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Message from Aaron Keeton - Sunday Morning Session · Simply Christ Podcast

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podcast. This episode was recorded at the
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Upper Midwest Fellowship Camp. Let's get right into it.
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I, I was just, and I, I guess this will kind of relate to what
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I was going to say today, what we're going to look at, but I
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don't know that you even want it, but I'm going to, I'm going
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to give my advice on something. If as a man, if you're
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interested in, in preaching or teaching someone.
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I don't know why I was thinking about this because I haven't
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heard it for a while, but I was, I was thinking about people
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saying in a very serious way that don't you know, every good
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lesson has three main points. And I was just thinking that I
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don't agree with that. Don't try.
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Don't try to follow. Somebody else's script, just as
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Leon just said, Just teach. The word of God, right?
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That's all you have to do, really.
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I mean, the more real you can make it to somebody, the more
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you can bring out the truth that's in it.
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If that is going if you don't leave one.
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Chapter and you just flow through.
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Several verses. That's some of the best teaching
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there is. Don't buy into it.
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Has to be in this format or has to be done this way?
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Or has to have three. Points or whatever.
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And like I said, this is nothing to do with the lesson, but I and
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maybe you don't even want my advice.
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But that would be my. Advice.
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What is just teach the word of God, Try to make it real.
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And try to to bring out the truth that's in it and don't buy
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into it has to be done a certain way or in a certain manner.
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But I just like that. Just thought about that by what
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he said about the going through the word of God.
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And it will kind of relate to what I want to talk about a
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little this morning. Now.
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Let me. Qualify this Before I begin into
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this particular lesson, I'm going to, I'm going to call
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this, don't shun the whole counsel of God.
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And I want to qualify. That when we go through this,
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we're actually going to look at some verses in First
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Corinthians, and I was thinking about what Paul said in first.
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Corinthians he does make this. Comment that in First
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Corinthians. Chapter 2 he.
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Begins by saying in verse one of first Corinthians 2, he.
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Says And I, brethren, when I came unto you.
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So that would say like when I first got there, when I showed
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up. To preach to you all.
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He says I can when I first came unto you.
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When I came unto you, I came not.
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With Excellency of speech or. Wisdom declaring unto you.
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The testimony of God. For I determined not to know
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anything among you, save Jesus. Christ and him crucified so.
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I'm not. When?
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I said I want to qualify this. I'm not.
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Saying that there is another. Place to start other.
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Than the foundation of Jesus Christ, him crucified in fact.
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Everything. Else that you would build upon.
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We're going to maybe read those verses as well.
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That that's. The only place to start.
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Building is Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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But he says that in chapter 2 and by the.
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Time he gets to chapter 3 he makes.
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The comment that he could. Not speak unto them as under
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spiritual. But as under carnal, even as
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under babes in Christ I have fed.
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You with milk and not with meat, for hitherto you were not able
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to bear it neither yet now are you able.
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So when? I when.
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I say I want to qualify this lesson.
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I'm not. This is not an undermining or a
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or a. Frustration of the gospel.
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I'm not trying to lower the gospel.
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I am saying that. Is the only place to start.
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But from some of the verses we're going to look at.
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Paul has. Frustrations when people cannot
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go past that, right? So this is not.
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I'll admit this is not. Going to be just a gospel
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lesson. I would encourage it as I think
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Leon just already did a good job.
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If you don't. If you're not.
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Sure about your salvation, you know.
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I mean, if somebody came to me and said.
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I'm not sure. I don't know anything.
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Else to do but to. Retell you the gospel, tell it
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how. Christ died for your sins.
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And ask you if you believe it, right?
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I mean what? What else is there to?
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Do other than that. If you're not sure, it's.
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Probably because you're looking at something inside.
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Yourself rather than looking at that story and deciding whether.
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Or not. You believe it so, so by all
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means. I.
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You you need to. You need to decide whether or
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not you believe. The gospel, if you.
