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Amen.

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Amen.

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As we move into chapter 11,

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I wanted to revisit the last verse of chapter 10.

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The thought there in verse 18 is,

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for not he that commended himself is approved,

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but whom the Lord commended.

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And so that's kind of the same thought

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that we're really entering into chapter number 11

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is that we shouldn't be boasting

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and bragging of ourselves,

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but rather we should allow the Lord

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to commend those who are godly,

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those whom the Lord approves of.

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And so in chapter 11,

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the apostle Paul goes through

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a pretty detailed defense of himself

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and it's kind of done in jest

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or done with a level of sarcasm,

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a level of rebuke.

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He is in a sense speaking as a fool.

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He brings us up many different ways

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and many different times.

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All these caveats of trying to explain,

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I'm not saying this legitimately.

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I'm saying this as a foolish thing to say,

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like something I shouldn't be saying,

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something I shouldn't be doing.

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And so we can learn from Paul's example here.

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Now, when he says that he shouldn't be doing this,

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he's not saying that preachers

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are never allowed to defend themselves.

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He's not saying that a preacher

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could never even speak in this way.

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He's saying they should only be speaking this way

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as an example to essentially explain

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how this is a foolish way to talk

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and this is something that people

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should not be doing in general.

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He says in verse number one,

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would to God you could bear with me

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a little in my folly and indeed bear with me?

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So again, what he says,

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I'm about to go down a rabbit trail that is foolish.

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It's something I shouldn't be doing in a sincere manner.

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I shouldn't be saying all these things seriously

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I'm saying them as this is a stupid thing

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for people to say just to give you guys

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an idea of what's really happening

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because what is happening in this church

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is people are getting up and saying

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stupid things, foolish things

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and the church believes it, likes it, is adhering to it.

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And so he's trying to, by example,

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put these false preachers and these false apostles

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and these fakes into their own place.

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And so we're not supposed to be bragging about ourselves

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and that's what he's gonna explain here.

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In verse two,

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for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy,

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for I have espoused you to one husband

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that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

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You know, the idea of being a chaste virgin

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is that you are solely to your spouse

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that you haven't been with someone else.

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And so in the same sense,

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he doesn't want this church to go after anything but Christ.

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He wants them to be solely dedicated to Christ

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and be a virgin to Christ that they're not going off

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and whoring themselves out to false religion,

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to false doctrine, to another Jesus

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that he's gonna bring up here in a moment.

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But he wants them to be this chaste virgin

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dedicated to Christ only, being with Christ only.

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And notice he says he's jealous.

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Jealous is protecting that which is yours

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or not wanting to share that which is yours

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with someone whom you do not belong.

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So a jealous husband is someone

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who's not gonna share his wife with another man.

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He is jealous for his wife.

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It's his wife.

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And so he has the right to be jealous for his wife.

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A wife should be jealous for her husband.

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She's not gonna share her husband with another woman.

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And you know, God is a jealous God

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in that he doesn't wanna share his people

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with a false religion, with the devil,

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with a satanic religion.

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And so jealousy in the Bible is actually a good attribute.

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Now it does clarify sometimes

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as a quote godly jealousy.

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And in our modern vernacular,

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sometimes people use the word jealous for the word envious

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or for being envy, you know, having an envy attitude.

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But envy really is usually used distinctly

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from jealous in the Bible.

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And jealousy is a positive thing,

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being protective of that which is your possession.

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Envy is desiring that which is not your possession.

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And in many places, that which is off limits to you.

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So they're actually very different words

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and they're used very differently in the Bible.

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I heard an old, old clip.

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This is back when Oprah was on TV

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and she said the reason why she doesn't believe

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in the God of the Bible is because he's jealous.

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And it was just like, you know,

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it just hurt just misunderstanding

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what the word jealous even means

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because it's a positive word.

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And in fact, if God is our God,

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wouldn't you want him to be jealous for you?

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You know, if you are married,

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wouldn't you want your spouse to not wanna share you

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and to have some kind of a feeling of affection

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that you're mine and I'm yours

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and I'm not gonna share you with another?

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That's a good attribute, it's a positive attribute.

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And so it's silly, but leave it to Oprah to get it wrong.

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All right?

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Verse three, but I fear, lest by any means,

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as the serpent of God, leave it through his subtlety

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so your mind should be corrupted

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from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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So, you know, the Apostle Paul is alluding to Genesis.

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And again, you'll notice in Apostle Paul's letters

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and epistles that he'll reference every section of the Bible

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because you know what?

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It's all good.

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We like all Genesis revelation.

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And you know what?

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We can teach the Old Testament, the New Testament

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because frankly speaking, most of the New Testament

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is teaching from the Old Testament anyways.

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Like how could you get up and say,

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we can't teach your own Old Testament

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when most of the New Testament's quoting

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the Old Testament continuously?

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I mean, many books like the Romans chapter 10

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is just a collage of quotes from the Old Testament.

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You see Jesus quoting from the Old Testament.

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You have the Apostle Paul and the Apostles, the prophets.

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I mean, all of them are just basically instructing

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from the Old Testament continuously.

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And so therefore we also look to the Old Testament

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for teaching, for, you know, correction, for instruction.

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You know, all scripture is given by inspiration

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of God's with the Bible teaches.

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So, you know, we don't want to discard anything

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from the Old Testament.

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This story of Eve is a story that we can relate to.

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Even though we are not all women, you know,

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we can still make the same mistake as a collective,

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as a church that Eve made and being tricked

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and being deceived and going after knowledge.

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You know, when we think about Eve,

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she was going after the knowledge of good and evil.

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And so I believe the parallel here is the idea

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where people are trying to draw you away

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from just the Bible into other knowledge,

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into other information and act like you need it.

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So you need the book of Enoch

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or you need the church fathers

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or you need to go to seminary

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or you need, you know, these extra gospel messages

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or you need to learn all this extra books.

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You know, yeah.

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And they try to make, you know,

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basically the gospel complex.

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You know, the Jewish religion

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does this to the worst extreme

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because they have the Talmud

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and they have all these different books

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and all these different commentaries.

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And to study all their literature

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would be quite an extensive study,

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quite an extensive experiment.

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But here's the thing, you don't need any of that.

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You don't need all the commentaries.

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You don't need all the church fathers.

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You don't need all this stuff.

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You know, we have the simplicity which is in Christ.

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And you know, you can even argue

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there's other layers to this

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because the Bible teaches

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you don't even technically need

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all the Old Testament law

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because when you're filled with the spirit

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and you're walking in the spirit,

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you're not gonna fulfill the lust of the flesh

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and you're gonna actually abide by

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the Old Testament laws.

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The laws are given just to help clarify.

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You know, it's like someone that's a good church member

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doesn't necessarily need a whole list of house rules.

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You know, there's certain things in the bulletin

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that I'm sure some people kind of roll their eyes at.

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They're like, why did you have to put that in there?

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Of course we shouldn't, you know,

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just litter in the church building

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or we shouldn't be, you know,

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running around screaming or something.

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Like some people don't need that information

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because you're already good in a sense.

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But then the really bad people,

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they're the ones that need it, okay?

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And so it's basically saying like,

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hey, God is giving this for the really bad Israelites

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in a sense because not everybody needed that.

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It's like you read Leviticus chapter 20.

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It's like, I don't know if I needed all of that.

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You know what I mean?

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It's like, really?

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Did I really need this about incest?

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No, I was good on incest, you know what I mean?

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Did I really need this statute on being a fag?

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No, it's like, I'm good, I don't need that.

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You know, in fact, as a child I always wondered

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like, why is it even in here

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because who in their right mind

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would do any of this stuff?

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But then it's like, welcome to America 2026

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and people are doing virtually everything on the list.

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And usually it's the same people

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doing all the things on the list, okay?

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But what's crazy is how people will make,

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you know, the gospel message complicated.

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Of course, false religion makes the gospel complicated.

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They make the Bible version issue complicated.

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You know, being King James only is actually simple.

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You know, the modern version's position

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is very difficult to understand

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because they're like, well, we believe the Word of God

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is, you know, inspired and it's been divinely given

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and preserved and you're like, where?

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Everywhere.

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You're like, which text?

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All the texts.

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And you're like, okay, what about these differences?

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Well, you know, it's like,

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it starts getting really complicated

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if you take a modern version opinion

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and for them to explain how the Bible's preserved,

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it starts getting really complicated

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and really contradictory.

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You know, it's just like, everything that's true

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is usually just very simple.

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It's not super complicated.

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Salvation by faith takes about 10, 15 minutes

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to show someone at the door,

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whereas showing someone how to go to heaven

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from a Mormon religion, that's gonna take a lot of time.

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That's really complex.

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They've got a lot of different things going on.

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And so we should understand

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that the devil is constantly trying

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to get people off on something complicated,

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something complex, something confusing,

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whereas often the truth is just very simple

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and Christ is very simple.

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It's just like, hey, what is God telling me?

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You go to the Pentecostals, it's gonna be really complicated.

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Well, you got to get alone in your room

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and you got to get quiet

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and you got to be meditating,

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you got to hum and you know,

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and eventually it's just like.

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And then God will tell you

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and it's just like, no, no, just read.

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It's simple.

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Hey, just read the Bible

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and God will tell you what you want to do.

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I don't know what to do in my life.

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It's simple, it's this.

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Fear God and keep His commandments.

