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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Genesis chapter 41,

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I just kind of really want to focus on verse one,

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but I want to talk about the story here that we read.

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It says here in verse one,

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it came to pass at the end of two full years

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that Pharaoh dreamed and behold he stood by the river.

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Now, in our story of Joseph,

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if you've know the story, Joseph's in prison

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and he's interpreted a dream

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that he was hoping he could possibly get out of prison

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by helping out one of Pharaoh's guys

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and the guy was like, yeah, I'm not gonna forget you.

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And then it's just like two years pass.

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Now, it's easy for us to read verse one.

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It's hard to be in prison for two years, okay?

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So, you know, sometimes we don't realize

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the magnitude or the scale

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at which the Bible's describing events

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because not only is it two years,

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it's two years of uncertainty

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that it's not like you know it's gonna be two years.

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So, at any point in time

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when you're going through something difficult

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and you have no idea when it's going to end,

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it feels a lot longer in the moment.

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So, you know, if you're in prison

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and you feel like you're gonna be there forever,

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two years could feel like 20.

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Whereas, if you knew it was gonna only be two years,

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it would be easier to get through that mentally often.

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It's not as difficult

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because you kind of know there's an end.

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You know there's kind of something leading to you.

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And that's one of the reasons why hell is such a terrible thing

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is that you never get out.

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There's no hope.

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You know, sometimes when you go into a difficult process,

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you realize like you're pregnant,

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it's like it can't last forever.

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So, there's a little bit of hope, right?

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It's not gonna be permanent.

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And a lot of times we get discouraged

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because the situation we find ourselves in,

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it seems like there's no hope

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or it seems like things won't change.

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And often we can have a bad attitude about that

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and it causes us to think negatively about our circumstances

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and to not be patient.

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And really, what I wanna preach on this evening

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is about being patient, you know, patience.

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I wanna preach on patience in general.

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And I'm gonna kind of make just a couple

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really specific applications.

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But to just start, I wanna just talk about patience.

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And we could talk about this very in-depth

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because the Bible brings this up

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in so many different categories.

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But if you think about Joseph specifically,

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he's a very patient person.

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And here he has spent two years in prison

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waiting to be retrieved out of prison.

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And then he's set in a very prominent position.

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I guarantee if we could go to Joseph and say,

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hey, in two years you're gonna get out

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and you're gonna become basically

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the most powerful person on the planet

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and you're gonna have everything you could ever want,

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he'd be like, all right, that's not that bad.

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But you know, he doesn't know that in the moment.

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And I think what happens is there's people in their lives,

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they don't realize that there's something really great

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waiting for them around the corner.

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And instead of just being patient and waiting for it,

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they end up becoming impatient and screwing it up

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or ruining it or just deviating from the course.

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And so there's a very important virtue here

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that we should learn about being patient.

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And just waiting on the Lord,

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that's the verse in the Bible that's repeated often,

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is just wait on the Lord and to be patient

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when you're going through something difficult.

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You know, there was a period where we were protested

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for like three years straight

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and it did not seem like there was an end in sight, okay?

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But you know, if you told me like, hey, you know, 2023,

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it's just gonna, you know, the facts are gonna give up

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and they're gonna quit and you're gonna be good.

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Like it would have been easier

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to go through some of those circumstances.

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But what I did know is that, hey, it can't last forever

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and we should just wait on the Lord

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and he'll take care of it and he did.

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And it's like, basically we haven't had a protest

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for a really long time

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until now we have a couple of Catholics

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and Orthodox brothers or whatever.

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So, you know, who would have thought we would get them?

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But who could say I'm not reaching Catholics?

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I mean, they're coming up to the door folks, you know?

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Problem is we don't let idolaters come into our church, okay?

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And it's like, I don't know who's Catholic

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and Orthodox, it's really easy, okay?

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It's very easy.

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The Orthodox are holding a picture, okay?

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They're all holding a picture, okay?

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All the Catholics are holding some beads,

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some rosary beads or whatever

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and then all the Baptists are holding a Bible.

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And you're like, I wonder which one's the real religion here.

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Okay, some third grade drawing,

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a kid bracelet or an adult Bible.

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I wonder which one.

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It's like, oh, I'll look up a verse on my phone.

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You know, it's like, why don't you?

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You're gonna come protest a church

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and you don't even have a Bible?

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Wow, right.

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But here's a picture, here's a third grade picture

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I drew of some woman that we call Mary or whatever.

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It's stupid.

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But you know, I don't think you have to have much patience

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to outweigh these people.

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I don't even know if they're gonna last the whole service,

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okay?

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Because I don't think they realize

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how long we preach here, all right?

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We actually preach the word of God here.

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So it's not just a cracker,

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sit down and shut up and go away.

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You know, we actually open the Bible

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and read it for a while.

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But I don't think they're gonna even come back.

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You know, you don't even have to necessarily wait.

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This isn't even persecution, folks, okay?

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They're harmless.

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They're weak.

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I mean, you know, the thing about orthodox

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is they don't eat meat very often

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because they have to like constantly fast

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and they can't eat all these meats and stuff.

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So they're usually very weak and frail

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and about to perish, okay?

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So that's a different...

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This has nothing to do with a sermon,

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but in general, what we have to realize

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is we need to be patient, okay?

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And sometimes you're going through difficulty

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and it feels like it's gonna be forever,

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but it's not.

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Pastor Shelley eventually ends his sermon, okay?

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So there you go.

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But you know, when we're talking about Joseph,

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you know, think about, he gets out

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and the Bible here in this chapter

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tells us that he turns 30 years old.

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It's kind of towards the end of this particular chapter.

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Which verse was that?

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Someone help me.

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46 and Joseph was 30 years old, right?

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So Joseph was 30 years old.

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Go back to chapter 37 for a moment

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and notice in the beginning of chapter 37,

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says in verse two,

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these are the generations of Jacob,

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Joseph being 17 years old.

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So even more patient than two years

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is the approximate 13 years

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that Joseph had to go from being sold into slavery,

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spending time in Egypt for a period with Potiphar,

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then being put in prison for a period of time

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until he's truly restored, taken out,

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and he becomes basically the second in command

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of the Egyptian empire.

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So that's a very long time, 13 years, you know?

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And a lot of people in the Bible have to have patience.

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Think about what he prophesies in this dream.

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He's telling Pharaoh,

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hey, we're gonna have seven years of plenty

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and we're gonna have to gather up

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and store up all the plenty for these seven years

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and then we're gonna have to use that

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for another seven years.

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So he just went through an almost 14 year cycle,

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basically like a 13 year cycle, give or take,

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and now they're gonna enter into another 14 year cycle.

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But who better to understand

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an approximate 14 year cycle than Joseph himself?

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Who realized, hey, I had to go through

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all of these difficulties, but we can get through it.

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And so, I mean, if you think about Joseph,

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I mean, he's just one of the most patient people in the Bible

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and has to endure a lot of difficulties.

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Now the good news about this next cycle

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is he knows exactly.

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He knows, hey, it's gonna be seven years

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and then another seven.

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But even if you knew it was seven years,

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it still can be very difficult.

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It can be very taxing.

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Seven years is a very long time.

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I mean, just think about for a moment

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where you were seven years ago.

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A lot of you didn't even live here.

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Who didn't live here seven years ago?

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Yeah, look at that.

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I mean, that's a long time ago.

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Think about what knowledge you had,

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maybe what job you had, how little kids you had.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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It's just like, hey, seven years is a long period of time.

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And sometimes, things can change dramatically.

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And what we have to do is we have to be patient.

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And my admonition would be also

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to a lot of people that are young,

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especially, that you need to learn patience.

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It's very difficult to be patient when you're young.

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Go to Luke chapter 21.

