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Amen.

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Okay.

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We're in Ecclesiastes chapter 7.

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Look down at your Bibles verse 16 that says,

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Be not righteous over much.

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Neither make thyself over wise.

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Why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

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And the time of my sermon this evening is Christians who go overboard.

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Christians who go overboard.

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Here in Ecclesiastes chapter 7, the preacher says,

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Be not righteous over much.

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Don't make yourself over wise.

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And the result of this, of course, is that you would destroy thyself.

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Now what is this referring to?

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It's referring to the fact that, obviously, this is discouraging people from living a righteous

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life or augmenting righteousness in one's personal life, growing in holiness, becoming a better

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Christian over a long period of time.

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When the Bible says, Be not righteous over much, it's essentially saying, Don't bite

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off more than you can chew.

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Don't go overboard.

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Don't try to overcompensate.

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Don't try to overdo it because, eventually, if you do end up going overboard, if you kind

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of overcompensate, you're going to end up being a hypocrite.

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You're going to do more than what's expected.

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And people are going to sniff out that you're being a fake and a phony.

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And I think of this particular part right here in the Bible that says not to make ourselves

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over wise.

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Now, obviously, we cannot accumulate wisdom in a short period of time.

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So how is it that someone can make themselves over wise in a short period of time?

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Well, how about they just talk about things that they don't really understand?

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How about they try to make themselves seem smarter and more knowledgeable than what they

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really are?

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So a person who's making themselves over wise is often the individual who's constantly

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talking about wisdom and knowledge and what happens is, you know, in a multitude

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of words, they're wanteth not sinned.

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The more you talk, the more likely it is that you're going to say something wrong.

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The more you talk, the more likely it is that people are going to realize this

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person has no idea what they're talking about.

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They're making themselves over wise.

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They're making themselves over righteous.

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They seem to be going overboard, overcompensating, doing a little too much, being a little extra

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when it comes to being righteous and being wise.

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And look, folks, at the end of the day, the Christian life is a marathon.

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Okay, it's not a sprint.

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We're not racing one another.

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What are we doing?

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We're simply trying to finish the course that God has set before us.

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And you know what?

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If you are a new Christian, meaning you've gotten saved within the last six months to

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a year, even within the last five years, it's important for you to recognize that the goal

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is not to be as righteous as much as possible in a short period of time.

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You know, give yourself some grace, give yourself enough time, pace yourself in the Christian

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life, grow as much as you can, but don't bite off more than you can chew because

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if you do, number one, you might get discouraged because you're going to realize you can't

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accomplish that much, or number two, in your endeavor to look righteous and your endeavor

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to sound wise, you're going to do something that's going to cause others to realize that

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you're a complete idiot, okay?

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You don't know what you're talking about and you're not as righteous as you portray

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yourself to be.

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Now let me also say this is that, you know, when you go over, when Christians go overboard

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to the untrained eye, it can be viewed as zealous behavior.

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You know, when someone goes overboard, they're going over the top, they're doing

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a lot to the untrained eye, and I was like, wow, this person is just really devoted.

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This person is extremely passionate.

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They're very zealous, but at the end of the day, the underlying motive is that they're

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overcompensating for their lack in a particular area.

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And I will say that babes in Christ are often the ones guilty of this, and I would

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say even for myself, when I first got saved, I went over the top, I went overboard,

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and I think that's just like a common thing for those who are newly saved, they're

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excited about the things of God, they're zealously affected in a good way, but because

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they have a zeal without knowledge, they can often delve into nonsensical things, nonsensical

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behavior, and they have to grow out of that.

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And so, you know, obviously we want to be gracious with novices, we want to be

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gracious with babes in Christ, but let me say this, if you're a babe in Christ,

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the goal should be to grow out of that.

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The goal should be that you grow in grace and in the knowledge that you become

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a mature person, a humble person, and you recognize, you know what, I'm doing a

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little too much, I'm seeming to overcompensate here, I'm going overboard, and so I need

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to pace myself and grow, mature in my faith.

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Don't be hasty in your judgments, be hasty in your growth, just pace yourself, okay?

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You know, on a practical level that we can talk about this is, you know, when it

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comes to Bible reading, sometimes people are like, man, I love the Bible so much,

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I'm just going to try to read it like four times this year.

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And then they don't even get through it once.

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You're going overboard, you're biting off more than you can chew, just pace yourself.

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How about reading through the Bible once every year for the next five years?

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What's wrong with that, right?

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Like, oh man, you know, I'm going to memorize so much scripture, why don't

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you just start with a small portion of scripture, get it down packed as best

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as you can, you have a lifetime to grow in your faith, you have a lifetime

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to accumulate knowledge, to memorize scripture, to read the Word of God.

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You're like, man, I want to accumulate so many salvation.

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Well, you want to make sure that, you know, as a soul winner, you don't

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become sloppy in your gospel presentation either.

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And this is something that I've seen, for example, in the old IFB, where soul

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winning becomes somewhat of a competition to a degree that they actually become

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very sloppy in their presentation to the point where a phrase was coined

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for them known as one, two, three, pray after me, right?

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These churches that literally are just not thorough in their gospel presentation,

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they are super sloppy, but they're just trying to get people to just pray

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just so they can count them.

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Look, folks, we care about numbers, I care about numbers, I care a lot

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about numbers because a number is a soul, amen?

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But not at the exclusion of being thorough, okay?

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Make sure that you're thorough in your gospel presentation.

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Make sure that in your zeal, you're not just cutting corners just to make it

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look like in front of everyone else that you're some sort of great soul

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winner, some great Christian, okay?

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Pace yourself in the Christian life.

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Don't be a Christian who goes overboard.

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Go to Judges chapter 21, Judges chapter 21, if you would.

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Let me read again from Ecclesiastes 7, verse 16 again.

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It says, be not righteous over much.

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Neither make thyself over wise.

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Why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

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If it goes on to say, be not over much wicked.

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Neither be thou foolish.

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Why shouldest thou die before that time?

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Now, don't misunderstand what the Bible is saying here.

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When it says in verse 17, be not over much wicked,

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God's not saying, hey, you could be a little wicked.

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A little fortification never hurt anybody.

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A little drunkenness here and there,

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a little railing's not bad.

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When it says be not wicked over much,

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God is basically being gracious with us recognizing

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that we're not perfect.

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And so obviously we're not perfect.

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We're gonna make mistakes.

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But just because we're imperfect doesn't mean

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we should just go all in into imperfection, right?

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Just give in to our lust, our desires.

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Oh yeah, I just do that because I'm just a sinner.

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I'm just imperfect.

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That's just what I do.

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That's just how I talk.

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That's just how I behave.

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I just, you know, I'm just, I just smoke weed.

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That's just what I do, you know?

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I just drink alcohol.

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No, be not over much wicked either though.

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The Bible's telling us here is to be, to have moderation,

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okay, to have a balanced life.

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And obviously on the spectrum of righteousness and wickedness,

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we should lean more towards righteousness

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every single day, right?

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We're never gonna reach the very end of righteousness

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until the redemption of our bodies.

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But it should be the removing in that direction though.

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It should be that we lean more towards

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being a righteous person than being a wicked person, okay?

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The title of the sermon is Christians who go overboard.

