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And then second Kings chapter 18,

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we actually finally get a really good King

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because if you remember over the last several weeks

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we've been going through second Kings

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and it's really just been a lot of really lame,

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watered down kind of half in, half out Kings.

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They did what was right in the side of the Lord

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but not like David their father.

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And then in the end of their lives

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they always crashed and burned spiritually.

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Then if you remember last time

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we had Ahaz who was just totally off the cliff

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just all the way, bad King, just worshiping Satan.

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And then finally we get to second Kings 18

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we get a really good King to sit on the throne

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and that is Hezekiah.

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Now the Bible says in verse number one,

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now it came to pass in the third year of Hosea,

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son of Elo, king of Israel,

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that's of course up in the Northern Kingdom,

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that Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz,

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king of Judah, began to reign

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20 and five years old was He when He began to reign

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and He reigned 20 and nine years in Jerusalem.

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His mother's name was Abbey the daughter of Zachariah

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and He did that which was right in the side of the Lord

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according to all that David his father did.

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This is a guy who finally lives up to the standard of David.

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And of course I've been preaching about David

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that he's a man after God's own heart.

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Of course he's mentioned 1100 sometimes in the Bible.

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He's constantly brought up as a great king, a great leader.

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Hezekiah did according as David did.

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You know he's another David in that sense.

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It says in verse number four,

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he removed the high places and break the images

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and cut down the groves and break in pieces

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the brazen serpent that Moses had made

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for under those days the children of Israel

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did burn incense to it and he called it Nuhustan.

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Now the biggest issue it seems for the Israelites

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in the Old Testament is this thing of idolatry.

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This is a constant battle.

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That's why when the Ten Commandments are given,

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commandment number one,

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thou shalt have no other gods before me,

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but then commandment number two

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is thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image

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thou shalt not bow down thyself to them

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nor serve them for the Lord thy God is a jealous God.

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God hates idolatry.

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Now what does the word idolatry mean?

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If you just break down the morphology

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of the word idolatry,

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it literally means serving images or worshiping images.

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That's what we're talking about

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when we talk about idolatry.

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And let me tell you something,

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human beings are prone to idolatry.

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At this time in Israel's history,

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they were prone to idolatry,

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but today so much idolatry has crept

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into so-called Christianity

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where you've got people lighting a candle

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and burning incense to images, praying to images.

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And look, it doesn't really matter

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whether it's a two-dimensional image

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or a three-dimensional image.

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The point is they're bowing down to images.

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It is idolatry.

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You know, if you're kissing it and praying to it

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and kneeling to it and feeding it

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and giving it something to drink or whatever,

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that is idolatry, any of that's idolatry.

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And God hates idolatry.

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It's a constant theme in the Old Testament.

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And so when Hezekiah, the good king, comes along,

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he has to undo the damage that these previous kings have done

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because they brought in all this idolatry.

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They've planted all these sacred groves to false gods

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that have to be chopped down.

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And so here's the thing.

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If you're gonna be a reformer,

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if you're gonna be somebody who comes along

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and fixes things, it's gonna involve some destruction.

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It's not gonna be all positive.

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It's not gonna be all sunshine and rainbows.

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And I guarantee you that there are always gonna be people

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that don't like it when you start tearing down

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their golden cows and their images and their things.

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But here's the thing.

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A real man of God has to have the guts

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to tear down some strongholds

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and things that have taken root for a long time.

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And just because something's been around a long time

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doesn't mean it's right.

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Because notice here, a particular idol that he destroys

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is the brazen serpent.

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Now here's the thing.

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This brazen serpent is actually a legitimate object

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that was made for a legitimate reason

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because God literally told Moses,

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hey, make this brazen serpent, put it on a pole

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and everyone who looks to the brazen serpent will live.

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This is where we get the song, look and live.

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And John chapter three, one of the most famous passages

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in the entire Bible where John 3.16 comes from,

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it's actually introduced by this idea

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of the brazen serpent in verse 14.

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John 3.14, as Moses lifted up the serpent

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in the wilderness, even so must the son of man

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be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him

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should not perish but have eternal life.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only

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begotten son that whosoever believeth in him

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should not perish but have everlasting life.

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So that most famous of all verses,

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literally two verses earlier, it brings up Moses

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lifting up the serpent in the wilderness.

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So this is a legitimate object in the sense

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that God told them to make this

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and they made it at God's behest

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but even an object that was specifically made

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at God's behest as soon as you start bowing down to it,

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as soon as you start praying to it,

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as soon as you start burning incense in front of it,

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it needs to go in the trash

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and when the biblical author here,

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inspired by the Holy Ghost,

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is talking about the greatness of Hezekiah

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and how he's doing right in the sight of the Lord

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and fixing things, it says he destroyed the brazen serpent.

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Now why was the brazen serpent made in the first place?

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Well, if you remember, the children of Israel were dying,

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God was punishing them

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and he had sent poisonous serpents among them,

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venomous beasts to punish them

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and so in order to stay the plague,

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he hasn't made this brazen serpent lifted up on a pole

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and they had to look at it in order to live

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and the picture is of, of course, Jesus Christ

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being lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent

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in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.

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He was lifted up from the earth on the cross.

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Now why in the world would a brazen serpent

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represent the Lord Jesus Christ?

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I mean, this is really counterintuitive

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because everything is telling us about reading the Bible

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that the serpent represents evil.

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Serpent represents the devil.

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The serpent represents everything that's wrong.

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Not only that, a molten image of an animal

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represents like everything that's wrong

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in the Old Testament with the nation of Israel.

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It's just the ultimate sin that they're constantly guilty

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of and then not only that,

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but then there's the material, brass.

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Well, here's the thing, brass in the Bible

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pictures judgment and if you remember the main altar

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that they would do the animal sacrifice on

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was the brazen altar.

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And the idea here of the serpent on the pole

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representing Jesus is that he who knew no sin

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became sin for us, that we might be made

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the righteousness of God in him.

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So it's a sinful image because it's representing

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the fact that Jesus became sin for us.

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He took upon himself the sins of the whole world.

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He his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree.

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And so when you think about it that way,

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then it's actually a perfect image of Jesus Christ

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becoming sin, taking sin on himself.

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He didn't do any sin.

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He was tempted at all points like as we are yet

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without sin, but he of course laid upon him

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the iniquity of us all.

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And so even that object that had a legitimate origin,

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as soon as you start worshiping it, it's bad.

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Well, here's the thing.

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They've been worshiping this thing for a long time

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because if you do the math,

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it's hard to know the exact number,

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but we're talking roughly on the order

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of like eight or 900 years have gone by

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from when this brazen serpent had been made.

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Eight or 900 years later, and look what it says

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in verse four there at the end,

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it says the brazen surface that Moses had made

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for under those days the children of Israel

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did burn incense to it.

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So notice unto those days,

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meaning like they've been doing this.

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This is super traditional for a super long time.

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And look, a lot of people,

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they don't want to destroy stuff like this

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because they're like, oh, this is amazing artwork.

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This is a piece of history.

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This is beautiful.

