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Amen.

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Okay, we're in Romans chapter 15,

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look down at your Bibles in verse number one.

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It says,

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We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities

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of the weak and not to please ourselves.

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Let every one of us please this neighbor

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for his good to edification.

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And the title of my sermon this evening

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is we that are strong.

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We that are strong.

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I want to preach a sermon tonight

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directed towards those who are strong in the Lord

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and in the power of his might,

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those who are spiritually matured

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and the attitude that we as mature Christians

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should have towards those who are weaker in the faith.

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Okay.

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Now, what do I mean by weaker in the faith?

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I'm talking about those who are babes in Christ.

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Sometimes people hear that

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and kind of take it as an insult.

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But at the end of the day,

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we all started off as babes in Christ, right?

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What is a babe in Christ?

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It's someone who's newly saved.

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They've just believed on the Lord Jesus Christ

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or newly saved.

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There are born again Christian.

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They're very much new to the faith.

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They're someone who the Bible would consider

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or categorize to be someone who's weak in the faith.

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They're not necessarily strong in the Lord as of yet.

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And, you know, obviously it's great

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to have babes in Christ in the church, right?

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Because this means that people are getting saved.

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This means that the church is reaching a lot of people

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and we want new Christians in the church.

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Amen.

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We want to be able to reach people with the gospel.

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And obviously when we talk about babes in Christ

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we're not just referring to those who are newly saved.

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We're even talking about people

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who have been saved for quite some time

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but they never actually grew in their faith, okay?

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Meaning that maybe you got saved 10 years ago.

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You got saved 15 years ago, 20 years ago,

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but you actually never learned the Bible.

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You never got faithful to church.

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You never learned doctrine.

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According to the Bible, you would be considered

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a babe in Christ.

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A babe in Christ is someone who's newly saved.

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A babe in Christ is someone who has been saved

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for quite some time but never grew in their faith.

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A babe in Christ is someone who hasn't necessarily,

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listen to this, learned Christian virtue.

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Meaning that they are emotionally unstable.

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Maybe they don't necessarily have the perseverance

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within them, the endurance necessary

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to make it in the Christian life.

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They would be considered babes in Christ.

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And it's important for us as Christians

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who are strong in the Lord

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to have the right attitude towards babes in Christ, okay?

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You say, why is that?

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Well, obviously we know we're supposed to treat them well

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and we're glad that there's babes in Christ.

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Sometimes we can, as strong Christians,

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we can have a bad attitude towards newer Christians.

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Meaning that we can become overly judgmental towards them,

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hold them to a certain standard

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that they're not necessarily ready for, amen?

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And it's for that reason that we need to make sure

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that we approach new, newly saved people

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in the scriptural manner

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so that we don't cause people to stumble.

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We don't discourage people from the way.

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We don't cause people to not mature in their faith

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because of our disposition towards them, okay?

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Now, we're in Romans chapter 15.

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Go with me if you want to 2 Timothy chapter two.

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2 Timothy chapter two, bless you.

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2 Timothy chapter two.

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Now, let me start off by saying that, you know,

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obviously, as I mentioned,

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when a person is newly saved or a babe in Christ,

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but let me also say this, you know,

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sometimes Christians, if they grew in their faith,

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but then they stop growing,

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they could actually regress

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to becoming a babe in Christ once again.

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Meaning that they can be the type of person

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who just is kind of stable.

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They stop disciplining themselves

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and adding to their faith virtue to virtue knowledge,

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and therefore they can kind of regress

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to become a babe in Christ.

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Now, if you say, like, what happens at that point though?

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If I regress as a Christian to become a babe in Christ

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again, what does that say?

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Does that mean it's just,

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it's a lot more difficult to mature in my faith again?

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No, it's kind of like exercising, okay?

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You know, when someone exercises,

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they're lifting weights, they build new muscle,

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and anybody will tell you that if you get out of the gym

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for any length of time, your muscle kind of goes away,

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and it's kind of discouraging.

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You're like, man, I can't lift like I used to lift before.

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I'm super weak, and I feel like I used to be stronger

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than before, or stronger in times past,

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and now I'm really weak, but here's the good news though.

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That muscle still there just needs to be exercised again.

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You need to eat the protein,

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get back on a routine of exercise,

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and you'll actually see that when you start getting

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back into the gym, you'll grow that muscle again fairly quickly.

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You know what, same thing with you.

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If you regress in your Christian faith,

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maybe you're not as committed as it used to be,

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maybe you've kind of drawn back a little bit.

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The good news is that you could actually hop back on

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and regrow that muscle, so to speak, that spiritual muscle,

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and become exactly where you were in times past

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and even exceed that standard and that level that you're at.

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The point being here is that everyone starts off

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a babe in Christ, but the goal should be

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that we don't remain babes in Christ, okay?

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And we need to make sure that as strong Christians,

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we actually have the right answers.

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So let me give you a couple things this evening,

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the type of attitude that we should have

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towards those who are new in the faith.

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First and foremost, babes in Christ,

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let me start off by saying that they're easily deceived.

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Therefore, we have to teach them.

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Now that sounds basic, but you'd be surprised.

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You know, sometimes Christians,

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because babes in Christ are just susceptible

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to false doctrine, they're very gullible,

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you know, stronger Christians have a tendency

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to be a little unmerciful towards people who are like that.

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Oh man, they should know better.

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They're coming to this type of church.

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They've already heard this preaching,

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but here's the problem though.

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They're still young in the faith.

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And if you're young in the faith,

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if you're still a babe in Christ,

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you may not have, they may not have

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the same spiritual disciplines that you have

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that you've accumulated over years of being in church.

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And so you have to understand something

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the Bible tells us that babes in Christ

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are easily susceptible.

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You know what that means?

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It means they believe stupid doctrines sometimes.

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They believe really retarded doctrines.

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And you know what?

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Obviously it's important for us to not let that pass,

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to teach them, to admonish them,

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but we also have to understand,

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well, they're a babe in Christ.

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What would I expect?

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I'm not gonna expect someone who's just newly saved

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to just get on board doctrinally right off the bat

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and accumulate all the knowledge

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that I've accumulated over a span of 20 years

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to just have them get it in a week's span.

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It doesn't work that way.

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We need to make sure that we're patient with them

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and that we teach them.

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The Bible says you're in 2 Timothy,

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I'm gonna read to you from Ephesians 4 in verse 11.

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And obviously in order for a babe in Christ

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to not be that way,

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to not believe in stupid doctrines,

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they have to be in church, right?

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That's like baseline.

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They have to be in church.

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The Bible tells us that he gave some apostles

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and some prophets and some evangelists

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and some pastors and teachers

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for the perfecting of the saints,

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for the work of the ministry,

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for the edifying of the body of Christ.

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Later on it says that we henceforth be no more children,

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tossed to and fro,

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carried about with every wind of doctrine.

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You know what that tells me?

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Children in Christ are easily persuaded

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into false doctrine, okay?

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And let me just explain something to you

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because I feel like this is something

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that maybe sometimes our church struggles with quite a bit,

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especially those who are mature in the faith.

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They automatically think,

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well, if someone comes to our church

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believing a doctrine that is contrary to what we believe,

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we need to make sure that we,

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they either get on board or get the hell out, okay?

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That's kind of the attitude that people have sometimes.

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Why aren't they getting it?

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They need to get on board.

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They need to make sure that they're on par

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and I agree with you, okay?

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But what I don't agree with

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is that we need to boot them out if they're not on par.

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This is the only time that someone

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who's not doctrinally sound is booted out

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as if they're trying to make proselytes

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and converts in the church.

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If they're disseminating false doctrine in the church,

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if they're going around teaching others

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to believe the stupid nonsense,

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then at that point

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we have to excommunicate them from the church.