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I think as a child, you always wanna be a year older

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or in some cases, even a couple years older.

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You're always looking, oh, I can't wait

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until I'm 10 years old.

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Or I can't wait until I'm finally a teenager.

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I can't wait until I'm finally 13 years old.

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And then it's like, I can't wait until I'm 16 years old.

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And then it's like, I can't wait until I'm 18 years old.

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And then I can't wait until I'm 21 years old.

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And it just kinda seems like, especially from our culture,

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we're really pushing for kids

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to just be almost impatient with their youth.

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And they're always looking to be younger or older,

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older, older.

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And then as soon as you turn 30, you're like,

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can I go back?

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It's just like, and then you turn 35

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and you're like, can I go back to 30?

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And then it's just like, it just keeps getting,

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you're just like, wow, because time goes fast.

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And so, it's hard to tell children this,

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it's hard to explain to them this concept.

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And it's hard to tell Christians this,

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but we need to learn patience.

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Look at Luke 21, verse 17.

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And you should be hated of all men for my namesake.

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Well, that's a shock, right?

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But there shall not a hair of your head perish

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in your patience possess your soul.

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So he's just saying, hey, you might be banned and hated

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and a lot of people don't like you,

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but you know what?

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God's still gonna protect you

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and God's gonna keep you safe.

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And you know, this is in the midst of the great tribulation.

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This is in the midst of extreme persecution.

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You know, we're not really going through persecution, okay?

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This is a light affliction.

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Now, admittedly, for most churches,

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if they got protested by even just a few orthobros

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and Catholics, like, heads could roll,

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like pastors could get fired

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and you get all these emails from a bunch of old ladies

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just being like, ah, you've offended the Catholics

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and I was nervous and whatever they're holding images.

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And you know, like for us,

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we're just thinking like, this is nothing.

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You know, I was like, this is like fun.

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You know, this is like, most people were like,

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this is cool, you know?

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It's kind of hard to count it a persecution, okay?

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But there is real persecution.

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And look, if the Catholics are in control

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of our country, there will be real persecution.

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Yeah, they would burn people at the stake

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for having read the Bible,

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for having memorized scripture,

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because you know, scripture is really dangerous

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to their religion.

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How many of us, you've gone soul winning

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and you approach a door

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and it has either in English or in Spanish,

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it has a sign on it.

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And it's from the Catholic churches,

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it has no Protestant information or propaganda.

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Who's seen the sign, okay?

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You know, I was thinking about this

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and this is what's funny to me.

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It's obviously like, if you really read it,

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at the bottom it'll say the church that it's coming from.

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Obviously the church made those.

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Obviously the individual isn't making them

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because you go into a neighborhood

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and it'll be the exact same one in several places.

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So the church is the one that's manufacturing

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these stickers, okay?

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And I was thinking like, why would a church

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be so concerned with a sticker

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that they need to put on their door

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saying like, hey, don't knock on our door?

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And then I realized it's because in 10 minutes

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I can get you to completely drop your false religion.

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And so you want that sticker out there

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because like, I'm not gonna print,

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hey, no Mormons knock on the door.

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I need to hand this out to you guys.

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You guys need to be putting, you know,

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anti-Mormon stickers on your doors.

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Like I have zero fear of you being coming a Mormon.

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And especially no one in this room

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is gonna get converted in 10 minutes.

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Even if there was a Judas in her midst,

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he wouldn't be convinced in 10 minutes, okay?

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But like think about it, if our religion's so fake

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and you are the true church,

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how is it that I can knock on so many of y'all's doors

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and get them to drop their entire life's religion

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in 10 to 15 minutes?

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Because the truth is that powerful.

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That's why they have to make those stickers.

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That's why they have to put

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their little propaganda out there.

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And it's just like, how dare you smash our Mary says,

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why did I get so much attention for this?

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Because they know that the truth slices

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through their lives so much

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that they can't defend their doctrine.

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That's why they're so offended.

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That's why they're so, you know, bloodthirsty

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in the Middle Ages and throughout Europe

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because man, when people start reading the Bible,

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they're like, oh wow, this is the exact opposite

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of every single thing that we're doing.

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And they want you to believe,

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no, you're too stupid to understand the Bible.

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You have to have us explain it to you.

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It actually just means the exact opposite

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of what you think it says every single time.

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It's like, I know it says, call no man father,

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but what do you call your dad, hmm?

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It's like, oh, no one thought of that.

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It's like, okay, so then what does it mean?

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So who am I not calling father?

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And then they just have no application.

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It's like, oh, so your Bible's a graven image.

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Like, not really.

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I mean, that's a stretch, man.

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Your Bible's an icon.

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It's like, not really.

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But it's like, okay, then what graven image

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am I not allowed to make then?

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They don't want to actually tell you what the Bible means

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because they don't believe the Bible, folks.

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And when it comes to real persecution,

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there are Catholics that would love to kill me

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and to kill everyone in this room,

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don't worry, they've told me.

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They've made it real clear

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and they would burn people at the stake again.

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And look, there are places in this country

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that people would kill you

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if they could get away with it for religious persecution.

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I mean, the fags and the sodomites would have killed us

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if they felt like the cops weren't looking

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or they could somehow get away with it.

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I mean, there is real persecution,

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but in the outside of this country,

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people are dying for their faith.

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There are countries where it's illegal to be a Christian.

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It's illegal to have a Bible.

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There are countries, you know, North Korea,

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they're so over the top

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that they'll kill you for having K-pop,

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let alone a Bible.

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Look, a fundamental Baptist in North Korea

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will not survive a second.

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That will be shut down immediately and killed.

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Other places like China, it's heavily restricted.

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Other Muslim countries, it's heavily restricted.

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You go into some of these other areas

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like Orthodox and stuff,

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I guarantee you start making enough noise,

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you're gonna run into some trouble.

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And people are killed, imprisoned, martyred.

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And what is the Bible saying?

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Hey, in your patience possess your souls.

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And so there's gonna be a great tribulation

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where the Antichrist wants to kill every Christian.

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And you know, we're gonna have to have some patience.

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We're gonna have to wait for the Lord,

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you know, at least three and a half years.

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And that can be difficult, but we have to be patient.

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Go to Romans chapter number five,

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go to Romans chapter number five.

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Patience is a virtue.

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Because at the end of the day,

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you're gonna eventually die and go to heaven.

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So there is always hope for the Christian.

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There's just not hope for the unsaved.

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Romans chapter five verse one,

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therefore being justified by faith,

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we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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By whom also we have access by faith

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into this grace where we stand and rejoice

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in hope of the glory of God.

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Not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,

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knowing that tribulation, notice this, worketh patience.

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So what actually causes patience in the Bible

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is tribulation, difficulty, trouble.

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Because if you never have a troubled life,

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if you never go through anything difficult,

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then you never even have to learn patience.

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Why is it that we have patience

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because we've gone through difficulty,

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we learned, we got through it, we learned it was okay?

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So all that tribulation that Joseph went through

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gave him patience, gave him the ability to learn,

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okay, God is still with me, God didn't leave me,

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God didn't desert me, he is with me

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and I can be patient.

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And you know what, in the Christian life,

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you join steadfast Baptist church,

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you move across the country, you start serving God,

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you start going soul winning,

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it might be turbulent at times.

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And that could be different for every person.

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It could be family getting upset with you.

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It could be financial issues.

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It could be career issues.

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It could be just living situation issues.

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You could wonder like,

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am I really making the right decision?

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Or is God really with me in this circumstance?

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But here's the thing, if you just patiently endure

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whatever difficulties you're going through,

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eventually you'll see, hey, God led me all the way.

