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Thank you for listening to our mid week service from Christian Church. We're praying that this

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message bless encourages and equip you to build

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the kingdom of God. And now a message

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from pastor Tim Brooks. All of our band and all of that's

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getting set up, Lucas gonna go lead worship.

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High points getting ready to Crank Worship. The

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band's already up their sound check and getting ready and He's gotta run to lead worship.

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I'm telling you High point is just going fantastic.

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It is really, really good. And

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I'm Till Luke for the first time he's working a little bit around here.

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Well, you turned to Matthew chapter 11 verse

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4 we're taking the red letters in

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scripture, and we are looking at them

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1 bike at a time. We wanna look at Matthew chapter 11 verse

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4. We're gonna make it to chapter 12

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verse 50, just picking up where I left off last

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week, and we continue to move forward working

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our way through the book of Matthew seeing

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the red letter seeing Jesus words in the

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new testament. As we begin here where we left off

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last week, John the Baptist had been put in prison.

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And he sends his disciples. This very interesting.

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Here's John the Baptist now. Go

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ask Jesus, are you the messiah

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that we've been looking for or should we keep looking for someone else?

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Wow. Now think about

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who John the baptist was. Let let's think

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about this. Remember, he was out ba advertising.

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Jesus comes walking down to the water.

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John turns around, looks

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behold the lamb of God who takes away

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the sins of the world. Do y'all remember that part? I mean, that's... This is this

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guy. Remember John, I'm not worthy to un the

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latches on your sandals. The this is the guy that's said

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I need to be baptized by you. The...

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This is the guy that says I must

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decrease. He must increase on and on and

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on, we read what John said. And now,

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John saying are you the messiah? Or do we keep looking?

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What in the world happened?

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What? Well, what happened?

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Now Jesus says here in verse 4.

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Hey, go because the Go back and tell

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John. Tell him what you've heard, tell him what

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you've seen, blind or seeing, lane walk, le, clan, deaf

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here. Dead raised, good news

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being preached. And,

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hey, guys, tell John,

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God bless those who are not offended.

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Wow. Wow. Now, we we need to talk a little

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bit here. Jesus is addressing

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a humongous weapon

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in the devil's hand. In the devil's arsenal

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offense is a huge weapon.

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And we see it all the time. We see it all the time. People in

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church and serving are giving. You see it

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all the time, people at work, people in

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school. We're around this all limit. Here, pastor you the greatest bible teacher in

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the whole world. This is the greatest church

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ever. Well, what? What where where'd they go? What have something

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happened somewhere, sometime,

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somebody said something and they took on an offense.

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Mad hurt and here we go. Seriously,

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the offense is a powerful

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weapon in Satan's Arsenal.

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We talk quite a bit about that in this church because it has to be talked

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about a lot it plagues us all of

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us. People quit their job. People quit school,

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people quit churches, People leave good friendships,

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many people leave the Lord

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because of offenses. I don't know how many people

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in my life I have talked to that

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said. A, I was raised in church

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35 years ago, some preacher

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or somebody. 40 years ago, something happened, and I hadn't

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been back to church. Sense. Whoa.

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Whoa, Jesus says,

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and, boy, what a teaching right here? Blessed

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are you? You will be blessed

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if you can keep yourself

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out of an offense. The problem is just so many people

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don't. They let offense destroy them.

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They let an offense destroy all that they've experienced.

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They let an offense destroy all that they

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know. And they let an offense start making

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decisions for their life. And we see it. We see it.

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And there's just no way that we can talk about offense enough

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because it is very powerful

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in derail Christians. We see a you Christians occasionally get sucked

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back into this, sucked off into that or,

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what happened to them oh him? They just went out and robbed the bank last night.

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But I don't hear that a lot. But when I say what happened to them,

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I do hear, they got offended. They got offended. And I'm just telling you

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church, we're gonna have to watch

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over our feelings. We're going to have to watch over our

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feelings, control. You you gotta get some control

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over your feelings, and we're gonna have to deal with that

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hurt. That that... Whatever it was and it, it

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legitimately made you mad. I get it. You

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got mad. But we're gonna have to learn how to

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identify and control it. Yes. That got to me.

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That we all know what that is. That

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that got to me, it got to me

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deeply. But I'm gonna have to analyze that.