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Number one, let me start off by saying

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is that Christians go overboard

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to compensate for past failures.

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Often Christians will go overboard.

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They will overdo it.

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They just kind of go all out

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only because of the fact that they failed in the past

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so they feel like they have to put in as much effort

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in order to portray to others

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that they're a super righteous individual, okay?

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Now you're in Judges chapter 21.

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Before we read here,

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let me just give you a synopsis

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of this particular story, okay?

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Keep in mind that the Book of Judges

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is during a really dark time in the nation of Israel, okay?

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You know, this is during a time,

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the system of the judges,

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where every man is doing that

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which is right in their own eyes.

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They don't have a magistrate.

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They don't have a king to put them to shame.

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They don't, you know,

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the system of kings is not instituted as of yet.

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You have judges that are essentially delivering

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the children of Israel when they fall

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under oppression of a foreign army

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because of their disobedience to God, okay?

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But in general, you don't really have people ruling over them,

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kind of telling them what to do.

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Other than the judges themselves

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when they get away from God,

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they get involved in sin,

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the judge comes and judges them,

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delivers them somewhat as a general

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and then the cycle continues, okay?

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So during this particular time,

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we could say that they're under a theocracy still.

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If you remember during the wilderness,

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the children of Israel are under a theocracy,

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God is their king.

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Well, they're still in that transitional period

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during the book of judges.

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And it's good and it's bad because, you know,

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it's good because God is their king.

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It's bad because they don't listen.

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So now they're just doing that

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which is right in their own eyes.

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They're not obeying the laws of the Lord.

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They're not instituting punishments for wrongdoing.

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They're not carrying out the laws of God.

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And so what do you have taken place

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in the nation of Israel?

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Idolatry.

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You have a lot of idolatry taking place.

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And when you look at

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what happens when you allow idolatry into a nation,

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just unfettered idolatry without any correction whatsoever,

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it eventually leads to reprobation.

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You read that progression in Romans chapter one.

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You find that people become idolaters

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and then God gives them over to a reprobate mind.

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So what happens is the result of idolatry

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is that they become darkened.

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Their hearts become darkened.

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They begin to reject God.

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And ultimately, sodomy is introduced into the picture.

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So by the time we get to Judges chapter 19,

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what do you have?

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You have the story of those of Gibeah,

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those of Benjamin who are sodomites,

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their sons of Belial.

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And it's a horrific story, right?

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Judges 19 is basically what you have taken place

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in Genesis 19,

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where you have these sons of Belial,

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these sodomites, these homosexuals,

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who are seeking to rape a man

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who's visiting their town.

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And instead of raping a man, they take his concubine,

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they abuse her all the night,

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and they essentially kill her, okay?

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Well, you know, the guy, because he loves her so much,

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you know, he's like, he sees her in the morning,

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he's like, up, get up, let's get going or something.

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Obviously, he doesn't care for his concubine.

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But he realizes that she's dead

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and he ends up desecrating her body,

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severing it to pieces and sending it

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to the 12th tribes of Israel.

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Really, really weird story, okay?

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You know, he sends it off and then the 12th tribes

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are looking at this and like, you know,

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this is crazy, right?

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And obviously, you know,

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you would think that once you get that letter,

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you're just like, well, first of all, okay,

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I know this is communicating

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that they're sodomites in the land,

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but can we just acknowledge the fact

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that I just got a leg in the mail, right?

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I just got a hand in the mail here.

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You say, why aren't they making a big deal

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about that because every man is doing that,

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which is right in their own eyes.

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The moral compass of the nation

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has been removed, so to speak.

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There's no magistrate to put them to shame, okay?

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So this major crime has taken place in Israel,

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of sodomy, of just murder,

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and you know, they have a major problem

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because now they have one of the 12th tribes

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who's involved in these abominations and in these murders.

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Now in Genesis 19, got to care for it himself, right?

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He sent down fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah

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and completely destroyed those cities, right?

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And why is that?

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Well, because in Genesis 19,

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the nation of Israel had not been established as a nation

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with the functioning government

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that can enact these laws of the death penalty

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upon those who commit capital crimes.

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So God's the one who's kind of taking care

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of business right there, right?

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But by the time we get to Judges 19,

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you know, God has already given the laws.

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He has deputized his people to carry out the death penalty,

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to make sure this doesn't happen again.

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Well, if we have the story of Judges 19,

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a repeat of Genesis 19, what does that tell us?

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It tells us that they weren't taking care of business.

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They failed.

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They failed, right?

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So they failed to discipline the nation.

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They failed to discipline the tribe.

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They failed, and look folks,

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it's not like these sons of Belial just came out of nowhere.

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And I don't believe for a second

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that nobody in the nation of Israel,

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nobody knew that these people were sodomites,

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they're reprobates, they're sons of Belial

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because idolatry is all over the land, understand?

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What's happening here is they're turning a blind eye

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to this.

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It's not until it gets to this particular point

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where someone is brutally raped or murdered

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then they actually want to do something about it, okay?

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So they band together the 12 tribes

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against the tribe of Benjamin and more specifically

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against Gibeah to essentially put the sodomites to death.

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Well, the sodomites shellacked them unfortunately, okay?

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They destroyed them like three times,

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or two times and then on third time

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to actually succeed against them

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and they actually end up destroying

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the sons of Belial, the sodomites, okay?

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And you know, we're like, well, praise God,

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you know, that's great.

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You know, they were able to execute justice.

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These people were destroyed for their crimes

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and now we could just move on as a nation.

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But look what Judges chapter 21 talks about here.

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In verse one, it says,

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now the men of Israel had sworn in mispossain,

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there shall not any of us give his daughter

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into Benjamin to wife.

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And the people came to the house of God

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and abode there till even before God

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and lifted up their voices and wept sore

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and said, oh Lord God of Israel,

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why has this come to pass in Israel?

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That there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel.

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Well, first of all, why are you asking God?

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You're the reason why.

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First of all, you refuse to enact God's laws

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upon the land and then you wonder

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why you're suffering the consequences

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of this debauchery and abomination in the land.

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Why are you allowing, what do you mean?

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You're the one, you're the reason

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this is happening in the first place.

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Your failure allowed this.

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You're the reason why there's sodomites in the land.

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You're the reason why this woman

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was abused all the day long.

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You're the reason why this body was chopped up

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and sent into the 12 tribes.

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It's because of your failure.

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We're going to go on to say in verse four,

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it came to pass on the morrow

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that the people rose up early and built there

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and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

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And the children of Israel said,

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who is there among all the tribes of Israel

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that came not up with the congregation of the Lord?

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For they had made a great oath concerning him

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that came not up to the Lord to miss,

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but saying, he shall show me and put to death.

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So what does he say?

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Like, all right, let's find out who didn't come up

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and fight with us against those of Gibi

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or we're gonna kill those guys.

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What is that?

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You're overdoing it.

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So because you didn't take care of business years ago,

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now you're going overboard

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and now you're seeking to put people to death

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that had no business in this situation with Gibi.

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What is it?

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It's because of their failure.

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They feel like they have to overcompensate

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because they messed up in the years past.

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So now it's just like complete innocent people

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have to be put to death.

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It's wrong.

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They're going overboard, okay?

