourself a lot why do i need

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to be filled with the spirit i don't i'm not preaching god's word yeah but don't you counsel

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people don't you give people advice right hopefully you know someone someone esteems you

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hopefully maybe not i don't know you know you're gonna have someone who's gonna confide in you

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and you know what like there's a funny rule out there right now where it's just like

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you know this is me giving out advice you know that i will never follow or giving advice even

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though my life is a complete mess right now but you know what we as god's people need to make

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sure that we're filled with the spirit when we're speaking to others and advising them

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in the areas of life if someone comes to you and says like hey what do you think about this

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you should pray like lord fill them with your spirit helmet is say the right thing to this person

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how many give the the the correct righteous counsel for this person and if you're drawing

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a blank don't give advice you're like well i'm just gonna try it anyways marry her tomorrow

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just you know elope you know just just just make the decision you know you should say

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you know i don't really know i don't i can't answer that right now and so i need to get back to you

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or i would recommend that you go to pastor okay and by the way don't just like flippantly give advice

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either to someone just because you you want to be the one who like is responsible for their success

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or something like that right like well i'm just gonna shoot it out there i'm just gonna give

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him this person the advice i think this is the right thing to say you know you should be

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convinced and it should be sound counsel and if you're unsure of what you're saying is correct

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here's one of two things you should do one just don't say it and advise that person to go

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go to someone else or give the advice and just be like but i don't know no give the advice and say

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that's my opinion that's what i think you should do but i would recommend for you to

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go talk to pastor or someone who is older someone who's experienced this just to make sure

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that that's probably the correct thing for you to do you know just leave a big back door to say

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don't be the ultimate authority here and be like yeah this is what definitely you should do

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this is what i would do and i don't think you need to ask anybody else

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you know give the advice if you think it's sound advice but if you're still unsure

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then just say that's my opinion i'd recommend you go talk to someone else about it

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but that's what i think you i should do and here's the thing if you say that

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and the person comes to me and i give the same exact advice that you would give it actually

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gives you more credibility because then that person is like oh dang that person was right

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like dang geo actually knows what he was talking about like that's very shocking

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i never would have expected that from geolania i guess he does know something

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you know and then you accumulate more but what if you just give bad counsel

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and you don't recommend for that person to go to someone more spiritual and then it ends

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up being really bad it actually takes away from your credibility and it causes people to say

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i'm never going to go back to that person to ask for advice again they gave me bad advice

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the point that i'm making here is that the house of god must be anointed with oil all right

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and you know what on sunday morning i'm praying for god to fill me with his spirit but you

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should also be praying that god fills you with his spirit as well to listen to the sermon

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you know the the song leaders often say you know give us spirit filled ears

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that we may receive that what you would have for us today you know that's not just them you know

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saying a cool little prayer or something like that it's a legitimate petition right like lord

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we came all the way to the house of god we got ourselves up in the morning to come hear the

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preaching of god's word like help me to receive something from this that i'm going to listen

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to today how many have spirit filled ears he the half in here let him hear what the spirit say

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unto the churches and so it's a very beautiful picture here of the house of god even in the new

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testament that's made up of the stone which the builders rejected made up of lively stones

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that are built up to a spiritual house referring to believers it's the pillar and ground of

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truth and it's filled with anointing oil it is filled with the spirit okay verse 19 says

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and he called the name of that place Bethel but the name of that city was called Luz at the first

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and Jacob vowed a vow saying if god will be with me and will keep me this day that i go

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and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on so that i come again to my father's house

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and peace then shall the lord be my god and this stone which i have set for a pillar

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shall be god's house and of all that thou shall give me i will surely give

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the tenth unto thee so obviously jacob he's taken this serious he's not trying to be conniving anymore

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he's not trying to be subtle he's trying to do things the honest way and he's saying like lord

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i need you to preserve me and if you preserve me i will fulfill my end of my vow i'm going to

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give a tenth unto you he's putting god to the test in this area right and so it's a great

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story here to demonstrate that though jacob is a deceiver though he's a liar you know his bad

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decisions have placed him in a situation where he's going to be forced to actually become a god person

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okay to make the right decisions and it's kind of forcing him to be the right person

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because he doesn't have rebecca his mom conspiring with god to you know do something

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he he only has himself and only his his own integrity is the only thing that's going to be able to lead

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him understand so you know it's important for us as christians to rely upon others but there's

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going to come a time when you can't rely upon anybody and you have to make the right decision

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yourself right you have to be the one who comes to church you have to be the one to read the

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bible you have to be the one to do right even though no one is watching and you know what

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you may not have your parents come your parents might not be in church well that means you need

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to do right regardless of your parents are here regardless of your parents require for you to do

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right or not you know you need to be like joseph who did write in egypt despite the fact that he

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didn't have his parents with them be a righteous person everywhere you go be a righteous person

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at your job be a righteous person when you go home don't be a hypocrite don't live a a double

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life do that which is right in the sight of god and you know if you're placed in a situation like

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jacob you know make that make not that valve but make the the statement like i'm going to serve you

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i need you to show yourself strong on my behalf and you know i got no one else and so i need to

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do right by myself let's pray father we thank you so much for this day thank you so much for

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your word and for the story here lord i pray that you bless us lord and help us to recognize

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that the house of god church should be a dreadful place it should invoke all but it should also

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be a place that we would be afraid to come if we're not right with god and i pray that lord

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you would help us to maintain that spirit here and if someone out there is standing in judgment

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of that type of ministry then don't come may they never come to our church lord may they go

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elsewhere where the house of god is not a dreadful place it's a place that where sin is allowed

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sin abounds heresy is put forth lord but in this house your house lord may we honor and glorify

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you by holding up these standards we love and we thank you pray this things in jesus name amen brother