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That person is a good person.

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That person's been good to me for years.

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That person is not out to crush me.

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That person's not out to do me in.

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Evidently, they had a bad day. And you know,

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I've had some bad days myself. Evidently, maybe they were going through some personal

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issue, and I probably need to pray for

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them. What they said, yeah, yeah. I got it.

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What they said was horrible, but I gotta know that's not what they

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meant. I've got to know that's not what they

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went. Now now, I wanna be clear. I wanna be clear about 2 things here

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because I gotta move on this a sermon on fence. This is the first thing he

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talks about. We gotta move on. Let's be clear.

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What happened to you was

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absolutely nothing. You misread the whole thing.

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That's not even close to what they said.

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That's not even close to what happened.

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You wear your feelings on your shoulder.

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You've got your feelings on your sleeve, and

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you're gonna have to come on and stop going through life. Being offended, being offended, being

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every time we turn around. You got offended. You got offended. You're gonna have to get

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control of this. You're always offended by something.

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And what you're offended out is of no

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validity whatsoever, you conjure all that up in your head,

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and you're gonna have to get a hold of that. Okay? Let's go over here and say this.

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What happened to you was absolutely wrong.

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It and I get it, europe ended. They

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should have never said that. That was horrible

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what happened to you. You don't wear your

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feelings on your sleeve, that cut in that

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cut deep, and that was wrong. You were

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wrong. Okay. You can misread it and and and

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be completely off track or

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what happened was exactly what happened

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and and you were done wrong. It's dead wrong.

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Both cases, we're gonna have to control our feelings.

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Both cases. Now, I'm gonna tell some of you, you

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gonna stop wearing your feelings on your sleeve and mis misread everything that was said. In

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taking it personal. We wasn't even talking about

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you. Okay? Let me say that. Now, let me

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also say, some of you been really hurt deep.

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I mean cut to the bone. And what

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happened to you was just... It was terrible.

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It was wrong, should've have never happened.

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But in both of those cases, you're not gonna be blessed living life

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offended. That's the bottom line. Whether it is right

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or whether it's wrong, you can't be blessed, living life offended.

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That's why I'm telling you watch over your

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feelings, watch over your feelings.

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This 1 person, This 1 thing, this 1 thing that was

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said, this 1 thing, it was a huge

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wrong that happened, but it's not going to cause me

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to derail my life. I I can't live like that.

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I can't live my whole life, taking another turn I'll lead the church. I

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walk away from God to heck with everybody.

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And now my life is held bound

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because of what somebody else said. Come on.

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We're gonna have to grow and mature past

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that and get ourselves to a place where

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we can control our feelings. And not let offenses, whether you're justified in

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your offense or not, we're gonna have to

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get this controlled. We're gonna have to watch

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over our feelings at work, watch over your

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feelings. You got a good job. You got a good job.

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You're you're being taken care of there. Now,

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your boss had a bad day. Your coworker

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had a bad day come on. Let's work

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through it. Let's get over and let's move

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on. You don't jump up and quit

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a job because you got

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offended. Come on Let's keep our nose to the grinds stone. Let's keep working through life

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and dealing with these offenses Now I'm just telling you offense is real.

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Whether it's justified or whether it's not justified.

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It's real. Watch over our feelings, watch over our feelings.

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And here's what I gotta move on.

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If this happened to John the baptist, it can sure happen to me.

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It can sure happen to me. I'm gonna have to pay attention. Jesus goes on,

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in verse 12, The kingdom of heaven is

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advancing and violent people are attacking it.

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Pagans all what pagans

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attack, Christianity.

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They always have. They always will. They hate the things of

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God and they are on the attack. What

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what possibly Can a person in Washington Dc C

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care 1 Eye owed about somebody in rural

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Arkansas praying over a little country football game.

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Really? I mean, really, that's something that you've got

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to send a threatening letter all the way

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down to Arkansas to a public school principal

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and threaten it, you may be jail time.

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You may be fine. You may really?

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What, what possible? There's an attack on anything,

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Christian. It just is. It just is. There always

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has been violent attack on the things of God.

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And and it's amazing to me, and I

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I go here to the forbidden city and

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go into eat lunch, and I have to process this every time I walk in, the

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statue of Buddha sitting right there in the lobby.