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That's the whole duty of man.

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It's simple.

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False religion overcomplicates everything.

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Why?

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Because they didn't like the simple answer.

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It's like, well, I want to know

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what I'm supposed to do in my life.

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Read the Bible.

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What else you got for me?

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They don't want that simplicity

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or salvation's a free gift by faith.

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Well, they don't want that answer.

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They want something complicated.

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They want some kind of a workspace salvation.

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We shouldn't be seeking for the extra

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for all this other knowledge.

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We should be just seeking for the simple truths.

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God said, don't do it, don't do it.

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Well, what about this scenario?

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Everybody wants to come up with their exceptions

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for God's commandments.

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Everybody wants to come up with their situation

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or their idea or their exception,

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instead of it just being like,

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thou shall not kill or just believing

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what the Bible says.

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The Bible is very simple in some contexts,

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but obviously there's not,

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I'm not saying that there isn't depth to the Bible.

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I'm not saying there isn't complexity to God.

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But what I am saying is that the Christian faith

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in many cases is very simple,

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especially when compared to false religion,

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false ideas, they're false texts.

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They're very, very complicated.

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Evolution, the theory of evolution, not simple.

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Extremely complicated, very contradictory.

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God created everything in six days, very simple.

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So you know, but obviously the creation itself

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was not simple.

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Obviously it blows our minds.

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Obviously the depth and understanding

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of everything that was created

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and how it all works together

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and all the physics and math and science.

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It's just like, there's more to be known

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than you could possibly dream up.

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But the explanation is simple.

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Okay, so we wanna make sure we keep these things

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in their place and we don't let the devil

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come along and try to overly complicate things.

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Well, yeah, technically they're both true.

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The gap theory.

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Well, yeah, we did evolve, we were monkeys

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and then we eventually came into Adam and Eve story

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and it's just an allegory.

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It's not actually really history.

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And it's just, there are Christians out there

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that say this stuff.

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I've been to a Sunday school class

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where somebody was trying to tell me

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that God did everything through the big bang theory

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and through evolution and that all this stuff.

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It's just like, what in the world?

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And just making fun of young earth creationalists.

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She was making fun of people that believe

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that God created everything in six days,

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making fun of our viewpoint.

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And of course it was a she, you know.

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I was just like, what?

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Why am I here?

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Why am I subjecting myself to this?

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But there's a lot of people that will lie to you

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about the Bible and so of course,

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we have to be careful

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that we don't get away from the simplicity

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that is in Christ.

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Verse four, for if he that cometh,

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preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached

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or you receive another spirit whom you've not received

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or another gospel which you have not accepted,

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you might well bear with him.

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So here's the example that he kind of,

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he clarifies of during drawn away

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from the simplicity that is in Christ,

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another Jesus.

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What's another Jesus?

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Well, that's the Jesus of Islam

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where he's not the son of God,

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where he's not God in the flesh,

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where he didn't die on the cross for all of our sins,

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where he didn't rise again from the dead,

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where he wasn't sinless.

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You know, they basically deny

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all these different things about Jesus Christ.

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Well, that's another Jesus.

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And this is what Muslims will constantly say.

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Oh no, no, no, Muslims respect Jesus.

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No, no, you respect another Jesus

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but you don't respect the Jesus of the Bible.

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Because in fact, your whole religion is based on denying

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the son of God even existing.

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How is that respecting him?

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If you just ignored someone,

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if someone came up to you and said,

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hey, hi, and you just completely ignored them,

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is that respecting them?

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No, denying someone's existence is not respecting them.

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Yes, they respect another Jesus.

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And if someone that has your same name,

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someone else in the room, they go talk to them.

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Oh no, no, they're respecting you.

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No, they're respecting someone else with that same name.

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But they don't respect the Jesus of the Bible.

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They don't love the Jesus of the Bible.

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They don't like the Jesus of the Bible.

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They have nothing to do with the Jesus of the Bible.

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It's another Jesus.

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Muslims are not saved.

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And you know what?

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They have to change Jesus' to get saved.

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They have to get the right Jesus.

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Now, again, it also says another spirit.

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Keep your finger here.

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Go to 1st John chapter four.

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1st John chapter four.

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The Bible warns about different spirits.

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And of course, in 1st John chapter four is one.

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It says, beloved, believe not every spirit

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but try the spirits, plural, whether they are of God

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because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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So notice that the false prophets

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are what's tied to these spirits.

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There's spirits that are coming out

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of these false prophets.

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And I would argue that what is meaning

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at a really basic level, at a really practical level

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is just attitudes, belief systems, mentalities.

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So we're talking about just the spirit of Mormonism

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or the spirit of Islam or the spirit of Antichrist.

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You know, there's different spirits there.

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And of course, there could be something going on

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behind the scenes that we don't even understand.

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Demons or demonic forces that are using these people

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to advocate and teach this false doctrine,

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but ultimately at a really basic level,

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it's just the spirit is a spirit

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of something that is wrong or false.

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And it clarifies here.

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It says in verse two, hereby I know you,

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the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses

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that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God.

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And every spirit that confesses

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not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.

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And this is that spirit of Antichrist,

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wherever you've heard that it should come

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and even now already is it in the world.

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So there's some people denying Jesus even coming.

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Now it's kind of being nuanced here

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because it's not even denying just that Jesus came.

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It's denying that Jesus came in the flesh.

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And I believe that we kind of think about these passages.

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We do think about them in their context a little bit

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that a Jew especially, a Jew is one that's coming

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and trying to teach about Jesus.

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If a Jew is confessing that Jesus is the Christ

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and came in the flesh,

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the chances of this guy being saved

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are just basically 99.9%, okay?

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Whereas if they're denying

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that Jesus Christ came in the flesh,

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he's not saved 100%, okay?

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Obviously the caveat that we can understand

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is in the book of Galatians,

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we understand someone could say Jesus came in the flesh

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and still be teaching a works-based salvation.

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But that's not the majority of people

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and that's not the majority of things going on at this time.

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You know, most of the Jews at that time,

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if they believe in Jesus Christ that came in the flesh,

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they're saved.

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And so he's just basically saying hey,

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when these guys are coming to you

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and they're coming with that testimony,

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with that message, they're saved,

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those are the saved people.

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The people denying that Jesus is coming in the flesh,

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this is the unsaved group.

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We get that there was a Galatian heresy

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and we get there was a subset

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that's a nuanced group from this.

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But in the big picture,

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Jews showing up teaching that Jesus Christ

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is coming in the flesh, those people are saved.

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Those people are understanding that salvation

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is by faith for the most part.

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And I get there's unsaved Jews

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and I get there's ones that corrupt.

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So that's what this passage is really inferring.

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Also, you know, notice that even in their day

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we have people already trying to use the metaphor button,

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you know, it's like, well, Jesus came.

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It's like, well, but did he really show up

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or was it metaphor, man?

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It's like, bro, it wasn't a metaphor.

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He really came in the flesh.

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He really showed up and it really happened.

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Well, the resurrection is like a metaphor, man.

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No, no, it really happened.

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He really came, he really died and he really rose again.

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And anybody that's denying that

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has that spirit of antichrist.

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Why antichrist?

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Because they're awaiting someone else to come in the flesh

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that is a replacement for Christ.

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Because it's not that they simply just deny that that happened.

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They're saying it's someone else that's coming.

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They're saying it didn't happen

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because it's going to happen with someone else.

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So they're replacing them with a different figure.

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That's the spirit of antichrist.

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Not really an atheistic spirit,

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but rather the spirit of the modern religion of Judaism

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awaiting a false messiah, a false Christ.

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That is the spirit of antichrist.

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And he says in verse four,

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year of God, little children have overcome them

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because greater is he that is in you

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than he that is in the world, they are of the world,

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therefore speak they of the world and the world here with them.

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We are of God, he that knoweth God here with us,

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he that is not of God here with us,

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hereby know we the spirit of truth

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and the spirit of error.

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So it gives two indications here in the Bible

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of a spirit of antichrist

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and also just generically a spirit of error.

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And of course we understand the spirit of error

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through the scripture.

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You know when people are not lining up

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with the scripture, then it's the spirit of error.

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So we can go back to second Corinthians chapter 11,

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but what is the apostle Paul saying?

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He's saying people are showing up with another Jesus.

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Well, that's that spirit of antichrist

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having a different Jesus,

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whether that be a future coming one

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or perverting the details of who Christ was.

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Obviously this is a spirit of error that's coming in.

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He's saying, hey, this is another spirit.

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So people are getting in, teaching things that are false,

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teaching false doctrine, teaching of another Jesus,

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teaching whatever and the Corinthian church

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is just totally accepting it.

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And you know what, there are baddest churches in this world

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that will just allow and tolerate

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all kinds of other spirits.

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They will allow people to come in

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and just teach things that they don't believe,

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they don't agree with that are false doctrine.

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I mean, there are churches bringing in rabbis

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into their church, rabbis behind their pulpit,

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to teach their messianic views or whatever.

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It's just like this is not tolerated in the house of God.

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We shouldn't be bringing in other spirits.

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We shouldn't be allowing that or another gospel.

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Of course, I would tie this to Galatians chapter one.

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Let's look at it for a second.

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But I guess I had you turn here.

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Keep your finger here, but go to Galatians one as well

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because I do want to approve this point as well.

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But he said another gospel.