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Look what it goes on to say in verse six,

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and the children of Israel repented them

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for Benjamin their brother

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and said, there is one tribe cut off

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from Israel this day.

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How should we do for wives for them to remain?

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Seeing we have sworn by the Lord

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that we will not give them of our daughters to wives.

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And they said, what one is there

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of the tribes of Israel

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that came not to miss put to the Lord?

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And behold, there came none to the camp

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from Jabish Gilead to the assembly.

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For the people were numbered and behold,

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there were none of the inhabitants

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of Jabish Gilead there.

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And the congregation sent thither

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12,000 men of the valiantist

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and commanded them saying,

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go and smite the inhabitants of Jabish Gilead

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with the edge of the sword.

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Notice this, with the women and the children.

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What did Jabish Gilead have to do with this?

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They didn't get involved in this.

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Okay, yeah, they're wimps.

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They didn't want to go fight.

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They didn't get involved

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when you're fighting against Givia.

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That doesn't give you the right

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to just completely go overboard

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and killed the women and the children

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just because the males didn't get involved in the war.

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What is that called?

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That's called going overboard.

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You know what, sometimes Christians can do the same

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because they're guilty of sins of the past,

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things they did in the past.

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They often have this complex about themselves

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that they have to go way overboard later on

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and have this unrealistic standard for everyone else

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just because they failed in the past, okay?

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And look, folks, let me just say this,

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that obviously it's good to have preferences,

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it's good to have standards,

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but never impose preferences and standards

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upon other people and communicate it

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as though this is what God requires of you, okay?

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And look, if you lived,

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if you got saved later on in life,

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you got saved as an adult

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and you came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ

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as a 20-year-old, 25, 30-year-old or whatever may be,

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you probably made some mistakes in the past.

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You might have some baggage with you, for sure.

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And you might even set some guidelines,

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standards and convictions for your personal life

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because you have more temptations

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that are available to you

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because of how long you've been in the world, right?

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There's nothing wrong with that,

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but what's wrong is that when you start condemning others

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for not following that standard, okay?

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That's important to know.

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Don't be an over-righteous person, a self-righteous person.

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What's a self-righteous person?

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It's a person who thinks that they're better

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than someone else, okay?

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And look, it's good to go overboard for yourself.

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It's good.

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I think it's great to go overboard for yourself.

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I think it's wrong to go overboard though

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in order to make other people feel guilty

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that they're not at the same standard that you're at,

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that they're not at the same level that you're at, okay?

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You know, we have an example here

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of the innocent of Jabish Gilead

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suffering the consequences of the people

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who are killing them, they're the ones who failed.

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You know, if you would have just enacted

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the laws of God years prior to this,

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none of this would have happened.

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But this is an example of someone,

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or of a nation that just completely goes overboard.

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Look, verse 11,

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and this is the thing that you shall do,

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you shall utterly destroy every male,

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every woman that hath lain by man,

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and they found among the inhabitants of Jabish Gilead

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400 young virgins that had not known man

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by lying with any male,

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and they brought them onto the camp of Shiloh,

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which is in the land of Cate, oh, how convenient.

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You're just gonna kill them all, but save the virgins though.

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That's the right thing to do, you know?

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And the whole congregation sent some

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to speak to the children of Benjamin

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that were in the rock remnant

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and to call peaceably unto them,

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and Benjamin came out again at that time

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and they gave them wives which they had saved alive

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of the women of Jabish Gilead,

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and yet so they suffice them not,

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and the people repented for Benjamin

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because the Lord had made a breach

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and the tribes of Israel, no, you made a breach.

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Israel, you're the one who failed in the past.

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And look, folks, I'm not here

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to hang your past over your head.

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We've all made mistakes in the past.

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We've all had failures of the past,

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and our failures should motivate us to do better, right?

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We should live in the past.

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We've been forgiven of that.

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It's under the blood.

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We've confessed it before the Lord.

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We've corrected our ways.

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If that's you, that's great.

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But hold on a second.

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Don't go on and be a Pharisee, a self-righteous individual

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asserting that someone else has to hold

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to that same standard just because

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you made that mistake in the past, okay?

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Because here's the thing, folks,

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your temptation may not be someone else's temptation.

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That's just the bottom line, you know?

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Whatever doors you open in the past,

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you know, someone else, I'm not saying

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that it's right for someone to do the same thing.

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I'm just saying, they may not be tempted with that.

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They may not be tempted with the sins

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that you're tempted with, okay?

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Kids who grew up in church are probably not gonna

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have the same temptations of those of us

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who got saved later on in life.

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You know, their temptation is to steal cookies

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from the cookies, I don't know, you know?

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And so we need to recognize

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that people overcompensate over past failures.

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And this is dangerous because, you know,

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I think of like being in an old IFB church

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and obviously like in the old IFB,

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they would have this practice, you know,

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sometimes on Sunday morning, mostly Sunday night,

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where it's, or during conferences, for example,

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where like a pastor would preach, you know,

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just some sermon on getting right with God

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or surrendering your life to the Lord.

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And, you know, they would have people

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come down to the altar after the service.

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How many of you know what I'm talking about?

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Okay, how many of you have seen that?

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And what they do is like, you know,

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at the end of the service is like, you know,

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oh, if you have made a decision,

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if God's talking to you, you know,

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come down to this old fashioned altar

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and make that decision.

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So like, you know, the people would come

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and they would kneel, like if this were to happen here,

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like, you know, Adrian would kneel like right here,

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you know, Kelly would be right here.

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And then they'd just be like, you know,

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repenting of their sin and surrendering their life

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or whatever.

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And obviously, you know, it's not a biblical practice.

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I did it, I know, it's crazy.

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Before I became new IFB, it was just a practice

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of the old IFB, you know, I,

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there's many times that I got right with God

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during those instances, those events or whatever.

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But let me just say this though, you know,

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there's people who go down to the altar

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and they just go overboard.

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Why?

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Because of past failures.

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You say, what do you mean?

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Well, sometimes, you know, you have a pastor

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just preach hard on sin.

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And I remember this, you know, just preaching hard on sin.

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They're preaching hard against pornography, right?

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They're preaching hard against fornication.

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Kyla, don't get up anymore.

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Sit down and don't move again.

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This is my daughter, so don't worry about it.

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Mom's not here, so I gotta watch over the kids.

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You know, preach hard against fornication.

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You know, preach hard against pornography.

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And then, you know, you'll have these guys

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and praise God that they're getting that right.

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Because you shouldn't be watching pornography.

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Shouldn't be a gooner, okay?

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It's embarrassing, you know?

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If you're a gooner, you ought to be embarrassed.

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You ought to be ashamed of yourself, okay?

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Because you're a Christian and, you know,

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you have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling within you.

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You're a grown man participating in those acts.

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You know, you ought to know how to possess

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your vessel and sanctification and honor, amen?

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But that's a sermon for another day.

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But, you know, they would preach against that

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and then they would come.

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And because, you know, they failed horribly in that area.

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Right?

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They failed horribly in that area.

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They would come to the altar and be like,

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I'm gonna surrender to go to the mission field.

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I'm gonna be a pastor.

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And in your mind, you're like,

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oh, isn't that, that's good, right?

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No, it's not because they're not going to the mission field.