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And here's what gets me. There's not been

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1 letter from Washington Dc. You may be fined.

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You may be jailed. If you don't remove

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that statue that is offended somebody.

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There is somebody there that is offended. By

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that has never ever happened to a statue

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of a buddha. But boy, you put a cross up. You put the 10 commandments up

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in a place where people have to walk by. And, man, I'm telling you here it

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goes. Here it goes. It it's shocking that

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the Quran can be in public school classrooms,

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but you better not have a bible. In a public school classroom.

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Jesus is addressing this. It's amazing. You can pray

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in a public event And when you end the prayer, you can

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say in the name of all that is

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good. Amen. You don't not having any problem?

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You said that same prayer word for word

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and you end with and in the name

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of Jesus and here you can watch

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the fireworks start. You can just watch it. The things of

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god are attacked. They always have been, and

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you need to not be rocked by it. Jesus is addressing this.

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Jesus is addressing this. Now, we go on

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looking at these words of Jesus and look at Jesus

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response. Wow. These are the words it read letters

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here, what sorrow awaits you,

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who, judgment day. Is gonna be bad

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for you. Go down to the place of the dead,

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go down to the place of hell. Absolutely, Jesus loves everybody. But Church, you need

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to know what Jesus says about hell.

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About the sorrow that awaits you about judgment

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day. These are some hard words that Jesus is

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using but he calls out wrong thinking

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and wrong actions, judgment day's is gonna be bad for you.

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Not very tolerant Jesus. He'd kinda of watch

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that. He goes on in verse 28.

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And says come to me all who are weary,

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heavy let heavy burden, and I will give

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you rest. Take my yoke upon you. What

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we've heard this passage. Everybody probably is familiar

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with this, but we missed this little sentence

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right here. Let me teach you.

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Underline that your bible. Let me teach you

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because I'm humble, gentle at heart, and you

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will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy to bear. My burden I give

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you is light. Let me teach you.

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See today, many want to take Jesus

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love but don't want Jesus to teach them anything.

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Oh, Jesus wants to teach you. And you don't take his love

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without hearing and receiving his teaching.

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So we we don't want Jesus to teach

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us anything. I'll do my own thing. I'll make my

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own decisions. I'll live life my own way.

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I'll g myself like I want to

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Jesus, you just keep the love, the acceptance

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and the blessings come my way. As a matter of fact, we... And I'm

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not gonna get to this because we're not

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in Matthew 28 yet. We'll be there later

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on in this study. But in Matthew 28 when Jesus is given

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the great commission. And and he says there

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in his closing words, go make disciples,

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teach the disciples to obey all the commands that I've given

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you. There is a teaching of God's commands.

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There is an obedience to his word

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and we are just reading the words of

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Jesus. Church, I wanna encourage you.

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Before you say on Facebook, Jesus taught.

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Or Jesus said, you need to know what Jesus taught. You

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you need to know what Jesus? Well, Jesus

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said, you need to know what Jesus said,

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before you just boldly say, Jesus said, and

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you start posting a bunch of stuff. There

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are things that we need to learn that Jesus wants to teach us. What Sorrow

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awaits you, judgment day, eternity in hell. I just want to

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Fyi, I work on my Sermon

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for quite a while before I preach him, and there is a sermon

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pretty far along on my desk, and the

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title is Hell. Now, I will not be given the date

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that I'm gonna preach that because I'm quite aware we'll have nobody in

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attendance. But it's shocking how 1 of the most

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talked about in the bible

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is 1 of the least mentioned

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in Sunday morning Sermon. And this is not gonna be a crowd

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please. It's not gonna be a crowd builder

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But it's in there. It's in there. And and you need to

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know hell awaits those

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who don't turn to Jesus. Hell,

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and we need to learn and talk a little bit more than we do

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about hell. Jesus wants to be Lord

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but he is L0D. That is

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Lord. There are many things Jesus wants to teach

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us. He's always at every turn teaching,

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teaching the masses, teaching the disciples.

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And once again, we just don't get Jesus

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love and his acceptance. Without his lords ship in our life.

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Jesus makes it very clear in many places

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when accused of being

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Satan or being a satan and he said

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hold on. There they're I'm not part of Satan and

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then explains a little bit about that. But

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Jesus throughout his ministry

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identifies 2 sides, and and it's really clear.