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Now, in the book of Galatians,

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he uses kind of that same phrase.

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Look at verse six.

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I marvel that you are so soon removed from him

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that called you under the grace of Christ

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unto another gospel.

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Now, this is why I wanted to show you this

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because look at verse seven, which is not another.

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But there be some that trouble you

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and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

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So in Galatians, when it brings up this phrase,

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it clarifies by saying they're not teaching

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like some random story about Christ

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that doesn't match the facts of the gospel,

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is that they're perverting the facts of the gospel.

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So I believe the right way to interpret this is,

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yeah, they'll say, look at lip service to Jesus coming,

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maybe even dying on the cross,

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maybe even rising from the dead,

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but then they say you have to be circumcised to be saved.

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Or they say what he did wasn't enough

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or you have to add your catechism

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or your Eucharist or your whatever.

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And so they're not necessarily denying

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the facts of the gospel.

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They're perverting the gospel message

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by denying the power thereof.

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They're denying that salvation

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was totally paid for by what Christ did

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and they're trying to add in their works,

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their circumcision, their following the law.

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And so we wanna make sure

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that we don't tolerate this kind of nonsense.

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In the book of Galatians,

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the apostle Paul says he wouldn't even subject to it

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for more than an hour,

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like not even for an hour,

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would he allow someone to just pervert their minds

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and teach this false doctrine.

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And Christian should have the same attitude

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that they won't go to a church more than one service

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where they taught something false on salvation.

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I mean, shouldn't that be simple?

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Isn't that a simple rule?

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If I showed up to a service

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and a church taught false on the salvation,

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I'm just not gonna return to that church.

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I'm not gonna subject more than an hour.

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You know, I'll give them that one service or whatever

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and then once I realize this is bad,

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in fact, I might just walk out in the middle personally.

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And I'm not saying the apostle Paul wouldn't.

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I'm just saying it kind of seems reasonable

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to say I just wouldn't go to a second service then.

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I'm just not gonna return.

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I'm not gonna subject myself to a second service of that

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or to a second opportunity for them to lie to me.

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You know, they should only give people the benefit out

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that one time on the gospel specifically, okay?

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I'm not gonna tolerate it.

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Paul doesn't want you to tolerate it either.

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He says in verse number five,

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for I suppose I was not a wit behind

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the very chiefest apostles,

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but though I be rude in speech yet not a knowledge,

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but we have been truly made manifest among you in all things.

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So the word wit here is the idea

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of just a small barely detectable amount.

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So the apostle Paul is saying,

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I don't believe that there's hardly any measurable difference

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between me and any other apostle

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from a knowledge perspective,

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from an understanding perspective,

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but I am not a great preacher.

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Okay, that's what he's saying in verse number six,

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but though I be rude in speech,

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I think that what he's trying to communicate here

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is he's not eloquent.

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He's not gonna use some fancy vocabulary.

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He's not going to necessarily be as polished as a speaker.

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He's probably just a little bit more blunt,

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a little bit more speaking on a common man's level.

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But you know what,

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there's nothing wrong with being rude in speech.

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There's nothing wrong with speaking to the common man.

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And in fact, usually when people are using flowery language

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or this really sophisticated language,

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it's more they don't even know what they're saying.

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It's pseudo intellectual talk.

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It's the Jordan Peterson effect, okay?

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Where they speak and they say nothing at the same time.

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But let's just even say,

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perhaps just other preachers, other apostles,

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they were just very gifted communicators.

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And the apostle Paul is just kind of basic.

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He's not necessarily the most impressive communicator.

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But what he is communicating,

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the knowledge that he's communicating

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is cream of the crop.

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It couldn't really get any better.

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And you couldn't hardly even measure any difference.

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It would be just a wits difference, even if there was.

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And he's saying he doesn't even think that there was.

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For I suppose I was not a wit

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behind the very chief as well.

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He's saying, I don't even think

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that there's a measurable difference at all

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that you could even find

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between my understanding and knowledge

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and what I've taught you and any apostle.

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Now again, remember verse one.

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He says this is a folly.

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He's not as serene like,

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I wanna go around and just make it clear to everybody

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I'm smarter than everybody.

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I know everything.

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He's just going down a tangent here to defend himself.

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And in defending yourself, it always can sound bad.

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You know, if you take any one of these snippets

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in Second Corinthians chapter 11,

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just out, you just take a little clip

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and you make a reel out of it,

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Paul's gonna sound prideful.

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And of course, this is what always happens

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is a pastor or a preacher will defend themselves

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and in their defense, they have to say something like this

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and then as a response, people say,

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oh, you're prideful because you made this comment.

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Well, that doesn't make you prideful

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just to make this comment.

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He's trying to defend himself from vicious attacks,

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from false prophets, from false teachers

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trying to destroy this church.

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And so in this attempt, he's trying to defend himself.

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And anytime you're defending yourself,

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it's gonna be easy to take that out of context

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and twist that and use that against that person.

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And of course, I've been criticized many times.

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When I've defended myself or I've made a video

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where it's heated, they'll try to take out

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some statement of mine and be like,

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oh, look, this guy's prideful

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or look, he's arrogant or whatever.

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But you know, there's a difference between

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saying something about yourself occasionally

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and a defensive posture and just in casual speech,

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you're just walking up to people.

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Like, hey, I'm the pastor, I know the most around here.

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That would be like, oh, this guy's prideful.

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This guy's arrogant because no one was asking.

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Nobody was interested.

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But it's like, if someone's just being viciously

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attacked online for not knowing anything

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and being stupid and being a fool

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and they get up and say, hey, I've actually studied a lot

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and I know a lot and I would like to take anybody

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to task on my Bible notes.

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They're not trying to be prideful in that moment,

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they're defending themselves.

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But if they're just walking around

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and every other sentence is about how much smarter

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they are than everybody, yeah, that's a prideful attitude.

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Okay, so we wanna make sure we're understanding

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the apostle Paul's not prideful.

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The apostle Paul's a very humble, meek person,

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but he's trying to explain to them,

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he's trying to defend himself here

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and in his attempt to explain to these people,

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he's trying to make it clear, look, I know everything.

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There's not an apostle around here

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that has this secret knowledge that I don't know.

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So when these fake apostles are showing up,

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trying to say, oh, I know Paul didn't address this

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in his sermon last Wednesday night.

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I know Paul didn't get up and talk about this verse

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in his sermon, so I'm gonna go up and explain it.

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It's like, bro, I know, it's just,

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the apostle was like, I know everything.

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These guys are liars.

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These guys are adding to the Bible

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or they're adding their extra information

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and it's fake information.

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It's from that tree of the knowledge of good and evil

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and you know what?

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It's not a good place to get information from.

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We should just stay with the simplicity which is in Christ.

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Hey, this has got it.

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Well, I went and studied the church fathers

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and I went back to the Greek

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and I'm gonna tell you all this secret stuff

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and all this extra stuff

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and actually if you understood the cultural context

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of this day, then you would understand

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that the eye of a needle was this little place

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outside the gate where they would have camels

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try to kneel down and it's like, no.

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Why can't it just be the little tiny hook

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that you use for sewing?

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And then you'd realize it's just impossible.

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Okay, why does it even have to be?

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Even it was this gate, I don't care.

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You don't need any of that information.

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You know you need the simplicity which is in Christ, okay?

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But the apostle Paul is trying to make it clear.

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Look, I've taught you what the Bible says.

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You don't need anything else.

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You don't need any of this extra knowledge.

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I'm not a whip behind these people.

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Even though my speech, maybe not, is eloquent as them.

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Maybe I'm not as gifted as speaker as them.

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Hey, I'm not behind them in knowledge.

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You know, it's like I personally,

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I don't think I'm as gifted as speaker as John MacArthur.

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You know what?

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I don't think he's getting up teaching

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a whole bunch of things in the Bible.

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I don't know.

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I would say he's teaching a bunch of things

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that are in the Bible.

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Teaching a bunch of false doctrine.

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But you know, I could see someone like him

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and say, hey, this guy's a better orator.

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This guy maybe sounds better, is better speech giver.

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I don't know, but there are people out there

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that are very gifted in speaking that teach lies.

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And they're usually pastors of non-denominational churches.

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I mean, you have to be honest.

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The pastors of non-denominational churches

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are usually very gifted speakers.

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Very, very charismatic, well-spoken.

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There's a reason why people are following them.

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They're following them for their charisma.

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The problem is they don't have any knowledge.

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Okay, and so we wanna make sure

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that we're following pastors and preachers

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that have the knowledge, not necessarily the charisma.

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Because the apostle Paul is saying,

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hey, I don't have the charisma,

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but you know what I have?

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I have the knowledge.

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He says in verse number seven,

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have I committed an offense in abasing myself

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that you might be exalted?

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Because I preached to you the gospel of God freely.

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I robbed other churches, taking wages of them

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to do you service.

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And when I was present with you and wanted,

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I was chargeable to no man.

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For that, which was lacking to me,

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the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied,

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and in all things, I've kept myself

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from being burdensome unto you,

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and so will I keep myself.

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As the truth of Christ is in me,

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no man shall stop me of this boasting

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in the regions of Acaya.

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Wherefore, because I love you not, God knoweth.

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Now in verses seven through this passage,

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he's trying to explain another defensive posture.

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He hasn't taken a dime from these people.

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He hasn't collected a paycheck in general, okay?