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Revisit that same person a year later.

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You'll realize that they didn't really mean that.

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You say, what are they doing?

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They're going overboard.

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They feel so guilty over their sin

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that they feel like, oh man,

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I just have to like do the most crazy spiritual thing ever

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and go start a church or something.

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First of all, it's not gonna happen.

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You know, you're not fooling God.

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And yeah, you may be given a testimony.

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Oh, so-and-so surrendered to be a pastor.

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You know, yeah, I'm surrendered.

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But it's because they, you know,

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they had some sin, some failure in their life

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and they feel like the pendulum has to swing

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extremely to the opposite direction

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in order to compensate for that failure.

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You know, that's going overboard.

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You don't have to be a pastor.

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You don't have to be a missionary.

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Just repent of your sin.

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That's good enough.

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Just clean up your life.

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Good enough.

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You know, and obviously we don't have an altar here,

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but you know, when we pray or you pray

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and you're getting right with God, just get it right.

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Don't say, Lord, I'm just, I'm gonna be a pastor now.

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I know what my calling is.

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I'm gonna be a pastor.

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I'm gonna be a man.

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I'm gonna be a missionary.

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How about you just take care of that sin first?

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How about we just like clean that up first,

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get right with God in that area first,

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be conformed to the image of Christ first.

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Don't go overboard.

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Don't try to overcompensate.

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Don't try to be over-righteous much

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just because you've failed in the past, okay?

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And look, folks, I'm not rubbing anybody's failures

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in your face.

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If you were a drunkard, if you were a vapor,

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or I don't know what they call them now,

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you know, someone who vapes, someone who smokes,

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if you're a Coke addict or something

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and you're like, oh man,

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now I'm just gonna go all in.

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Well, go all in to the Christian life

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over an extended period of time.

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Pace yourself, right?

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Well, no, no, no, I'm gonna like read 10 chapters a day.

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I'm just gonna go all in.

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Yeah, but you might end up just burning out

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and it might not even work.

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So it's better to just pace yourself, you know,

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if you're trying to be in this thing for the long haul.

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Okay?

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People overcompensate over past failures.

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The Bible tells us in Proverbs 20 and verse 25,

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you don't have to turn there.

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Go to 1 Corinthians chapter five.

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It is a snare to the man who devoured that

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which is holy and after vows to make inquiry.

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Ecclesiastes five two says,

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Be not rash with thy mouth

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and let not thine heart be hasty

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to utter anything before God,

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for God is in heaven and thou upon the earth.

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Therefore, let thy words be few, the Bible says.

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You know, if God is moving you

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to get right about a particular sin,

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just get right about that particular sin and that's it.

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Don't make a vow that you're gonna do

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some crazy spiritual exploit,

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that you're gonna win 20 people to the Lord this week

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in order to compensate for that particular sin

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that you've committed.

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Just get that right.

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And just do what's required of you in moderation.

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Because look folks,

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the volume of work that you do for the Lord

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is not gonna make God like love you more or something like that.

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It's just like I gotta earn the love of God.

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I gotta earn the favor of the Lord.

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Well, first of all,

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the Bible says that we're accepted in the beloved.

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So that's already taken care of, okay?

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Like, you know, my kids,

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my kids don't have to worry about me loving them more

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or loving them less because of what they do.

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I'm always gonna love them, my children.

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Even if they disappoint me

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or whether they do something extraordinary,

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you know, my love will always be there.

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You know what, the Lord as a saved person,

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you know, the Lord will always love you.

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You will always be accepted

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in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Nothing can separate you from the love of God.

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And so don't try to be like,

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well, I just gotta make sure that I do all types of works.

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I'll be all kinds of commands

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and win all kinds of souls and read, you know,

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tons of chapters in order to gain the favor of God.

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You've already gained it through Christ.

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But if you wanna start somewhere, start here.

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Just get right.

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Get that sin right.

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And look folks, I can't emphasize enough

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how important it is just to be transparent with God.

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Like Lord, you know, I wanna smoke weed.

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I don't wanna smoke weed.

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I'm just giving that example.

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I have no desire to smoke weed.

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Okay, gotta make that clear.

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Don't clip that.

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Not trying to clip for him there.

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But it would be funny if someone clipped that though.

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You know, let's say weed is your temptation, right?

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Which I don't even know if weed is even a thing

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for people, maybe it still is.

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I'm just using it as an illustration.

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Like it's not sacrilegious to just tell the Lord,

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like I'm tempted by marijuana, I wanna smoke weed

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and I'm extremely tempted and I wanna do it

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and I know that it's wrong and I need you

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to help me to overcome that sin, okay?

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And you don't have to tag at the end of that PS,

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I'll be a missionary if you help me too.

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Doesn't work that way.

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Just Lord, just help me overcome it.

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Cause I'm a pothead.

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I'm a weedhead.

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I like to get high, but I know that it's wrong

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cause I'm a child of God and I need you to help me

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control that appetite and get right in that area.

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Just be sincere and transparent with the Lord.

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You know, I'm not saying be irreverent,

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but just be transparent, okay?

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The point being here is that sometimes people go overboard

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just because they failed in the past.

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And again, you know, I got saved when I was 21 years,

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when I was 21 years old, okay?

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And you know, good and bad, it doesn't really matter,

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but me raising six kids, Lord willing,

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later on, seven, eight, nine or whatever,

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as they grow up, I'm gonna have certain standards

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for my kids when it comes to dating or whatever may be

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because I remember me, you know what I mean?

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I remember, like I got the street smarts right here.

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So I remember, I'm gonna be like, okay,

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I'm gonna set certain standards for my kids

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knowing full well what's out there, okay?

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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What would be wrong is if I start imposing that upon you

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or looking down on others

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because they don't have those same standards.

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Do I think it's wise to enact those principles

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and those standards?

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Of course, but do I think you're just a Godless person

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if you don't?

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Absolutely not, and it would be wrong

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for you to think the same thing, okay?

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Don't go overboard just because you failed in the past.

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Look at 1 Corinthians chapter five.

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Let's look at another example here.

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In verse one, it says,

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it is reported commonly that there is fornication among you

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and such fornication as it's not so much

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as name among the Gentiles

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did once you have his father's wife.

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Man, talk about drama.

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This is gross.

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There's fornication at the church at Corinth.

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It's a guy basically committing fornication

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with his stepmom, okay?

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And the reason it's called fornication

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and not adulterous because the implication here

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is that dad, the father has passed away.

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So she's been loosed from the law of her husband

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which is why it's referring to it as fornication.

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But it's weird, okay?

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First of all, it's wrong because that's his stepmom.

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Second of all, it's wrong because it's just fornication

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and fornication is a sin that according to the Bible

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merits excommunication from a church.

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And here's the weird thing is that it's commonly reported.

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What does it mean that it's commonly reported?

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It means this section knows about it,

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this section knows about it

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and that section knows about it as well.

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It's not a secret.

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Everyone just kind of knows that's what they're doing, okay?

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And it says in verse two,

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and you are puffed up and have not rather mourned

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the heed that have done this deed

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might be taken away from among you, okay?

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Now it could be that the stepmom is not part of the church.

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It's just the guy who's a part of the church

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but it's just commonly reported that this has taken place.