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Believe that. Don't let, as Leon said, all the
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other flashing lights distract. You.
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Continue to believe that story and you'll be fine, right?
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And you'll be fine. So but but this.
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Like I said. This is this is something.
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Else so I want to. Start in Acts chapter 20.
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Acts Chapter 20. This is Paul.
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He is. He's about.
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Ready to leave Ephesus? For the last time, he says, and
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that they were not see his face anymore, so he gathered some
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elders together there of the church at.
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Ephesus And he is giving them this speech and he makes this
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comment this. Is this is Acts chapter?
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20 and in verse. 20 Acts 20 and verse 20.
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He says this Acts. I'll read verse 19.
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Acts 20 and verse 19 says serving.
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The Lord with all. Humility of mind with many tears
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and temptations, he's recalling. Like what happened when he was
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there? With them, with many tears and
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temptations. Which befell me by the.
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Lying and way the Jews. Now here's here's what.
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He's reminding. Let's verse 20.
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And how I kept back. Nothing that was profitable unto
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you. But have showed you and have
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taught you publicly. And from house to house.
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Testifying both to the Jews. And also to the Greeks,
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repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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So again, he reiterates this. This is where I started.
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Right faith towards God. Repentance towards the Lord
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Jesus Christ like. That's that is the starting.
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Place, truly. And he said.
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But I did not. Hold back anything that was
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profitable unto you. Now I have heard maybe not an
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outright. Statements, but I have.
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Heard a few people. Whether they intended to.
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Or not they. Gave me an impression that.
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They did not want. To go past the gospel and I, and
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I understand part of it. Like I, I did not.
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I came out of a very I mean. In some ways.
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Just as a works based religions. You all didn't because we wasn't
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ashamed to tell you his works based like.
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We would. We'd tell you.
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Oh yeah, it's it's you. Or nothing.
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It ain't by faith or grace. So so in that sense, but but I.
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Understand that most of you all I feel like the.
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Room is full of people that had their lives every.
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Detail of their lives ran. By religion so I understand the
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the the reason that someone would feel like.
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They. Found hope in the gospel and
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they don't go past that because when you go past that, you
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start. Meddling in in my liberty.
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Right. You start meddling in my.
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Liberty, so I. Understand the pool, but but
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that's like I said, that's what we're going.
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To try to look at. Today is that.
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Paul always says Here's what. You need to believe.
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Now let's go on to meet. And not just have to relay milk
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all the time, right? So he says.
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This is this is still Acts chapter. 20 Go down to verse
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727, he says. This well, I'll read 26 just to
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kind of give us the the the leading up to it acts. 20 verse
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26 says, Wherefore I. Take you to record this.
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Day that I am pure from the blood of all men, in other
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words. Well, let me read the next verse
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with it and then I'll explain, he says.
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Because verse 27 for. I have not shunned to declare
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unto you all the counsel of God. Paul is suggesting that when I
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was. There I did not.
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Hesitate to. Cover all the word of God right
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now. The the reason I'm saying.
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This and and I have. Some other points.
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To make as we go through this, but.
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I don't. Want you to do I don't want you
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to avoid books of the Bible or. Sections of the Bible.
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For for any reason right we're. Going to get to a verse here in
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a minute. Says that all scripture is.
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Given by inspiration of God. There what the?
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Reason I'm saying that is like my the church I was.
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Raising wasn't quite as bad, but the one that Tiff was raising,
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my wife was raised in. When they had a Bible study they
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only went from Acts to Jude. Because they didn't want to get.
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Into some of the things that. Was in the Gospels.
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They didn't want to get into Revelations because that was too
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scary and that was too foreign and we don't know what.
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That is so they avoided. Parts of the Bible because.
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They were afraid. What might come out of that?
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Right. So, so that's kind of one of the
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direction that I want you. Seeing this, I don't want you to
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feel like you. Can't study all the counsels.