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And I guess, this is my reading between the lines.

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This is what I would assume is being said about him.

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I don't know what was said about him,

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but why is he making this defensive posture?

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It sounds like they're almost accusing him

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of being inferior to other people in their church

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because of not taking a paycheck.

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Okay, because notice he says in verse seven,

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have I committed an offense in abasing myself?

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So if I were invited to go on a podcast or something,

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I often will do it.

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I try to be pretty liberal, I'll do a lot of shows.

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And you know what I don't do?

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I don't say I need $50,000 to come on your show.

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But there are people like Candace Owens

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who got paid a ridiculous amount of money

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to go on a podcast most recently.

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It was against Andrew Wilson in some kind of debate

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on Charlie Kirk, and I'm trying to remember the number.

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The number escapes me.

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It was like 350,000 to some of them remember.

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It was something like 250,000 or 300,000

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or something like this.

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Someone can fact check me, Jimmy can fact me.

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It's like $300,000 or something like that.

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She was paid to appear on this show.

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Now that kind of gives you the impression though,

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oh, well this is a better speaker,

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or this person is someone to listen to

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because you have to pay 300,000.

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Hey, you want my advice?

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You gotta pay, buddy.

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You go to a therapist, you gotta pay.

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You go to Pastor Shelley.

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I haven't been paid for any of my counseling, okay?

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But wait a minute, does that mean

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that I'm an inferior counselor

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just because I didn't get paid

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and the therapist will charge you $200 an hour?

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Or the lawyer $750 an hour?

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Or you know what, it's like, you know,

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you go to a lawyer, he'd give you a pro bono

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like 30 minutes or something

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or a 30 minute free consultation.

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Whereas another attorney's like

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it's a thousand dollar minimum no matter what.

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It's like you kind of think,

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oh, this guy must be better.

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But you know what,

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that's a car and a way of thinking of things.

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And in some cases I get it that there's some truth to it.

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But you know what's not true

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is that the apostle Paul was inferior to these other people

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even though he was doing it for free.

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Just because he was giving free preaching

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and free counseling and free advice to this church

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didn't make him inferior to these other people.

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And he's making it clear,

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did I commit an offense in abasing myself?

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Like did I screw up by making you guys think

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that what I'm saying isn't important or something

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because I was giving it away for free?

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Like for some reason you guys didn't realize

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that this is important or I'm important I guess

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and because of this being free,

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because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely

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and then notice in verse eight I robbed other churches

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taking wages of them to do service.

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Now the word robbed I believe is a little bit ingest.

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He didn't actually hold them up at gunpoint or something.

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Okay.

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And it wasn't even a compulsion.

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The church is just simply giving him money

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and there's nothing wrong with that.

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But what he's trying to indicate

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is he's trying to indicate like

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this church is giving me money to do you guys service.

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So in a sense it's kind of robbing them of funds

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because I'm not using their money to help them.

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I'm using their money to help you.

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Again, there's nothing wrong with it.

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He's not even saying that there's something wrong with it.

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He's just using this strongly worded language here

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to help them realize,

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hey, it's not that money doesn't need to be involved.

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It's not that I don't get paid for preaching.

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I just wasn't getting paid from you guys.

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I'm being paid from other people

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just to do you guys service.

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And I wasn't doing this to like hinder you guys

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from realizing the importance.

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I was doing it for a different reason.

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What was the reason?

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Well in verse nine,

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he's saying that I was chargeable to no man.

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Okay.

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And he's kept himself from being burdensome unto them

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and he wants to keep doing it.

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So he didn't want to burden the church.

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He didn't want to cause any extra issue with the church.

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So he just didn't even burden them with financial requests

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or needing money from them

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or taking any money from them.

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He did it from other churches.

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And he said that he's not going to boast

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in the regions of Akhaya.

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Again, Macedonia is the northern portion of Greece.

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Akhaya is the southern province of Greece.

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Corinth is the capital city of Akhaya.

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So that's, it's mainly considered Akhaya

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even though it's the whole region.

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And we already learned,

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which is kind of interesting in the previous chapters

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that Macedonia was actually the poorer province

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and Akhaya is considered more the like prosperous province.

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So interestingly enough,

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he was actually taking money from the poorer group of people

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as opposed to the richer group of people.

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Cause again, you know,

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for the people in Macedonia,

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they don't have to think like,

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oh, well they're richer.

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They should pay for themselves.

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They just love the ministry of the saints

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and they just love the work of God

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and they just want to help the apostle Paul.

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And so, you know, and he's saying,

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hey, no one's going to stop me

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of this boasting the regions of Akhaya.

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What's the boasting?

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That he hasn't been burdensome to them.

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I haven't taken a paycheck from you guys.

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He's like, I'm going to keep saying that.

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I'm going to keep saying that I haven't taken a paycheck.

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Why? Because I love you not.

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No, God knows that I love you.

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But what I do that I will do

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that I may cut off occasion

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from them which desire occasion

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that wherein they glory,

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they may be found even as we.

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So I believe what he's trying to say again,

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the occasion here

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is mostly and primarily in view of finances.

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It can be broadly applied.

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It's broader than that.

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But again, there are people showing up saying,

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hey, I want this money

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and I'm going to teach you the Bible

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and you got to give me this money.

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And he's like, hey,

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I decided to just take money off the table for you guys

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to cut them off.

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So they could be like, well,

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why is Paul doing it for free

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and you're not doing it for free?

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Like to try and show the motivations

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behind these false preachers

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and these false apostles

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because they weren't preaching for free

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because they love the truth

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and love the current church.

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They're preaching for filthy, lucre sake.

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Preaching lies for money sake.

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Again, there's nothing wrong with getting paid

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because he's getting paid by the Macedonians.

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But he must have perceived that in Corinth,

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there's an issue here and it makes sense, okay?

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Why would it make sense?

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Well, which is the rich church?

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Corinth is the rich church.

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So where do you think the false prophets

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are going to target?

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They're going to target the rich church.

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So Paul didn't.

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He targeted the poor church in a weird way.

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But he probably got a more humble wage potentially.

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I don't know.

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But again, why is he trying to do this?

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Because he doesn't want the rich church

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to get taken advantage of by all the false prophets.

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So he didn't even take any money of theirs.

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So this is getting my interpretation of the facts.

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Fact is he wanted to cut off the occasion, right?

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Why?

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My thinking is it's probably

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because this church has a lot of money.

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It's pretty gullible.

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And so he's just trying to set an example.

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Hey, I'm not in it for the money

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so that he'll really contrast himself with the fakes,

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with the imposters and with those that are not sincere.

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So as a pastor, as a preacher, as an evangelist, whatever,

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sometimes you have to think about money

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and some of the decisions you're making.

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And you're not always just doing it for personal gain

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or what you need.

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Sometimes you're just doing it for other people.

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And you're just trying to figure out

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what's the best for other people.

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How can we help other people?

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He's not rebuking himself by saying it's wrong

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to take money because he's taking money.

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He says in 1 Corinthians chapter nine

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of the previous epistle that they're supposed

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to be being paid and he's just doing this

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just so not to hinder the gospel

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or to cause any conflict or any issue

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that people would accuse him falsely.

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So he's abasing himself and it's not necessarily necessary,

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but it could be in some cases.

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It could be necessary.

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There's been times where I've known preachers,

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pastors refusing paychecks or refusing money

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in a situation because they don't want it to be...

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They don't want them to be any idea or implication

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that they're in it for money.

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They want it to make it clear that,

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hey, I'm sincerely here for the gospel's sake

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or for church's sake or for Christ's sake.

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Now in verse 13, for such or false apostles,

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deceitful workers transforming themselves

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in the apostles of Christ.

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So fakes turn themselves into an apostle of Christ

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for what?

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For occasion.

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That occasion mostly being probably financial,

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but it could just be simply they love power,

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they love authority or they want to gain advantage

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for relationship purposes, political purposes.

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I think there's a many motives here,

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but they're not doing it sincerely.

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They desire occasion.

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They're not desiring the work of Christ to be performed.

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And so when you find a fake,

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you're gonna find a clear motive for the fake.

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And the fakes are gonna have motives

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and that's how you sometimes can catch them.

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Verse 14,

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no marvel for Satan himself

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was transformed into an angel of light.

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Therefore there's no great thing of his ministers

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also be transformed as a minister of righteousness

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whose angel be according to their work.

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So again, false religion is gonna try its best to look good.

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It's transforming itself.

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Notice this is where the tyrannies are,

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as you know, the Satan's ministers,

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is the ones that are trying to pretend

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to be something that they're not.

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You know, we should never be pretending

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to be something that we're not.

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We should just be who we are, okay, in every case.

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That's why I hate about feminism

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is it's not actually trying to make women feminine.

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If it was like, if feminine,

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I mean, it kind of sounds good.

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Like women being women, that sounds great.

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But it's actually not feminism at all in a sense.

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It's not feminine at all.

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It's just trying to make them masculine.

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And it's trying to like tear down.

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It's egalitarian in a sense.

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And it's not trying to like have a patriarchy.

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It's trying to have, you know, a reverse of the genders.

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And it's trying to pretend to be something

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that we're not, denying reality.

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I don't like reality denial.

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I don't like trying to pretend

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to be something that we're not.

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I don't like fakes.

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And of course, Satan's ministers are fakes.

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They say something that's not true, that's not sincere.

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They pretend to be your friend and they're not.