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Burst 30. Anyone who isn't with me

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opposes me. And anyone who isn't working with me

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is actually working

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against me. And we just got a lot of folks

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today that have adopted them a message of

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the gospel where they're riding the fence.

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Now I'm not really a part of that, And I'm not going along with this, But

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now, I'm not way over here either. I'm

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I'm Oh okay. So you're

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lukewarm, the bible says something about that.

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Oh, so you're double minded, the bible says

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something about that. There is no fence riding with Jesus.

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And and you're not okay. You're either for

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him. Or you're against it. Won't you see verse

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30 that you're either working for me

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or you're working against me

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and we need to know that. There's only 1 to 2 sides which side are you

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on? We just want to have a universal

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acceptance of Jesus is love, and that's not

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an option for us. There there's a line

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in the sand and you're on Jesus side

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or you're against him. We talk a lot

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about and he he moves right into verse 33.

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We talk a lot about fruit because Jesus talks a lot about fruit.

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And and he... Let's look at the fruit of a tree, and he says a bad

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tree over time, can't produce good fruit.

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A bad tree can't produce good fruit. And a good tree

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will only produce good fruit. A bad tree.

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Just can't produce good free. Good trees produce good free.

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And and I I want us to

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continue to develop the ability to be fruit inspectors in our

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life. Let's look at

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fruit. Let's stop looking for everybody to be perfect.

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Let's look at fruit. Let let's just look

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at fruit. Is this church perfect? No. No. Far from it. We've got some

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very imperfect associate pastors here. Best I could

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do. Is this church perfect?

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No. Absolutely. It's not perfect.

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But over 50 years, we we we produced some pretty good fruit.

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We've we've... So you you look. Look at

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where you worked. Look at your look at

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the school. Christian Ministry Academy, it's not perfect.

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Got all kinds of problems there. But in

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45 years of having school, You know, we've we've

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you identify a tree

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by fruit. You don't identify a tree by 1 thing

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that happened. By 1 event that happened.

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Just as a tree is identified by its

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fruit. That's how we know people

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That's how we know and understand who people

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are. If a tree is bad, its fruits gonna be bad.

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You can just know that. An evil

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person produces evil things.

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And then we go on in verse 34. Oh, look at this. Red letters.

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That's when we're studying these red letters. You brood

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of snakes. How could evil men like you

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speak? Well, we got to see we gotta see

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Jesus. He called people snakes.

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Jesus called people, dogs. He called people, white wash tombs.

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I'm not sure what about Jesus gets you,

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we think when we read dogs and snakes.

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Wow. Jesus taught us using a tree fruit as

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a way of identifying good and bad.

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And just careful about making a judgment.

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Over 1 thing a person said, careful about

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making a judgment over 1 event that happened,

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over 1 situation,

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You you you don't judge by that.

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Just thinking, and Paul, and I could share

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a lot of stories, But we've been working together for 38 years.

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And and countless

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times, not a few. Countless times,

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we've had our voices raised

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toward 1 another. Countless times.

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I walked out and said, I've had all I can take.

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He's got to go. Now I'm done with it. He's got to

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go. And I have to deal with countless times.

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He's walked out and said, I got to go.

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I've had all of him. I intend on taking.

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I've I've I put up with this and I've dealt with this, and I'm fixing. I

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got to go. I'm sick of this, and you need to

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know that's happened on a regular basis with

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Paul and I. It's not that, well, you and Paul Lucky.

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No. He needs to go a lot of times.

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But in the last 38 years

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is I'm storming off. I gotta think about

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He's a good man. He's a good man.

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He's committed. He's committed to the Lord.

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He's faithful. That fruit has been obvious in his life.

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He he was a great father. He he's been a husband that is... Stuck

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in here. Paul loves people.

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He loves people. Hit, Paul wants to see people grow. I,

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you you don't pay somebody to love interns

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and desire to see them grow. That's something

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in him. I guess I'm not as mad as I

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thought it was. I'm a give him another day. So you

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yes, I am balling mad right now, and

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I am sick of him and I'm ready

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for him to leave, but if we will step back

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with your boss, with your mate,

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with your neighbor, with your job,

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with your church, with your school, If you'll just step back

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a minute. This was horrible. I'm bull mad,

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I can feel my heart beating in my head, and I want him gone.