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This is something that's irreplaceable.

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This is something that Moses literally made and touched.

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Well, you know what is more important

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than some superstitious,

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oh, I'm never going to wash this hand again

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because I touched the brazen serpent that Moses touched.

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Instead of that kind of superstitious mumbo jumbo,

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how about obedience to the commands of God?

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You know, and so you've got all these Catholics

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running around with a bunch of skulls

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and they've got the kneecap of Mary Magdalene

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and they've got John the Baptist,

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middle finger and whatever.

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And they've got all of these different body parts

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that they literally prayed to and take on tour and parade.

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But at the end of the day, you know what?

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That stuff should just be thrown in the trash.

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First of all, it's probably a hoax anyway.

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I don't believe that that's the patella of Mary Magdalene,

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but even if it were, throw it in the trash

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because it's clearly a stumbling block

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if you have people worshiping it, kissing it,

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bowing down to it,

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they're not treating it the right way.

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Now it says he called it Nihustan.

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Now it's hard to know exactly what this word means,

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but the word for brass in Hebrew is Nihoshet.

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And so probably what he's saying here

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is it's like he called it thing made out of brass.

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You know what he called it, hunk of metal.

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You know what he called it?

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A piece of metal, a piece of bronze, a piece of brass.

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It doesn't matter, it's not God.

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It can't hear you.

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It doesn't listen to your prayers.

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It is just simply an object.

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Reading the text, whatever the word means,

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whatever is meant by this,

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the idea here is he's calling it something derogatory

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because he's calling it this name

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as he's throwing it in the trash.

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So he's basically saying it ain't nothing.

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It's a piece of brass, throw it away, get rid of it.

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And so look, you gotta break some stuff.

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If you wanna fix things, you gotta trash some things.

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And a lot of people want church to be 100% positive.

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They want the preaching to be all positive.

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But you know what, when a bunch of sinful practices

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have gone on for a long time

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and a bunch of bad doctrines gone on for a long time,

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somebody has to come along and start breaking stuff.

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And you know, this is why, another reason why,

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we shouldn't get all caught up in church history

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and what did the church fathers say

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and what did the reformers say?

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No, what did the Bible say?

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Because you know what, God's people can do something wrong

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for 800 years and 900 years.

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People can get things wrong for huge periods of time.

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And look, just because some writing goes back

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to the first second century AD, guess what?

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Even while the Bible's being written,

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there's already many false prophets.

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I mean, he says in the book of 1 John,

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you know, many false prophets are gone out of the world.

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There are many antichrists.

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So why would we wanna read their stuff?

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Heretics, false teachers.

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I mean, what about the people corrupting

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the churches of Galatia, the Judaizers?

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Let's read their stuff, cause it's old, right?

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Let's read people that are bringing in works

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into salvation and teaching baptismal regeneration

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and idolatry and mariole tree and all these things.

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I don't care how far back it goes.

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I don't care if it was written five minutes

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after Jesus died on the cross

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or 10 minutes after the day of Pentecost.

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If it was written by a bozo, throw it in the trash

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because the word of God is the only final authority

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for all matters of faith and practice.

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And so you've gotta trash traditions that are bad.

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Look, I grew up, I think, in a pretty good tradition

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because I grew up as an independent fundamentalist

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Baptist, my parents raised me and brought me up

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in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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I grew up with the King James Bible,

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salvation by faith, eternal security of the believer,

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you know, and so there are a lot of great things

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that I grew up with in that tradition.

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But I knew that just because I'm growing up in this tradition

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doesn't mean everything about it is perfect.

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And so I had to go to the scripture myself

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and prove all things and test everything.

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And the Bible says prove all things,

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hold fast to that which is good.

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And so I had to evaluate everything

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and make sure that it lined up with scripture,

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not just, well, you know,

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this is what we've always done.

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You know, people could do things wrong for centuries

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and you gotta fix it.

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People can get doctrines wrong.

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You gotta fix it.

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And so you're gonna offend people,

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you're gonna break things,

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you're gonna destroy things,

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you're gonna tear down things.

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That's what it means to be a reformer.

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That's what it means to be a revivalist.

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You know, that's what it means to be someone

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like Hezekiah who comes along

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and does what's right in the side of the Lord,

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you know, and gets rid of the wrong things in the process.

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So it says in verse five,

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he trusted in the Lord God of Israel

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so that after him was none like him

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among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

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So this is, you know, a unique guy,

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a special guy, unparalleled in the history

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of the southern kingdom of Judah.

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So he's a great, great, great man of God.

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It says in verse six,

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for he clave to the Lord

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and departed not from following him,

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but kept his commandments,

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which the Lord commanded Moses.

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And when I say this word, cleave,

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it makes me think of getting married, right?

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Because the Bible says,

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a man shall leave his father and mother

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and shall cleave unto his wife

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and they too shall be one flesh.

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And you know, if you think about the word cleave,

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if you look at the etymology of it,

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the C, L and the V,

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it literally goes back to the same Indo-European roots

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as our word glue, G-L-U-C-L-V.

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It's actually a connected word.

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You know, we are supposed to leave father and mother

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and cleave unto our wife

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and we will be one flesh.

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And what's the Bible saying here?

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He cleave to the Lord.

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You know, and that's just like

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we have this commitment to our spouse

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that it's for better, for worse, for richer,

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for poorer in sickness and in health,

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love, cherish.

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You know what?

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That's how we should be with the commandments of God.

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We should be married to the commandments of God.

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We should be married to the morality of the Bible.

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We should be married to the idea of going to church

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and soul winning and breeding the Bible

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and praying and preaching the gospel

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and singing the hymns.

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You know, we should be married.

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We should cleave to the Lord,

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cleave to his commandments,

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not depart from following him,

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just like we wouldn't just leave our wife

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or leave your husband, right?

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You're not just gonna just leave following the Lord

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or keeping the commandments

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and just start living a wicked life.

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Not gonna do it.

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It's till death us do part.

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It says in verse number seven,

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and the Lord was with him

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and he prospered with us so ever he went forth

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and he rebelled against the king of Assyria

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and served him not.

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Now notice, the rebellion against the king of Assyria

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is a good thing.

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This is a litany of all the reasons

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why Hezekiah is so awesome.

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Man, he got rid of the idols,

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he's cleaving to the Lord,

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he's following God,

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he's not departing from the commandments,

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he's trusting the Lord

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and he's rebelling against the king of Assyria.

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Yeah!

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Why?

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Because Israel in God's perfect plan

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and God's perfect will

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is supposed to be an autonomous kingdom

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with the Lord over them.

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They're not really in the perfect will of God

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supposed to be under the king of Assyria.

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And so the kingdom of Judah here

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is supposed to be independent.

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And so the fact that He rebelled against the king of Assyria

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and served him not is a good thing.

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Now, obviously God wants us to obey

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the legitimate authorities in our life

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and the Bible says rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.

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You know, when it comes to rebelling against the Lord

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or rebelling against the authorities

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that God has put in our life.

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But when it comes to the world,

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when it comes to wicked people

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that are trying to be a bad influence on us

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and lead us astray,

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we should rebel against that.