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And they'll pretend to be godly, but they're not.

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They'll pretend to be quiet,

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but then whenever they get opportunity,

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they'll open that big, stupid mouth of theirs

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and they'll let all their false doctrine flow

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and show the evil person they are.

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But for a while, they were a minister of light.

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They looked like a minister of light.

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They were acting like a minister of light.

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I mean, Judas Iscariot seemed to be

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just like the other people.

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And of course, the Jews themselves,

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they're pretending to be righteous.

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They're pretending to be godly.

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But the Bible makes it clear

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in works, they're gonna be different, right?

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Whose end should be according to their works.

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Go to Titus chapter one, if you would.

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Go to Titus chapter one.

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And look at verse number 16.

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It brings something up about this as well.

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They profess that they know God.

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But in works, they deny Him.

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Being abominable and disobedient

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and unto every good work reprobate.

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And this is what you'll see from false religion.

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That they will have a good show with their mouth.

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They'll say good things with their mouth,

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but then their works are the exact opposite.

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And when it comes to the works of the Bible,

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they're not doing what the Bible says.

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Every one of their works is rejected.

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Reprobate means rejected.

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So even when they give money to the poor,

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they're doing it to be seen of men, as the Bible says.

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And so that work is rejected by God.

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It's reprobated to God

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because God does not respect you giving money to the poor

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to be seen of men.

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God doesn't respect you giving your body to be burned

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to be seen of men.

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God doesn't respect you fasting to be seen of men.

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God does not give any respect to the Catholic priest

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walking around in a long robe

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showing off that he's some great man of God.

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God doesn't care about that.

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God cares about you just having integrity

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and being a godly person on the inside.

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And so, you know, fake religion will always,

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you know, not have any works.

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You know, I've never gone and seen Catholics

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going out preaching the right gospel.

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It's not like, well, they're wrong on the Eucharist

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and they're wrong on calling the priest's father

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and they're wrong on their idolatry.

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But boy, do they do some good soul-winning, you know?

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It's like, no, in every good work, they're reprobated.

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It's like, oh, the Jehovah's law is false witnesses.

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I know it's a torture stake

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and I know they falsely predicted that Christ had come several times,

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but boy, their soul-winning is so good, false.

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They don't get anybody saved.

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The Mormons aren't getting anybody saved.

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Islam is getting no one saved.

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Oh, well, we all have our own paths to God.

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Nope, you have your own paths to hell.

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You all have your own path to hell

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and all leads to the same hell.

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But you know what?

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There's only one way that leads to heaven,

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and that's faith in Jesus Christ.

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And only those who are saved

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will actually deliver the right gospel.

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So the false, oh, I think Judas Iscariot

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was the best soul winner.

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He got no one saved.

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The Bible says in every good work, they're reprobate.

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They're fake.

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They're not getting anybody saved.

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So, of course, if I go to a church

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where the pastor seems good,

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seems godly, but no one in the church is saved,

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he's not a good preacher.

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He's not a worker of Christ.

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You go to these non-denominational churches,

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they're very busy.

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They're doing a lot of things,

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but they're not doing any good works.

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Oh, well, they have a soup kitchen that they brag about.

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Well, that wasn't a good work.

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That's reprobated to God.

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Because you're just going around bragging about it.

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Now, given soup to people, go for it.

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I don't care.

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Just don't put beans in the chili or whatever.

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But I'm just saying, otherwise, they'll be reprobate.

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You know what I mean?

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I'm just kidding.

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That's why I have to live in Texas.

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It's the only state.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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I'm sure I made someone mad,

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but not the people who love the truth.

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Go back to 2 Corinthians chapter 11.

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It's like, hey, give soup to someone that needs soup,

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but you know what?

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Don't do it to be seen in men.

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And hey, if you in your heart

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believe that beans are right in chili,

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give it to them, all right?

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But don't do it in doubt,

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because then it would be sent, all right?

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Do it in faith.

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Now, here's the thing.

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When we talk about these false apostles,

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these deceitful workers,

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I think there's different layers.

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Some of them are real obvious.

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I think the super obvious false religions of Islam,

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I mean, Islam's pretty obvious.

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Joseph Smith is kind of obvious.

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And then it starts working its way.

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Obviously, there's less and less obvious.

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I think Joel Osteen is somewhat obvious,

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but he's less obvious than a Joseph Smith.

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He's less obvious than Muhammad, okay?

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Obviously, you keep going on the list.

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John MacArthur is more subtle.

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And of course, if you think about it,

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when we were reading in this passage,

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it said specifically about Satan and about these people

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that he's a subtle creature, right?

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He said in verse number three

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that the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, okay?

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And it's saying here

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that it shouldn't be a marvel to us

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that they're transformed into angels of light

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and ministers of righteousness.

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So I don't really feel like the primary context here

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is those really obvious people.

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It's going to be people in our midst

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that are not immediately obvious,

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that say the right things.

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Someone like a Greg Locke,

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who used to be an independent fundamental Baptist,

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used to say a lot of good things,

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and now has ran off with the secretary,

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become a Pentecostal,

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now teaching all kinds of weird stuff,

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drawing away disciples after himself.

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But while he was a fundamental Baptist,

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very few people would have realized this guy's fake.

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Someone like a Kenny Baldwin,

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who a lot of people probably thought he was good.

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I've heard people say they thought he was one of the best pastors

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and they wish they could be him and stuff.

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I hope they changed their mind.

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Okay?

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But it's like, hey,

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I can't get mad at someone

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for being duped by those people

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because it's going to happen.

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I can't get mad at the disciples being duped by Judas

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because they all were.

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In fact, the Bible even says

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about the Antichrist himself

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that he'd be so believable

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that if we weren't saved,

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we would fall for him too.

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So we shouldn't think really highly of ourselves like,

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well, I always knew this person was a Judas,

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even though nobody else caught him.

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Well, you're super awesome.

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We'll give you the super awesome award,

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but I don't think you get anything in heaven for that.

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And let's just be honest,

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we're all going to be fooled occasionally.

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We're all going to be deceived.

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And even myself, I've thought in the past,

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some people were just kind of like,

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this guy's wearing a bozo shirt.

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Whereas other people,

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it was, hey, I didn't really see it coming.

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I might have had misgivings,

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but they weren't like that.

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I didn't think that was the issue.

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I didn't think that was the reality.

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And so people can fool you.

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They can trick you.

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And so we have to be careful.

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Don't trust everybody in church,

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especially with something you're not willing to lose.

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You should be careful.

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And again, you think like,

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no one really bad could be in our church,

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but it's just every year.

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It's unfortunate.

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I don't know who they are.

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I would take them to task if I did.

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And I'm not worried about it,

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but don't be too loose

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with your friendships at church

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and don't get too comfortable

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with every single person

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because there's always danger lurking.

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So we just want to be vigilant,

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be aware.

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If I upset a good person

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because I'm being a little too vigilant,

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then okay, I'm okay with that.

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I don't want these bad people

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to get away with whatever they're going to do.

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The Bible does say here

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in verse number 16,

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I say again, let no man think me a fool

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if otherwise

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yet as a fool receive me

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that I may boast myself a little.

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So again, he feels the need to caveat

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this preaching

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and this chapter so much.

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And again, it's unfortunate

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because sometimes you caveat it this many times

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and it doesn't matter, just clip it out.

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They'll still say that you're a prideful

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or a jerk or whatever,

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have a bad attitude or bad spirit.

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But he's just like, hey, let no man think me a fool.

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I'm not saying this stuff

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because it's right. I'm saying this stuff

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to just try and give you context here, okay?

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That which I speak,

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I speak it not after the Lord

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but as it were foolishly

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in this confidence.

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Verse 16 was enough. Verse one is enough.

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But he's like, no, I got to say it again.

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Hey, I'm not saying this after the Lord.

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This is not God

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trying to tell me how to speak to you.

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This is not the right way to speak or communicate.

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This is how an idiot

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would communicate.

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Seeing that many glory after the flesh,

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I will glory also for you suffer fools gladly

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seeing yourselves are wise.

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So he's basically like, oh, okay.

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This is what everybody's preaching in your church.

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I'll preach a sermon like that then real quick.

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And I'll just show you how foolish this is

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and I'll just show you how silly this is

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to preach this way to say these kind of things

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because you guys suffer fools gladly.

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Why? Because they think they're so smart.

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Verse 20, if you suffer,

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if a man bring you into bondage,

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if a man devour you, if a man take of you,

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if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

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So he's like saying, man,

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you guys are just allowing people to do this stuff to you.

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Bondage, the bondage could be

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to following that particular person.

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That person's maybe standards.

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You know, you see this in churches where

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pastors will create these weird standards

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that are not in the Bible

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that everybody else has to follow.

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Men can't show off their elbows

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because it's nakedness.

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That's real, by the way.

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You're not allowed to have a microwave.

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That's weird.

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That's a weird kind of bondage.

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Now, Lynn, not having a microwave,

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your life's going to be fine.

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But it's just like creating these weird things.

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Women can't breastfeed

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in the mother-baby room

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uncovered, okay?

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That's weird.

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Like I'm showing up to Steadfast

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and I'm being told women are going

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and hiding in closets

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to try and feed their children

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because they're not allowed to breastfeed

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in a mother-baby room, let alone the sanctuary.

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It's just like, what in the world

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kind of nonsense is this going on?