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There's a lot of people that they say,

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hey man, this is difficult or I'm having trouble

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or whatever and they just don't see it through

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and they don't realize if they just lasted two years,

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they just lasted seven years,

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they just lasted 13 years,

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then it was gonna be all smooth sailing.

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Now I can't promise you anything,

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I don't know the future,

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but you know what?

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I guarantee there's plenty of people

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where it's just like, hey, you got just two years,

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if you get through that, it's gonna be smooth sailing.

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Maybe some people, it's seven years

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and then it's smooth sailing.

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Maybe it's 13 years.

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But you know what?

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I trust the Bible's promises and I believe

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that if you're patient and you wait on the Lord,

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he'll see you through whatever difficulties

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are going through and you can get there.

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And it's different from everybody.

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I mean, I've seen people, hey,

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they have a rocky marriage,

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they're coming to church and it's making it rockier.

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I've seen people, they're unchurched,

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they get saved, they start coming to church

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and their marriage got a little rockier.

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But I'm thinking like, but if you just stick in it,

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you just get there, you'll go like two years,

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it might be smooth sailing afterwards,

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but then they don't stick it out,

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they don't get plugged in,

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they're not trusted in the Lord

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and then they leave and they're divorced.

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And it's just like, church wasn't the problem.

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Church was getting you, it's working on it.

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And sometimes you just have some patience,

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you just have to have some ability to realize like,

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hey, it's not always smooth sailing.

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But you know what?

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That tribulation can give you the patience.

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And look, our church should learn this.

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We've had turbulent times as a church.

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We had times where, I mean, look,

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we were evicted and lost all of our money

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at the same time.

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That wasn't fun.

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And maybe it didn't really bother you too much,

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but I didn't love it, okay?

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I didn't love not knowing where we're gonna go

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and not having the money and all the stress

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and all the lawsuits and all the eviction stuff.

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And I mean like constant harassment,

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like it wasn't a lot of fun.

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But you know what?

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God got us through that

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and God's given us a building

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and God's delivered us

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and God's allowed our soul went into explode

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and we've seen more people on the mission field

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and we have a great spirit.

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And we've had difficulties where we had dramas.

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There's all these people causing dramas

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and trying to hurt people and harm people.

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But then it's like, you come out of it

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and you're like, well, I'm kind of glad

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we got rid of some of those people.

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Like now our church is even healthier

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and we lost a little weight.

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And you know, that weight was like,

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but you know, when we lost that weight,

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we ended up gaining some weight.

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We lost fat and we gained muscle.

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Like it was crazy.

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In 2024, we lost like 35 people

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and we gained like 70 people.

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And it was just like, dang.

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And I mean, it was like body recomposition.

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Okay, we were just,

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we were basically burning some fat

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and just adding some muscle.

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And it was just like,

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and you're like, what were you doing,

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Pastor Shelley, to like help this?

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And it was like, I was screwing up.

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I don't know.

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I mean, like, I wasn't even doing a good job.

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It's just like, God just favoring me.

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And it's not just me, it's our church.

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And it's not just our church.

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It's the work of God

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because he cares more about it than I do.

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But sometimes we just have to be patient

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and wait on God

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and allow his timing

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and allow his work

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to come to full maturation

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and to not get impatient with God.

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It's very easy to get impatient with God.

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Go over to Colossians chapter one,

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go to Colossians chapter one

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in all areas of life.

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I would say one area that I really want to focus on

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is just ministry in general.

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I think some people could be frustrated by ministry

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and be impatient with ministry.

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And what I mean by this is

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there's some people out there

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that just want to be a pastor so bad

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that they're willing to skip steps to get there.

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And then it often ends up

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that those people are rotten people.

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The people that want to skip steps

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are often rotten people.

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People that change their doctrine just to accommodate

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being in a particular ministry

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are often rotten people.

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And there could be a temptation of a good person

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to see other skipping steps

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and thinking in the short term

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it's working out for them

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and like, well, if it's working out for them

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then I should follow their footsteps.

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But they're not looking at the long game.

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They're not looking at, oh, well,

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this guy skipped steps and got there

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but then like a few years later,

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burnout, quit, nonexistent,

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he thinks he's Jesus, you know, whatever.

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Okay, like seriously.

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And so, you know, but is it good

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to skip steps in the ministry?

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No, if God really wants you

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in a particular ministry,

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I believe just serving faithfully

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and doing right, you know,

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God will put you where you need to be.

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And don't get impatient in that ministry.

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You know, it's nice as a pastor

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to have other people that are solid

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and focusing in on other ministries and serving.

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And even if they think in their mind

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that I'm not paying attention,

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oh boy, I know and I appreciate it, you know.

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And I don't want them to feel like,

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hey, I'm being unnoticed

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or no one cares or whatever.

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But, you know, at the end of the day

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it's just like, just be patient.

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You don't know what's gonna happen

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in a year or two years.

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You know, when I was still pastoring pure words

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simultaneously with Steadfast,

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I was driving on every Thursday

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to preach on Thursdays.

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And I had no vision for a pastor at all.

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And it was just, it was very blackpilling.

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And I mean, again, after a year of doing it,

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it was rough after two years of doing it,

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it was rough to third year.

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It's just like, I mean, I would be driving back

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thinking like this is never gonna end.

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There's no way this is ever gonna, you know,

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have a solution or a resolution or anything like that.

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And it would be very difficult at times,

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especially at like 1.30 in the morning driving home.

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Usually I'm not even sure I was keeping my eyes open.

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But it's just like, you're just like,

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why am I doing this?

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You know, this is difficult on the body and whatever.

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But, you know, if I had just known

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like it was gonna be, hey, it's three years.

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It's like, okay.

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But I didn't know.

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Now again, it didn't necessarily have the conclusion I wanted.

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I'm not saying that.

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All right.

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But I still think God worked it all together for good anyways.

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And those people are now just going to Spring Crest.

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So it's just kind of turned into Spring Crest Baptist Church.

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At least those members have joined forces.

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And it's not about names anyways.

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It's not about that kind of stuff.

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I just want those people to serve God,

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you know, with their life.

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And I'm glad that I did.

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I think that me being down there

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and ministering to those people

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and encouraging people to keep going

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and now they're serving in different capacities.

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It's benefited them and it's benefited the ministry.

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It's benefited the kingdom of God.

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And God obviously worked through that.

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Even whatever mistakes I've made

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and issues that I've caused,

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I think God allowed things to happen

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the way they did on purpose.

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And we should just be patient and realize,

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hey, that was difficult, but there's a resolution.

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And you know, there could be people serving in a ministry,

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serving to work in a particular way to serve God.

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Wanting to go on a missions trip.

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You know, maybe you haven't gone

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on one of these missions trips,

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but just be patient.

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Maybe God's gonna open a door in your life at some point

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and you'll get to do more missions trips in the future.

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Or maybe, you know, you wanna do more soul winning

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or you wanna see more people getting saved.

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You never know what's gonna change.

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And so sometimes you just stay

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with what the minister you have.

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You stay in the church you're doing.

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Don't just jerk the steering wheel.

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Don't get impatient about it.

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Just trust the Lord.

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You never know what's around the corner.

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Two years, seven years, 13 years.

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It could be all smooth sailing after that.

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But even if it isn't, you're never gonna be pleased

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with yourself having jerked the steering wheel

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and driven off the course anyways.

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Well, I could just go to Bible college

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and in four years I'll be done.

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Yeah, but I mean, is Bible college good?

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What is the results of Bible college?

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Like who has graduated in the last 10 years

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from Bible college that we look to

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and it's like, this guy's awesome.

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Just asking.

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Like who in the last 10 years has graduated

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that we're just like, man, this guy is just killing it.

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This guy's doing awesome.