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But you know what?

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If they want to be stupid on their own

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and believe a stupid doctrine

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and be in our church, have at it.

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And people think, yeah, but you know,

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what if we just let them remain?

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What do you think's gonna happen?

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What do you think's gonna happen?

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And let me give you an example of this, okay?

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Years ago, back in, this is, you know,

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BOC, before Orange County, okay?

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This is in Omani.

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You know, I remember, you know,

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one time this guy came to visit for the weekend,

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him and his wife.

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And you know, he seemed like a cool guy.

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You know, he came from Australia, you know,

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and he came to visit

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and he was part of a church out there.

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And I wasn't really asking him

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a whole bunch of questions,

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but he seemed really nice.

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He said he was a fan of the church.

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He listened to the preaching.

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But then he talked about where the church he was from.

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And I was like, oh, this is a bad church.

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The church he was from.

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This is Victor Tage, Victor Tage church, okay?

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Which is a oneness church.

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And we are a Trinitarian church, right?

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Like we believe in the Trinity

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and we don't teach Pentecostal oneness,

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modalist, nonsense.

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Well, this guy, you know,

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I was like, Victor Tage,

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I was like, doesn't he like,

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that's like a oneness church, I told him.

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He's like, yeah, but I feel like

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people are misunderstanding him.

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And you know, he was just kind of

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making excuses for his pastor.

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And I was kind of asking him like, you know,

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what do you believe?

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And he claimed that he was Trinitarian,

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but he kind of had some oneness views, okay?

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And I was like, all right, well, you know,

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if that's what he wants to believe, whatever.

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So then this guy from our church

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who doesn't go to our church anymore,

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he comes up to me,

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and he's just like, we need to fix this.

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Like right now, this guy, you know,

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we need to work like, we just can't let this.

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And I'm thinking in my mind like, we, who's we?

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What do you mean, we?

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You know, he's like, we just can't let this spread.

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And this is what I told him, I said,

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what do you think he's gonna do

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in a span of three days?

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He's here over the weekend.

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And I'm thinking to myself,

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are you that weak in your faith?

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Are you that doctrinally unstable

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that you feel like someone's literally

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gonna switch you over to the onus Pentecostal doctrine

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in a span of three days?

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I'm like, are you really threatened by someone like that?

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And look, obviously I'm not a onus Pentecostal.

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It's a damnable heresy, it's stupid.

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But you know, if someone comes to our church

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over the weekend and believes that nonsense,

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we'll rebuke it, but I'm not gonna throw him out

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because he's not trying to win anybody else over to that.

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And you know, I'm not threatened

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by someone like that either.

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The only time that would pose a problem

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is if this guy was going around

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teaching onus Pentecostalism.

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Let me give you another example.

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People are allowed to come to our church

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if they believe in the pre-tribulation rapture.

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And the pre-tribulation rapture's stupid.

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It's a retarded doctrine.

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Okay, it's super retarded, it's super stupid.

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But if someone came to our church

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and they're just like, hey,

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I just really love the preaching here,

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there's just one thing I disagree with you on,

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that is the pre-tribulation rapture.

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I would explain to them why he's wrong

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and if you choose to stay here,

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I'd be like, all right, you know,

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you're just gonna have to deal with me,

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calling that out, shaming it,

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and teaching you the biblical manner

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of End Times Bible Prophecy, but he can stay.

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Now, obviously, if he's going around

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trying to win people to Peter Ruckman,

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dispensationalism, he would get rebuked.

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And if he doesn't repent,

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then guess what, now at that point,

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I have to throw him out.

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But you know what, I'm not threatened

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by someone who believes in a stupid doctrine.

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If they just remain in church,

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they're not threatening anybody.

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And look folks, I think we have

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enough people in our church that are

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doctrineally sound and we don't really

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have to worry about that.

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What's gonna happen?

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But what if we just let,

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what do you think they're gonna do?

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They're just gonna manipulate you or something?

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Are you that weak in your faith

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that you feel like someone,

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hey, if someone came in here and was a Zionist,

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I would let them be in here.

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I don't think they'd stay here for long though.

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They'd probably be like,

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this guy's too anti-Semitic for me or something.

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But if they came and they were a full blown Zionist,

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you know, they can remain here if they want to.

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Because if they're saved, they can remain here.

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Okay, if they're saved.

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And if they are, you know,

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if they're diplomatic in their attendance,

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they're not trying to make proselytes.

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They're not trying to win people over.

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And look folks, let me just remind you

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that we have a structure in our church

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whereby no one can,

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no one's just not gonna get away with anything.

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There's just not gonna get away with stuff here.

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We're gonna find out eventually

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if people are trying to draw people away

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draw disciples away after them.

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And you might be sitting there thinking like,

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I don't know pastor, I don't know if they're,

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if they believe that, well, what's gonna happen?

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What is gonna happen?

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Are they gonna win you over?

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Yeah, but what if they start like,

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talking to people, let them talk to them.

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I mean, I have full confidence in our church membership

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that they're not gonna be persuaded towards heresy.

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And look, let's just say a Catholic comes in here.

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Okay, a full blown Catholic

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and he just wants to send the services.

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Okay, okay.

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And you say, yeah, but what if they win someone over

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and they take someone,

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they take someone with them to the Catholic church?

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Good riddance!

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Good riddance!

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They're like, ah, you know how people message me

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all the time, they're like, yeah,

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but you know how many Protestants

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we've went over to the Catholic church?

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This is what I told them, good riddance.

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Good.

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And you know what?

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If you are in our church,

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entertaining, becoming a Catholic,

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go!

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Go worship the Queen of Heaven.

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Go worship idols.

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If you wanna be an ortho, go kiss an icon.

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Cause you're already apostate at that point.

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I'm not threatened by that.

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It doesn't bother me at all.

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I'm not gonna get up here and say,

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oh man, I'm just really scared

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that people are gonna be won over to Catholicism,

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to Orthodoxy,

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because if you can be won over

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to those damnable heresies,

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you deserve to leave.

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You deserve to be carried away.

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You deserve to go apostate,

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because you're a fake and you're a phony!

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The point being here,

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people can come believing stupid doctrines.

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Hey, if people believe in the Flat Earth,

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it's a retarded doctrine.

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You know my position on that.

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It's super stupid.

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It's majorly retarded.

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I will hate the Flat Earth till the day that I die.

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It's a stupid doctrine

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and pretty much everyone agrees with me on that.

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But you know what?

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If people come here believing that,

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they can stay.

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As long as they don't try to

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win people over to Flat Earth.

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As long as they're not on their teams,

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trying to win people over and talk about it.

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And as long as they keep their mouths shut,

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they can stay, amen.

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Oh, I don't think that's right.

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Well, that's the policy I have here, though.

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So it's a balanced view.

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Babes in Christ are often carried about

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with every wind of doctrine, my friends.

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And you can't be threatened by babes in Christ.

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Don't feel threatened by babes in Christ.

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Don't feel that they're somehow

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just gonna destroy our church.

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They could only destroy our church

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if our church is just filled with absolute idiots.

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But you are a smart bunch.

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Okay, I believe in you.

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I know that you're smart.

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I believe you know doctrine.

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I don't think you're carried about

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with every wind of doctrine.

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Therefore, we don't have to worry about it.

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Yeah, but I just feel like, you know,

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I just feel we just gotta do something about it.

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Yeah, we do have to do something about it.

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This is what we do.

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We have to teach them.

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Gotta be patient with them.

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2 Timothy 2, 23 says,

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but foolish and unlearned questions avoid

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knowing that they do gender stripes.

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And the servant of the Lord must not strive,

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but be gentle to all men

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apt to teach patient

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in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves

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if God prevention will give them repentance

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to the acknowledging of the truth.