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And in many ways,

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we as Bible-believing Christians are rebels

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because we're rebelling against an ungodly culture.

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We're rebelling against the de-Christianization

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of our nation.

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We're rebelling against the devil and his minions

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and by doing what's right,

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we're actually rebelling against the king of Assyria.

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And you know, it's funny because young people

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tend to have this rebellious streak in them, right?

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And so they often go down this stupid, foolish path

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of rebelling against their parents,

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rebelling against God, rebelling against

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what they learned at church.

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And what's so dumb about this is that by doing that,

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they're really just being mainstream NPC normies

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because of the fact that this whole world

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is doing that now.

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Like, if all the media agrees with you,

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you're not the resistance.

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You know, it's that simple.

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And so to sit there and think like,

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oh yeah, I'm gonna show everybody,

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I'm gonna be a rebel and get a tattoo, yeah.

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It's like, bro, everybody's getting a tattoo.

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I'm gonna show them, you know?

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I'm gonna go out and, you know,

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I'm gonna quit the church.

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And it's like, bro, everybody is doing that.

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So what?

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You wanna really be a rebel?

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You wanna be the punk rock of 2026.

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You become a new independent fundamental Baptist

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and you are like the most cutting edge punk rocker in America.

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Seriously.

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I mean, we are like the punk rock

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of independent fundamental Baptist right here.

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Cause we just don't even care.

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We're just offending everybody,

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just kinda screw you, give the finger to the whole world.

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You know, but here's the thing.

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We're rebelling against the king of Assyria.

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We're not rebelling against God.

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We're not rebelling against the Bible.

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We're not rebelling against our parents.

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We're not rebelling against our boss at work.

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We're rebelling against rebellion.

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We're rebelling against sin.

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We're rebelling against a wicked, ungodly culture.

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That's the right kind of rebellion.

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So if you just have this little itch for rebellion

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that needs to be scratched,

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hey, rebel against the devil.

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Oh, I just wanna be different.

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Here's how you be different.

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You be a peculiar people.

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That'll make you different.

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I mean, how many people are really sold out,

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zealous and on fire for God in 2026?

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A lot less people than are going out

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and getting a metallic booger put in their nose.

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I'll tell you that right now.

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But it says in verse number seven,

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he rebelled against the king of Assyria

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and served him not.

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He smote the Philistines even into Gaza

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and the borders thereof

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from the tower of the watchmen to the fence city.

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So God's blessing him on the East.

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He's rebelling against Syria on the Southwest.

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He's expanding into the Philistines territory

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all the way up to Gaza itself,

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which is one of the main five cities of the Philistines.

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Verse number nine,

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and it came to pass in the fourth year

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of the king Hezekiah,

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which was the seventh year of Hosea,

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son of Eli, king of Israel,

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that Shalmanezer, king of Assyria,

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came up against Samaria and besieged it.

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Look, the devil's not just gonna take it lying down.

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When you're this reformer,

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when you're this awesome king,

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when you're this man, woman, boy, or girl

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that's gonna get back to the old paths

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and serve God and win souls and do things right,

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the devil's not just gonna take it lying down.

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When there's a great door open and effectual,

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there are also gonna be many adversaries.

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Okay, and so there are always gonna be resistance.

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All that will live godly in Christ Jesus

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shall suffer persecution, the Bible says.

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And so Hezekiah is doing all the right things.

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God's blessing him.

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It's just hashtag winning,

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but here's the thing,

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it's not gonna go on that way forever.

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That's just not life.

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That's not realistic, okay?

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There are gonna be challenges, setbacks, trials,

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tribulations, afflictions.

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Mark it down, take it to the bank.

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You're not just gonna go through life just serving God

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and you just never stop winning,

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victory to victory to victory.

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It doesn't work that way.

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Life is up and down.

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And so Hezekiah is being tested here

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because he's doing all the right things

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and yet something bad happens to him, okay?

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And you know what the Bible says?

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Many are the afflictions of the righteous.

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It doesn't say few are the afflictions.

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It says many are the afflictions of the righteous

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but out of them all the Lord delivers them.

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So Hezekiah is gonna get a little bit tested here

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and it says here that the Shalmanizer king of Assyria

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came up against Samaria and besieged it

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and at the end of three years they took it.

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Even in the sixth year of Hezekiah,

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that is in the ninth year of Hosea king of Israel,

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Samaria was taken.

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So here's the thing, remember we talked about

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the fall of Samaria last week, okay?

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So this is his next door neighbor.

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So Assyria comes in and takes over the northern kingdom.

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Okay, I mean southern kingdom's still doing great, right?

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But here's the thing, Assyria's not gonna stop there.

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Assyria wants to take both.

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And now Assyria is in Hezekiah's backyard now

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because he's taken over the northern kingdom.

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Let's keep going.

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Of course, I'll skip some of this for sake of time

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but you know, he carries the northern kingdom

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away captive but look at verse 13.

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Now in the 14th year of King Hezekiah,

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did Sennacherib, king of Assyria,

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come up against all the fence cities of Judah

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and took them, right?

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So here's where the real test comes for Hezekiah

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is when Sennacherib comes in

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and takes over all the fence cities of his kingdom.

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So stop and think about this.

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Nation of Judah, Hezekiah's the king.

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He's doing all the right things.

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God's been blessing him, winning, winning, winning.

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But now all of a sudden the king of Assyria

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has already taken over the northern kingdom of Israel.

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And Hezekiah can look at that and say,

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well, yeah, I mean, took over the northern kingdom

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because they're wicked.

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They're idolaters.

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Not gonna happen to us, we're good to go.

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But then the king of Assyria comes in

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and takes over the southern kingdom

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but he doesn't take over the capital city of Jerusalem.

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So the capital city of Jerusalem

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is the one holdout, you know, that's hold.

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And that's the way these ancient kingdoms worked anyway.

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They're pretty much city states,

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the power is pretty much concentrated in a certain city.

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But all these other fenced cities throughout Judah,

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they all fall to the king of Assyria

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because they don't have the defenses that Jerusalem has,

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the main power base.

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So all the fenced cities fall.

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So Hezekiah is basically now just holding Jerusalem only.

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It's like he's in Jerusalem and he's gotta defend it.

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And he starts to doubt

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because he's been entrusted in the Lord

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and doing all the right things

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but then he watches just everything around him falling.

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Now here's the thing, he hasn't lost everything yet.

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He's still got Jerusalem, he's still there

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but he's obviously human and he's afraid

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that he's gonna suffer the same fate as Samaria.

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So I think it's a little bit of a lapse in faith here.

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He's still a great man of God, still a wonderful king

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but he's human and we're all human,

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we're all gonna have doubts at times.

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And so I think that Hezekiah starts to doubt a little bit

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because he loses all that territory

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and he's just holed up in Jerusalem

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and he thinks it's gonna be over for him.

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So look what he does.

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It says in verse number 14,

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Hezekiah, king of Judah,

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sent to the king of Assyria to Lakeish saying,

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I have offended, oh, I'm sorry that I offended you.