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Of God right all the Bible. Now.
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Here's I'm going to. Try to compare two things the
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first side of it. Is that there?
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Are a couple rebukes. Let's look at the first one.
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It's in Galatians chapter 5. Galatians.
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Chapter 5 Paul says this Galatians 5 and verse 13 he
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says. For brethren, you have been
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called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion to the
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flesh, but by love serve. One another.
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Peter says it this. Way in first Peter chapter.
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Two and verse 16. He says this, he says.
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I'm sorry. Yeah, 216.
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Sorry, I thought. First Peter 2 and verse. 16, he
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says as free and not using your liberty.
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For a cloak of maliciousness, but.
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As the servants of God. Now there's another.
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Place or two that you could say was kind of along the same lines
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but I just. Wanted to read those two and
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make this point that I'm not accusing necessarily anybody in
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this. Crowd of doing that.
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But Paul recognized that there was a danger.
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That people people would say. I don't want to hear nothing but
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about the Liberty. Because actually all.
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They wanted to do was fulfill the lust of their flesh, right?
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All they wanted to hear was about the liberty.
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All they. Wanted to hear was about.
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The freedom they had. So.
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That they could. Use that to cover up what was.
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Really inside of them? Now I know that's true.
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I. Don't know if that applies
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anybody in here but. That is a true.
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Warning that Paul recognized. And I'll say.
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This it's a lot easier for false.
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Brethren or. False people to hide.
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In a group of people. That don't preach anything but
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liberty, right? It's a lot.
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Easier for them to hide in that. Because, well, I guess because
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there ain't no rules, right? And I'm not and I'm not.
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Trying to give you a bunch of rules.
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I'm just saying it's just the truth.
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Right, It's just true that it's easy for people to.
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Hide in amongst that because that, that's all that's being
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said. Liberty.
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Liberty. Freedom.
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Freedom. Right.
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So in this is. This is.
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Back to the idea. That I don't want you to shun.
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The the whole Bible and here's the reason that some people.
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Would. Is because in Hebrews chapter.
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4IN Hebrews 4 and in verse 12 he makes this comment.
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Hebrews 4 and verse 12 says. This for the.
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Word of God is quick. Like, not necessarily fast, like
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alive. Right.
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Like it's, it's, it's alive. It's quick.
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And powerful and. Sharper than any 2 edged sword,
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Piercing even. To the dividing asunder of soul
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and spirit, and of the joints and marrow.
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That is, it does not stop on the surface, right?
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It goes deep within to the. Marrow and is a discerner of the
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thoughts and the intents. Of the heart.
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Do you know why some? People want to avoid all the
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word of God. Or all the counts of God?
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Because they don't want the. Real intense to be made known.
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Right. It will.
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It will. Try you when you go through.
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It all when you actually. Look at the whole of.
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It. You can't.
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Help, but analyze yourself. Right.
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Would you agree with that? You can't help but look at
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yourself. Look at your.
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Intents look at what my. Real thoughts are.
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What am I really wanting? What is my real motivation here?
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He says that's what the. Word of God's for.
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To discern the thoughts and the intents.
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Of the heart now. Here's the other.
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Side of this. That I've already mentioned, but
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I want to read the verses we we already read one of them there
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in First Corinthians chapter 3. He said, he said there, like I
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said, I just read that, but First Corinthians.
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Three, he says. And I.
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Brethren could not. Speak unto you as unto.
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Spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ, I
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have fed. You with milk?
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And not with meat for. Hitherto you were not.
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Able to bear it. Neither yet now are you able,
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for you're yet carnal, For whereas there is among you
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envyings and strife. And divisions, are you not?
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Carnal and walk as men. So pauses I would like.
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To go on from this, but you. Can't handle it right?
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You can't handle. The rest of this Council.
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So go to Hebrews 5. This, I guess, will be kind of
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like the parallel passage to that Hebrews chapter. 5 Hebrews
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5 and verse 11 He says it this way, Hebrews 511 He says, Of
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whom we have many things, that is.