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So obviously we as the teachers,

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we as, you know, the stronger Christians,

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we need to make sure

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that we're patient towards these people.

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They were meek towards them one on one

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and say, you know what?

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This is a heresy.

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This is a false doctrine.

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And you're not gonna convince me otherwise.

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And you're just gonna have to put up with the fact

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that this is the position of the church.

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And that's it.

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And here's the thing folks,

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you strong Christians understand this.

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There's a major difference

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between someone who believes heresy

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and someone who's trying to teach heresy.

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That's the major difference there.

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Listen to me again.

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Listen to that again.

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There's a major difference

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between those who believe in heresy

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and those who are trying to spread heresy.

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That's a major difference.

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The one who's trying to spread heresy out of the church,

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the one who believes heresy,

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let's be patient with them.

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Hopefully they come out of that.

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Hopefully they mature in their faith.

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They read the Bible.

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You know, we shamed that doctrine enough

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to the point of just like,

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you know what, I need to shed this off.

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I need to just repent of this

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and just get it right

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and not be persuaded by nonsense.

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And keep in mind folks,

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you know, the Bible tells us in Galatians chapter five

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that heresy is a work of the flesh.

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It's a work of the flesh.

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That's literally what it says.

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It means that Christians are susceptible

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to heresy and false doctrine, okay?

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You're like, wow, man.

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And let me just tell you right now,

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there's a guy who comes to our church.

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He's not here today.

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There's a guy who comes to our church.

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Listen to me, there's an atheist.

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Can you believe that?

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Yeah, he's an absolute,

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in fact, he's been coming over the last like two years.

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Now he comes to support his wife

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and you know, his wife really loves our church

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and he's not coming necessarily out of conviction.

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He's coming in support of his spouse.

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And you know, he's not, you know,

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contentious about it or nothing.

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He sits in the services.

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He just tries to do his best to support his wife.

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And obviously, you know,

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that's really dangerous

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because you're getting all kinds of truth.

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But you know what?

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I'm not gonna throw out the atheists,

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especially if he's just behaving himself.

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I just don't know.

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What do you think is gonna happen?

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Are you scared?

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Are you scared of the atheists?

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Are you a little,

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do you think something's gonna happen to you?

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Nothing's gonna happen.

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And look folks, if people come to our church

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unbelieving and they become reprobates,

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that's not my loss.

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That's not my loss.

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If people come to our church just rejecting the truth,

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they're an absolute atheist.

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You know, hopefully that doesn't happen

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with this individual.

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But you know, if it ever happens with anybody else,

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I'm not the one responsible for that

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because guess what?

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They have to respond to the truth.

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That's just what it is at the end of the day.

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I don't consider that failure on my end.

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I don't consider that a failure on the church's end

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because we do our best to witness

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to every single person who comes to our church

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to make sure they get the gospel presentation,

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to make sure that they understand fully

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what the message of salvation is

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and that's all we can do on our end.

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And if they reject it, they reject it, they reject it,

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then you know what?

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I guess we've done our job.

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The point is, we need to make sure

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that we have the right attitude towards babes in Christ.

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That if they're not catching on to a particular doctrine,

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we don't need to ostracize them.

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We don't need to just absolutely rebuke them

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because they're just simple in the faith

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and the simple believe in every word.

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Don't be threatened by them.

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Recognize this person as a babe in Christ.

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I need to make sure that I'm patient with this individual.

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I pray for this individual and I teach this individual

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but don't be threatened by the babes in Christ.

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And look folks, you know,

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I know a lot of people don't agree with me

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but it's okay because I'm the pastor

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and this is just how we're gonna do it.

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But you know, the Bible says preach the word

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be instant in season, out of season,

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reprove, amen, rebuke, amen.

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And what, reprove, rebuke and exhort

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with all long suffering and doctrine.

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Yeah, we all like to reprove it, I do too.

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The rebuking, the reproving, amen to that.

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You know, but there's one part of that statement

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that says you need to be long suffering towards people.

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Why, because not everyone is on the same spiritual plane.

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And I know some of you, as soon as you got saved,

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you jumped right in, head first into the Christian life,

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you started soul winning, learning all types of doctrine.

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I'm with you, I was the same way

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but not everyone is that way.

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Some people just take longer to grow in their faith.

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And I get it, you know, sometimes people are just arrogant,

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they're prideful, they're not willing to concede

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to what the Bible actually says.

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I get that, but you know what,

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it just shows that they're babes in Christ.

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And a babe in Christ is just tossed to and fro.

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We need to make sure that we teach them.

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Go to Hebrew chapter five,

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Hebrew chapter five if you would.

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Exor with all long suffering and doctrine.

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And look, folks, you know, if you were to just step outside

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of our church and go to just a fundamental Baptist church,

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let's say you're the time you're just like,

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well, I get what you're saying, Pastor Mijia,

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but I just don't agree with that.

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You know, I think we just need to bring the acts down.

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I think we need to chop these people's heads off.

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I think these babes in Christ need to get on board.

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Well, go to an old IFB church

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and you'll see how good we have it here.

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Fact.

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Go to an old IFB church and you're like,

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dang, a bunch of people are not even saved here.

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Like, this is like all kinds of heresy going on here.

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People are winning people over to heresies,

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teaching repent of your sins.

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People are just leading people astray.

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People are winning people over

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to false versions of the Bible.

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There's no conviction at these churches.

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That's different.

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So before you stand in judgment

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of how we do things here,

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just make sure you take into account

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that there's other churches

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that don't have any standard whatsoever in this regard, okay?

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I'm trying to hold a biblical standard

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of how to deal with babes in Christ.

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And you know what?

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I know in my flesh,

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when someone just believes something's stupid,

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I wanna get rid of them.

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Why not?

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That's in my flesh.

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I'm like, hey, if you're not on board,

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then it's time to hit the road, Jack.

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But you know what?

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That's not the right attitude to have.

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That's not the right attitude to have.

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And you know what?

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You can have a particular standard that you want,

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a certain preference that you want,

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but if it's not a standard or a preference

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that's found in the Bible,

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we cannot impose that upon other people, okay?

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And look, let me just talk about this for a second.

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I hate it when women say amen in the church,

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because the Bible's against it, right?

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But just personally, I hate it.

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Like I don't like it at all, okay?

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And I think anybody who's in our,

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any male in our church hates it.

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My kids hate it.

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They're just like, you know.

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And you know, I'm not for it at all.

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The Bible's completely against it.

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And we actually hold to a more extreme aspect

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of what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14

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and 1 Timothy chapter two,

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where we not only believe

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that women should not preach in church,

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they shouldn't just speak out in church, period.

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And when we say church,

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we're talking about the preaching of God's word.

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Ladies, you can talk after the service,

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but keep it short, not just kidding.

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I'm talking about during the preaching

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of God's word, right?

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And during the preaching of God's word,

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you know, there are fundamental Baptist churches

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that permit women to say amen.

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They're cool with it.

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And you don't believe me, you know,

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just ask brother Tim in the South,

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they do that all the time.

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Women rule over them in the South.

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You know, the South is Isaiah chapter three.

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Women just rule over them, hey man!

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They're like running up and down the aisles

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and everything.

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It's insanity.

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And it's distasteful, it's unbiblical,

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it's stupid, it's hyper spiritual.

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And you know what, they need to shut up

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because that's what the Bible says.

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And look, I'm not saying women can't agree with preaching.

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Of course, women here agree with preaching,

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but the biblical standard is that they don't vocalize that.

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You understand what I'm saying?

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But here's the thing, folks,

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you're gonna have women that come to our church

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that are very new.

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And you know what?

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They like our preaching.