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Return from me, that which thou putest on me,

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I will bear, and the king of Assyria appointed

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unto Hezekiah, king of Judah,

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300 tons of silver and 30 tons of gold.

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So he basically says, look, I give up, I surrender

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because he doesn't wanna lose everything.

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Now God was never gonna let him lose everything.

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God was gonna keep him but sometimes God will take us

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right up to the brink of destruction

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but he's not gonna let us go all the way off the cliff.

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And so Hezekiah's brought all the way up to the brink

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and he has a lapse in faith and says, okay, I surrender.

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You win, just back off, leave Jerusalem alone

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and I'll pay you whatever you need me to pay you.

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And he says, okay, it's gonna be 300 tons of silver

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and 30 tons of gold.

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So that's what he does.

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It says in verse 15, Hezekiah gave him

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all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord

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and in the treasures of the king's house.

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And you know, this doesn't feel right, does it?

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Just like, hey, let's just strip all the golden silver

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out of the house of God.

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And then it says in verse 16, at that time did Hezekiah

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cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord

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and from the pillars which Hezekiah, king of Judah

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had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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Now look, Hezekiah is the one

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who put the gold on the doors.

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He's the one who put the gold on the pillars.

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Now he's having to go backwards, you know?

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And this is again, the way life can be sometimes

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people can get, even great people get a little backslidden.

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You know, and it's like, you were moving forward

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and then it's like, okay, we're gonna move backward now.

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We're gonna strip the gold off the doors

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and give it to the king of Assyria.

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And so we see some backward movement here.

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It doesn't feel right, stripping God's house,

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gutting God's house to pay off the king of Assyria

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instead of just trusting in the Lord, right?

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But hey, he's human, he had a little bit of a lapse here,

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whatever, he's still a great guy.

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But does this work?

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Because the deal was, I'm gonna give you all this gold

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and silver and then you're gonna leave me alone.

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Well, let's see what happens.

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It says in verse number 17,

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and the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rapsaris

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and Rapshiki from Lakish to King Hezekiah

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with a great host against Jerusalem.

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And they went up and came to Jerusalem

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and when they were come up,

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they came up and stood by the conduit of the upper pool,

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which is in the highway of the forest field.

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Notice that now what does the king of Assyria do?

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He just sends a massive army.

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He takes the money and instead of taking the money

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and saying, okay, I'll honor the deal,

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we'll leave you alone, thanks for the money,

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keep paying us.

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Basically, he just sends now a bigger army

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to make things even worse.

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Why?

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Because he realizes that Hezekiah has now shown weakness

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and so he's just gonna take full advantage

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and just come in and he's gonna give him an inch,

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he's gonna take a mile.

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And so he's just gonna come in and take everything

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and he wants to do, as we read this chapter,

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it becomes obvious, he wants to do to the Southern Kingdom

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exactly what he did to the Northern Kingdom.

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He wants to take everybody captive

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because he's telling them, oh, just come into captivity,

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it's gonna be great.

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We're gonna put you in a real nice place

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and you're gonna have a real nice tree in the yard

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and a real nice house, it's gonna be beautiful,

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it's gonna be wonderful.

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He wants to do that to them.

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And so here's one of the things

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that we can learn from this,

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is that trying to make a deal with the devil doesn't work,

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trying to make a deal with this world doesn't work,

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trying to placate the implacable doesn't work.

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Okay, and you know what?

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Christians for too long,

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they're trying to compromise with the world

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and trying to get along and back off

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and say, oh, I'm sorry I offended.

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It's like, no, churches need to stand their ground,

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stand by their guns, preach the word and not give an inch.

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Why would we back up a single inch?

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Because let me explain this up to you,

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if we backed off a little bit, it's not gonna be enough.

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Now we could back off a little,

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I mean, we're living in a world

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where people think the Southern Baptists

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are real conservative.

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I mean, I'll be out so many,

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it's like, oh, the Southern Baptist is so radical.

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It's like, wait till they get a load of meat.

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Like, you know, you ain't seen nothing yet.

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We think the Southern Baptists are super liberal,

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watered down, they're wimps.

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But look, these worldly people out there,

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they think that what we would consider

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our total liberal church is like conservative to them.

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You know, and here's the thing,

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you think that they'll be happy if we just said,

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okay, yeah, yeah, we love sodomites,

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and let's get sodomites saved, that's not good enough.

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You have to say that it's wonderful.

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You have to say that it's totally fine.

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You have to teach it in school to kindergartners, okay?

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You have to put them behind the pulpit.

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Nothing will satisfy these people, okay?

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And so you just have to trust in the Lord,

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stand by your guns, and don't gut the house of God

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of anything, you know.

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I want the house of God to be at full strength.

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I want gold on the doors and gold on the,

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I'm not talking about physically.

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We never are gonna gold plate anything around here, okay?

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You're just lucky that we're finally meeting in a place

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that looks like a college lecture hall, you know,

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instead of an office complex.

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That's our upgrade, okay?

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At the end of the day, we're not gold plating anything.

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But let me tell you something, spiritually,

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we want a gold plated.

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Spiritually, we don't want to do without,

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we want to spare no expense spiritually, right?

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We want to have all the bells, all the whistles,

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every verse of the Bible, all the hard preaching,

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all the hard doctrines, and you know what?

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We're not trying to roll the clock back to the 1950s,

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like people accuse us of, like,

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you're trying to roll the clock back to the 19,

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we want to go back to 1850s.

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I want to roll things back to the 1750s

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as far as morality, as far as what's right and wrong.

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I want to roll things back to, you know,

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the first century AD.

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I want to roll things back to 1500 BC

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on some of this stuff.

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When it comes to dealing with homos,

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let's roll it back to 1500 BC.

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You know, we don't care.

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You know, and as soon as you start carrying

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what the world thinks as a church, you're doomed.

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You know, now look, obviously in my personal life,

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in your personal life, we want to try, as the Bible says,

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to live peaceably with all men, right?

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We want to, as much as life in us,

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live peaceably with all men,

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and so we want to try to get along with our neighbors,

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try to get along with our coworkers,

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try to get along with school.

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I'm not saying to just raise hell everywhere that you go.

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Obviously, that's not the right way to live your life.

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That's not what the Bible is saying.

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But you know what?

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If there's one place to raise hell,

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it's behind the pulpit in an independent Baptist church.

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Because obviously this is our turf.

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This is the house of God.

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This is for Christians.

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This is for us by us, okay?

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And so we here in the house of God

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are gonna worship God the way he wants us to,

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preach the sermons that he wants us to preach,

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and take a stand.

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And then when we go out in the world,

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we're ambassadors for Christ,

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and even though we do wanna get along and be nice,

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we're still not gonna compromise

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our personal lifestyle and our personal walk.

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We're not gonna drink a beer to make people happy.

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You know, we're not gonna look at porno

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and listen to dirty jokes in order to make people happy

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and say, oh sure, yeah, go ahead and show me that.

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Yeah, go ahead and tell me that.