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I mean, if it's such an awesome program

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and we're graduating thousands of students

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every couple of years,

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wouldn't we have like at least one winner?

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I mean, how many people are investing in their portfolio

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and it just every single time they invest in a stock

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it fails and they're just like,

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I love this 401K plan.

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You know, you would kind of want

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at least one of them to pan out, right?

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I mean, just imagine going to the casino

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and just keep putting just tokens into the slot machine

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and just loser, loser, loser.

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And then just being like, I love slots.

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I've gotten, I've lost a thousand times in a row.

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Zero winners.

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Slots are awesome.

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Like wouldn't some of you be like,

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hey, maybe the slot machine isn't a good idea.

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Hey, maybe this isn't panning out.

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Maybe this isn't really working.

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And again, a lot of people are going to Bible college

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because they respect for someone like Jack Hiles or whatever.

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And it's like, this guy didn't even go

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to that Bible college.

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You have respect to a guy that didn't go to Bible college.

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So you want to go to Bible college to be like the guy

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that didn't go to Bible college.

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He's just like, what are you talking about?

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I'm not saying that every single person

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that's ever gone to Bible college is bad.

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I'm not saying none of them

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have ever done any work for God.

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But boy, it doesn't seem like it's doing so great.

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And you know what, I don't encourage the young men

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to go in and if they want to be in the ministry,

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I don't believe in the Bible college route at all.

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I think you should, you know what?

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Just go to church, learn soul winning, get a job,

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get real skills, grow a family,

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get some real life experience,

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and you know what, just be patient.

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And if God wants to put you in the ministry,

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God will put you in the ministry.

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I believe that.

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That's my personal opinion.

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That's what I did.

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That's what I recommend.

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I didn't go to Bible college.

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I'm not planning on going.

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I don't know how I could go.

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Hey, would you like me to enroll in your Bible college?

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I'm sure they would probably not accept my,

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everyone's welcome, except for Pastor Shelley, okay?

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I don't think anybody wants me to graduate

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from their Bible college or whatever.

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I'm sure a real university would let me go in,

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but not one of these Bible colleges.

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But you know, go to Hebrews chapter number,

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oh, I had you go to Colossians one.

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Let's read this verse and we'll go to Hebrews here.

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Colossians chapter one, look at verse 10.

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The, you might walk worthy of the Lord

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and all pleasing being fruitful in every good work

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and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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strengthened with all might according to his glorious power

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unto all patients and long suffering with joyfulness.

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Here's my question.

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If Bible college is such a needful institution,

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then how come nobody in the New Testament

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went to Bible college?

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Oh, you're a fisherman.

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Oh, you're a tax collector.

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Oh, you know, you were in a false religion.

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You were basically unsaved.

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I mean, this is their pedigrees, right?

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I mean, what is, did Timothy go to Bible college?

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You know what Timothy did?

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He just found a really great man of God

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and followed him around and just did what he was doing.

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You know what Elisha did?

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He just followed Elijah.

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It just seems like, it kind of seems like

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the biblical pattern is you go find someone

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that's really serving God great

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and you just follow that person.

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You know, it's not, it's not going to a Bible college

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to just listen from much of yahoos

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that aren't really doing much, okay?

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And again, I'm not saying everybody's yahoos,

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but you know, a lot of them, it's just like,

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what have you accomplished exactly?

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Now go to Hebrews chapter six, go to Hebrews chapter six.

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You know, I think you need to be patient in the ministry

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and if God wants to elevate you

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and put you in a position, then so be it.

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But this fast track, just give me diploma

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and I'm gonna go out and start a church.

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I don't like its results.

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I don't think it's yielding the best results.

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I don't see how God is really blessing that ministry

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or that opportunity.

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I really can't speak more negatively about it probably.

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But you know, again, I get that some people

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are going just to get married.

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But that's kind of a lame, that's a lame reason

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to spend a bunch of money

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and waste four years of your life.

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And you know, you go to a Bible college,

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they'll tell you to take birth control.

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I know at least one Bible college

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that won't let you get married

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and still attend the Bible college.

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And again, this is my speculation,

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is that they're worried that as soon as you get married

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you're gonna quit the Bible college

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and stop paying them tuition.

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So that's the whole reason.

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Like, I don't even understand why you would say like,

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hey, I know you're both 21 years old

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and been dating for three years and love each other.

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You cannot get married.

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Like, that's bad advice.

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Like, you'd be like, hey,

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have you been dating for three years

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and you know and you wanna get married?

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Like, you should just get married, okay?

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That'll be silly to just not allow someone

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that's been, you know, just dating even more

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and keep avoiding fornication or something like that.

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It's just kind of silly.

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By telling the kids, be on birth control

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and wait years to get married.

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Do you think that's increasing fornication

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or decreasing it?

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It's like, hey, telling young people

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when you're ready, get married,

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that's gonna lower fornication.

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But of course, it's not gonna increase

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the enrollment at Bible college

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because then the guys now gotta what?

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Go get a job, pay bills, take care of his family.

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She might get pregnant.

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Now she's gotta take care of her kid.

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That doesn't really work with the Bible college culture.

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So it's like, hey, we gotta get that secretary degree

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for all the ladies there.

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I mean, there's ladies going to Bible college

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getting a secretary degree.

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And I'm kind of just thinking like,

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what do you need to know?

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Like, here's how you enter the phone.

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This is like, I mean, AI's gonna take over your job.

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Like, I don't even know what to do.

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And I'm like, what do we need in the ministry?

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We probably need more 20 year old ladies

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being secretaries at churches, right?

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That's probably gonna help the ministry

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is try to find really young, attractive, single,

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20 year old ladies to serve in the ministry.

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It's like, that seems like probably

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a recipe for disaster.

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Okay.

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So, you know, I'm just not my entire sermon,

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but I'm just against it.

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I am for staying in your local church,

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training with a pastor, if you wanna be in a ministry.

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Well, but all I'm doing is preaching

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to old people or something,

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or all I'm doing is preaching

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to addiction recovery center,

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or all I get to do is lead music every once in a while,

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or all I get to do is read a Bible every once in a while,

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or, you know, I only get a five minute sermon

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every once in a while or whatever.

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It's just like, okay, well, how about you do awesome

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whenever you get those opportunities?

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Yeah, yeah.

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And you know, just be patient.

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Hebrews chapter six, like verse 12,

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that you be not slothful but followers of them

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who through faith and patience,

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and air the promises.

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Everybody in the Bible has to constantly be patient.

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And I wanna transition to one last thought here

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for my sermon is, you know,

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a patience that's also brought up

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in the Genesis section of scripture

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is think about Jacob specifically

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how long he had to wait for his wife.

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You know, he's got to wait seven years

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laboring for his wife.

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And so that's some serious patience.

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And again, in some cases, you know,

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it may be that you're not gonna get married at 18,

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and that's okay.

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I'm for people getting married at 18.

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If they wanna get married at 18,

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they know they've been dating this person,

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they feel really good about it,

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the parents feel really good about it.

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I have no problem with someone getting married

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18 years old and two minutes, you know?

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Like, let's go.

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But, hey, I don't think

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that you have to get married at 18 either.

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And there's nothing wrong with waiting six years,

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seven years, eight years or whatever,

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even on purpose to maybe not even get that invested.

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You know, especially men,

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you know, maybe you wanna just spend some time

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on your career, you know?

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Cause you're gonna have to provide,

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as soon as you get married, well, now you're providing,

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you know, maybe you should stay at home where it's free

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and save up a bunch of money.

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You know, what if instead of going to college

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for four years living in a dormitory,

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spending $200,000 on tuition room and board,

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you worked for four years, lived at home for free,

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and saved all that extra money,

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didn't buy Pokemon balls, okay,

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or Ninja gear,

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but you saved it.