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And unfortunately, every once in a while

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they might actually hiccup and say amen

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or something like that.

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I'm not for it.

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But you know what, there's still babes in Christ though.

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And I need to be patient with them.

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And you know what?

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If they hiccup every once in a while

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and say something, be gracious to them.

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Don't think that they're trying to do it

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just to usurp authority or something like that.

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There's no woman in this church

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that is trying to usurp the authority of the pastor.

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I don't know, I think they're trying to usurp dominance

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over the pastor here by saying stuff.

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Look, I'm annoyed at it too, but you know what?

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I understand that when people do it,

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especially if they're brand new still, guess what?

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They're still babes in Christ.

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They come from a background, a church

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where they unfortunately allowed that.

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And so, you know, old habits die hard.

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You have some habits that you brought

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from your old church that guess what?

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I don't like sometimes.

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But you know what?

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I'm just gonna go ahead and be patient with people,

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be long suffering towards people

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because of the fact that that's what everyone deserves, right?

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And look, I would have a major problem

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if women in the church were just like consistently

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just absolutely trying to usurp authority.

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They're doing it to be a distraction.

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They're doing it to just call attention to themselves.

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I would have a major problem

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and that person would get called out.

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Literally this happened in Omani when I was preaching

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and you know, brother Paul, I always bring this up.

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But hey, brother Paul won this lady to the Lord.

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It was great.

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It was a beautiful story, you know?

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And she ended up coming to church

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and I was preaching the house down

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and she was in agreement with a lot of the stuff.

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But then she's just like,

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hey man, that's right, you know?

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And it pissed me off and so I was just like,

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you know what, let me just change my sermon.

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And I just went to 1 Corinthians 14.

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I went to 1 Timothy and I just started ripping face

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on that and she was so upset that she got up.

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She went up to my wife and said,

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is he talking about me?

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And she's like, that's what the Bible says.

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And she's like, no way.

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She left, she took the Bible that Paul gave her

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and just threw it on the floor and left.

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And then she came back and she got in

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and she was like, actually, I need this.

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Yeah, you do.

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You know, that's a different story.

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And look ladies, you know, if you're brand new,

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if you're watching online, if you're brand new,

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keep the amens to yourself.

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I'm glad you agree with the preaching.

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I'm glad that when I say fag or I preach against Jews

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and I say something hard, you're fully in agreement with it

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and you just, you just wanna say something?

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Hey, I'm glad, but you know what?

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Learn to have some self-control,

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learn to have some discipline to not.

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But you know what?

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If someone does that from time to time,

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I'm not gonna blow up on them

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because I'm the one who has to have the discernment.

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Are they doing this intentionally

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or are they actually with the preaching

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and they're just struggling

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because they're just still new to the faith?

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You're like, well, you know, I just don't think, you know,

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women are just loud in general, you know?

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I mean, you know, I like when Ms. Kelly laughs.

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I'm, you know, my preaching, you know what I mean?

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Everyone knows Ms. Kelly online, by the way.

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Great to tell you that, but it's true.

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Laugh, let the, yeah, there you go, yeah.

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Everyone knows, everyone's just like,

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that lady cracks me up, you know?

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But you know what, Ms. Kelly, I don't think she's doing it.

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You better not be doing it.

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You know, to usurp authority or anything like that.

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I think she genuinely enjoys the preaching.

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She's all for the doctrine and, you know,

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I don't think she's trying

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to usurp my authority at all.

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Now, if you do, if you feel that way,

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then sorry, we differ on opinions though.

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You're not the pastor I am

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and I have to make that judgment call, okay?

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You know?

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And so you're like, well, I just don't think women

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should be loud in the church or whatever.

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Well, that's your preference,

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but we're not gonna impose that upon people, okay?

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And I know, and look folks, I understand.

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You know, we have such a feminist culture out there,

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especially in fundamental Baptist churches,

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especially in some of these fake new IFB churches

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where you have these feminist pastors' wives

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who just like to get on and gently lead people

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or whatever, gently lead their husbands

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and just be absolute loud mouths.

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I get that.

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And that causes us to have a knee-jerk reaction to that,

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to that type of disposition.

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You know, we want women to be,

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to have a meek and quiet spirit.

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This is the Bible teaches, right?

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And look folks, you know, that's,

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I mean, that's the kind of woman I'm married.

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It's the kind of woman I want, amen.

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But you know what?

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Just because someone has an exuberant personality,

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you know, just because they're a little more flowery,

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maybe a little more excited,

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you know, it's not a bad thing, my friends.

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It's not a bad thing at all.

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And so the point that I'm trying to make here

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is that it's good to have preferences,

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but don't be imposing your preferences

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if the Bible, on people,

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especially if the Bible doesn't teach it.

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And you know what?

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Don't try to overcompensate either

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by instituting some sort of standard

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just because you're trying to overcompensate

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for how the lack of spirituality

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that you have or something.

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Like, oh, I need to go really hard on this

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just to kind of show everyone how spiritual I am.

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No, we already know how spiritual you are, okay?

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You know, if you have a preference

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impose it upon your family,

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upon your wife, upon your children,

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but don't try to impose that upon anybody else.

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Hebrews chapter five verse 12 says,

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for the time you ought to be teachers,

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you have need that one teach you again,

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which be the first principles of the oracles of God.

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And it becomes such as have need of milk

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and not of strong meat.

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For everyone that uses milk is unskillful

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in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

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This is basically showing us

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that babes in Christ don't know how to use the Bible.

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So again, going to my first point,

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because they don't know how to use the Bible,

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they're often carried about with every wind of doctrine.

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And look, I'm not getting on the ladies,

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I really am not in our church

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because I'm really proud of our ladies.

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I feel like the ladies in our church online

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behave themselves really well.

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Okay, you don't shame me or our church online.

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And that can be said of everyone out there.

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Cause this is some women who just say stupid stuff online.

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Just an embarrassment to their husband,

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embarrassment to their church, to their pastor,

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just running their mouths.

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You know, I'm not for that.

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And I think we do have a culture in our church

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is just like women just kind of stay offline.

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You know, I know you sneak around,

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you check out what's going on online or whatever.

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But you know, most of the time you just kind of zip it.

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And I think that's great.

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Instead of letting the boss babes rule over

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and try to get a warrant, oh, look at you.

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Look at you, look at you trying to be so controversial.

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Shut up.

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Delete your Facebook, no one wants to hear from you.

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I'm not into Christian women podcast

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or women teaching the Bible on Instagram or TikTok.

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It's despicable, it's disgusting.

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Go make a sandwich, clean your kitchen,

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fold your laundry, teach your kids,

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please your husband, and delete your account.

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Go to 1st Thessalonians, chapter five, if you would.

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So we obviously have to make sure

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that like towards babes in Christ,

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we gotta teach them, you know,

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you're gonna have people that just believe weird stuff.

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And they need to be corrected,

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sermons need to be preached, you need to admonish them,

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but we're not just gonna ostracize them

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just because they are simple in the faith

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and they're weak in their faith, that's just it.

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You know, we that are stronger

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need to bear the infirmities of the weak

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and make no mistake about it.

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Doctrinal error is an infirmity.

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It's like, oh, this person's just

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hasn't really spiritually matured.

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So we just gotta treat him like a spiritual child.

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That's just how they are.

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They wanna believe false doctrine.

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Okay, hopefully they get on board, you know,

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and become a doctrinary sound person,

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but if not, they remain a babe in Christ

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and that's just it.

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That's their curse.

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Number two is that babes are ignorant

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of biblical standards, so be gracious.

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I can already mention this.

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Look at 1st Thessalonians five verse 12.

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Now we exhort your brethren, warn them that are unruly.

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Comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak,

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be patient toward all men.