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Yeah, I'll go to the bar with you

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and I'll drink a club soda at the bar with you

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and whatever.

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It's like, no, we need to live a clean

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and separated and pure life in the world

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not of the world.

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Get along with people, be ambassadors for Christ,

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be kind, be loving, but stand by our guns.

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And in the house of God,

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the preaching is straight out of the Bible.

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And if it offends, if it makes people mad,

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well then that just means it needs to be preached more,

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not less.

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The more voicemails I get about a subject,

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it just makes me wanna preach it more.

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And you know what, I get voicemail,

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we get angry cursing voicemails every day in our church.

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Praise the Lord.

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I mean, look, if I don't get any angry voicemails

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for a little while, it's like,

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man, is our message even getting out?

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You know, you start to wonder,

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like, is the preaching getting out there?

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Is it getting out?

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But you know what, when I just have a steady stream

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of hateful voicemails every day,

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it's just like, you know what,

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I know for every person who's calling up mad,

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there's 1,000 people who didn't call.

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They're just as mad.

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And you know what, the reason that I like

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the angry voicemails, I'll tell you why.

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Because voicemails from supporters are great.

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But voicemails from supporters and emails from supporters,

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encouraging messages, encouraging voicemails,

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encouraging emails, you know what,

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that's great that we're preaching to the saved,

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we're preaching to the choir.

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That's great that we have our friends,

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we have our following, we have our buddies,

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we have our listeners, that's great.

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But you know what, I want to reach new people.

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And you know what, when you're getting just tons

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of rage mail, rage, hateful voicemail,

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you know what, that shows you,

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you're reaching a fresh audience.

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You're reaching people like, what the?

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And here's the thing, for all these people

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that are getting mad, there are other people

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that are just finding out about the preaching

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and saying, where has this been all my life?

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Finally, somebody's telling it like it is.

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You know, praise God.

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Like these people don't understand that I enjoy,

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when I open my email and I just see just Google voice,

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Google voice, Google, I'm just like, hallelujah,

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and the more F-bombs the better.

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I'm just like, I'm just like, yeah, yeah, just a little.

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It's just like, yes, another one, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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You think I care?

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Like do you really think I'm just gonna be like,

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oh no, this woman's so offended, you know,

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that when I preach about marriage,

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I'm just like, well, this needs to be a whole series.

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And you know what, here's the thing,

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when I preach something and people are mad about it

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and I know it's biblical, it tells me,

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well, this is obviously something people are screwed up on.

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My whole job as a preacher is to fix things.

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Like why would I wanna get up and preach a sermon

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where everybody already knows everything I say

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before I say it?

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Like do you really wanna just come to church

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and just have the pastor get up

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and tell you everything you already know,

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you already believe.

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When I preach on something and people are upset, confused,

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astonished, it's just like,

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oh, well, I found a subject that needs work.

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You know, it's like if the doctor is examining you, right?

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And he's kinda like, here, Daniel, come on up here.

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I need to give you a quick examination here.

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Doctor Anderson, I'm not actually a doctor, but.

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You know, it's like the doctor,

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you know, the doctor brings you in,

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Sarah here, you know, the doctor brings you in

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and he's kinda like doing this, you know, right?

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And he's kinda like, and then he gets to a spot

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that hurts, right?

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It's like, you gotta make like a pain thing.

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Like, ah.

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All right, you're a horrible actor, get it?

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Ah.

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Ah, ah, ah, ah.

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All right, Daniel's a great guy,

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but he's not a great actor.

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That's what we've learned.

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But you know, it's like, you know,

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if you touch something and it's like, oh, ah,

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then the doctor's gonna go, oh,

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what's with the tenderness?

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You know, same thing with the dentist, right?

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The dentist is like attacking you

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with that little metal hook and everything.

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And hey, does this hurt?

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You know.

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You know, but here's the thing,

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that little spot of pain,

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that little cold sensitivity, hot sense,

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if you've ever been to the dentist

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where they test it for cold and hot

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and they see how, you know, they like burn you.

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Hey, can you feel this?

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It's like, ah.

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Now this.

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Ah.

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Oh wait, let me get my little hook out again.

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Ah.

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You know, it's like, bro, give me some laughing gas.

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I've actually never had the laughing gas.

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They usually, I think, give it mainly to children.

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But the thing is, that is when they know

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that they found a problem, the tenderness.

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You know, and so that's the way I interpret it,

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is if I preach something and it bothers people,

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it's just, wow, we just need to hit on that again.

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You know what I'm not trying to do?

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I'm not trying to just say, hey,

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maybe I can just throw the king of Assyria a bone

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and he'll leave me alone.

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Because this is what the king of Assyria will do.

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He'll take your money and then he'll just come back

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with a bigger army.

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And you know, my dad taught me when I was growing up,

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he said, never give in to bullies.

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He said, if you give in to bullies,

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they'll just keep bullying you

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and just keep picking on you

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and keep pushing you around because they would,

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and look, maybe some of you didn't experience this,

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but I experienced when I was a kid,

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like some of the classic bullying,

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like literally give me your lunch money kind of bullying.

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Like just textbook,

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where they're trying to take food and money from you

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and extorting, and I remember there were kids

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that would just give them food and money.

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And it did not make them leave them alone.

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They got bullied more, they got attacked more

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and so even though I was small,

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I had to always just fight back

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because if you just give in to bullies,

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they're never gonna leave you alone.

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And it's the same thing, you know, these bullies,

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these, you know, as the documentary is called,

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the LGBT terrorists, for example,

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you know, they're used to coming at people

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and those people backing down.

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You know, they're used to Tim Hardaway.

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You know, Tim Hardaway made these awesome statements

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against sodomites and then, you know,

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they just unleashed all of hell on him

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and then he apologized, he even went and took some class

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about how to be more like tolerant of homos.

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He posed with a bunch of, but they never forgive, bro.

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And then he just ends up humiliating himself

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and going through some weird humiliation ritual.

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The guy could have been a legend

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if he would have just stood by his guns.

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But I'm telling you that these wicked people,

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they're used to people capitulating

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because I think 90-some percent of people,

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when the persecution comes, they're gonna capitulate.

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So that's what they think is gonna happen.

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You know, and when you capitulate,

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then they just want more from you.

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Like it's not enough for Tim Hardaway to just say, sorry.

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No, you gotta go take a class about phagotry.

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You gotta go attend this sensitivity training.

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You gotta take this photo, you gotta do this, you know.

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It never stops with these people.

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And so the best thing to do is just follow the Bible

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and if people don't like it, you know,

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as the song says, if the devil doesn't like it,

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he can sit on a tack, you know.

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Ouch.

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Who knows the song?

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All right, a couple people.

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So it says here that the king of Assyria just comes anyway

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because, you know, compromising with this world

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as a man of God just doesn't work.

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And so he comes anyway.

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And it says in verse 19,

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Rabshiki said unto them,

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speak ye now to Hezekiah,

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thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria,

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what confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

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Thou sayest, but there are but vain words,

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I have counsel and strength for the war.

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Now, in whom does thou trust

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that thou rebellest against me?