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You saved that money.

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I mean, think about it.

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You could go, hey, I have negative $200,000,

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or I have $200,000, okay.

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And then on that, you have four years work experience

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in a particular field.

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I mean, you could be,

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you could start working at 16,

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by age 22 have six years experience of work,

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maybe three or four in a specific field,

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work a few more years, a lot of,

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a lot of, you know, depending on what careers you go in,

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a lot of careers that like five to six years,

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it changes.

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You now can start getting certified, licensed, whatever.

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Like let's just pick one.

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It doesn't matter.

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I'm not saying you have to do this,

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but let's say you become a plumber, right?

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After four or five years,

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you could end up getting a point

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where you could take a certification, become licensed.

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You could work for another four or five years,

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even working and making decent money.

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And then now you have $250,000 that you saved up,

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you start your own business.

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And then you work for 10 years building up a business,

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hiring employees, building this polling business,

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and then by 35 years old,

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all you do is run a business,

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and you're making tons and tons of money.

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And I guarantee you all of us that are over 35

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are like, why the heck did I not do something like that?

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Okay.

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But again, why?

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Because we were young, stupid, and impatient.

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Mostly stupid, all right?

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Myself included.

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But think about it, what about a doctor?

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You know, I was listening to some lady,

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and again, I'm not for women going to the workforce,

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but I was listening to a lady talk,

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and she said, she was talking about her career path,

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and she was saying by age 30,

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I'm gonna be making $600,000.

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And it was like, what the heck?

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She was gonna become a dermatologist.

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And I was like, is this even real?

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And it's like, yes it is.

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But in order to become a dermatologist,

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she has to get a four year degree at a university,

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then she has to get enrolled in medical school,

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then she has to do a period of residency,

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then she has to work with her particular physician.

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But by the age 27, 28, she can get into her field,

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and by 29, 30, she could realistically

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be making $600,000.

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But here's the thing, you don't wake up tomorrow

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and start making $600,000.

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You know what, it's like a 10 year plan.

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But here's the thing, we almost act like

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only 10 year plans are limited to lawyers

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and limited to doctors.

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And it's like, why can't you have a 10 year plan

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to say, hey, I wanna own my own landscaping business

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or my own plumbing business or my own electrical business

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or bakery, or I don't care what you do,

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construction business, whatever.

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And just getting a vision and just being patient

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as a young person.

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But instead, young people are not learning

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to be patient at all.

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It's an instant gratification culture.

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We just, hey, I don't even wanna watch a movie,

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I wanna watch a 30 second reel.

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And in fact, if I don't like it in three seconds

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or less, I'm gonna swipe.

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And from a dating perspective, I just,

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well, nope, nope, nope, nope.

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And it's really just like, you know, girls.

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Girls are like, no, no, no, no.

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Guys are like, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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It's just like anything, okay.

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Heartbeat, okay.

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But you know, at the end of the day,

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it's just like, hey, you know,

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dating shouldn't be just like, just a split second.

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You know, and unfortunately dating culture is crazy.

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And of course, we're just ruining ourselves

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because of fornication.

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Fornication is the biggest.

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You go to first Corinthians chapter six,

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have you turned there?

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First Corinthians chapter number six.

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You know, you talk about patience,

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probably patience and the career is important,

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but even more so as patience

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and just being a virgin until you get married.

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And boy, talk about going from the prison

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to second in command.

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You know, waiting is gonna not be great.

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But boy, once you get there,

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it's all smooth sailing after that.

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It's great, it's wonderful.

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But boy, you know, people that are impatient

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will sometimes screw that up

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or cause problems for themselves.

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They didn't have to have.

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And so, you know, it's just,

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it's better to just wait and be careful.

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And the Bible hammers this point.

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Look at first Corinthians six, verse 13.

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Meats are for the belly.

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Amen, right?

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It's Ted Fast, Baptist Church motto.

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And the belly for meats.

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You know, hey, why would I not eat steak, right?

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But God shall destroy both it and them.

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That's sad, that's the sad part, okay?

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Now the body is not for fornication,

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but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

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Now think about this.

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This verse does not apply

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to any of you that are married.

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You know it's applying to all of you,

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single people and young people.

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This is who this is really talking to.

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I can't commit fornication.

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I'm married.

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I could commit adultery, but I'm never going to.

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But here's the thing, who is this verse really aimed at?

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It's aimed at the people that are not married yet.

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And the Bible is saying the body is not for fornication.

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You should be patient and serve God

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while you're young and wait until you get married.

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That is what the Bible is instructing.

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Hey, eat steak, but don't commit fornication.

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It says in verse number 15,

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know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?

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Shall I then take the members of Christ

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and make them the members of a harlot?

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God forbid!

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What?

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Know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot

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is one body?

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For to say that he shall be one flesh,

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he that is joined as the Lord is one spirit.

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Flee fornication!

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Every sin that a man doeth is without the body,

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but he that committed fornication

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sinned it against his own body.

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Look, do not go down this road.

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And you know what?

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Ladies, I cannot emphasize this enough.

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It is the stupidest thing you can do

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is to give up your virginity.

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The stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.

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I'm not gonna say the name,

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but I'm gonna say the situation

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because here's the thing.

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People are stupid and they make stupid mistakes.

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And you know what?

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This person should be shamed publicly anyways,

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but I'm not gonna say his name.

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But there is somebody that was a new IFV person

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that committed fornication with his girlfriend,

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got her pregnant,

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and then said, hey, Professor Shelley, what do I do?

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And it's like a marier?

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You're gonna have a kid.

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He didn't want a marier.

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And I'm like, why?

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And he's just like, well, this is not my preference

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or whatever.

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What do you mean preference?

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You're gonna go join yourself to this person,

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but you're not willing to marry them?

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And look, you are an idiot, ladies,

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if you think, oh, he loves me,

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oh, he would marry me, whatever.

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No, if you say no and he wants to marry you,

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he will marry you.

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If you say yes, many times he'll walk away.

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Well, here's the really sad news.

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He decided, hey, I do want to get married to this person.

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And so they got married under the pretense

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that they were pregnant.

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Well, then she miscarried right after they got married.

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And then he filed for an annulment.

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Like these people are, and then he just ghosts everybody.

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He won't talk to anybody.

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It's wicked.

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It's wicked and it's evil

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and this person should be shamed.

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And you know what?

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You ladies are a fool

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if you think that new IVB guys won't commit fornication

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because they will.

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And I know guys in other churches, they commit fornication

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and they are not sincere.

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And you know what?

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You need to be careful.

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And look, it's not that they're just bad guys.

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It's just the temptation is so strong.

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And oftentimes guys, they're afraid of commitment

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and they'll commit fornication real easy.

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Getting married is real hard for them.

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And you know what?

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You need to be really careful

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because there's no reason.

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And look, when you do this,

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you're just setting yourself up for, you know.

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I mean, I feel bad for this young lady.

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I don't even think she's a bad person.

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I'm not mad at this person.

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But I'm like, now with this story,

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what guy's gonna want that?

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I mean, let's ask the single guys

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what their list looks like.

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Is that what they're looking for?

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Is that what they want?

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You know, and again, they're way harsher than,

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they probably would want to trade themselves.

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But I'm just telling you, this is a serious issue.

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You need to be patient.

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And the guy that loves you will be patient with you.

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The guy that does not love you will not be patient.

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And I can not stress this enough.

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And we already have teenagers here,

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but we're gonna have a lot more in the future.

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And I'm not gonna preach softer on fornication.

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And I'm not gonna, you know,

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because it's important.

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And I'm sure I'm gonna embarrass some people

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every once in a while.

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And I'm sure people are gonna feel uncomfortable.

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But you know what?