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So who are the ones that need warning?

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Those who become unruly, those who are disrupting,

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those who are causing problems in the church,

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these are the people that need a warning.

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If they are spreading heresy,

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just becoming a nuisance in the church,

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they need to be warned.

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You need to behave yourself,

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or I'm gonna throw you out of the church.

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And look, we don't have unruly people in our church, okay?

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So don't think I'm talking about anybody in our church.

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We don't have unruly people.

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I guess I don't think so.

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We might have one tonight, I don't know.

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You know, we don't really have unruly people,

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but you know, at the same time,

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the Bible says here

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that we need to comfort the feeble-minded, okay?

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What does someone who's feeble-minded mean?

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It means they're like weak in their mind.

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They don't necessarily have the mental fortitude

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to understand spiritual truths,

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or the endurance, or the persistence needed

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to accumulate the virtue in the Christian life.

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They're just kind of weak in their mind.

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Guess what?

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The Bible tells us we need to comfort the feeble-minded.

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Now this doesn't mean that you go to your favorite bro

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in church and be like, hey, I'm here to comfort you, bro.

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I'm trying to practice what the Bible says here.

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Pastor said to comfort the feeble-minded,

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so here to give you a hug, you know?

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It'll be a good joke.

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But when it comes to comfort the feeble-minded,

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it means what?

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Just be patient towards people.

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And you're like, man, am I feeble-minded?

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I don't know, are you?

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Are you feeble-minded?

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You know?

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Are you a spiritually mature person in your mind?

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Do you easily give into imaginations?

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Are you just overly emotional?

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Do people just kind of just, you know,

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are people able to just push you over the edge

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right away?

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You're probably a feeble-minded person.

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That's just it.

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You know, the Bible tells us that he that have no rulers

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over his own spirit is like a city without walls.

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So it's important for us to recognize

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that a feeble-minded person is someone

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who can't control how they think or how they act.

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So that means that you don't just blow up on them.

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It means you need to be patient with them.

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Okay, this person's a very feeble-minded individual.

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They can't control their emotions.

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You're like, oh, man, I think he's talking about me.

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Well, if that's you, that the shoe fits, then yeah.

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And look, it's important for us as Christians

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to learn how to be strong in our mind

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and mature in our conduct.

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Not just here in church, but in public.

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Don't be a bad testimony in public.

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Learn how to behave yourselves in public, my friends.

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Learn how to, you know, hold your temper

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and be a gracious person, not just throwing fits

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in public, you know, getting angry, yelling at you.

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You better not be like road raging out there.

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Because all that shows that you're just feeble-minded.

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You're just a babe in Christ.

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Because you know what babies do?

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They just whine, they murmur, they complain.

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Ah!

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They just don't mind just wearing their emotions

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on their sleeves.

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And look, I'm not saying that you can't be emotional

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every once in a while,

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but it shouldn't be something

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that's just your characterized by, though.

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Or it's just like, oh, he's just throwing a fit

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like he typically does.

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Oh, this is just how he just gets mad all the time.

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You know, be the person who's able to just withstand

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and not be affected by the words of people.

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Okay?

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And look, people are gonna offend you.

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People are going to offend you, for sure.

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People are gonna say disrespectful things

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towards you, for sure.

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It's happened to me this week like six times.

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People in church, people out of church,

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just people just being super disrespectful,

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just dishing out insults for no good reason.

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And it's just like, these people

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are just feeble-minded or something.

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They just don't know how to behave themselves in public.

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You know, you know who does that?

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My children do that.

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My children will fight in public.

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They'll argue with each other.

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Ah!

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And they don't mind, who's looking at them either?

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You know, they'll throw a fit

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and then they gotta get whoop-ins or whatever,

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but they don't mind just kinda wearing

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their emotions on their sleeves.

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You know what?

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Don't be that way.

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Be a person who learns how to control their tongue.

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Don't be an unruly individual.

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But you know what?

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To those of us who are strong in the Lord,

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we need to view that and say,

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okay, this person is just a babe in Christ.

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You're like, oh yeah, that's a good one.

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I'm gonna tell him that.

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Hey, you're acting like a babe in Christ.

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No, no, no.

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This means that when you recognize that in someone,

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you respond as a mature Christian

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and you concede, you agree with your adversary quickly,

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you diffuse the situation,

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you don't render evil for evil,

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you don't try to just destroy them,

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you don't get into this big debacle in public

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or something like that,

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because it just shows that you're both

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are babes in Christ.

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Point that I'm making here

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is that we need to be patient toward all men, okay?

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And let me say this, you know,

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obviously, you know,

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sometimes there's Christians in church

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that they need to be corrected for sure.

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They need harsh improvement,

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they need to be corrected over a particular thing,

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but I'll be honest with you,

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I pick and choose my battles for sure.

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I do pick and choose my battles.

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You know, and I don't just rebuke someone

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on the drop of a hat,

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because of the fact that I feel like

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sometimes people wanna do that.

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I feel like people always look for an opportunity

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to rebuke someone else

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just because they wanna seem like a superior to someone,

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that they're just more spiritual in that area.

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But let me just remind you what the Bible says,

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that a brother offended is harder to be won

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than a strong city,

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and his contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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Let me just remind you that rebuking someone

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and reproving someone

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is done with the intent to make them better,

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not bitter.

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Remember that.

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So I know you wanna put something under your belt

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to just show how spiritual you are,

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but you know what?

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The reason why you should be rebuking a brother in Christ

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is because you want them to correct their ways

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and still esteem you as a person of understanding.

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And you know what?

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Let me just tell you this.

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If you rebuke a brother in Christ

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and you do it harshly,

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and they know that you're just being

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an absolute jerk about it,

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they may not ever take advice from you ever again.

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Yeah, but at least they know I was telling the truth.

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True, but you'll never be able to do that ever again.

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Cause you know what?

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Sometimes when people are offended at that,

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they're saying, you know what?

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This person has a different motive.

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This person is rebuking me for a different reason.

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I don't respect that.

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I don't wanna hear from it again.

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That's just how it is.

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I'm not saying that's right.

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I'm just saying that's what happens sometimes.

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Now obviously as the pastor,

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sometimes I do have the liberty to just rebuke people

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and people kinda give me that liberty

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to be able to do so to them,

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but even then I do try to pick and choose my battles

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and not just rebuke every Tom, Dick and Harry

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who's doing something dumb

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cause sometimes it's just not worth it.

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And sometimes I have to discern

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am I rebuking someone over a legitimate offense

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or is this just a preference that I have?

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And so go to 1 Corinthians chapter three.

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1 Corinthians chapter three.

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This is the attitude you should have

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towards babes in Christ.

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Babes in Christ don't necessarily have that same standard.

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You need to be gracious with them.

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You need to be patient with them.

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And if you don't, then you're basically shown

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that you're also a babe in Christ, okay?

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Let me also say this is that babes in Christ are carnal.

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So again, be patient with them.

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What does it mean that they're carnal?

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It means that they just act fleshly sometimes.

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They're just carnal people sometimes.

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They're just not spiritual sometimes.

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They're just kind of annoying sometimes

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cause they're fleshly.

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You guys know what I'm talking about?

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Sure you do.

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Ladies not.

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1 Corinthians 3, one says,

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and I brethren could not speak unto you as into spiritual,

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but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ,

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I have fed you with milk and not with meat

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for hitherto you were not able to bear it.

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Neither yet now are you able for ye are yet carnal.

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Why?

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For whereas there is among you envying

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and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal

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and walk as men?

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The Bible says.

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So what's an indication that a person is carnal

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when they're just envying, they're filled with strife,

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they're dividing one from another?

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That's called a carnal person.

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It means they're not spiritual.

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You say, what if I'm dealing with a carnal person?