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He just said that that Jesus was.
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Called of God and high. Priest after the Order of
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Melchizedek. Of.
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Whom that is of Jesus. Of.
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Whom we have many things. To say and hard to be uttered.
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Like, not that they're hard. For me to.
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Say, but he said it's because seeing ye are dull of hearing
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right? I've got a lot of things I would
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like to say to. You, but you.
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Can't hear it? You're dull of hearing for when
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and this is the key. This goes back to what I
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qualified. The lesson with.
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For. When for the time you ought?
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To be teachers. When I give.
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You this lesson. It's not to.
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Everybody, I mean, because I don't know how young or how much
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of A babe in Christ you are or not, but when he.
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Gives this rebuke it is to people that he says has had.
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Time to move on, right? It's the.
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Time to go forward. Now there's a time.
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To not. Like there's people that maybe.
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And here again, I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a great
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deal of lessons about the gospel.
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I'm just saying there are. People that that's about all
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they need to hear, right? I'll agree with that.
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There is people that you need because they have not yet
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believed it and for you to move. On to walk.
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In the Christian life is not going to do them any good if
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they don't believe the. Gospel, right?
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So there is a. Time that someone doesn't need
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to hear this. But he says it's.
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Time that. You all ought to be teachers,
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but he says you have need that one teach.
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You again, which be the first principles of the oracles of
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God, and are become such as. Have need of milk.
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And not of strong meat like and I know you've probably.
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Heard lessons on this but. He he's, that's what he's
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saying. It is been a long enough period.
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Of time you have had. Ample teaching.
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So. That you ought to be able to
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reteach it and he says, but. Yet you need to be taught it.
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Again, because you don't even know it.
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Verse 2013 says for everyone that uses milk is unskillful and
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the word righteousness for. He is a babe, but strong meat
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belongeth. To them that are of.
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Full age, even those. Who by reason of use.
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Have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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Now folks, if you think that life is not full of
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opportunities to choose. I'll say the right.
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Path and the wrong path. I'll also say a good.
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Path, and a better path than. You're fooling yourself.
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That's all of life, right? I mean every, almost every day
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we are faced. With choices that we need
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discernment in, we need to be able to discern what.
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Is. Right.
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And what's wrong? What's good and what is better?
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Right, so. He says strong me.
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Belong to them who are a full. Age.
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Even. Those who by reason of.
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Use. That is, they have been.
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Approached with the truth. Right, they have been approached
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with error with what's? Wrong, right?
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They have had it's. It's like they've been in a
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well, I guess I'd. Say they've been in reality.
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They've been in reality. They have.
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They have had. I mean listen the waste word,
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who by? Reason of use like they have
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used. This they have.
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They've been. Taught this, they have run into
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instances in which this happened or that happened.
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Or they're faced with this. Question.
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Hey, what I'll do about this? Was the word God say?
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About this by who? By reason, reason of use have
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their senses. Exercised to discern both good
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and. Evil, therefore, since that's
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true, verse 1 of chapter 6. Leaving the.
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Principles of the Doctor of Christ.
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Let us go on unto perfection not.
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Laying again the foundation of. Repentance from dead works and
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of faith toward God. Now, folks, you may not.
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Like the way he said that, but that's what he said he said, not
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laying that again. I'd he's saying I shouldn't have
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that shouldn't be what every. Single lesson is about.
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I mean, would you? Do you agree?
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With that, that's what he's saying.
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That is what. He's saying not let us go on
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into perfection, not laying again the foundation of
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repentance from dead. Works and a faith toward.
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God of doctrine, of baptisms, of laying on of hands, and of the
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resurrection of dead, and of eternal judgment.
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And this we will. Do if God permit right like
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Paul, I think it's. Paul, Paul is saying.