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You're here and I'm gonna make you feel uncomfortable.

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That's just how it is.

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I'll have fornicators protesting me next.

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I don't know, you know, whatever it is.

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Get married, you know.

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Look what it says in 1 Corinthians 7 verse two.

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Nevertheless, to avoid fornication,

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let every man have his own wife.

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You know, hey, get married.

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Marriage is not the problem.

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Fornication is the problem in the Bible.

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Look at chapter 10, look at verse eight.

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1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse eight.

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The Bible says,

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neither let us commit fornication

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as some of them committed

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and fell in one day three and 20,000.

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God killed people for fornication in the Old Testament.

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That's just to show you how serious he is about the issue.

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You know, all the pastors, Shelley, he's so mean

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and he's so harsh.

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God's killing people for this.

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How can I be mean about it?

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By saying, don't do it.

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By yelling, I didn't hurt anybody.

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You know, I'm just trying to be honest with you.

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And look, most people are causing,

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you know, most people are unfortunately

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screwing up in this area.

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And I have daughters and boy,

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it changes your opinion on this stuff.

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And I'm just telling you, it's a scary thing.

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And you know, I don't want my daughters

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to be used and discarded.

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Think about how mad Dinah's brothers got

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when they were afraid that their daughter

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was just, their sister, I'm sorry,

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sister Dinah was just like treated like a harlot,

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just used as a, and look, the guy even wanted a marry her.

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So at least he was gonna make it right.

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But like, they were so mad about it.

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And look, it is a frustrating thing.

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It is a frustrating thing to see a woman

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that you care about treated poorly,

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treated like a harlot, treated like an object

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to be used and discarded.

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That's disgusting.

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Men shouldn't be like that.

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Let me tell you something, men are like that.

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And you can't trust anyone.

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And I'm not gonna trust anyone with my daughter.

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Go to Ephesians chapter five, go to Ephesians chapter five.

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And I'm just trying to warn you guys,

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hey, I know that we're in a church

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and it seems like people love God here,

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but you know what, you fathers,

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don't just think, hey, this guy's new IVB,

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I can just let him go off of my daughter.

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And they won't make, they won't do anything.

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They won't get into trouble.

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That, that is silly.

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That is silly.

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It's just not very realistic, you know.

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And I'm not saying like,

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hey, if you have parents that are just super permissive,

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take advantage of that, please don't.

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Please have control for yourself.

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But I also think parents should try their best

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to guard their kids.

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And look, I'm not gonna, you know,

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us dad, it's hard.

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I'm not gonna get, if a dad's doing a really good job

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and his daughter goes out and commits harm,

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I'm not gonna blame that dad.

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But you know, I'm not saying we should make it easy

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on him.

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You know, you just don't be a whore, okay?

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And you men don't be a whore monger.

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Don't be the problem, be the solution.

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Go to Ephesians chapter five verse three,

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but fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness,

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let it not be once named among you as we come as saints.

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You know, and praise God, I mean,

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this person didn't actually come to our church.

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They weren't a member of our church,

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but they just, they were in our circle and knew me.

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That's why they contacted me about it.

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But you know, I'm not gonna let that person

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come to my church,

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unless they have extreme, extreme repentance.

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Because what they've done is extremely wicked and evil

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and it should be shamed.

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I reserve the right to tell this person's name

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if I need to, but it's disgusting.

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It makes me sick.

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It makes me sick that men in our group

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are doing this kind of stuff to make us look bad.

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Of course, there's bad people

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and of course all of our enemies,

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they love to take these weird scenarios

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of stupid people doing wicked evil things like this

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and then be like, oh, that's the new IFB for you.

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No, it's not.

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Often when people do these stupid things,

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they ask what we should do

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and we tell them like 20 times the right thing

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and they just go out and do the stupid thing anyways.

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I'll tell you another story.

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There's a stupid woman that's going around accusing

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the new IFB of just like harming her

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through our abusive teachings.

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It's like, oh, I'm a victim of this

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never divorce your husband doctrine.

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And it's like, oh, the new IFB's so bad

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because they teased that you shouldn't leave your husband

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and just never divorce and that's really harmed me, okay?

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And then she says, because I was abused

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and all this stuff, right?

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Well, then you actually find out the facts

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about the situation and it's like,

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the woman was a divorced woman,

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finds the new IFB, okay,

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comes and just like,

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doesn't even go to one of our churches ever,

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never as a part of a church, okay?

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Wants to date some guy that's a pastor

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that has nothing to do with our movement.

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This pastor doesn't know pastors

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and messages them on Facebook Messenger

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and says, hey, I'm interested

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in dating this divorced woman.

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And he's like, no, it's wrong,

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it's wicked, it's sin, don't do it.

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The guy marries her anyways, okay?

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Marries a divorced woman

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against our advice,

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which how is this the never divorced doctrine

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to start with, okay?

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But it gets worse, all right?

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Then the woman divorces him like a few months later.

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And then it's like, I'm a victim

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of the never divorced doctrine.

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What?

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Like, what are you even talking about?

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And it's like, yeah.

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Hey, a guy that is a pastor

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that asked, what does the Bible say on this issue

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and is told explicitly it's wrong and wicked,

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still doesn't, what kind of moral integrity

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do you think that person has?

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Oh, I'm surprised that that guy was a bad husband.

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Well, he already signified,

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he doesn't have a problem committing adultery

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because he knew and he asked and he heard

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and he realizes and he just doesn't anyways.

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That's not a guy you wanna be into anyways.

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Some people make that mistake ignorantly.

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That's way better than someone knowing

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for sure what the Bible says

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and then just going against it anyways.

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And of course they both ruined their lives,

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she put them in prison and all,

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I don't know, it's a train wreck of a story.

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But I'm just like, all the new IP is bad

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because of this situation.

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It's like, we have nothing to do with that situation.

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We know not the person.

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We know not the woman, okay?

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And yeah, maybe she's gonna get

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a third victim in there, who knows?

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The never divorced doctrine?

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Well, you didn't employ that for even a few months.

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Go to 1 Thessalonians chapter four, look at verse three.

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The Bible says this, for this is the will of God,

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even your sanctification,

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that you should abstain from fornication.

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And look, why teach so hard on fornication?

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Because two virgins getting married that love Jesus,

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the chances of them divorcing are really small.

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People that are already divorced

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and have all kinds of, you know, past,

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mixing together, really risky, okay?

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And you know what, that's why a lot of these churches

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out here even exist,

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is because it's wife swap Baptist church.

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It's hey, I am divorced and they're divorced

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and let's go find the divorce singles group

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so we can all swap wives every couple years.

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I mean, I've been in a Sunday school group

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where couples had swapped, you know, or whatever.

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It was like, yeah, I used to be married to her.

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It was just like, what the heck?

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They're 20 years old, they're like 25 years old

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and they've already swapped wives in the church.

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And then another guy in that same group

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had gotten married, divorced his wife

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and was now dating one of the girls

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that had just turned 18 or 19.

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And I'm just thinking like,

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what is going on in this church?

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And then another couple in the same church

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that was just dating, but they were both divorced,

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were inviting everybody over to their house

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for a fellowship or whatever.

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Then they got married and then now they're already divorced.

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And it's like, oh, their new IFP

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just has all these problems and drama.

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It's like, come with me to any other church for a moment.

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Okay, they got problems too, folks.

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And you know what, I'm not gonna necessarily

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just blame everyone in that church for that,

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but they are permissive on those issues.

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And so it's even more exaggerated in those scenarios.

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And look, you might think, hey, oh, steadfast,

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are these churches, they have fornication issues.

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I guarantee it's worse than all the other churches.

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But you know what, we'll never get rid

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of this issue completely, we'll always have problems

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and I'll have to deal with them

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and I don't wanna deal with them.