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You just gotta kind of be patient with it

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cause that's just how babes in Christ are sometimes.

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You know, and you don't fight fire

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with fire in that regard.

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And let me just remind you, you know,

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if you have a brother in Christ in church

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that's just strongly rebuking you

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and you feel like, oh, this person

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is just kind of going overboard here

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and they're just trying to disrespect me,

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the answer is not reciprocate the same energy

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that they're given to you.

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The answer is what?

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Just give a soft answer that turns away wrath.

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What you gotta do?

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If you wanna shut down that person who's rebuking you

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with the wrong motive, just be gracious.

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Like, oh, they're just getting on you for something.

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You wanna just be like, okay, I'm sorry.

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I didn't know I was doing that.

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I apologize for that.

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I'll be sure to change it next time.

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And they'll change your tone real quick.

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They will.

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But if you fight back with fire

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and just like, you just wanna get the last word in,

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then obviously you're not gonna resolve anything.

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Okay?

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And look, folks, you know, again,

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you know, people can revert,

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even if you're spiritual maturity,

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you can revert to this again.

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It's possible.

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And let me just tell you guys that you don't have to prove

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to me, you don't have to prove to anybody in your church

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how spiritually mature or zealous you are in the Lord.

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You don't have to.

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You don't have to prove to me that you're a chud

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or something like that.

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You don't gotta prove that to anybody.

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You don't gotta like demonstrate and overcompensate

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how spiritual you are

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by how just how much you can rebuke someone.

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It doesn't really work on people

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who are actually mature in the faith.

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They're just like, they're just kind of coping.

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They're just kind of like overcompensating.

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They're just overdoing it.

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You're like, well, I feel like I have to prove myself.

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Why?

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Why do you feel like you have to prove it?

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Let every man prove his own work.

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Why do you have to feel like you just,

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like everyone has to know how spiritual you are,

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how well, you know, how zealous you are

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for the things of God,

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your standard and your preferences

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and how much you hate this, that and the other.

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You know, if you're here long enough,

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we're gonna know.

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Here's the great thing about being in the church

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for long periods of time,

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we end up knowing who you really are.

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Like who you really are is who we're really gonna see.

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You understand?

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But babes in Christ are typically carnal.

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And you know what?

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They just need time to mature in that area.

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You're like, well, how can they mature

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by listening to what I just said right now?

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And if you're like, dang, I did this.

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I'm a babe in Christ.

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Yeah, I'm talking to you.

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So just grow up.

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Stop being so carnal,

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getting involved and strives and being one another,

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trying to put people down.

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It's not worth it.

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Folks, we need to make sure that we grow in grace

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and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

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that we're long suffering towards the brethren

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and we correct in a proper way.

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And look, you know,

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there's times when I correct my children

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and you know what?

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I do spank them and I do rebuke them.

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But let me tell you why.

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Cause they're children.

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Cause that's what you do towards children.

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But let me say this.

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If you're a grown man talking to another grown man,

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you better talk to them like a grown man would.

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Don't talk to them like they're your son.

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If you are a grown man,

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you're a family man, you're a grown man,

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and you're talking to another grown man in a church,

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you better not disrespect people like that.

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And nobody using this, hey bud,

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listen to your buddy.

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Or what's the other one that they use?

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Pal.

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Pal?

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I don't know about that one.

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Pal, what the heck?

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They hate you, bro.

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Listen to your pal.

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Bucko?

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What's the one that they use that just sounds,

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it's probably buddy, right?

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It's the one that just sounds super degrading,

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disrespectful.

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You know, don't talk to people like that.

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You know, don't try to just like put people down.

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You know, what's the motive you're coming at them with?

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And look, I'm all forward-buke-ing, for sure.

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But you know what I'm forward-buke-ing

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because of what it actually produces

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when it's done in the right way, okay?

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And so, you know, if you have an issue

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with someone in our church,

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you feel like they're not behaving in a proper manner,

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be the mature one to actually approach them

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in the right way.

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Not like a babe in Christ,

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just wanting to envy and strive and have the last word.

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And I know I've been talking about like,

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you know, resolving conflicts,

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but this is something that our church does need, though.

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Okay, because sometimes there's people in our church

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that just feel like they can just rebuke people all day long

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and be super disrespectful towards people.

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It's not right to do.

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It's not right to do.

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You know, the Bible tells us here,

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in James chapter three, you don't have to turn there.

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It says in verse 14,

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but if you have bitter envying and striping your hearts,

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glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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This wisdom descended not from above,

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but it's earthly, sensual, devilish,

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for where envying and strife is,

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there is confusion in every evil work the Bible says.

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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure.

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Listen to this, then peaceable.

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Listen to this, gentle.

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Listen to this, easy to be entreated.

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Listen to this, full of mercy and good fruits.

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Without partiality, without hypocrisy, the Bible says.

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So if you're really exercising wisdom,

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you're gonna have these qualities, right?

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You're really gonna have these qualities.

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Now look, folks, I get it, going back to the first point

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of just new people coming to church and acting weird,

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we had some guys come a couple of weeks ago

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and they're a little weird, you know?

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They're really weird.

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Just weird, you guys know what I'm talking about?

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Girls are kind of weird, you know?

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But let me say this, some of you were kind of weird

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when you first came, to be honest with me.

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Some of you still got some residual weirdness in you too.

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Now it wasn't to that degree,

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that degree was pretty bad, okay?

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And you know, they were like taking photos or whatever,

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taking pictures and people were thinking

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they were taking pictures of them.

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And you know, obviously, let me just say this,

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if someone's been listening to my preaching

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or knew I'd be preaching for a long period of time

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and then they come here

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not believing in the right gospel,

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you know, having different positions,

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you know, obviously we need to watch out

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for people like that.

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Because they've been listening for a long time.

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They've been listening to Pastor Anderson

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since like 2013 and they still believe

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you have to repent of your sins

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if you say, yeah, a little sus there,

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you know what I mean?

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Like I don't know about that one.

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And you know, obviously when someone like that

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comes to our church, my tolerance, my patience

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is not as much as it would be

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towards someone who's not affiliated with no idea.

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Because they're held to a higher standard.

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So when that person came

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and they're kind of taking photos,

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you know, I just kind of came up to him and I said,

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hey, you're taking photos?

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And he's like, well, is that like not permitted?

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I'm like, not for you.

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I have a new roof for you.

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You can't take pictures.

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I said, if you take pictures, I'm throwing you out.

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All right?

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All right, that's it.

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Because you know, he's taking pictures of people,

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making people feel uncomfortable.

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You know, if Paul was taking pictures of people, it'd be weird.

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But, he'd be like, well, you know, Paul,

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you know, I don't know what he's doing,

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but you know, he's reserved enough trust

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in his bank account of trust

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that we wouldn't necessarily

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take anything weird of him, right?

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But this is like a brand new person.

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And he's taking photos.

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He has some comic book Bible with him.

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He believes in weird doctrines.

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He's been listening to this since 2013

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and he's not on par.

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Okay, obviously that's sus.

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Consumes are very much as given

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of him should be much required.

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We expect more of a person

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who's been listening to a preacher for that long,

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knew I'd be preaching for that long,

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to kind of be on board with certain things.

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And obviously they ended up not coming back.

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The point that I'm making here

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is that we obviously need to be patient

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with people who deserve the patience.

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You know people who deserve patience?

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Calvary Chapel people.

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So chill out on the Calvary Chapel people who are coming.

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I'm trying to reach some people here, folks.

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And you know what, they're not always gonna come

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dressed in a shirt and tie, parted hair,

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hating homos, and the reprobate doctrine.

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It's not gonna be that way.

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They come from Calvary Chapel.