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That's my intention, in fact. I would say he does do that
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right. He does do that in this very
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book. I think he gets.
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To some of those things in this very book.
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Now again I don't this is another point.
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That I want to make that I don't want you to misunderstand.
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Some of you. Are reading too many?
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Books and looking for a plan or a system or a.
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Program or something like. That that is not what I'm
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talking. About.
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I'm not, I'm not wanting you to go.
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Seek some outside. System that that lays down a
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five step plan or a whatever. That that's that is not what I'm
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talking about. Fact.
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I'd say some people. Are.
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Chasing that too much? I just want you to to stick.
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With the word. Of God and not.
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Be afraid of any of it, right? And here's what I mean.
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By that let me let me give you an example.
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I mean, the Bible addresses the role.
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Of women in the. Church the Bible addresses
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modesty. The Bible addresses all these
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things that that you may that you may find uncomfortable, or
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that maybe. Who's I was talking to somebody
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and we were talking about the the things in your past, you
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know, like the things. That your religion taught you
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and you run. We I don't remember.
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Who I had this? Conversation with But we were
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talking about you. Run.
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Away from those things, right? I know what it was.
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I still don't remember who it was, but.
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I said I made the comment that. Everything like me and my.
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Wife saying. The church Christ would.
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Say we have all the truth. And for the longest time.
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The the word truth almost made me cringe because they were
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saying. We have the.
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List like we have picked. Out the right things, we are
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doing what nobody. Else is doing as pertaining to
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the service is mostly what they meant but.
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That's what they. Meant when they said we have all
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the. Truth, they're saying.
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We are right because we don't allow.
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This in the service we do do. This every service we have.
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All the truth, therefore we are justified.
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So I kindly cringed. At the phrase all the truth,
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right so. We may all do that.
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With certain things, but. But like I said, I'm not trying
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to get you to go. Out and outside of the Bible, in
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fact. I would say be.
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Careful of that. Right, let's look at this verse.
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This is Second Timothy 3, Second Timothy 3.
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Probably most of you could basically quote this verse, but.
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But I want you to. Slow down and not just rattle it
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off and think about. What it says second?
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Corinthian or Second Timothy rather 3 and verse 16.
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Second Timothy 316 says this, and I want to point this out as
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we go through it. He says all scripture.
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Now, folks. I don't know about you.
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But I count all. The the Bible to be the
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inspired. Word of God.
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Right now I'm not trying again. Don't.
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Don't misunderstand, I'm not. Saying you need to go.
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Back and find these good things in the Old Testament that are
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good for you. He Christ, nailed that to the
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God. Forget about that.
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Now. I would say this I'll qualify
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that statement with Paul says things that the things that
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were. Written a four time were.
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Written for learning, there is. Plenty don't avoid the old.
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Testament either in. Fact.
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I have. I have.
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Learned who? God.
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Is his person. More out of the old.
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Testament than the new probably. Right.
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So there is great. Instruction.
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There's great things to learn in the Old Testament.
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But. But my point was more to say.
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I don't want to. Disqualify the old but I'm just
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saying when he says all scriptures.
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Given by inspiration of God. Don't do as the church did.
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That I was. Saying and say.
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We're not going to study. This book because that's a
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little too sticky. Right.
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Don't say that he says all scripture is.
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Given by inspiration of God. And is profitable, right?
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Some men would say. I don't know why you want to
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talk about. That that's just going to cause
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a stir we're going to get to. That.
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Point in just a second. But they'd say that's.
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Just going to cause. A stir, I say.
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The Bible says it's. Profitable, right?
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It is profitable. It's not useless.
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It's not words to take up a page.
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In fact, that was one of the things that I kind of realized a
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long time ago is that. God is not wasting words.
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He's not just. Throwing stuff out to say, you
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know, I think I'll just see if they'll do this.
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Like we may, we may try. Our kids like that.
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Well, there may be an instruction we give them.
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Just to see if they're. Listening that has no benefit or
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no profit. We're just testing them, right?