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Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff

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of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt,

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on which of a man lean it will go into his hand

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and pierce it, so is Pharaoh king of Egypt

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unto all that trust on him.

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And of course, that's not true.

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They're not trusting in Egypt.

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They're just accusing him of that.

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And then he says in the next breath,

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but if you say unto me,

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we trust in the Lord our God, verse 22,

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is not that he whose high places and whose altars

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Hezekiah have taken away,

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and it said to Judah and Jerusalem,

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ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem.

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So this guy, it's always funny

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when non-Christians tell you

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what it means to be a Christian.

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And they wanna lecture you about the teachings of Jesus

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and the teachings of the Bible, right?

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Unsafe people can't understand the Bible.

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Don't let them lecture you

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on what it means to be a Christian.

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And so now Rapschakie is gonna lecture them

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on what it means to be a Bible-believing Christian

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and tell them, well, you're gonna trust in the Lord,

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Hezekiah is tearing down all his altars.

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Because of course, the Bible said

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you're only supposed to have one altar at Jerusalem.

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You're not supposed to be worshiping idols

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under every green tree and on every street corner.

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So what Hezekiah actually tore down

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were fake altars to idols of, quote, unquote, the Lord.

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But it was false religion, idolatry.

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It was not the right worship.

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And so Hezekiah got rid of that stuff.

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This guy comes along and lectures him,

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like, well, doesn't the Bible say

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that you're supposed to just love everybody?

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And doesn't the Bible just say to, you know,

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it's just like, no, it doesn't say that.

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And so He says, you know, it didn't Hezekiah tear

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all that stuff down, verse 23,

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now therefore I pray that you give pledges to my Lord,

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the King of Assyria, and I would deliver the 2,000 horses

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if I'll be able on my part to set riders upon them.

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So now He's just making fun of them saying,

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hey, I'll give you 2,000 horses

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just to like beef up your army

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because that's not even gonna help you.

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We'll still beat you so bad.

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We'll just like donate 2,000 horses to your army.

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We'll just give you weapons.

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You don't even have the manpower

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to even use these weapons.

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How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain

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of the least of my master servants

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and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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And of course, the Bible specifically told

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the children of Judah not to rely on Egypt.

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They're not relying on Egypt,

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but that's what they're being accused of.

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Am I now come up without the Lord

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against this place to destroy it?

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The Lord said to me, go up against this land

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and destroy it.

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So he's like, hey, God told me to do this.

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So this guy's just kind of trying everything.

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He's just throwing everything at the wall.

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He's like, I bet you're trusting in Egypt, aren't you?

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Oh, you're not?

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Oh, you're trusting in the Lord?

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He tore down all the Lord's, oh, you like the Lord?

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Well, guess what?

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The Lord talked to me last night

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and he said to come do this.

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You know what?

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No one can tell you God said or God told me

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unless they have chapter and verse in the Bible.

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Whenever everybody's like, oh, God said this

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and then it conflicts with the Bible?

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No, that wasn't God talking.

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You have a God complex.

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That was you talking to yourself

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and saying that it was God talking.

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That's called your internal monologue

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or internal dialogue that's going on.

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And then you, you know, people just like,

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oh, I just heard the voice of God talking to me.

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It's like, that was Jiminy Cricket.

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Okay, that wasn't God talking to you

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because this is how God talks to you through his word.

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The Holy Spirit will take of mine

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and show it to you is what Jesus said.

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He will show you the word of God.

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He'll bring to remembrance all things that Christ said.

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He'll not speak of himself.

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He's not just gonna come up with random things to say to you.

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He's gonna speak to you through the word.

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This is the sword of the Spirit.

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And so he just says, oh, well God told me.

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God told me to destroy it.

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So you guys should just do what I say

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because I had a revelation from God.

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Then said, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah

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and Shebna and Joah under Rapschiki,

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speak I pray thee to thy servants

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in the Syrian language for we understand it

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and talk not with us in the Jews language

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in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

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So the educated people of Jerusalem,

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they speak Aramaic or Syriac,

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whereas they're thinking that the common people

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might not understand so well.

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So the difference between Hebrew and Syriac

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is like the difference between Spanish and Portuguese

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or Spanish and Italian or something.

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So it's the kind of thing where you could learn,

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if you know the one, you can learn the other

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with just a little bit of extra study,

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just a little bit of study,

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couple weeks, months, and you've got it.

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But the average person who just has had no training

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at all, when they first hear it with no exposure to it,

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no training, they're not gonna be able to understand it.

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They're not mutually intelligible, okay?

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Whereas a little bit of training,

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so obviously like the government people in Jerusalem,

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the leaders, the scholars,

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they're like, bro, talk to us in Syriac,

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we don't need you to come at us in Hebrew,

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we can understand it.

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They obviously are all fluent in both, okay?

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But they're like, don't speak Hebrew.

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And the reason they don't want them to speak Hebrew

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is because they don't want the common people,

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they're trying to shelter the common people

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from hearing this garbage propaganda

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coming from the Assyrians.

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So they're saying, hey, talk to us in Aramaic

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so that only we hear and they don't hear.

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So then look what they says here.

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It says, but Rapschiki said unto them,

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verse 27, hath my master sent me to thy master

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and to thee to speak these words,

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hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall

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that they may eat their own dung

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and drink their own piss with you?

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And so what's he saying?

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He's saying, look, I'm not here to talk to you,

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the leaders, I'm here to talk to your followers.

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So basically bottom line is,

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he's trying to incite rebellion amongst God's people

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against their legitimate God-given leaders.

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And this is what the devil's gonna do.

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If the devil can't get, has a chaiah to rebel,

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if the devil can't get the pastor to rebel,

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if the devil can't get the parents to rebel,

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if the devil can't get the deacons to rebel,

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what's he gonna do is he's just gonna try to speak directly

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to the young people, the parishioners, the teenagers,

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the laymen and try to poison their minds

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against their God-given leaders

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and get them to rebel against the Lord

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and rebel against Christianity in the word of God.

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Why?

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Because the devil is seeking whom he may devour.

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And if you resist the devil, he'll flee from you.

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And so I think the devil's smart enough to know

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that there's some people that he just doesn't really

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have a chance of corrupting.

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But then he's looking for the weak, the unlearned.

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And you know what?

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You, if you're smart, young people, children, teenagers,

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and even if you're older in age, maybe you're newly

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saved, maybe you haven't really been saved that long,

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you haven't really read the Bible cover to cover,

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you know what?

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You need to work on getting rooted and grounded

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in the things of God so that you're not just easy pickings

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for the devil.

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Right?

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Because if you're unstable, if you're not rooted

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and grounded, if you're not solid on what you believe,

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you're the person the devil's looking for.

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You know, and look, I'm not saying that I'm invincible

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or that I'm some great person or perfect or something,

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but look, if the devil tries to tempt me

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to drink or something, it's kind of just a joke.

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Like if I've never drunk a beer in my life

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and I'm 45 years old, I'm not just all of a sudden now

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just gonna see an opportunity and just be like,

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hey, yeah, let's drink or whatever.