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But according to this verse,

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the church is so arrogant and prideful about it,

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they're not like sad and they're like,

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I can't believe this is taking place in church.

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I can't believe we're just allowing this

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and not disciplining this person.

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They're prideful, puffed up means that they're prideful.

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They're like, that's the kind of church we are though.

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We actually love people here.

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We actually care for people here.

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We're not like that first works

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and all these other new FB churches

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that are just so hateful.

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We actually love, what would Jesus do?

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These types of people that are just puffed up,

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they're arrogant, they're prideful, they're hyper spiritual

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and they don't really,

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revisit the sermon from this morning.

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They don't have genuine love, okay?

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And the apostle Paul is saying like,

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this person needs to be taken away from among you.

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He's not saying like, kill him.

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He's saying he needs to be removed, okay?

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And you know in verse three he says,

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for I barely as absent in the body,

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in body but present in spirit have judged already.

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You know what this means?

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There's certain situations we don't need to be present for

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to know the conclusion of the matter.

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Because the apostle Paul is just like,

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I don't even need to be there.

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I've already judged.

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The guy just needs to be thrown out.

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The guy needs to be removed.

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And you know, of course he talks about

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the destruction of the flesh.

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Skip down to verse 11 if you would.

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Of course he goes through the list of various sins

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that can get you thrown out of churches.

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But now I've written onto you not to keep company.

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If any man that is called a brother

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be a fornicator or a covetous

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or an idolator or a railer

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or a drunkard or extortioner

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was such and one, know not to eat.

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For what have I to do to judge them that are without?

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Do not ye judge them that are within

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but them that are without God judges.

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Therefore, put away from among yourselves

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that wicked person.

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Now go to 2 Corinthians chapter seven.

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So what do we have here?

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The apostle Paul is saying like,

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you guys are so arrogant and prideful

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you're not removing this person.

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You're thinking like you're doing God a service.

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You're thinking you're just so spiritual.

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You're thinking you're so righteous

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by keeping this person here.

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God's not pleased with this.

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You're allowing 11 into the church

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and a little 11, 11 at the whole lump.

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You're destroying the church

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by allowing this unrepentant sinner

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to remain in the house of God.

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And he's coming down on them hard.

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And based upon this passage in the previous chapter,

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in chapter four, it sounds like the church of corn

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they're just filled with arrogant and prideful people.

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Because he talks about he's like,

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you're puffed up and you're acting like

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if I come here, you're not gonna do anything about it.

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Cause they're just kind of like,

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yeah, come down here.

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See, what are you gonna do?

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That's like prideful, arrogant

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cause the apostle Paul was the one responsible

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for starting that church.

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He's the leader, okay?

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So you have this problem with this guy, right?

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Apostle Paul brings down the hammer.

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He rips them up.

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He's preaching against them.

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He is verbally chastising them, so to speak.

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Well, by the time we get to second Corinthians,

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it sounds like the guy's been removed.

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So they came to their senses.

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They're like, you know what, this is wrong.

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It is kind of weird, actually,

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not that I think about it.

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It's wrong cause it's a fornication.

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This is not right.

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We need to throw this guy out.

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And they end up excommunicating the guy out of the church.

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So they throw him out,

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but the tone of second Corinthians

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seems to indicate that he got right.

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Meaning that he repented of that sin, okay?

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He broke up with his stepmom or whatever, you know?

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Ah, you know, it's just like weird.

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But he got right, okay?

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He got right.

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The problem is, the Corinthian church,

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they weren't bringing him back into the fold.

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So it seems as though he not only repented of that sin,

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but wanted to be reinstated into his local

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New Testament church, which is the Corinthian church.

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And they would not allow him to come in.

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Why?

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Because they're overdoing it.

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They're going overboard in their judgment

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because of their past failure of not throwing the guy out.

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Okay, look at 2 Corinthians 7, verse 10.

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For Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation,

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not to be repented of,

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but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

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For behold, this else same thing,

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that ye sorrowed after a godly sort,

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what carefulness it wrought in you,

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ye will clearing of yourselves,

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ye will indignation,

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ye would fear,

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ye will vehement desire,

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ye will zeal,

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ye will revenge.

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And all these things you have approved yourselves

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to be clear in this matter.

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So the Apostle Paul was praising him.

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He's like, man, you guys repented hardcore about this.

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Like you got it right,

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it made you zealous,

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you cleared yourself,

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you threw the guy out,

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you did the right thing,

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and now you are clear in this matter.

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You're no longer guilty of housing

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and unrepentant fornication in the church.

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Good job.

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Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, verse 12,

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I did it not for his cause that had done this wrong,

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nor for his cause that suffered wrong,

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but that our care for you in the sight of God

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might appear unto you.

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Go back to chapter two of 2 Corinthians,

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chapter two.

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So he's like, you know,

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you get brownie points.

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Great job.

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But they're going overboard

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because they're not welcoming him.

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They're not welcoming him back into the fold,

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even though he's repentant.

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So what should have they have done?

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They should have forgiven him

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and welcomed him and reinstated him back into the fold.

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And in fact, look at what it says in verse five

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of 2 Corinthians two,

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but if any have caused grief,

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he hath not grieved me,

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but in part that I may not overcharge you all.

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Sufficient to such a man is this punishment,

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which was inflicted of many.

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So it seems to indicate that like a lot of people

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are just getting on this guy.

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He's a fornicator, he's unwilling to repent.

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And I don't think they're like afflicting him.

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I think they're just afflicting him,

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like they're separating him from their company.

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They are condemning what he's doing.

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They're doing what they're supposed to do, right?

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They're shaming that sin, which is good.

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He says in verse seven,

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so that contrary wise,

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ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him,

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lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up over,

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with over, excuse me,

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swallowed up with over much sorrow.

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Wherefore I beseech you

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that you would confirm your love toward him,

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for to this end also did I write

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that I might know the proof of you,

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whether you be obedient in all things.

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So it's like you're obedient in that first part,

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I wanna see if you're obedient in the second part.

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You should forgive this guy, okay?

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Verse 10, to whom ye forgive anything,

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I forgive also.

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For if I forgive anything,

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to whom I forgave it,

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for your six forgave I in the person of Christ.

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Lest Satan should get an advantage of us,

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for we're not ignorant of his devices.

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Meaning that Satan, he's very cunning,

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so he's gonna try to get you

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to keep the fornicator in church,

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unrepentant.

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But once you've thrown him out,

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he's gonna try to keep him from coming back in,

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even though he repented.

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He's always seeking to do the complete opposite

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and try to manipulate the church

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to do the complete opposite, okay?

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The church at Corinth is going overboard,

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they're overcompensating for their past failure.

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Now let me just say this,

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we've thrown the people out of our church

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because of unrepentant sin.

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If you don't like that,

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then there's other churches you can visit

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where they just keep everybody, okay?

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And you can allow the leaven to come into the church

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and just destroy the church,

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that's not this church.

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I will say this though,

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and obviously there's people who've come back,

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they've repented,

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they've come back to the fold

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and we live happily ever after, right?

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However, I will say that there are instances

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where a person has created such an offense

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in the church,

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they get excommunicated,

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and then they want to get right

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and I'll forgive them.