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God's not doing that. He's not giving us instructions.
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Just to see if we'll jump when he says jump.
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It is profitable. Right.
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It's profitable for Doctrine. That's kind of what you.
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Believe for reproof, that is. That's like looking.
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At something and finding fault. With in other words.
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You would look at this and you'd say that's not a.
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Good road to go down. Right for correction like it
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tells you. If that's not a good road to go
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down, how do you correct? That.
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Like really, it's in there. And now let me let me say.
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This. You a you may say to me, well, I
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don't understand the Bible. Well, that is one of the one.
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Things that I thank God is want you to pray for in great
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confidence is understanding His Word.
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Because you may. Pray with great confidence.
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That someone be healed and that doesn't happen but I.
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I would have a. Hard time believing that anybody
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sincerely prayed. To understand the word of God
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and God. Said no, I.
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Just don't know if I, you know, right?
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I mean, would you agree with that?
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I mean, he's. Solomon God was so impressed.
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With Solomon, because he didn't. Ask.
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For all these other things, but he asked for wisdom.
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Right. And God said I'm because you
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didn't ask for all of the things.
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I'll give those things to you. But.
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He was so impressed because. Solomon recognized I need.
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Wisdom, if I'm a God, these people.
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So. He says it's for correction.
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For instruction in righteousness, that the man of
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God may be perfect thoroughly. Furnished unto all good works.
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Like every time I hit read that phrase thoroughly furnished.
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That's not something I've ever dealt with necessarily, but
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you're going to rent a house or an apartment two different ways.
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You can rent it straight or you can rent.
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It furnished, right? Furnished means that everything
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you need your couch. Your chairs, your bed, your.
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It has what? You need in it.
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Right. So look at it like that.
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He's saying that the Bible. The scripture that God give will
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thoroughly furnish your house, right?
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Completely every now. You.
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I'm not suggesting that it just will come easy.
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You need to be praying. That God would give you.
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Understanding Wisdom. It is going to take.
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Time of studying in the word and like I said earlier.
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Don't get so distracted about what everybody else has to say.
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About it. Right.
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I'm not saying you can't listen to people preach.
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Or or maybe read some book about what somebody said.
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I'm just saying be careful. That you're not being.
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Swayed to an opinion just. Because somebody else said it.
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Let the scripture tell you what it says, right?
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So stick with the scripture. Now you you would say OK if we
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did. Whatever.
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Whatever. Church.
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You may say. If we did, if we sat.
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Down and tried. To study the whole Bible
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together, they'd be a division. Well.
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I say don't worry about that. Don't worry about that.
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The. Word of God is really.
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Meant to be a filter. It truly is, Jesus filtered his
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crowd. Himself, In other words, he
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actually did filter his own crowd.
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And John chapter 6. John, Chapter 6.
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And in verse 60, John 6 and in verse 60, this is after Jesus
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has. Proclaimed to be the bread, that
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his flesh was meat indeed in his blood.
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Body. Or his blood rather was.
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Drank indeed. After he goes through that
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teaching, verse 60 says John 660.
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Many, therefore, of his disciples.
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When they had heard this said, this isn't hard saying.
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Who can hear it? In other words, he expounds on
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something and they say I. Don't know about all that.
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That's too hard. Who can hear it?
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Verse 61 says Jesus knew in. Himself that this his disciples.
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Murmured at the at it he said unto them, Does this offend you?
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Are you? Offended by the word of.
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God, think about it, folks. People will claim that the man
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offended. Them.
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And what I mean by the man is the speaker, the teacher, the
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whatever. They'll say he offended.
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Me when sometimes. What they really mean is the
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word offended them. Right, he said.
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Does this. Offend you verse 62.
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What? And if you shall see the Son of
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man ascend up where he was before?
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It is the Spirit that quickeneth.
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The flesh profiteth nothing. The words, the words.