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I'm not just gonna start snorting cocaine and drinking

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and I'm not just gonna start committing adultery

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at 45 years old.

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It's like, I've already been serving God for decades.

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Obviously anybody's capable of getting back slidden

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and doing wrong.

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I'm not saying that I'm impervious to sin or invincible.

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Let him think of the standard, take heed lest he fall.

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But who do you think the devil's gonna have

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a better chance with?

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A seasoned Christian who's been faithful to his wife

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for decades and been a teetotaler lifelong

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or some young, impressionable freshman at college

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just starting out at college,

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just got away from their parents,

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just got out of the house.

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You know, that's who the devil's probably gonna be able

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to get into fornication, drugs, alcohol

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a lot more easily than some middle-aged dude

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who's been serving God for decades.

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You understand what I'm saying?

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And so what the devil's gonna do a lot of times

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is he's gonna be like, I'm not even trying

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to talk to you elders.

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I'm not trying to talk to the pastor, the deacons,

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the parents, the older people, the elders,

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the people who've been saved for decades.

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No, no, no, I wanna talk to these people

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that are on the wall.

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And you know, if you think about being on the wall,

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this could be symbolic of being on the edge,

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half in, half out, on the line,

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inside, are they inside or are they outside?

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They're on the wall.

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So the devil's saying, I'm here to talk

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to people that are on the wall.

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I wanna talk to people that are on the wall.

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And you know what?

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He's gonna tell the people that are on the wall.

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He's saying, you know what?

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If you follow the Lord,

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you're gonna eat, dung, and drink piss.

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That's what he's basically saying.

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Like, he's saying what your parents are teaching you,

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what the church is teaching you,

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what the pastor's preaching, what the Bible says,

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it's all a bunch of crap.

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That's what he's basically saying, literally, right?

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He's saying, it's just a bunch of crap.

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You're gonna be miserable.

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It's gonna be horrible.

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And then watch how he paints a picture

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of what life is gonna be like

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if they rebel against the Lord

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and if they go with the devil,

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look how he paints a picture

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of what it's gonna be like.

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He says in verse 31, Harkin not to Hezekiah.

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He's saying, don't listen to the pastor.

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Don't listen to your parents.

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Don't listen to what the Bible says.

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Don't listen to what Christians are saying.

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Make an agreement with me.

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Buy a present and come out to me.

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And then, ee, every man of his own vine

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and every one of his fig tree and drinky,

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every one, the waters of his cistern,

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until I come and take you away

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to a land like your own land,

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a land of corn and wine,

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a land of bread and vineyards,

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a land of olive or oil, olive and of honey

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that you may live and not die.

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Harkin not unto Hezekiah.

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When he persuaded you saying,

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the Lord will deliver you, yes?

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And he's saying like, look,

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don't listen to the word of God.

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Follow me.

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I've got candy.

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I've got cookies.

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Oh, it's gonna be so nice.

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And, oh, your parents are just so restrictive

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and all the church and all this hard preaching

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and these rules, ah, you know.

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Oh, what a bunch of crap, you know.

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You gotta go with me and it's gonna be wonderful.

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Look, this is what the devil's been doing all along.

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Trying to make sin look good in the Garden of Eden.

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He's advertising sin, saying,

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oh, look, you gotta eat of the tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil.

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And so the devil is gonna glamorize sin.

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He's trying to make sin look good.

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And he's trying to tell you

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that if you live the way of this world,

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it's gonna be better.

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And that if you stay with the Lord,

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it's just gonna be a steady diet of dung and piss.

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You know, I mean, that sounds pretty bad.

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But guess what?

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It's actually the opposite.

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The devil's gonna be the one

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that's gonna get you eating dung and drinking piss.

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Because you know what?

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I've never drunk beer, but it smells like piss.

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And you know what?

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He's the one that's gonna get you

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in some dirty public bathroom.

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If you want, you know what?

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You got two choices, my friend.

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You can either get on your knees

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and bow down before the God of the universe

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and bow down before the Bible

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and say open down my eyes

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that I may behold wondrous things out of my law.

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Or you can bow down at the altar

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known as the public restroom of the bar

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and bow down to piss and dung

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as you puke your guts out in the bathroom

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of the strip club, nightclub, bar,

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gentlemen's club, casino, whatever.

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Hey, the devil is gonna get you involved

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in all kinds of gross, unsanitary filth.

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But you know what?

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The Bible says the statutes of the Lord are clean.

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God's way is clean.

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God wants you living a clean life.

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You know who wants you living a dirty, filthy,

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unsanitary life?

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It's the devil.

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The devil wants you living that filthy life,

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but he's gonna just flip it over

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and call good evil and evil good

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and call sweet bitter and sweet, beets,

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they have that, beets and switter,

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I don't know.

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But he's gonna get you all turned around

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like I just got a little turned around there.

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And what he wants you to do is think

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that somehow the grass is green

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around the other side of the fence.

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Oh, it's gonna be so much better

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if I just divorce my spouse.

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I can just get out of this abusive relationship.

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Boy, the next one's gonna be even more abusive.

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It's gonna be even weirder.

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I mean, imagine divorcing your godly Christian spouse.

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Right? Imagine divorcing your Christian spouse.

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Now you've just gone outside of the will of God.

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And then here's the thing.

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If you're a divorced woman,

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the Bible literally says,

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whosoever marries her that is divorced

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committed adultery.

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So any guy that marries you is just committing adultery.

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I mean, look, is anybody home?

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And you say, I don't know.

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That's some rough preaching.

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Hey, I don't care.

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Because the Bible literally,

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this is a quote from Jesus.

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Quote, whosoever marries her that is divorced

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committed adultery.

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So if you divorce your husband,

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and now you're gonna marry someone else,

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it has to be a guy who's willing to commit adultery.

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I wonder if that same guy is the kind of guy

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that might cheat on you at some point.

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Or might be not a godly person in other areas.

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And you know what?

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Let's face it, godliness equals being a good wife

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or being a good husband.

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I mean, stop and think about it.

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Who do you think is gonna be the best husband?

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A guy who's like a really serious,

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dedicated Christian or one who's not?

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Who's gonna be the best wife?

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One that's really serious about the things of God

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or one that's not?

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Because think about it.

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What's the Bible telling us to do?

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The Bible is telling us like,

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don't steal, don't kill,

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don't commit adultery, don't covet.

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It sounds great.

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I mean, you know what?

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You know what I'm looking for in a wife?

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I'm looking for a woman who doesn't steal,

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doesn't kill, doesn't commit adultery,

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doesn't bear false witness, and doesn't covet.

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Sounds awesome.

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And you say, well, those are kind of extreme.

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I don't know, you got women,

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you got 25% of American women

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killing their children called abortion.

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Isn't that, thou shalt not kill?

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You got people cheating on they spouse,

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that's adultery.

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How about this?

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How about women who are just never satisfied

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with the house that you give them?

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They're not satisfied with the car that you give them?

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They're not satisfied with the clothes

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that you put in the closet?

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That's called, thou shalt not covet.