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I'll say, yeah, you're forgiven,

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but I do not want you to come back to this church

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because I feel like people have burned their bridges so bad

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they've completely destroyed relationships

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that they should not be coming to this church.

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Now I'm not saying they can't go to any church

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because they can go to any church they want

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except for this one.

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Now that doesn't happen very often

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but I do believe pastors have the right

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to make that decision.

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I believe that there are instances

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where people have just destroyed the relationships

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in the church to such a degree

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it would be unwise to allow them to come back to our church.

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We say, well, how do you fit that with 2nd Corinthians 7?

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Here's how I fit it.

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Go to the church of Galatia.

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Go to the church of Ephesus.

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Go to the Colossian church.

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Go start over at a different church

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because let me remind you,

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when someone gets excommunicated from a church,

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they're not allowed to go to any church.

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I mean, that's how it should be, okay?

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And we've had people who have been excommunicated

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from our church, they've been thrown out from our church

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and then they want to get reinstated

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but hold on a second, while in excommunication

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they were going to different churches.

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You know what that tells me?

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They're completely undermining the authority of this church.

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So they were fine going to other

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fundamental Baptist churches and just being there

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and being part of that fold

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and then once they get tired of that preaching,

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once they get tired of the sermon,

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they're like, okay, now I can repent

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because I want the good preaching now or whatever.

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No, you can't come back

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because you don't even respect the authority here.

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You didn't respect the excommunication.

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You didn't respect the discipline.

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So no, you can't come back.

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Go back to the other church.

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Point being here is that people

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will sometimes overcompensate.

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Now, let me just say this is that,

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if you failed in the past,

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you know, prior BC, prior to Christ

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or even as a Christian,

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there's nothing wrong with kind of overdoing it

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to a certain degree.

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God wants you to become zealous for the things of God

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just as you were zealous for the things of the world.

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I speak after the manner of man

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because of the infirmity of your flesh, the Bible says,

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for as ye have yielded your members,

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servants to uncleanness and to uncleanness,

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even so now, you yourself serve to righteousness

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and to holiness.

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Basically saying like, hey,

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just as you were all in for the world,

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now that you're a Christian,

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now that you're in church,

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be all in for the things of God for sure.

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Go all in.

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You should be excited about the things of God,

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like you're excited about the things of the world,

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in other words.

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Go to Genesis chapter 38.

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Genesis chapter 38.

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So Christians go overboard because of past failures.

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And what you need to do is just get that right,

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confess it before the Lord

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and not hold some unreasonable standard for other people.

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If you want to keep that standard for yourself,

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so be it.

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But don't necessarily impose it upon others, okay?

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Point number two is that Christians go overboard

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when covering their current sin.

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Now in the previous point,

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it was past failures,

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which is why people overcompensate,

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they kind of go overboard.

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But there are also instances where people go overboard

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because they're trying to deter attention

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from the fact that they're currently committing

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some sort of sin.

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And this happens as well.

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They're just super righteous,

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super holy, very condemning.

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They're just hyper spiritual,

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but it's only because they're committing

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some crevice sins in the current moment.

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And that is a major thing.

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It's like they just become these major Pharisees,

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just holier than nows.

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Why is it because they really

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just love holiness and righteousness?

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No, it's probably because they're committing

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a sin themselves in this particular time

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and they're trying to deter attention

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from that sin that they're committing.

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Now let me give you an example here.

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Genesis 38 is one of the most random stories

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in the Bible, okay?

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Now we're not gonna read the entire story.

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You could read it as a bedtime story for yourself

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if you'd like, just because I don't have that much time.

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I'll give you a synopsis, okay?

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You know, you basically have Ur and Onan, all right?

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If you read the Bible, you know, all right?

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You know, these guys were wicked before the Lord,

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they were smitten before the Lord,

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and of course, one of them spilled their seed

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on the ground because they didn't want to raise up,

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you know, children unto his brother, okay?

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It's really weird, right?

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Well, look at verse 11.

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It says, then said Judah to Tamar, his daughter-in-law,

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remain a widow at thy father's house

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till she loved my son be grown,

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for he said, let's pray adventure, he die also,

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as his brethren did, and Tamar went

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and dwelled in her father's house.

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

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I know my sons were wicked and they died,

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but you know, just stay a widow,

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and once my other son grows up, he's of age,

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he can marry you, raise up seed unto his brother,

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and so forth.

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And so she obeys, Tamar obeys.

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Verse 12 says, and in the process of time,

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the daughter of Shua Judah's wife died,

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and Judah was comforted and went up

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unto his sheep shears in Timnath,

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he and his friends, Hyra, the Adulamite.

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And it was told, Tamar saying, behold, thy father-in-law,

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goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

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And she put her widow's garment off from her

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and covered her with the veil,

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and wrapped herself and sat in an open place,

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which is by the way of Timnath, to Timnath,

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for she saw that Sheila was grown

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and she was not given unto him to wife.

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Now this is weird, okay?

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So basically he's just like, hey, I've waited,

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Sheila's grown now, and Judah is like refusing,

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he's not giving me to be his wife, why is this?

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Like why is he like procrastinating?

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Why is he following through on his promise?

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So she conspires to do this really weird thing, okay?

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You know, basically what the garments that she's putting on

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is basically the garment of a prostitute.

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She acted like a whore, okay?

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This is how they dress.

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Verse 15 says, when Judah saw her,

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he thought her to be a harlot,

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because she had covered her face.

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It's crazy how culture has shifted now, huh?

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Like being a harlot of those that covered the face,

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now being a harlot of those that you don't cover anything.

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It says in verse 16, and he turned unto her, by the way,

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and said, go to I pray thee, let me come in unto thee,

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for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law.

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And she said, what wilt thou give me

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that thou mayest come in unto me?

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And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock.

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And she said, wilt thou give me a pledge

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till thou send it?

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He said, what pledge shall I give thee?

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She said, thy signet, and thy bracelets,

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and thy staff that is in thine hand.

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And he gave it her, and came in unto her,

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and she conceived by him.

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So basically, he hires her as a prostitute.

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So he basically commits fornication

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with his daughter-in-law, an extremely wicked sin.

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Obviously, she's wicked for even conspiring to do this,

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but he's also wicked for just going around with prostitutes.

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Look at verse 19, and she arose, went away,

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laid by her veil from her,

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and put on the garments of a widowhood.

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And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend,

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the Adulamite, to receive his pledge

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from the woman's hand, and he found her not.

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So it was just like, hey, I need you to find this prostitute

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that I offer, you know, she gave me her services,

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take this cattle and give it to her

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because that's her payment or whatever.

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But he's like, well, I don't see her.

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Okay, she's not there.

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Verse 20 says, and Judah sent the kid

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by the hand of the friend, or verse 21, excuse me,

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then he asked the man of that place saying,

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where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside?

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And they said, there was no harlot in this place.

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Kind of an embarrassing question there.

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They're like, there is no harlot here.

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Why are you looking for a harlot?

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And he's just like, oh, just kidding.

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I'm just seeing, I'm just checking on you guys.

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It was a test, it was a test.

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And he returned to Judah and said, I cannot find her.

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And also the man of the place said

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that there was no harlot in this place.

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And Judah said, let her take it to her

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lest we be shamed.