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That's kind of, that's like a bondage, okay?

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Weird standards that are not

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the Bible standards.

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God's joke is easy and His burden is light.

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Doesn't mean there isn't burden.

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Doesn't mean there isn't rules.

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Doesn't mean there's things that we talk about.

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But you know what, it's not this extreme version.

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You know, when we talk about dress standards.

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Yeah, we like for men to dress like men

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and women to dress like women.

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But we're not saying you have to dress ugly

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like the Amish or something.

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That's weird.

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We're not saying you have to have a black buggy only.

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There's black buggy only Amish.

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Okay, that's a weird,

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that's a weird extreme.

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It's like you're too flashy

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with a white colored buggy.

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Okay?

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Like now you're worldly

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by having a white colored buggy.

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You know?

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You have to park backwards.

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I'm just repeating things I've heard.

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This is what preachers have actually said.

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Okay, in fundamental Baptist churches.

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You know, or they just

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think like a specific song

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is now contemporary music

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even though it's just like out of a hymnal.

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It's just like, you know, just weird ideas.

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Weird standards.

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Things, you know, they say

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anybody that ever says a bad word

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is not a Christian anymore or something like that.

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I mean, you know,

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I'm all four standards.

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You know what?

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Standards should be for yourself.

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You know, guys getting up, teaching their own bondage,

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their own standards,

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you know, that's not what we should be really doing.

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But there's someone get up, teach this kind of stuff.

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They're going to all follow it.

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You know, some fundamentalists

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will not allow you to have a beard.

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You have to shave.

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I don't want to shave. That's a burden to me.

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That's bondage that I don't want.

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I like the freedom in Christ.

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Now again, if you shave every day, God bless you.

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I'm for you.

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I don't think you have to have a beard.

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But at the end of the day, don't tell me I have to have one.

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I have to be clean-shaven or something.

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I think there should be freedom.

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They devour you, they take of you,

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they exalt themselves, you know,

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financial burdens, taking their money,

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smite you on the face.

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You know, this made me think of that Michael Todd

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who literally brought some guy on the stage

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and spit in his face.

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And they're all taking it.

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You know, it's like, what in the world?

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This is weird stuff, you know,

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that people will take actual kind of abuse in a sense.

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It says in verse 21,

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I speak as concerning a reproach

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as though we had been weak,

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albeit when so ever any is bold,

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I speak foolishly, I am bold also.

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I mean, how many times do they have to tell you,

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like, this is a fool, this is my folly,

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this is not the Lord,

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this is me speaking foolishly again.

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But what he's trying to say, like,

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oh, they think I'm weak.

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Okay?

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Well then, let's play this bold game.

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You want to see how weak I am?

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You want to know how weak the apostle Paul is?

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Okay. Are they Hebrews?

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So am I.

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Are they Israelites? So am I.

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Are they the Sea of Abraham? So am I.

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Are they ministers of Christ?

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I speak as a fool. I have to caveat again.

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Sorry. He says to caveat, like,

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every few seconds, you know, he's just like,

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another caveat. I am more

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in labor is more abundant

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and stripes above measure

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and prisons more frequent

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and deaths off of the Jews

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five times received I-40 stripes save one.

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Thrice was I beaten with rods,

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once was I stoned,

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thrice I suffered shipwreck,

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a night and day and I have been in the deep

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and journeyings often

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and perils of waters and perils of robbers

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and perils by my own countrymen

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and perils by the heathen and perils in the city

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and perils in the wilderness

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and perils in the sea and perils among false brethren

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and weariness

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and painfulness and watchings often

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and hunger and thirst and fastings often

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and cold and nakedness.

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How's that for weak, buddy?

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Who's weak now?

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And again, what's the point?

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He's trying to make it clear, like,

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I'm not weak, look what I've gone through.

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I mean, who could

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who wouldn't have given up

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if they had gone through even just one tenth

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of what the Apostle Paul had gone through?

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He's like, hey, you want to talk about

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being bold? You want to talk about

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someone being brave? You want to talk about

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someone being strong? Okay.

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How about what I did?

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He's like, I got all the pedigree.

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I'm a Hebrew of the Hebrews.

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I'm an Israelite. I'm with the seat of Abraham.

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I've gone through all this stuff

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and he had to say like four times,

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like, this is a stupid thing for me to say,

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all right? I'm not trying

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to brag on myself, but if we're going to

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have a pissing contest,

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I'm going to win.

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You

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want to see a resume? I'll show

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you a resume. And mine's way

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better than yours.

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Mine's way more pure than yours.

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You want to show you how strong you are?

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I guarantee I got you covered.

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You've been persecuted? Let me show you my

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persecution list. You've been banned?

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Let me show you how I've been banned.

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He's like, I got it.

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Now, again,

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all this is true.

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You shouldn't be going around saying all this

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necessarily. You don't need to say this.

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You shouldn't be acting like you're a badass or

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something. You should just, hey,

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you know what? We should be humble

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and meek, but he's like, you guys are

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just letting guys come in here

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and try to puff themselves up about their

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accolades when they're not really

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the apostle Paul.

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He says verse 28,

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beside those things that are without,

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that which come upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

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So he's saying, not all these

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physical issues that I've had to deal

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with, internal issues that I have to deal

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with, the care of all the churches.

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You know, and again, as a pastor, as a

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preacher, as someone that cares about the ministry,

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you know, this is a real

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thing that you have to go through that's

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difficult, is caring for people, is caring

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for all the different issues and caring

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for all this stuff. I mean, a weak person

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can't go through this. A weak person

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can't go through all the issues

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and all the struggles and all the problems

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and all the burdens and all

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the things that are going on in life.

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I mean, you know, no one really wants

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to deal with all that nonsense.

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I mean, it's not fun.

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You know, being a pastor

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is work, as what the Bible says.

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And bearing other people's burdens

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is difficult. You know, why are

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therapists charging you so much money

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to listen to your problems?

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Okay? It's because

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it's a burden. It's because it's work.

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It's not something that's just easy

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and he's caring for all these churches.

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Who is weak and am I not weak?

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Who has offended and I burn not? Now,

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I think verse 29 is a little difficult,

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but, you know,

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in 1 Corinthians 9,

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he says, to the weak became I is weak.

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Okay? So,

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weak could mean a lot of different things,

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but in general,

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it's just someone who's not

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strong. Okay?

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If we think about someone being weak

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in a church context,

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maybe that would be they're not

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succeeding in the Christian life.

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Maybe they're being, it could be,

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obviously it could be like they're a coward, right?

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They're afraid. They're not

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doing what's right. They're not

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going to church. Or it could be

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that they're just simply

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not succeeding in the Christian life, right?

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You know, hey, the spirit is willing,

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but the flesh is weak. So,

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they're giving in to their temptations

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and they're giving in to their struggles

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or just problems in general.

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Just when they're weak,

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they're not

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succeeding. They're

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struggling. Okay? And then

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he says, am I not weak in the sense that

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it makes him feel

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bad. So, he's basically

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saying that he's matching emotion

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in essence is what he's trying to communicate.

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He's like, hey, these people,

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they're weak

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and they're struggling in the Christian faith

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and then that kind of, you know,

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the apostle Paul feels that.

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It's not fun

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to, you know, see someone

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start getting in to church,

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start taking things seriously, and then

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back away. You know, and then

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it just, it hurts. Because, you know,

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as a pastor, you can get confidence and

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you can get boosts from

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people serving God and getting right,

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but it's in like people struggle and

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backslide and do whatever and it causes

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you to feel weak and feel like

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kind of down about it as well.

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And he's like saying, hey, when y'all are down

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I feel down. When you guys struggle,

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I struggle. Because he's

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saying, like, I feel your feelings. I

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feel, I match your emotions.

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He's like, who is offended and I burn

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not. What is offended?

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You know, obvious, it's a little different

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than what our typical usage of

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offended is. Affended, we think of like

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liberals being triggered.

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Affended typically is meaning someone that

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offends,

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offends against God. They transgress.

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So you see someone

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sin and then the

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apostle Paul gets upset about it.

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He's just saying, like, hey,

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people are offending in church.

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People are struggling.

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They're doing something wrong and then

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he gets mad about it, right?

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Like 1 Corinthians chapter number 5.

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He feels a little burned.

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He feels a little testy

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on that issue that they're allowing this guy

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to be with his father's wife.

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And it's just like, hey,

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you know, whenever

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people are struggling with sin,

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whenever they're weak, whenever they

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are offended, you know, the apostle

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Paul is feeling that he's relating,

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he's matching it. So again

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the context is the apostle Paul

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trying to say, like, hey, the care

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of all the churches is coming upon me.

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When people are weak, it

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causes me to feel weak. When people

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stumble and fall,

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you know, it obviously hurts me.

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It causes me to feel upset

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and to feel the disappointment

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and the problem and, you know,

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he gets that issue

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as well. So again, it's just

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he is going through all these

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problems, but he says in verse 30,

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if I must needs glory, I will glory

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of the things which concern mine

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infirmity. Now, infirmity

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is weakness. So

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the apostle Paul is saying, if I

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were to glory in anything, instead

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of what I just said,

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I should really be gloring in something

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that's weak about me so that it would

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then give the glory to God. You know, it's

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like if we're describing David in the Bible

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who's going against Goliath, we're

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describing him as, you know,

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small and young

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and inexperienced. Why?