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I mean, do you wanna be married to a woman

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who just keeps spending and spending and spending

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and you work and work and work

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and the money's never enough

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because she just covets more and more?

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Is that what you wanna be married to?

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Or you wanna be married to a wife that would say,

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hey, I'm just content with what I have.

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I've learned to whatsoever state I am,

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there with be content.

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Not gonna steal, not gonna kill,

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not gonna commit adultery.

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I mean, look, this is what Christianity is.

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You know what Christianity is?

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It's love God and love your neighbor as yourself.

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Well, look, everybody wants to be married

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to a spouse that loves them.

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Hey, if your husband's a godly Christian,

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that means he loves you.

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That means he's not cheating on you.

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That means he's gonna go work by the sweat of his face

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all the days of his life to put bread on the table.

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Oh, oh, wouldn't you hate to have

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a godly fundamentalist husband who doesn't drink,

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doesn't do drugs, doesn't look at porno,

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doesn't cheat on you, doesn't gamble,

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goes to work and works hard,

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reads the Bible.

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Isn't that terrible?

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Anybody with a brain in their head

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would know that it's better to have a wife

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that's a godly Christian

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because she's gonna submit unto you.

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And it's better to have a husband

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who's a godly Christian because he's gonna love you.

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He's gonna treat you well.

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He's gonna be unselfish.

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She's gonna be unselfish.

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You don't want a husband who's super covetous,

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then he'll do illegal things to make money.

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Or he'll just go work, work, work all the time

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and then spend the money on himself

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and leave you hanging.

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Give me a break.

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But the devil's gonna tell you,

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oh, you can do so much better.

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You need to drop that zero and get you a hero

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and you know, you need to divorce.

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Look, it's not gonna be better.

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You're just trading one set of problems for another.

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I'd rather have my current problems

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and be in the will of God

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than to get out of the will of God

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and just trade one set of problems for another anyway.

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You think that, yeah, I'm sure that you,

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putting yourself on the market used

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because that's what you are.

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You're putting yourself on, you're listed as used

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and you think that you're gonna just do better

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and just get some miracle unicorn husband,

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miracle unicorn wife.

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You're an idiot.

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Stay married.

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Okay, don't just go for whatever's behind door number two.

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You need to stay with what you got.

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Okay, and look, we're not just talking about marriage.

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We're talking about just living for God, serving God.

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You think that fornication

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is gonna just give you satisfaction in life, right?

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Fornication is just gonna be the greatest thing ever.

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Oh, it's just gonna make you so happy

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and fix all your problems.

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No, my friend, marriage is honorable at all

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in the bed undefiled.

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And you know what?

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I guarantee you that married,

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godly Christians who go to church

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are having more of a party in the bedroom

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than unsaved, worldly, single people

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that are just out shacking up like cats and dogs

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with random people.

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Because guess what?

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There's an actual connection that comes

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from actually being married and being loyal

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and actually loving each other for decades

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that can't be duplicated

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with some random sleazy hoe

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that you pick up in a bar somewhere,

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some gross, skivvy, womanizing dude

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that you pick up in some club somewhere

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and you say, oh, it's gonna tingle

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or whatever, you're gross.

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Get married.

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You wanna talk about piss and dung,

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that's what the devil has to offer you.

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God's offering you the land of milk and honey.

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But the devil's gonna tell you,

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oh, I'm gonna take you to a land of milk and honey.

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It's a lot like this wood.

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I'm gonna take you to a land that's a lot like your land.

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It's got milk and honey and vineyards

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and house, he's literally taking them into slavery.

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You know the true story is that they're actually

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not just gonna move into like single family homes

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with a two car garage and a swimming pool

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in the backyard, right?

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Do you really think that the king of Assyria

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is coming to just abduct them all

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and put them all in a town home?

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No, he's abducting them to make them literal slaves

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and the devil wants you to be a slave.

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He wants you to be a slave to drugs, slave to alcohol,

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slave to your animal appetites

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and God wants to set you free

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if you know the truth, the truth will make you free.

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And the devil's got it all backwards.

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He wants to advertise the world to you

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and you know what, you young people do not fall for it.

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See, I already know.

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That's why the devil doesn't even want to talk,

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he doesn't even want to speak my language.

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He wants to speak the Gen Z language.

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He wants to speak that Gen Alpha language.

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He wants to speak that young person language.

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I'm over here like, come at me, come at me devil,

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talk to me in my language.

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I'm 45 years old, I'm a Baptist pastor.

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Come try to get me to fornicate and do drugs

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and you know, come at me bro.

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And he's like, no, I'm not here to talk to you bro.

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I'm here to talk to these people that are on the wall.

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I'm gonna talk in their language.

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I'm going straight to the vulnerable, straight to the weak.

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I'm just about done here, I'm out of time

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but it says here in verse number 28

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then Rabbi Shaquille stood and cried

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with a loud voice in the Jews language

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and Spake saying, here the word of the great king,

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the king of Assyria, does say at the king,

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let not Hezekiah deceive you

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for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

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And you know, spoiler alert, guess what?

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The Lord is gonna deliver him.

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Hezekiah, he had a little lapse in faith.

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He's human, he's not perfect.

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He had a little lapse in faith.

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He stripped the doors and stripped the columns

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and tried to please the king of Assyria

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and sent him the money.

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But you know what, that ship has sailed.

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Now, Hezekiah's ready to trust in the Lord

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and he's gonna trust in the Lord

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and they're all gonna pray

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and God's gonna come through

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and guess what's gonna happen?

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Spoiler alert, but the king of Assyria

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is gonna get smoked

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and his army is gonna get smoked

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and God is gonna plague them

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and punish them and destroy them

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because it's God that has all power

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at the end of the day

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to make things either go well in your life

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or to go poorly in your life.

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And so do not listen to the devil's lies

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and his deceit and his propaganda.

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He'll make it sound good.

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He'll claim he's coming at you in the name of the Lord.

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He'll tell you how great it's gonna be

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and he'll describe what your parents and the church

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and everybody has for you as being gross.

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He's gross and he wants you to do gross things.

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You know, you say whatever you want about me

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but I'm not living a gross life.

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And there are some people out there

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that are gross people.

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Can I get a witness, Pastor Shelley?

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All right, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.

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Lord, we thank you so much for this chapter

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and we thank you so much for the example

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of a Hezekiah Lord that was a reformer

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and a revivalist

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and a man who was willing to take on

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some really bad institutions

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even if they were eight, 900 years old

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and Lord God help us to just follow your word

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and not try to compromise with the devil

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and not to fall for his lies.

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Help us to realize that we're always gonna be happier

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and cleaner and safer in your will,

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following the word.

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Lord, help us to just keep your commandments

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and keep your statutes

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and remember that the gospel of Jesus Christ

01:03:28.420 --> 01:03:30.660
is the most important thing in our lives

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and keep preaching it

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and keep proclaiming it Lord

01:03:34.260 --> 01:03:37.780
and help us to enjoy the blessings that come

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from living that Christian life

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and not to get sucked into the stupidity of this world

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and in Jesus' name we pray amen.