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And what I'm telling you is you young people,

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be patient, be patient.

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Rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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Hey, get married young, I'm for that.

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But you know what, don't just sit here

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and think that you can just date forever,

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don't get on birth control,

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don't go down these other roads, be patient,

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stay away from each other.

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If you're a young man,

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hey, maybe just focus on your career for a little while,

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but hey, if you're ready to go, go for it.

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And hey, this is an important subject.

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Go to Revelation chapter two

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because God kills people for this stuff

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and not just in the Old Testament

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because that story in the Old Testament

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is written in 1 Corinthians chapter 10.

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Did you realize that?

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Think about this.

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Oh, in the Old Testament, God kills people for fornication.

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Well, then why is he telling us in the New Testament?

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Why?

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Here's a question.

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How about kids that are going to Cornell University?

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You think it's easy to get accepted into Cornell or hard?

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How much time, effort and energy

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have men put into being a student at Cornell?

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How about white men in Cornell?

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I mean, there's no white privilege, I'm telling you folks.

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It's many times the opposite.

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To put almost that much time, effort and energy

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in your life to go to Cornell University

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and think about this,

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one whore took down seven men at one time.

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And we talk about in the Bible

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like Samson took down these Philistines

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and one guy took down these men.

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It's like one whore took down seven men just like that.

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How do you want your name in the newspapers

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that you rape some woman for the rest of your life?

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And again, those seven guys at the Cornell University

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got expelled from their fraternity,

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expelled from the college, I'm pretty sure.

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I mean, just think about your whole life

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just completely run for what?

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Couple minutes.

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You want to trade two minutes

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to just ruin your entire life, have your name smeared.

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And again, I think they're being falsely accused

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in many cases too.

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I mean, it's not even like a real thing.

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They're getting punished more severely

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than probably what they even did.

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But you know what, that's how God works

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is that God punishes for the occasion severely.

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You don't mess with God on this issue.

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It's not a big deal, everybody's doing it.

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Well, you know what, everybody has a screwed up life too.

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I can't get rid of this, I wish I could.

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I don't know what I did to my fee to do this,

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but there's this Dr. John Delaney

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that is in my feed all the time.

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Has anybody heard of this guy, ever heard of this guy?

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He's like a Dave Ramsey partnership

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and he's always giving marriage advice.

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He has got the worst marriage advice ever.

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And people are, I mean, I kid you not,

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just every call is just like,

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well, I committed adultery

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or she's committed adultery or, you know,

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and I'm really saying it lightly

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because what they're actually saying

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is way worse than that and it's like weird situations

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and screwed up things.

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And of course, he's always just like,

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divorce him, drop him, leave him, you know,

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just like every time, you know.

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Dave Ramsey, I remember listening to his calls

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and it's just like, someone's like, oh, we have this debt

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and I don't know how to get out of this debt

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and my wife wants to stay home with a baby

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and he's like, oh, well, she needs to go back

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to work right away and pay off that debt, you know,

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and she's just like, what the heck?

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You know, these people give horrible advice.

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People are screwing up their lives

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left and right in this world.

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Oh, everybody's doing fortification.

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Yeah, everybody's screwed up.

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People have so much debt.

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People have so much just past and history and diseases.

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I mean, STDs are insane in this country.

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Let alone unwanted pregnancies,

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bastard children, abortions, just,

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I mean, there's just so much problem.

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Oh, people are coming to fortification, there's no problem.

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Dude, you don't understand,

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there's so many consequences of this.

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Revelation chapter two, look at verse 20.

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Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee

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because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,

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which called herself a prophet to teach

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and to seduce my servants to commit fornication

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and to eat things sacrificed under idols.

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And I gave her space to repent of her fornication

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and she repented not.

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Behold, I'll cast her into a bed

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and them that commit adultery with her

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into great tribulation,

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except they repent of their deeds.

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Notice this, and I will kill her children with death.

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And all the churches shall know that I am he

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which searcheth the reins and hearts

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and will give unto every one of you according to your works.

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Oh, well, God's not gonna punish me.

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I'm a child of God.

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Okay, but he's so mad at this woman being in church

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and this fornication going on in church.

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He says, I'm gonna kill you and your kids.

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Hey, you commit, hoard them

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and you have kids out of wedlock.

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I'll just kill you and those kids out of wedlock.

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And look, this is New Testament.

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This is not Old Testament.

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And look, I'm not, if someone screws up,

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I'm gonna pray God's merciful to you

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and I'm gonna pray that God's gracious to you

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and I'm gonna try and help you to figure out

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how to repair your situation as best you can.

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But what I'm telling you is there are consequences

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to your actions and you cannot just commit fornication

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in this church and just get away with it

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and act like nothing's gonna happen.

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God is not mocked for what's to remain so

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if that should also reap.

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And you know what?

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We need to teach our young children patience.

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We live in a world of instant gratification,

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a microwave life and we need to tell them,

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hey, you need an oven life, you need a brisket life.

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You want good brisket?

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20 hours.

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Hey, you want a good steak?

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Hour and a half.

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If we had taken those steaks

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and put them in the microwave,

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people wouldn't have liked them.

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Been like, what did you do?

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And look, there was nothing wrong with the meat.

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It was great meat.

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It had great potential.

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We just had to put it in there for an hour,

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you know, an hour and a half.

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And then it's amazing.

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It's all smooth sailing after that.

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But boy, you put it in the microwave,

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five minutes I can get there, two minutes.

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This is like, yeah, but it's trashed.

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It's trashed now for that two minutes.

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Well, how, well, can we fix it?

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Not really.

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Now it's just beef jerky.

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Go to James chapter one, we'll finish.

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Look, I'm not trying to be, you know,

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graphic or something.

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I'm not trying to be disparaging of people

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in the past that have made mistakes.

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I'm trying to keep our young people

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from making a mistake here.

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And I'm trying to make it serious.

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And it is serious.

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This is a major topic in the Bible.

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We need to be patient.

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We need to, you know, teach our kids patience.

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We need to help our kids be patient.

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And I think that, you know, if the young people,

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if the young men in our church are patient

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and have a very career-minded mindset,

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they can be very successful if they want to.

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I think if they do those kind of things,

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they can get married and have a really successful future.

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And in many cases, better than we had.

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I think if the young women are smart

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and decide to keep themselves pure,

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they can find good husbands that are gonna love them

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and treat them well, and they can have really good lives.

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And you know what, I think if the people in this church

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that are interested in ministry and in the church,

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they're just really patient

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and they're doing a really good job and working hard,

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I think God could use them greatly.

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And I think all of us, you know,

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should just learn patience in our lives in general

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and teach others around us that patience.

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Look at James one, verse three.

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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith,

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work of patience, but let patience have a perfect work

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that you may be perfect in an attire wanting nothing.

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So the Bible is telling us,

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hey, this is a mature Christian,

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is one that wants nothing, is very patient,

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they're not always looking to the step ahead.

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You know, what does patience look like?

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Patience is you're not looking to the step ahead,

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you're content where you are.

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You're content in the situation.

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Hey, I'm content with what I have right now,

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and I'm gonna take advantage

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of what opportunities I have right now to its fullest.

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You know, instead of being 18 and just,

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you know, you have no prospects on dating

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and you waste all your time on dating apps,

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what if you just spend time working?

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You know, oh, I don't know how to meet people.

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It's just like, well, are you looking in the right places?

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Yeah, okay, well then just be patient.

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If you're not looking, then look, okay?

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But I'm just saying like,

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don't then become impatient

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and start looking in the wrong places.

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Well, I know she's divorced,

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but, you know, she was abused, man, or whatever.

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Why is that even an excuse?

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Like why do you care about that?