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That I speak unto you. They are.
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Spirit and they are life. Listen what he says.
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But there are some of you that believe not.
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For Jesus knew from the beginning.
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Who they were that believe not, and who should betray him?
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And he saith, And he saith Therefore said I unto.
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You that no man. Can come unto me.
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Except it were. Given him of my father.
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Verse 66 from that. Time many of his disciples.
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Went back and walked no more with him.
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He taught some hard things and it busted.
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The crowd up, many of them left. Now you may say.
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That I don't want that to happen.
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Well, let's go to 1st Corinthians.
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First Corinthians Chapter 11. First Corinthians, Chapter 11.
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1st Corinthians 11 and in verse 17 we're going to.
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Start First Corinthians 11 and verse 17.
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He says this. Now in.
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This that I declare. Unto you I praise you not that
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you come together, not for the better.
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But for the worse for first. Of all when you come.
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Together in the church, I. Hear that there be divisions
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among you, and I partly believe it.
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For now, read that together. I've heard that there are.
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Divisions among you, I've heard. That it's causing.
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Problems. What's going on there?
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For there must. And that word must means.
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Go look it up. It means it is necessary.
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For there must be heresies. That does not mean.
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Actually I kind. Of I kind of didn't know what
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that meant to look it up. I.
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There is, there is words. That mean this?
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But this word does. Not mean false doctrine.
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It means. Sect.
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In fact, it's translated. That way, several times go look
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the same word up, look click on it with.
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Your strong's that word is is translated as sect several
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times, so it's not. Pertain.
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He's not saying. There must be false doctrines.
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He's saying there must. Be divisions and sex.
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That's what he's saying. There must.
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It is necessary. That there be heresies.
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Which means a. Sector A party.
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That's the definition of the. Word among you for what?
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Purpose that they which are approved may be.
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Made manifest among you. Now you remember.
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I made a comment. Earlier, it's easy for a.
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False brother to hide. In a place that's always on the
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milk. Right.
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He's saying I have, I have heard that there.
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Is divisions. Among you and I believe.
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It because there must be sex and divisions that.
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Come out of this in order to approve.
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To make known who's approved now.
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I don't know, I mean. You may, you may feel.
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Like that that the best thing would be for every.
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Word I have a mega church that we just.
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We're all together, he says. No, in fact the the fact.
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That there is break offs. And divisions is making known.
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The false from the true now. Let's go to First John.
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He says something real similar. First, John.
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First John Two. First John 2 and verse 18.
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First, John. Two and verse 18 says this.
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Little children. It is the last time.
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And as you have heard. That antichrists shall come even
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now are there many Antichrist, whereby we know that it is the
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last. Time.
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Now listen what he said. They went.
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Out from us, but they were not of us.
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Now I want you to. Think about what he's saying.
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He just said we know it's the last.
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Time because there are. Many Antichrist already around
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he's. Going to go on to say that the
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Antichrist denies the Father and the Son.
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Now they may not always deny him just by word, but in their heart
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they really don't believe. It so he says.
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And the reason I know. That's true.
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Is because of what he says next. He says they went out from us,
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he said. They started.
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Amongst us. He said.
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And they went out from us, he says.
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And they were not of us. They were a part of us.
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They were in amongst our midst. They left.
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Because they were not. Of us for if they had.
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Been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.
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Right, but they went out. That they might be.
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Made manifest. There's that term again that.
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They might be made manifest. That we would know.
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What was really in their heart they may be made manifest that
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they were not all of us. Now I have.
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This is just personal experience, but I have.
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I have tried to just. Teach all through the Bible.
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I mean that's not what I do every Sunday.
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I have specific lessons like this, but I'm just saying.
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I try to teach through the Bible and I can see it I can.
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See that there? Where I preach.
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That there have been people. That don't hang around.
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Because they're offended. They're not offended at me.
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There are. Offended at the word.