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Step back. You know,

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where are you gonna find somebody that loves people like this? Where you gonna find somebody that would do

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anything for me that he would do. At a drop of

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a hat, middle of the night. Paul would

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be there. I would even have to call him he had hear about it, and he'd

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be there. You you better be careful

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before you just start doing this in life.

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I get it. You're mad. I'm mad. I'm

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mad, I'm mad mad. I get it. I wish he would jump

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off of a bridge. I get all of that, but let's back up. And you identify

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people not by 1 event, you identify by

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the fruit in their life. And that's what Jesus is trying to get...

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This is not a bible verse to me.

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It's the way I live my life. It's the way

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operate in life. And it's not because Paul

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and I have always seen out hour gotten

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together. It's because

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we've been together 38 years because we're able to see fruit.

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We're able to appreciate through. Admire fruit,

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understand fruit, and we're able to understand that everybody's not perfect.

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Everybody has a bad day. I have a bad day. And what I

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said, I shouldn't said now I was wrong in saying it.

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But I'm not gonna jump up here and

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make a decision. I'm gonna look at fruit.

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I'm gonna look at fruit. She said we're

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going to identify by fruit. We gotta stop

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identifying by an event, We gotta stop

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identifying by what he said. We gotta stop

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identifying by how he disappointed me. We gotta

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stop all of that. And let's back up and look at fruit.

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And that's the way you work and succeed

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in life. We go on to verse 40

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and Jesus tells of his 3 days in

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hell, and we don't have time to teach on

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the defeat of Satan and what happened in

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hale using the example of Jonah and the

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Queen She, and verse 42. Jesus calls us to stand

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against this generation, and there's that

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judgment day, stand against this generation. Jesus talk often about

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judgment day. Church we this... We we don't

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get around and we can't sidestep.

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I get I had rather preach on the

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love of God. Is I had on judgment

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day, but we can't act like judgment day

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is not a part of the deal. We we can't act like you're not going

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to think before God, just you and him.

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And give an account of what you did,

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and you stand before God you're not gonna

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give an account about how the teacher wrongs you. Your coach did this. Your boss did.

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He don't hear... That's not the account you're

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gonna give. Well, they did this to me, and they

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said that to demeanor, you won't give an account of what you

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did. You're gonna give an account of what you said. You're gonna give account of the

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way you handle this situation. You're gonna give

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an account On judgment day, you're gonna give

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an account about you and what you did.

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And that's gonna have to get to be our focus instead of what everybody else did

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and said and how they treated us and how they did me wrong. And Jesus calls

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for repentance because of a judgment day.

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That's why we're called to repent. We move on, very important truth that Jesus

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teaches in verse 43, and we gotta see this. I got a

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hurry. When an evil spirit leaves a person. It goes into the

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desert, seeking rest, but finding none, then it

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says, I'll return to the person I came

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from. So it returns and finds its former house

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empty, swept and in order. Verse 45.

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Then the spirit find 7 other spirits more evil than itself,

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and they all enter that person and live

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there. And so that person is worse off than ever before.

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Whoa. Now, this is a mouthful here.

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We... Let's let's think this through. As we

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are all making changes in our life and

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all of us in here or making changes. That's why you're at a Wednesday night service.

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Everybody in here is making changes in their

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life. But I just wanna continue to remind

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us and you know this, but I just wanna remind us,

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you can't clean up your thoughts.

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You gotta replace your thoughts. You you don't just stop. You have to

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start. You you can't clean up bad habits.

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You gotta feel your life full of good

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habits. You you got to re... It's it's...

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And and I I've been asked countless times. Kim, I just have such bad thoughts. And

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whatever it is. They got bad thoughts of lust and I can't stop that. I've got

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thoughts of depression. I... I've got thoughts of

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suicide. Tim I just hate this person. I'm

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boiling with hate. I got balls of hate. Whatever it is. You got these thoughts.

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I just can't stop thinking them. I just

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can't stop thinking them. The problem is not

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replacing them. See you it's 1 thing to clean up

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the house, but you got to. As it's

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being... You gotta fill this house right back

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up. And you feel your life full of

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good things. You feel your life. See, you

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you can't just stop. Thinking about how somebody

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wrong you. Stay wrong to you and you

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can't turn that off, but you can feel

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your mind with good thoughts. You can't feel your mind with good thoughts

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to think about. And as our lives are changing, and we

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all are, Yeah we gotta just make sure

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that that I'm I'm proud that you are

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no longer robbing banks. Good. Good step.