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It's stupid, it's stupid stuff.

01:00:03.420 --> 01:00:05.260
And people always make excuses for sin.

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You know, be patient, be, you know,

01:00:08.720 --> 01:00:10.320
willing to endure some afflictions.

01:00:10.420 --> 01:00:12.620
And you know, if our church gets protested again

01:00:12.620 --> 01:00:14.140
or we go through a drama again,

01:00:14.700 --> 01:00:17.340
you know, my encouragement to you guys is be patient.

01:00:17.340 --> 01:00:19.880
If you moved here, if you go through difficulties,

01:00:20.180 --> 01:00:21.880
you have financial problems,

01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:23.420
you have persecutions or whatever,

01:00:23.780 --> 01:00:24.660
please be patient.

01:00:25.700 --> 01:00:27.120
Don't just jerk the steering wheel.

01:00:28.120 --> 01:00:30.500
You know, I think a couple of years ago

01:00:30.500 --> 01:00:33.300
or whatever it was, 2024, about this time of year,

01:00:34.040 --> 01:00:34.980
there was some drama

01:00:34.980 --> 01:00:36.660
and people didn't know how things were gonna go.

01:00:37.540 --> 01:00:39.800
And it's like, I try to encourage people to do this,

01:00:39.900 --> 01:00:41.380
but especially in hindsight, it's like, look,

01:00:42.300 --> 01:00:44.680
even if you feel like things aren't making sense

01:00:44.680 --> 01:00:46.160
or you don't like them, just be patient.

01:00:46.680 --> 01:00:49.100
Because time will tell and the truth will come out

01:00:49.100 --> 01:00:50.900
and we'll see the fruit of things.

01:00:51.300 --> 01:00:52.780
Eventually Aaron's rattle bud

01:00:52.780 --> 01:00:54.880
and you can follow the fruit, okay?

01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:56.740
You can figure out what's real.

01:00:57.420 --> 01:01:00.140
But you know, people that just make hasty decisions

01:01:00.140 --> 01:01:03.060
and get too emotional, you know,

01:01:03.160 --> 01:01:04.980
they end up sometimes ruining their lives,

01:01:05.140 --> 01:01:07.420
wrecking, they make shipwreck of the faith.

01:01:08.040 --> 01:01:10.280
Hey, my marriage isn't going well.

01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:12.940
Okay, don't jerk the steering wheel.

01:01:13.680 --> 01:01:15.060
Have some patience in your marriage.

01:01:15.540 --> 01:01:16.780
You know, me and my wife,

01:01:17.240 --> 01:01:18.720
I don't know if you can believe this or not,

01:01:19.080 --> 01:01:21.140
but we fought before, okay?

01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:24.220
We've had times that were low in our marriage too.

01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:26.640
But you know what, it's going great

01:01:27.420 --> 01:01:29.160
and it's been going great.

01:01:29.640 --> 01:01:32.820
You know, we had problems related to church for a while.

01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:34.240
Like we didn't really agree on church

01:01:34.240 --> 01:01:36.860
or like our views on our life.

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And look, it's not to say that I don't have fights

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now or something, but you know,

01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:42.680
we can just be patient about it.

01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:45.540
Hey, if you don't like something in your life,

01:01:45.620 --> 01:01:48.040
don't always have this glum like, oh, this is forever.

01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:51.580
Oh, this job is forever.

01:01:52.300 --> 01:01:53.280
You might get fired.

01:01:54.060 --> 01:01:55.480
You might get replaced by AI.

01:01:57.740 --> 01:01:58.820
You're like, that doesn't sound good.

01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:00.920
Yeah, but maybe if you're just serving God,

01:02:01.080 --> 01:02:02.120
he has something better for you.

01:02:03.180 --> 01:02:04.200
And you're just, you're always,

01:02:04.340 --> 01:02:05.540
you're like worried about nothing.

01:02:06.820 --> 01:02:09.680
You know, oh, but here, I'll warn you,

01:02:09.680 --> 01:02:12.560
if you're a lazy, slothful worker and you don't care,

01:02:13.220 --> 01:02:15.320
God might not have something good for you around the corner.

01:02:16.060 --> 01:02:17.880
If you're just going to go out, commit fornication

01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:19.840
and do whatever, there might not be an awesome wife

01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:20.860
around for the corner for you.

01:02:21.220 --> 01:02:23.820
Hey, if you decide, hey, I'm going to get mad

01:02:23.820 --> 01:02:25.680
at Pastor Shelley and disagree with every single thing

01:02:25.680 --> 01:02:27.720
he says and attack him and trash him or whatever,

01:02:28.020 --> 01:02:29.640
there might not be a ministry position available

01:02:29.640 --> 01:02:30.660
for you around the corner.

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Okay?

01:02:33.340 --> 01:02:35.620
I just, you know, I'm going to invest,

01:02:35.680 --> 01:02:37.420
I'm going to invest my entire spiritual journey

01:02:37.420 --> 01:02:38.420
into Pastor Jimenez.

01:02:40.100 --> 01:02:41.440
I'm going to move to his church.

01:02:41.580 --> 01:02:42.920
That worked out pretty well, didn't it?

01:02:45.600 --> 01:02:46.940
Maybe you should have been patient

01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:50.120
and really thought about that, you know?

01:02:50.520 --> 01:02:51.660
Hey, I'm going to move across the country

01:02:51.660 --> 01:02:52.960
for this dating relationship.

01:02:55.060 --> 01:02:57.880
Didn't work out, you know?

01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:01.280
Maybe you'd be patient and take your time

01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:03.580
and think about things, you know?

01:03:03.720 --> 01:03:04.920
And look, I'm not saying that,

01:03:05.160 --> 01:03:06.980
hey, if you were serious and engaged

01:03:06.980 --> 01:03:10.200
and you move and she double times or something,

01:03:10.700 --> 01:03:11.760
well, that sucks, but you know,

01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:13.240
maybe she saved you one, I don't know.

01:03:13.860 --> 01:03:15.060
But you know, at the end of the day,

01:03:15.520 --> 01:03:17.360
hey, be patient, be patient.

01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:19.140
This is a virtue of the Bible.

01:03:20.040 --> 01:03:21.640
Be content in the situation you're in.

01:03:21.900 --> 01:03:22.580
Don't jerk the steering wheel.

01:03:22.660 --> 01:03:23.800
When you know what you're doing is right,

01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:25.340
just keep staying the course.

01:03:26.100 --> 01:03:26.700
Let's go some prayer.

01:03:27.040 --> 01:03:28.120
Thank you, Father, so much for your word.

01:03:28.240 --> 01:03:30.940
Thank you so much for giving us some advice

01:03:30.940 --> 01:03:32.620
so we don't have to go through the pain ourselves.

01:03:33.560 --> 01:03:34.800
I pray that you would help us

01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:37.220
to love our young ones, our children,

01:03:38.260 --> 01:03:40.360
these singles that we would encourage them

01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:43.000
to avoid fornication, to be patient in their lives.

01:03:43.460 --> 01:03:44.980
I pray that you could help the young men

01:03:45.500 --> 01:03:48.860
to work hard and to think about their career paths

01:03:48.860 --> 01:03:51.940
and to think about jobs and providing for their family.

01:03:52.560 --> 01:03:54.680
I pray that you would help us that are in church,

01:03:54.680 --> 01:03:57.160
that when we go through difficulties and persecutions

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to not be offended and not be afraid,

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but rather just wait on the Lord.

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And I pray that you would just help us

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to constantly trust you and your guidance.

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We know that the steps of a good man

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are ordered by the Lord.

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I pray that we'd be more concerned

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that we're right with you than where we're headed

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and that we would trust your plan

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in Jesus' name we pray, amen.