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I reeled them in with the anti-Semitic stuff.

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Okay?

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It's just like.

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And I brought them in

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and you guys are just like,

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I don't know, they got long hair.

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I know they got long hair.

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They were going to Calvary Chapel.

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Surfer Church.

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Hippie Kami Church.

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They were going to Jack Hipp's Church

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or whatever other Calvary Chapel there is.

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Greg Lowery, I know he's not Calvary.

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That's all the same thing to me.

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But you know what, they start coming here.

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You know, be patient with those people.

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We're trying to make them Baptist.

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But they're not gonna be Baptist in a week though.

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Okay?

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They're not gonna be Baptist in a week.

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You know, oh man, they got a wrong version of the Bible.

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Then why don't you go talk to them about the Bible then?

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Why don't you actually go show them

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why that's not the Bible they should be using then?

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You know, I don't know though.

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Cause they, I just think,

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what are, why are you so insecure

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with having people from different denominations

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be attracted to a new IFP church?

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Isn't this what we want?

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Folks, when I was in the old IFP,

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the old IFP was afraid of losing their young people

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to the liberal churches.

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And now new IFP is actually winning liberal people

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to our type of churches.

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Don't let it, you know, don't become a Pharisee.

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It's just like, yeah, but I need to be fundamental Baptist.

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But it's God.

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Yeah, I agree, but they're super liberal though.

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So we just give them some time, you know?

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Hey, at least I want them over

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to the whole thing on the Jews.

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Got my foot in the door, amen.

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So let's get them saved.

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You have to understand something too, folks.

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Okay.

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People who come from Calvary Chapel and liberal churches,

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you think they go to a church

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where they preach for an hour and 15?

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You think they've ever heard a sermon

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where that much scripture is even being used?

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Folks, this is a lot for them.

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They went from tofu to like ribeye.

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And so like they're eating the ribeye

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and their stomach can't handle it.

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They're throwing up a little bit.

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Oh, my stomach hurt.

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You know, obviously this is a lot for them.

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You know, they're eating, you know, beyond meat,

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fake meat, and then we come and give them some ribs.

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We give them some ribeye

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and then it's just like they're just nibbling it

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because they've never had it before.

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They need to start soul winning.

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I know, chill out.

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Eventually we'll get them there.

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Can you just be amazed at the fact

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that anybody from Calvary Chapel

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would ever come to a church like this?

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Have you thought about that?

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Okay.

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They went from a church with all bells and whistles,

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purple lights and smoke and, you know,

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queer song leaders to this.

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They got a little transitioning to do.

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Okay.

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Like, oh man, I just think that we just need to make sure

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that they're, I know we need to make sure,

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but you know a lot of this stuff is a lifelong process though.

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We gotta be patient with them.

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And you know what?

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You can talk a lot of trash

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because you were saved in a fundamental Baptist church.

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You were saved in a new IAP church.

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So sometimes you may have a standard

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that it's unrealistic to have for other people.

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Gotta be patient with people, my friends.

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Now look, I was saved in a fundamental Baptist church.

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I've never stepped foot in the liberal church.

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You know, I'd probably be like a vampire if I went in there.

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I'd just disintegrate as soon as I walked in

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or something.

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You know, I don't know what it's like.

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I just know it from stories, from Cody and stuff and,

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you know, other people who've gone to liberal churches

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and stuff, you know?

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I've only heard the horror stories.

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I got saved in a King James only,

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fundamental soul winning,

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hard preaching, biscuit eating church.

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So this is all I've ever known.

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But you know what?

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I've also learned that we want them

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to come to this side too.

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And you know what?

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We might have someone come with long hair, okay?

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Not might.

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We did have people come with long hair.

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Like, when are you gonna tell them about it?

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I don't know when I feel like preaching on that subject.

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Eventually they'll hear it.

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Now those of you, you ain't got hair.

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You're like, well, this, I'm gonna tune out

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on this particular subject.

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But you know what?

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There's people who come with long hair

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and they don't know that it's a sin to have long hair.

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I'm talking about the men.

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And you know what?

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They came, I preached on it,

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and guess what?

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They haven't been back since.

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But you know, there's others who heard the sermon

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and they left and were like,

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dang, this guy's gone.

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But then he came back the next week with cut hair.

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You know?

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Looking fresh, looking like a fundamental Baptist

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to a certain degree.

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And so, you know,

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don't think that the spiritual makeup of the church

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is gonna change just because you have people

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coming in like that.

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They can look a little different than you.

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They act a little different.

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You know, I know you get annoyed at the kind of words

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that they use.

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The spiritual talk.

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I get annoyed at it too

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because it's liberal talk

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and I don't really enjoy that stuff.

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But guess what folks?

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That's all they've ever known though.

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That's all they've ever known.

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You can't expect them to have the same standard as you

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because you've been in this church hearing the right words,

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the right Christianese.

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We can't expect for them to just get it overnight.

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It doesn't work that way.

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Hey, women are gonna come to this church wearing pants.

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I'm not for it.

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My wife don't own pants.

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My girls don't own pants.

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I preach against pants on women.

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I tell people what the Bible says about it.

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But you know what, if we're reaching people

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you're gonna have women wearing pants

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because you know what?

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Some women that's all they've ever worn.

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And some of you are like,

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well my wife still wear pants.

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Or I still wear pants when I'm not here or something.

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I guarantee you there's women are,

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I guarantee you there's women in our church right now

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who wear skirts to come to church

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and they wear pants when they go home.

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Promise you that.

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Yup.

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I guarantee you they wear skirts when they come here.

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They wear their fluffy little dresses

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but when they go to the gym

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they put on their stupid pants.

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I guarantee you that people do that.

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But yeah, you wanna get on people

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because they come to church in pants.

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Yeah, but they just do it in public.

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You do it behind the scenes.

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That's the only difference, you hypocrite.

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And you're like, well, it's really immodest, you know.

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Yeah, but considering how tight you wear that skirt

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you might as well just wear some pants.

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Yeah, considering how tight that thing looks on you

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it almost seems as though you should already wear pants.

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Yeah, you regret coming Sunday night.

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You regret it.

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I'm trying to tell you right now, folks.

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You better make sure you take the beam out of your eye

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before you try to take the moat out of someone else's eye.

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You better be up to par too

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before you start getting on others

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because you know what?

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Let's go ahead and put the magnifying glass on you

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and see all the flaws that you have

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and all the biblical things that you disobey.

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I'm pretty sure we can find a lot of beams there

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little redwoods there to get on you about.

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And again, I preach this stuff.

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Look, folks, I remember we're on a missions trip.

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I might not even go through these points real quick.

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We're on a missions trip.

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Let me just get this off my chest right now.

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We're on a missions trip to Mexico.

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It was a great trip.

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Awesome trip.

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Got a bunch of people saved.

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A lot of Mexicans came to the Lord.

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Okay?

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El Señor Jesus was preached amongst the Mexicans.

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And we had two women come to this missions trip.

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One was fairly new.

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One wasn't, okay?

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And the one who came came in jeans.

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She came in jeans, you know, because she's new.

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And I wasn't like horrified.

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I was like, seriously?

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Jeans?

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I was just like, well, she's new.

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She doesn't know any better.

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I'm not gonna.

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You said that you were a bugger?

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No.

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She's going on a missions trip.

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You were a skirts and you didn't go on a missions trip.

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She's actually going, you know, I'm not for her.

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I'm not for her when she's,

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but I'm for her going on the missions trip.

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And you know what?

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She was partnered up with me.

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It was great.

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We got a bunch of people saved.

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She loves the Lord.

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We're having dinner.

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The whole entire team's having dinner.

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And then the other woman who doesn't go to our church anymore.

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You know, who is known for, yeah, she wore skirts,

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but she was extremely immodest, just put it that way.