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Because then that gives God the glory.

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If we're saying David is strong

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and mighty and awesome, then

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it's kind of like gloring in him.

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So the apostle Paul is gloring in his

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infirmities so that

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then who gets the glory?

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God gets the glory because

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it's showing like I'm rude in speech,

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but God's using me anyways.

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You know, I'm contemptible

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in the flesh, but you know what? God's

01:01:06.540 --> 01:01:08.620
still using me. So it's him just trying

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to say like, if you were to talk about yourself,

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you should try to talk in a way that's

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elevating God and not yourself.

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Speaking about your infirmities, being humble.

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What is humble? Admitting where you're not

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perfect. Admitting where you're lacking.

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Admitting your weaknesses.

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Whereas pride is

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glory of one's self

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and glory of one's strengths.

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Whereas humility is

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acknowledgement and embracement of your

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infirmities of your weaknesses.

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Why would you do this? So that God

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gets glory. The God and the father

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of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is

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blessed forevermore, knoweth that I lie not.

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Everything that he said

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is true. Verse 32

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in Damascus, the governor

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under a retus, the king kept

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the city of the Damasocenes with a

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garrison, desirous to apprehend me,

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and threw a window in a basket,

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was I let down by the

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wall and escaped his hands.

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Now it kind of ends awkwardly, but verse

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1 it says, it is not expedient me for

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doubtless to glory.

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I will come to visions and revelations of the

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Lord. So he's saying, it's not good

01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:11.840
for me to just, you know,

01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:13.240
glory

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in all this stuff.

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And if you go back to chapter 10

01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:19.120
verse 18 again, for he that

01:02:19.120 --> 01:02:21.200
commended himself is approved, but whom

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the Lord commended, and in verse 17, but

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he that gloried, let him glory in the Lord.

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The whole

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context of chapter 11 is

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there's these people going around

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puffing themselves up,

01:02:32.900 --> 01:02:34.960
glorying in themselves. This is a foolish

01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:37.040
thing to say. And if we were going to

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have a preaching

01:02:39.220 --> 01:02:40.780
competition, if we were going to get up

01:02:40.780 --> 01:02:42.940
and glory in ourselves, well, I could

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do that.

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And look, let me show you what I could do.

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Let me show you what I could say about myself.

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And God is my witness.

01:02:50.780 --> 01:02:52.840
Everything I said is true about myself.

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But it would be silly, it would be foolish

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for me to talk this way.

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We shouldn't be talking about our exploits

01:02:58.900 --> 01:03:00.580
and how strong we are and all the things

01:03:00.580 --> 01:03:02.740
that we've done. We should glory in our

01:03:02.740 --> 01:03:04.960
infirmities, so ultimately give what? Glory

01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:06.720
to God. We should be glorying in the Lord

01:03:07.180 --> 01:03:08.420
and allow the Lord

01:03:08.420 --> 01:03:10.440
to commend those whom He's

01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:12.380
going to commend, not who we commend,

01:03:12.740 --> 01:03:14.200
not glorying for ourselves, not

01:03:14.200 --> 01:03:16.540
approving ourselves, not lifting

01:03:16.540 --> 01:03:17.460
ourselves up.

01:03:19.580 --> 01:03:20.780
So it's

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embarrassing and it's foolish

01:03:22.460 --> 01:03:24.260
to boast of your own status and your own

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significance.

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I'm just going to go to two Proverbs. We'll

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finish this chapter. Go to Proverbs 27

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and we'll read this.

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Unfortunately, even America, where people

01:03:34.520 --> 01:03:36.540
are constantly boasting of oneself,

01:03:36.540 --> 01:03:38.960
promoting oneself, it used to be politically

01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:40.720
that it was

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taboo

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for a politician

01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:45.540
to promote himself.

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Now we have Donald Trump

01:03:48.520 --> 01:03:50.380
being the most self-promoting person on the

01:03:50.380 --> 01:03:50.660
planet.

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And it's an ungodly attitude.

01:03:54.860 --> 01:03:56.180
It's an ungodly spirit.

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It's not what we should be doing.

01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:00.320
And in the house of God, we should stay

01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:02.080
away from this. We don't want to be

01:04:02.080 --> 01:04:04.060
promoting ourselves, lifting ourselves up.

01:04:04.740 --> 01:04:05.700
Proverbs 27

01:04:05.700 --> 01:04:07.640
verse 2, let another man praise thee and not

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thine own mouth, a stranger

01:04:08.820 --> 01:04:10.920
and not thine own lips.

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Now, here's the thing.

01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:15.300
You say, well, then how are we going to know

01:04:16.160 --> 01:04:16.860
who's good?

01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:19.460
We'll let everybody else sing your praises.

01:04:20.500 --> 01:04:22.100
Well, but no one's singing my praises.

01:04:23.140 --> 01:04:24.060
Because you're not

01:04:24.060 --> 01:04:24.360
good.

01:04:26.820 --> 01:04:27.280
Okay.

01:04:27.980 --> 01:04:29.920
You know, Proverbs 31 makes it clear

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that, like, the Proverbs 31 woman is

01:04:31.940 --> 01:04:34.220
going to be praised by her household.

01:04:35.160 --> 01:04:36.400
Her children are going to rise up

01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:38.220
and call her blessed, is what the Bible

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said. Why?

01:04:39.460 --> 01:04:40.640
Because she's going to be awesome.

01:04:42.180 --> 01:04:44.020
People are going to brag on awesome

01:04:44.020 --> 01:04:44.340
people.

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But here's the thing. The reason why you're

01:04:47.060 --> 01:04:48.000
not getting bragged on,

01:04:50.380 --> 01:04:51.180
Donald Trump,

01:04:52.340 --> 01:04:53.580
is because you're not awesome.

01:04:54.160 --> 01:04:55.560
When you need everybody else to sing

01:04:55.560 --> 01:04:56.020
your praises,

01:04:57.660 --> 01:04:59.940
when you need to sing your own praises

01:04:59.940 --> 01:05:01.340
and everybody else will, that's the problem.

01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:03.080
You're not the best kept secret.

01:05:03.680 --> 01:05:03.700
Okay.

01:05:04.180 --> 01:05:05.920
And so you shouldn't even try to be.

01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:08.900
And, you know, again, if you want to be

01:05:08.900 --> 01:05:10.640
lifted up, you just work hard to keep

01:05:10.640 --> 01:05:12.500
your head down and let other people sing

01:05:12.500 --> 01:05:12.840
your praises.

01:05:13.240 --> 01:05:15.620
And honestly, if you do sing your own praises,

01:05:15.740 --> 01:05:17.340
you'll limit how much other people

01:05:17.340 --> 01:05:18.180
will compliment you anyways.

01:05:20.120 --> 01:05:21.640
Because once you get up and say

01:05:21.640 --> 01:05:23.800
something about yourself that's like, I'm

01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:25.520
awesome, usually what people are thinking

01:05:25.520 --> 01:05:27.020
is how do I attack that statement?

01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:29.700
How do I clarify that statement?

01:05:30.300 --> 01:05:31.740
They're like, I'm the best. Well, actually

01:05:31.740 --> 01:05:32.480
no, you're not.

01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:34.820
You know, you say

01:05:35.660 --> 01:05:37.440
anybody's the best at anything and

01:05:37.440 --> 01:05:39.060
people will be like, no, I think it's this person.

01:05:39.940 --> 01:05:41.540
Whether it's reality denial or not,

01:05:41.640 --> 01:05:41.920
they will.

01:05:42.740 --> 01:05:45.720
And in many cases, it's like, you lift

01:05:45.720 --> 01:05:47.640
yourself up and people will try to bring

01:05:47.640 --> 01:05:48.980
you back down and try to

01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:50.360
make it clear where you're at.

01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:53.040
Now again, some people have fake

01:05:53.040 --> 01:05:54.600
humility. I'm not saying have fake humility,

01:05:54.700 --> 01:05:56.820
but in general, you know, being humble

01:05:56.820 --> 01:05:58.360
and whatever, people will lift you up.

01:05:58.560 --> 01:06:00.220
People will give you the praise

01:06:00.220 --> 01:06:02.560
that's due. And even if you don't

01:06:02.560 --> 01:06:04.040
get that, God will eventually.

01:06:04.760 --> 01:06:06.740
And that's what you really want. You really want

01:06:06.740 --> 01:06:08.080
God to be the one that lifts you up.

01:06:08.600 --> 01:06:10.400
And look, Joseph being humble,

01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:12.400
he became second command in the world

01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:14.360
and arguably even Pharaoh basically is just

01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:15.540
saying, listen to whatever this guy says.

01:06:16.820 --> 01:06:18.680
That's about as high as you could possibly lift

01:06:18.680 --> 01:06:20.520
it up and Joseph never went around singing

01:06:20.520 --> 01:06:22.680
his own praises. Never went around bragging

01:06:22.680 --> 01:06:24.400
on himself. You know, the apostle

01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:26.440
Paul is not going around bragging on himself

01:06:26.940 --> 01:06:28.440
albeit this chapter is

01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:30.460
a clear rebuke that's needed. But in

01:06:30.460 --> 01:06:32.140
general, he's not doing this yet.