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Behold, I sent this kid and now has now found her.

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And it came to pass about three months after

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that it was told Judah saying,

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Tamar, thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot.

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And also behold, she is with child by hordom.

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And Judah said, bring her forth and let her be burnt.

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So he's just like, hey, I just want to let you know

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your daughter-in-law is pregnant.

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And she's not married, so she's obviously playing the whore.

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She's, you know, you know, being a whore,

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she got pregnant and he's just like, burn her.

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What is he doing?

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He's going overboard.

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He's overcompensating.

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Bro, you're the dad.

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Put in on Mori Povic, you know what I mean?

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And he would be 100% guilty.

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You are, Judah, you are the father.

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Ah, you know, the camera's like following him and everything.

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When she was brought forth,

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she sent her father-in-law saying, you know,

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okay, so, you know, we don't agree with Tamar.

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Tamar is wicked for doing this,

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but she got him really good though.

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Because what does she say?

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She says, you know, okay, I'll take the kid,

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but you know, give me a down payment.

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What do you want?

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Your rings and your staff, okay?

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So she disappears, but she keeps those possessions.

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So he's like, bring her forth and she comes forth

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and she's confident and she's not worried about it at all,

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right?

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And verse 25 says, when she was brought forth,

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she sent her father-in-law saying,

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by the man whose these are, am I with child?

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And she said, discern I pray thee,

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whose are these, the signet, bracelets, and staff?

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Now imagine how flush Judah was at that point

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when he saw it, he's like, oh crap, you know.

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Judah acknowledged him and said,

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she has been more righteous than I.

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Yeah, you think?

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You know, anybody at this point

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is more righteous than you, bro.

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You're like hiding the sin, you're fornicating,

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and then you're trying to burn your daughter-in-law

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for playing the whore because she's caught,

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but you were also a whore.

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You're a whore monger according to the Bible, okay?

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Because then I gave her not to Sheila, my son,

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and he knew her again no more.

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Yeah, good for you, Judah, you know.

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What do we see here?

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We see that sometimes people go overboard

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because they have some sin in their life, okay?

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And this is what we see in Matthew chapter seven, right?

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Matthew chapter seven,

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people who are trying to take the moe out of their brother's eye

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all the while having a beam in their own eye.

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That's what's called hypocritical judging.

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When you're just like, oh, you need to get this right,

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you need to correct this area,

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while they got a redwood tree sticking out of their own eye.

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And look, the Bible doesn't condemn judging.

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The Bible says to judge righteous judgment.

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And what is righteous judgment?

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Judging others for sins that you yourself

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are not committing.

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It's not that hard too, by the way.

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Just don't do the stuff that people are doing,

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and you can judge that sin according to the Bible.

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But if you're judging someone for a particular sin

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while you yourself are committing that sin,

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or you're just living a godless life,

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you're obviously overcompensating

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you're a wicked person according to the Bible.

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It's not right for you to do.

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Now, what's another example of this?

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Well, probably one of the most famous examples is David.

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David, murdering Uriah,

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committing adultery with Bathsheba.

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Nathan comes to David,

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and he tells him this little illustration,

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gives him this little Israeli proverb, right?

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This little Judean proverb here

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of a man with his Ulam,

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and then the guy takes the Ulam, and they eat it,

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the guy who's rich takes it,

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and then the guy's where they say,

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it grew up with them as a daughter,

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and then David's just like, that guy needs to be killed.

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He needs to be put to death.

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And he's just like, well, first of all,

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people aren't put to death for stealing animals.

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That's not part of the Mosaic law.

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He's to restore that back unto him, right?

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But the death penalty is not instituted.

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Oh, and by the way, thou art the man.

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You know, obviously the illustration was given to him

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in order to demonstrate the fact that

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King David was the one who took the Ulam,

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which is Bathsheba.

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But what did we see with David?

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He's just overcompensating

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because he's guilty of a particular sin, okay?

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Now look, don't think that because people

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are judging sins in our church or something,

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oh, they must have some sinned, you know?

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That's not necessarily the case.

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I'm just saying that is the case sometimes

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where you have people, and you know,

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and I remember just a couple of years ago,

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guys coming to me like, what do you think about parents

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having TVs in their houses?

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I mean, I just feel like it wouldn't be right

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to have TVs in the house, but then these same guys

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were like guilty of greater sins.

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What are they doing?

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They're overcompensating.

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They are overdoing it, going overboard,

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and just trying to turn attention away from the fact

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that they're committing a grievous sin

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according to the Bible, okay?

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Go to 2 Samuel.

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Actually, go to John chapter 12.

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John chapter 12.

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Here's my two last points.

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I'm gonna review this over on my third one,

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and this is that Christians go overboard

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because they have an inferiority complex.

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Sometimes people just go overboard

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just because they feel like they need to portray themselves

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to be something that they're not,

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and I feel like, you know, this was very common

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back in the day, you know, when I was growing up

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with my friends, they used to talk about

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like the short man syndrome, right?

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Where if you had like a really small guy,

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you know, and he was tiny, he was short,

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and I'm not against short people.

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Hey, I'm not short, I mean, I'm not tall.

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I'm very short, you know, I'm average height,

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but most, you know, I'm not six foot one

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or whatever, six foot two, you know,

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and when I grew up with my friends,

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I was the shortest one out of all my friends.

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You know, they were all taller than me,

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but I remember when there would be these guys

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who were just really skinny or just really short,

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they would overcompensate by purchasing very large things.

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You know, you have this really small guy

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who just buy this massive truck or something, right?

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Or just, you know, just everything that they had

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was just very large, and it's just like, you know,

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it sounds like you're overcompensating there.

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And here's the thing, folks, is that

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we need to make sure that as Christians,

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you know, we don't develop this inferiority complex.

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We're accepted in the beloved,

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we're fearfully and wonderfully made,

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and if it feel like you're lacking

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in a certain area in your Christian life,

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just allow God to make up the difference, right?

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Allow God to make up the difference.

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You're like, I'm not good looking.

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We know, but hey.

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It's okay, though.

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It's okay, you know.

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If you are an ugly person,

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if you are, you know,

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if you have certain deficiencies in your life,

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you're not gifted,

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if you feel like you don't have the talents, that's okay.

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Then why don't you go ahead and cry out to God

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and have him use you and to make up the difference,

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because you know what?

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Your deficiencies make you a candidate

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for giving more glory to God, okay?

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That's how it needs to be viewed.

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Now I'm like, oh man,

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I just need to make up for this in other ways

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and just be super rich or something

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just to make up because I just, you know,

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I'm chocked or something,

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or I'm just so ugly,

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or I just lack in these areas.

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You know, we're Christians, we're believers,

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we believe in the word of God,

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we're not into vanity,

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we're not into things that are temporal of this world.

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We need to recognize that the greatest thing

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that we possess is God in us, the hope of glory.

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Christ in us, the hope of glory, right?

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And look at the apostle Paul.

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According to the Bible,

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it seems as though the apostle Paul

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was just kind of like a regular guy.

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He wasn't necessarily, you know,

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the most visibly impressive person,

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yet he did more than all the apostles,

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yet not I, but the grace of God that was with him, right?

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And so Christians can often go overboard

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because they have an inferiority complex,

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but what they need to do is do this.