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And I'm just saying to you if. If the word, if something that
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the Bible does address, if a book or a whatever that the
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Bible address offends someone, don't take that personally.
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Right, that don't take it personally.
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Don't. Don't say we're not.
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Going to whatever look at the book of James because it may
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make people doubt about faith. Or what?
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I mean, study whatever book it is, we're not going to talk
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about this thing because this may offend people.
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I say study the whole counsel. Of God right?
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Study it. All all scripture is given now.
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Like I said, don't start. Don't start in the wrong.
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Place don't think you're going to get people saved by studying.
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Things that pertain to modesty. Or things that pertain to the
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women's role in the church or. Don't think you're.
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Going to save anybody with that because you're not, you're not
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going to save anybody with that. But do not be afraid.
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To look at the whole. Council and I just.
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I guess what I realized as I was studying, well, let me let me
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back up and tell you part of the reason I studied this lesson I
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was listening to. Something from a?
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Calvinist from a guy that was a Calvinist, which would have said
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that God, you know, ordains everything that happens.
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God has willed that thing to happen.
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And I could I could tell that he was a little bit embarrassed.
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About heresies or about the visions.
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Like it was a little bit embarrassing because if that's
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what's happening, then God must will it and I.
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Got to think and I thought. Well, I mean, I'm going.
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To look at the verses. Well when I looked at the verses
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he says it must needs be right if I didn't read this.
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Verse because. I think it was.
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A little a little out of context.
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But he used that term. When he was talking about
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somebody mentioned that this morning, maybe about the
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offending a little one. Well, the next verse.
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After he mentions offending one of these.
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Little ones are Matthew, I think it is.
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The next verse says there must needs.
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Be offenses must needs be offenses.
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Right, that seems strange to us, he just said there must.
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It is necessary. There were, we read.
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In Corinthians, it is necessary that sex or divisions or
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heresies arise to make known those that are approved.
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That's interesting to me and like I.
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Said. I'll be honest, I truly, I had
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never saw that clearly, but I was just that was.
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What made me think about I was listening to this guy and he
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seemed. Embarrassed of the heresies and
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God didn't seem. To be embarrassed of him.
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He said no, it's like a filter, right?
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It is the thing that. Shows it makes known John.
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Said if they had really been of us.
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They would have stayed around. Right.
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So I hope that's. An encouragement, not a
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discouragement. Do you but but I just know that
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I know that we. All truly.
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We all have. Baggage, I'll call it, from
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religion. We all have that.
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I just don't want you to. Let that baggage.
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I don't want you to. Let that baggage keep you.
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From all Scripture, all the counsel of God, all that God has
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to say. Does.
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That make sense? I mean, I hope that feels
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needful or because I'm not, I have no interest in in ruling
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your group. In fact, I think that that's I.
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Think the appropriate thing to do is for whatever.
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Gathering of the people is for them to talk about things if an
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issue. Comes up, they need to talk
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about. They don't need to go.
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To some other church and get their advice on it.
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You all work that out. Right.
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I think that's fine now. The other side and I won't go
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down this road too far, but. The other side of that is.
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This. Paul.
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Is dealing with it. Like we'll take Corinthians for
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an example. He's dealing with people.
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Some of them will. Eat anything and all things
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others won't. He.
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Doesn't say to them, well you better find a new.
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Church, he says, the people that are eating.
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Better not offend the people that are not.
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And the people that are not eating better not judge the ones
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that are. So I'm not saying.
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To you that everybody has to be a.
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Color copy of the other. There is a place.
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For for love and compassion, and I mean.
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By all means, you should probably look.
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Different. I'm not saying that.
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You should probably look different, but I am saying to
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you that if someone if you say to.
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Someone we're going to. Study the whole.
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Bible and all of it and we're going to talk about it and they.
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Leave. Don't worry about it.
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You're. Not the one offended them.
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The word offended them. So that that would be my
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encouragement to you. I appreciate your your
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listening.