01:06:32.460 --> 01:06:34.420
He's being lifted up by everyone. People

01:06:34.420 --> 01:06:36.120
look to the apostle Paul as one of the

01:06:36.120 --> 01:06:38.020
greatest Christians ever. And so

01:06:38.020 --> 01:06:40.420
in due time, you will get the praise

01:06:40.420 --> 01:06:42.460
if you do the works. But if you know

01:06:42.460 --> 01:06:44.380
you want the attention, well

01:06:44.380 --> 01:06:46.300
you're going to get teared down. And so

01:06:46.300 --> 01:06:48.300
you need to be careful that. Go to

01:06:48.300 --> 01:06:50.120
Proverbs 26, we're pretty much right there

01:06:50.120 --> 01:06:51.680
and look at verses number four and five.

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Answer not a fool according to his folly,

01:06:53.720 --> 01:06:56.280
lest thou also be like unto him. Answer

01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:57.940
a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise

01:06:57.940 --> 01:07:00.140
in his own conceit. It almost seems like

01:07:00.140 --> 01:07:01.960
this is apropos to what the apostle Paul

01:07:01.960 --> 01:07:03.940
is doing in this chapter where he's

01:07:03.940 --> 01:07:05.080
kind of answering a fool.

01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:08.040
But he, notice it says

01:07:08.040 --> 01:07:09.220
answer not a fool

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according to his folly. You know, I think

01:07:12.100 --> 01:07:13.880
what the apostle Paul does well

01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:15.720
in this chapter is he caveats

01:07:15.720 --> 01:07:17.960
what he's doing so that we realize

01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:19.700
he's not being the fool. Because

01:07:19.700 --> 01:07:21.420
if he had just said this without the caveat,

01:07:21.520 --> 01:07:23.120
then we would have thought, well that was kind of prideful

01:07:23.120 --> 01:07:25.420
for what apostle Paul said. That doesn't

01:07:25.420 --> 01:07:27.540
really line up. But he is

01:07:27.540 --> 01:07:29.200
in verse five answering a fool according to his

01:07:29.200 --> 01:07:31.080
folly, lest the fools

01:07:31.080 --> 01:07:33.360
continue to brag and boast in their

01:07:34.380 --> 01:07:35.040
you know

01:07:35.700 --> 01:07:37.940
what they're doing. So again, in some

01:07:37.940 --> 01:07:38.980
sense, I think this

01:07:38.980 --> 01:07:41.520
proverb is an interesting proverb. It's almost

01:07:41.520 --> 01:07:43.820
like you kind of

01:07:43.820 --> 01:07:44.360
can't win

01:07:45.550 --> 01:07:47.660
no matter what. But it does have a little

01:07:47.660 --> 01:07:48.860
bit of difference, okay?

01:07:49.560 --> 01:07:51.360
So the first part is just

01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:52.960
the same sentence inverted.

01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:55.240
The second part is slightly different, right?

01:07:55.780 --> 01:07:57.560
Lest thou also be like

01:07:57.560 --> 01:07:59.780
unto him. So I think that verse four

01:07:59.780 --> 01:08:01.620
is trying to say don't

01:08:01.620 --> 01:08:02.620
answer a fool

01:08:03.220 --> 01:08:05.700
the way the fool communicated to you.

01:08:06.560 --> 01:08:07.680
Okay? You don't want

01:08:07.680 --> 01:08:09.700
to repeat the fool's error.

01:08:10.180 --> 01:08:11.600
But you should

01:08:11.600 --> 01:08:13.560
answer him so that he'll

01:08:13.560 --> 01:08:15.820
be corrected. So it's basically don't render

01:08:15.820 --> 01:08:17.060
railing for railing

01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:19.620
give a correction, right?

01:08:20.400 --> 01:08:21.520
Don't go down to their

01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:23.140
level. Don't do a mama

01:08:23.140 --> 01:08:24.320
joke for a mama joke.

01:08:24.860 --> 01:08:27.040
Go ahead and correct him

01:08:27.540 --> 01:08:29.500
and be above that and

01:08:29.500 --> 01:08:31.300
give him the right answer. So I don't think it's like ignore

01:08:31.300 --> 01:08:33.660
fools completely, but make sure

01:08:33.660 --> 01:08:35.660
that when you're answering you're not going down

01:08:35.660 --> 01:08:37.380
to their level. You're not being

01:08:37.380 --> 01:08:39.320
like them in your response necessarily.

01:08:39.320 --> 01:08:41.300
But in some cases I mean you're not going to win

01:08:41.300 --> 01:08:43.300
the fool over. Let's just be honest. Fools

01:08:43.300 --> 01:08:45.120
will read this epistle.

01:08:45.440 --> 01:08:47.280
Fools would hear this rebuke from the apostle Paul

01:08:47.280 --> 01:08:49.220
and say like oh we need to brag harder.

01:08:51.080 --> 01:08:51.440
That's

01:08:51.440 --> 01:08:53.320
Paul's list. I'm going to make up a new list that'll be

01:08:53.320 --> 01:08:54.960
even better. They missed the whole point.

01:08:55.220 --> 01:08:57.100
They missed the point that it wasn't making lists.

01:08:57.560 --> 01:08:58.760
It wasn't like a competition

01:08:59.320 --> 01:09:00.740
and so they're going to go even harder.

01:09:01.280 --> 01:09:03.140
It was for the people that were captured

01:09:03.140 --> 01:09:05.500
by the fool to say like we should stop listening

01:09:05.500 --> 01:09:07.480
to fools. We should ignore the fools

01:09:07.480 --> 01:09:08.900
and instead of

01:09:09.380 --> 01:09:11.020
thinking about prideful boasting

01:09:11.020 --> 01:09:13.560
we should be boasting in weakness and we should give the glory

01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:13.880
to God.

01:09:14.680 --> 01:09:17.180
It's really about God. It's really giving the glory

01:09:17.180 --> 01:09:19.200
to God. Our gospel, the right

01:09:19.200 --> 01:09:20.560
gospel is giving all the glory to God.

01:09:21.020 --> 01:09:22.500
The false gospel is giving glory to man.

01:09:23.200 --> 01:09:24.380
When we talk about

01:09:25.340 --> 01:09:27.100
anything, even the Bible

01:09:27.100 --> 01:09:29.140
itself, really the king

01:09:29.140 --> 01:09:31.160
James only position gives the glory to God that

01:09:31.160 --> 01:09:32.700
he preserved it. Whereas

01:09:33.400 --> 01:09:35.220
the modern version belief

01:09:35.220 --> 01:09:36.940
is giving the glory to man

01:09:36.940 --> 01:09:39.160
that he's translating it right and finding all

01:09:39.160 --> 01:09:41.020
the right manuscripts and getting all

01:09:41.020 --> 01:09:43.200
and he's so smart and he studied

01:09:43.200 --> 01:09:44.780
and textual criticism.

01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:47.540
It's just like how is your textual

01:09:47.540 --> 01:09:48.160
criticism

01:09:49.220 --> 01:09:51.020
wiser than God and more glorifying

01:09:51.020 --> 01:09:53.100
than God just handing it down

01:09:53.100 --> 01:09:55.060
to us and getting the king James Bible.

01:09:56.040 --> 01:09:56.460
And so

01:09:56.980 --> 01:09:59.160
the preachers and the pastors should listen to

01:09:59.160 --> 01:10:00.800
are the ones that are giving the glory to God

01:10:01.480 --> 01:10:03.100
not taking for themselves, not

01:10:03.100 --> 01:10:05.320
burning you, not lying to you.

01:10:06.160 --> 01:10:06.740
So be careful.

01:10:06.940 --> 01:10:08.940
We've had a lot of different bozos throughout

01:10:08.940 --> 01:10:10.860
the years but what you'll notice is they

01:10:10.860 --> 01:10:12.600
love to build themselves up and talk

01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:14.600
real big about themselves and

01:10:15.220 --> 01:10:17.040
brag about how wonderful they are.

01:10:17.540 --> 01:10:19.120
But you know what? Let's follow

01:10:19.120 --> 01:10:20.560
the people that God's lifting up.

01:10:21.080 --> 01:10:23.040
Not the ones that are lifting themselves up

01:10:23.040 --> 01:10:25.120
but whom God is lifting up and they're

01:10:25.120 --> 01:10:26.100
having the good works.

01:10:26.780 --> 01:10:28.760
Let us follow the works because

01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:30.380
if you follow the works you'll figure out

01:10:30.380 --> 01:10:32.060
who's the real one and who's the fake one.

01:10:32.360 --> 01:10:33.820
Let's close in prayer. Thank you Father

01:10:33.820 --> 01:10:35.760
so much for your word. Thank you so much for

01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:37.680
this chapter. I pray that we wouldn't be taken

01:10:37.680 --> 01:10:40.280
captive by fools, that we wouldn't lift

01:10:40.280 --> 01:10:42.260
ourselves up and be prideful and boast

01:10:42.260 --> 01:10:43.940
and we wouldn't follow those who boast

01:10:43.940 --> 01:10:46.060
and are prideful. Pray that we give the glory

01:10:46.060 --> 01:10:48.300
to you and that you would help our church

01:10:48.300 --> 01:10:49.900
to be protected from all the

01:10:49.900 --> 01:10:52.240
another Jesus, another spirit

01:10:52.240 --> 01:10:53.680
and all this other

01:10:54.460 --> 01:10:55.640
attitude that is just

01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:57.900
contrary to the things of God. And Jesus

01:10:57.900 --> 01:10:58.520
name you pray amen.