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I must decrease that he may increase, right?

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Glorify God and recognize that, you know,

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it's good to have certain deficiencies

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because it humbles you, right?

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So that you're not proud and arrogant

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and you would rely upon the Lord that much more.

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Lastly, is that Christians can go overboard

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just because they're wicked.

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Sometimes there's just people who are just evil

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and wicked, I'll just be honest with you.

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And when I say Christians,

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I'm using that term very loosely in this point

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because this often applies to people

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who are false prophets, it applies to unsafe people.

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They will often go overboard in order to deter attention

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away from the fact that they're actually evil, wicked people.

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Look at John chapter 12 and verse one.

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Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany

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where Lazarus was, which had been dead,

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whom he had raised from the dead.

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There they made him a supper and Martha served,

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but Lazarus was one of them

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that sat at the table with him.

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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikennard,

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very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus

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and wiped his feet with her hair

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and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

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Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot,

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Simon's son, which should betray him

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in case you guys didn't know who that was.

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Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pens

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and given to the poor?

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It's like, wow, I didn't think about that.

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Such a spiritual thing to say, right?

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He's just like, hey, what are we doing?

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This could have been given,

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we could have built a well with this.

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We could have done something for the poor

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in this regard and just wasted here.

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Oh man, so spiritual, right?

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You're just so spiritual,

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why wasn't this sold to feed the poor

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and clothe the poor instead of putting all this money in

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to doing all this and wasting it away?

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We could have done something significant with this

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for the poor.

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Verse six, this he said, not that he cared for the poor.

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Bro, did not care for the poor.

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He does not care for the poor.

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But because he was a thief and had the bag

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and Barrow was put there in.

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So it's not like he just was so genuine, sincere.

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You know, he's just so genuine, sincere.

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Why are you guys wasting this?

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I look at the poor person out there

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and I just wanna,

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we could have bought so many meals

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and so many fishes and loaves.

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Bro, you're a thief.

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You're just saying that because you wanna keep the money.

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It's like, you know,

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when we threw out the transformer,

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the tranny from our church,

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a lot of people were like,

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why didn't you invite him in?

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Why didn't you like welcome him?

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Why didn't you teach him?

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And this is what I said,

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why don't you give me the address to your church

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and I'll send them over there.

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I even made a video.

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I even said, hey,

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if you're condemning me for what I did,

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I got a great idea.

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Send me your address

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and I'll make a video promoting your church

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to send all the transformers right over there

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because you're so loving.

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Not a single bite.

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That's interesting.

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So many people condemning me for this.

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So many, oh, I just don't understand

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why you would do something like,

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we need to show them the love of God.

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Yeah, show me how it's done then.

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Show me.

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Send me the address.

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That's not the point.

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No, that is the point.

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And that's literally like,

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well, that's like, you're missing the point.

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Oh, I'm not missing the point.

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If you're a better Christian than me,

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if you're just more loving than me,

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if you're just more gracious than me,

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then why should I bring them to my church?

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I could just send them right over to you.

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And in fact, I have such a large following.

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I could just make a video,

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get hundreds of thousands of views

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to promote all the trannies to go there.

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Not a single one.

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No one, no one DM me.

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No one put an address in the comment section.

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You know why?

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Because they're disgusted with trannies too.

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That's why.

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They're like, dang.

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I don't know.

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I don't want that.

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You know why they were saying that?

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Because they themselves are probably trannies.

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They are spiritual trannies.

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They're just wicked people who are trying to do too much.

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They're going overboard

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because they want people to think

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that they're just so loving, so spiritual, so godly.

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No, you are a hypocrite.

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At least I'm real about it though.

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At least I'm real about what I say.

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When I tell you, they're not welcome here.

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Guess what?

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And they will never be welcome here.

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At least I'm being genuine about it.

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I'm not saying, well, I love them,

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but they're just not welcome.

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No, I don't love them.

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Don't misunderstand what I'm saying.

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I'm not like, well, I love them.

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We just can't really have them here.

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No, they can't be here at all.

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I got no love for them.

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At least I'm being genuine with you though.

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Not like these other guys are like,

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oh, we should show them the love of God,

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but then they don't show them the love of God.

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At least, if you're gonna walk the walk,

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if you're gonna talk the talk, walk the walk.

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I'm talking the talk and I'm walking the walk.

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But what is this?

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It's showing you people go overboard

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because they're actually wicked.

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They speak the spiritual talk only because of the fact

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that they're actually evil, wicked people.

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They are like Judas Iscariot.

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They're the thief.

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They hold the bag.

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They don't care for the poor.

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Oh, instead of these churches

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just spending all this money

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and why don't you actually do something with it?

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Oh, send me your paycheck

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and I'll utilize that to go buy a well.

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Guarantee you no one will do anything about that.

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It's only people who are these

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hyper-spiritual individuals who are super evil, super wicked.

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They wanna condemn the righteous,

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but at the end of the day,

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they themselves are evil individuals.

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While they promise them liberty, the Bible says,

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they themselves are the servants of corruption.

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Second Peter chapter two verse 19.

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What's the point here?

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The point is this, folks, moderation.

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Moderation.

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Be a righteous person,

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but you don't gotta go overboard.

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Just incrementally become a righteous individual.

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You don't have to tell me you're righteous.

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You don't gotta act righteous around me.

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Just be yourself.

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And if yourself is a little righteous and a little carnal,

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I'd rather take that

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than the person who's acting righteous

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but they're all carnal.

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They're just a fake, they're just a phony.

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They're just playing the part.

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Just be real with me.

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You don't have to act like you're super righteous.

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Hey, if you grew up in a Christian home,

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you don't gotta be a fake around me

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if you are a little carnal.

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Just be genuine.

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Go in the right direction.

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Be a sanctified person.

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Go in the,

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make sure that you are conforming to the image of Christ,

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but don't be a fake and a phony.

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Be genuine.

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Don't go overboard.

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Have a balance.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we thank you so much for your word.

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And I pray that, Lord, you'd bless us as your people.

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Help us to be sincere.

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That is basically the theme of today's sermons

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is sincerity.

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Being genuine, help us, Lord,

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as your people to be pure in that area, Lord.

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To have genuine love, not dissimulated love

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and help us not to go overboard on some things, Lord.

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It's good to be righteous.

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And on the scale of righteousness,

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may we lean more towards being righteous than wicked.

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Of course, that's the goal.

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But I pray that you'd help us to just avoid being a hypocrite.

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Avoid just being a fake and a phony, Lord,

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just because we want to impress others.

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Help us to be real, Lord.

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And I pray that you would conform us to the image of Christ.

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Lord, help us to forget those things which are behind.

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If we've had failures in the past,

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it's good that maybe we integrate standards

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into our personal lives

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so that we don't give in to past sins,

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but we not impose it upon others

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and think that we're better than someone else

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just because they don't have that same standard.

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And I pray that, Lord,

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if there's someone here who has unrepentant sin

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that haven't gotten right with God,

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may you help them to get right

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and work in their hearts, Lord, to repent of that sin

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so they can be vessels unto honor

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and meet for the master's use.

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And I pray you bless us as we go on our way.

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We love you.

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We thank you.

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Pray these things in Jesus' name amen.