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I'm proud of that. But now let's get some new habits?

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Or you in church? Or are you committed to a church?

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Are you volunteering and serving there?

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Do you start off your days with a couple chapters in this in the word? Do

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you start off your day? Turning and submitting your day over to the

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Lord. What what kind of friends do you have? Do you have a whole new set

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of friends? You're not gonna stop doing anything

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hanging around the same people that you've always

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hung around with. You're not gonna stop that.

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What you gotta do is get a whole

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set of new friends. You gotta get a whole set of new

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running buddies. See it, you you get a whole another

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world. I got all different thoughts and I used

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to think about Absolutely.

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There are things in your life you need

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to stop doing. But let's get focused

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on all the things that you're gonna start doing.

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Let's get focused on a new lifestyle on

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new habit patterns. On new words that I use on new

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conversations that I have, build your life.

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Feel your life with good things, feel your life with good people,

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with good friends, you feel your life,

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doing good things for other people. You you

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you attend good things.

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You go and get involved in good things

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and you're a part of good things. And

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as you feel your life full

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of godly activities. It's amazing. I don't have time to go

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do something. I don't have time to go

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mess up. III don't have to... That avenue is no

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longer open to me because it don't have any friends that do it. I don't know

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where it's being done. I don't have any place. My life is so full of doing

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this. But I have time to do that. This is a real teaching that Jesus gives

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us here. The section that we're looking at in this

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lesson ends with chapter or 12 verse 46.

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And Jesus was teaching those that wanted to

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hear. And and someone told Jesus.

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Your mother and your brothers are standing

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on the outside, and and they wanna speak

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to you. Now want you to look at this. Very

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interesting. Verse 46, and verse 47

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2 times it is said,

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your mother and brothers are outside.

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2 times. They're outside. What a lesson

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Hard lesson. Where are they?

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They're standing on the outside?

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They're standing on the outside, and they won't Jesus to

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come out and be outside with them.

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I'm I don't have time to get into it. Jesus brothers didn't believe.

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They're on the outside. Jesus brothers didn't even

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believe in him. They didn't believe in the

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messiah. Well, Paul has 1 of the greatest

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teachings you'll ever hear in your whole life

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about the proof, the validity of the resurrection.

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And 1 of the biggest points is Jesus

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own brothers didn't believe he was the messiah,

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then what happened? He came out of that grave.

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All of a sudden, it changed his own brother's

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view. They got on the inside when the

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resurrection took place. 1 the biggest proof of the resurrection there is,

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is just Jesus brothers and what they thought

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and then what they then thought. We gotta

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see this. Jesus asked. Boy shy away from hard words of Jesus.

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These are not on t shirts. They're not

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on refrigerator magnets. We don't have brood of viper

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on a t shirt on a coffee mug

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that these are hard words, but we gotta know this.

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Who are my brothers? Who

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is my mother. And then in verse 50,

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he answers his own question. Anyone who does the will of my father

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in heaven is my brother, my sister and my mother.

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Anyone who does the will of my father

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in heaven. This is hard. This is hard

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to our flesh, but Jesus taught

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hard things. Jesus taught things that goes against

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our flesh. Who is Jesus family,

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those who do the will of his father.

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Jesus said, and in Matthew 7, Paul taught

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about this, and I won't go back. He

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taught about this a couple of weeks ago. But in Matthew 7, says many will cry

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Lord Lord. But only those who actually do

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my father's will in heaven. Will enter heaven. To be considered by Jesus,

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as a member of his family, there is a doing of god's will,

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that we're required to live in. His mother,

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his brothers standing on the outside,

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Jesus stayed on the inside. Those doing my

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father's will these are my mother and my brothers and

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my sisters. Church, I I love this study.

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When we get through with this, we're gonna

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know what Jesus said. Y'all stand.

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Lord we thank you for for your word. Thank you

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for your word that that gives us

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direction that clears up our thinking

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and that we understand

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your will, your plan, your words that we

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understand who you are, We honor you tonight, and we say you

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are Lord. We give you thanks in Jesus name. Amy.

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