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You might as well just paint latex, right?

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Just left nothing to the imagination,

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just put it that way.

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Aren't you glad you came tonight?

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At the dinner table, because she's sitting next to her,

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at the dinner table, she was like,

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you're really bold for wearing pants

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and to come on a missions trip like that.

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And keep in mind, this lady who was wearing the pants,

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she didn't know anything about it.

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She didn't know anything, but she was like embarrassed.

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Okay?

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And you know, we're having a good time,

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just down in coax and stuff,

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and you know, Mexican coax, eating taco.

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It was just a good day.

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And then this lady looks across,

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she's like, it's a sin to wear pants.

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And you know, her face was just like,

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she was just embarrassed.

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And then I look at the lady, I'm just like,

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she's your boyfriend, you have to bring that up right now.

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She just told me that like,

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she's shocked that I'd be bold enough to wear pants.

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Am I doing wrong for wearing pants?

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Just embarrassing in front of everyone, of course.

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Just shaming her in front of everyone.

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And I was like, well, obviously,

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I wouldn't have brought it up that way, but yeah, it is.

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And this is what the Bible says about it,

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but you know, it's not a standard that you like,

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we wouldn't allow you to let you come to church

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if you wore pants or something like that.

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But yeah, this is what the Bible says about that.

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And it like, you could see the hurt in her eyes,

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because she's just a really sincere person.

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And the first thought that I had was like,

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you know, you're criticizing this woman for wearing pants.

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But quite frankly, she's actually more modest

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in her pants than you are in your skirt.

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Yeah.

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Because when it comes to dress, you know,

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wearing a dress, obviously we wear clothing

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to distinguish genders.

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We also do it to cover the nakedness,

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but we also do it to be modest.

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And this is not me giving the green light

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for any woman to do this, by the way.

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But let me just say this,

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oh, there's women out there who wear pants,

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like the suit pants or whatever,

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I don't know what you call it, the business attire.

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That's more modest than what some women wear

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when they're wearing skirts.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Because it's not just gender distinction

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that we're trying to accomplish here.

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It's not just nakedness we're trying to cover.

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You know what also it is?

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Modesty.

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And so, you know, we left and she was visibly hurt.

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She was visibly offended.

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And I'm like, that was a crappy way

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to end this missions trip.

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Because this is our first missions trip.

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We got a bunch of people saved.

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And again, I hate pants on women.

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But you know what?

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I'm not just gonna shame her in front of everyone

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in that regard.

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And in fact, I've never done that to anyone in person.

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You know, the only person I would probably shame

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was my wife if she ever did something like that

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because she's my wife.

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But I would never in person just be like,

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if Kelly wore pants I'd be like, what the heck?

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I don't know, maybe I would, I don't know.

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I'd never say never, amen.

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On the ride home though, you know, I was explaining to her

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and everything and she was quiet.

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She was just visibly hurt or whatever.

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And you know, we're just talking in the car

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about just like spiritual growth.

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And she's like, yeah, I have a lot of growing to do too.

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I guess I gotta throw out like a lot of my pants right now

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cause I need to get some escrusel of the Bible says.

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And it really kind of hurt me.

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I'll just be honest with you.

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Like it bothered me because I felt like

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this is such a receptive person.

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If we would approach this person differently,

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it wouldn't have gotten so offended, you know?

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And at the end of the day, unfortunately,

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she was actually more modest than the other person was.

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The other person was not,

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I can't think of a time when that person dressed modestly.

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And I think everyone who knows what I'm talking about

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can tell, hey man!

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You know for a fact.

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But did they wear skirts?

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I mean, yeah.

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That's the only thing they had going for them.

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Oh, that's so mean.

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Well, why didn't you talk to her?

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Well, yeah, I preached a ton of sermons for that woman.

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I preached a ton of sermons.

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Women went to go talk to her

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because she was being in offense to others in our church

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because we have kids in our church

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and her form was just,

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you could just see her form just complete, 3D.

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It was just offensive.

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He said, what do you remember man in church?

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The one who wore pants.

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What's the point here?

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You know, we have to have a specific attitude

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towards babes in Christ

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and recognize that people aren't just gonna be

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up to par right off the bat, okay?

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Gotta give people a chance.

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And you have to have the discernment to know

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like, is this person being intentionally rebellious?

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Intentionally disobedient?

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Are they trying to usurp authority?

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Or are they just eating or are they just babes in Christ?

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If they're just babes in Christ,

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we need to be patient with them.

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Just recognize, well, they just need time to grow.

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You know, they need more preaching.

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And yeah, and you know what?

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Maybe they just need me to tell them something

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in a gracious manner, right?

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You know, we have a lady in our church.

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I'm done with the sermon.

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Yeah, you guys don't need that.

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You know, this lady, you know,

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we have a lady who comes to church.

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She's brand new.

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She says amen all the time, not all the time.

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But you know, when she first came,

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she would say it a lot, like a lot.

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And then, you know, I preached on it.

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And then, you know, she came to me

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and then I told her, I said, hey, you know,

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have you been growing in your faith?

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You know, she's like, yeah, I haven't grown.

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I was like, you ready to learn some more right now?

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You ready to learn some more stuff?

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And then I taught her, she's like, man,

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I didn't know that was,

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it's just something I used to do.

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I didn't know it was bad.

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You know, I'm like, yeah, you know,

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just something you gotta grow in, you know.

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But then, you know, she like reduced

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the amount of time she said amen, which is good.

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But it was still slipped out from time to time, you know.

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It was like a really good point.

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She's just like, amen.

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So then, you know, there was a guy in our church

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who was sitting right in front of her

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when she did it, and then he just stops the entire sermon,

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turns around, opens up, it just starts preaching to her.

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First Corinthians 14, and how women need to like

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be silent in the church and all this stuff

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and just rebuking her.

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But I'll be honest with you,

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she's actually more faithful to church

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you know, than that person.

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That's the problem.

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Thank you for removing the motes,

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but go ahead and remove the beam.

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And you know what, let me just say this.

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If you're the type to criticize people for Christian virtues,

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but you can't get your rear end to church,

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you shouldn't be talking, bro.

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If you're the type to just get on Christian virtue

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because they're not upholding some sort of Christian virtue

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that you esteem, but you're not in this thing

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three days a week, zip it.

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Keep the mouth shut

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because you're living in a spiritual glass house.

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You understand what I'm saying?

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And you know what, the lady still came, she still comes,

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and every once in a while, it slips.

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It slips.

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And you know what, when it slips, you know what my kids do?

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They do.

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You know, and I'm for it, I'm for it, you know?

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But I'm also for just her growing.

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Cause she has learned a lot, and she's grown a lot.

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And she has more growing to do like you do.

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So you know, until she decides to just get up

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and wave a hanky, and it just go all crazy,

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you know, I'm just gonna let her keep growing.

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What's the point here?

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Have the right attitude towards babes and Christ.

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You haven't arrived either.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we thank you so much for your word.

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Thank you for those who have influenced our lives, Lord.

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And I pray that you would help us as your people

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to be patient with babes and Christ, Lord.

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I'm thankful for those who are newly saved in our church.

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And those who have chosen to continue in the faith

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and in church services and Bible reading,

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they've integrated so many into their lives, Lord.

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They're just children in the faith,

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and we shouldn't despise them.

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We should be thankful for them and admonish them,

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exhort them to continue in the faith

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and in the grace of God.

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Help us, Lord, to be patient

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and recognizing that there's people who are patient with us

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and continue to be patient with us, Lord.

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May you bless us as we go on our way.

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Thank you so much for nine wonderful years.

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May you give us a wonderful, successful, prosperous

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and Christ honoring 10th year.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.