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When God Warns Us: These 7 Types of People You Must Never Help · Off The Kirb Ministries

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I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but did you know
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there are seven types of people you should not help?
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Now, that doesn't mean we don't respect and love everyone as
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Christians, but I think the Bible is very clear.
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There are certain types of people that we should avoid.
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We should be careful not to help, that we should be wise as
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serpents. Yes, we preach the gospel to
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every creature, but some people they may not want to be helped.
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So before we get into this list because some of them I don't
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think you'll ever have considered before, first I want
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to say if you've never been here before, this is my coffee
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unedited me talking to you with the Bible.
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So please do pause the video right now.
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Get yourself a nice cup of Joe and let's have a cup of coffee.
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Now, just as I do this, I do have a question for you.
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Last video, you might remember I just went straight into the
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video and just drank the coffee as we went along.
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And some of you said, Joe, you've got to pour the coffee.
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That's our favorite bit of the video.
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Would you like me to get straight into the video or do
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you want to hear this sound so good?
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Oh, just one more thing before we come to the list.
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OK, so the first type of person that we cannot help are evil
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political powers, people in high positions that give no thought
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to the things of God. Just look at Mark chapter 6 with
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me. Mark chapter 6 and verses 17 to
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18. For Herod himself had sent and
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laid hold of John and bound him in prison for the sake of
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Herodius his brother Philip's wife.
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For he had married her, because John had said to Herod, it is
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not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.
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Now you probably know the story quite well.
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Here we have this man, Herod, and the Scripture actually says
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that he enjoyed listening to John the Baptist.
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He enjoyed listening to what he had to say because this man was
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filled with the Spirit of God. But John was not fearful to call
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out people in high places. He was not fearful to call out
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sin. And he said, it's not lawful for
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you to have your brother's wife. This is wrong.
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And what did Herod allow Herodias to do?
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He allowed her to have John taken out of the picture.
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Now why is this a very solemn thought?
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I'll tell you why. Because God had made John the
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Baptist his mouthpiece. This was the man who was to
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speak out the messages of God. And what was Herod doing when he
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had John taken out? Deleted.
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What was he doing? He was silencing the voice of
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God. And when you do that, when you,
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when these political powers and there are people doing it right
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now, today, we don't want this book, the Bible.
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You cannot preach the truth from this book.
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Certain pastors are taken out, certain people are told they
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can't do this. Countries all around the world,
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we're hearing about it constantly.
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You're not allowed to say this. You're not allowed to do this.
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And the powers that be, they're trying to silence Christians.
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And when that happens, there's very, very little hope for them
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but the grace of God. So if you are by any chance, if
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there's a political person listening to this right now, I
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very much douse it. But imagine there is right now.
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What would I say to you? I would say make sure you honour
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the word of God and fear only God.
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Don't fear man. Don't fear opinions and turn
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from your wickedness and turn to the living God.
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Because when you take out his mouthpieces, bad things happen,
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and your nation will reap the consequences of it, right?
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The second person that you cannot help is the lazy person,
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the person who refuses to work. Just turn in your Bibles.
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Now to Second Thessalonians with me, Second Thessalonians chapter
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3, and we're going to look at verse 10.
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For even when we were with you, we commanded you this.
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If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
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In other words, what were the apostles saying here?
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They were saying, listen, we're not going to just give out
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handouts. If someone is refusing to work,
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that person should be very, very careful.
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The Bible even goes even further.
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It says if a person doesn't provide for their family, it
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says they are worse than an unbeliever.
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That is a very, very challenging verse.
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So if you're a lazy person, if you're not working hard right
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now, the Bible has a few strong words to say to you.
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And as Christians, if we notice people who are lazy around us,
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we should be very, very careful about whether we help them.
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You've all heard the phrase before, haven't you?
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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, but teach him how to
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fish and he'll eat for a lifetime.
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And there is something to be said about that.
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If we're constantly helping someone, we're not helping them,
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if that makes sense. We're just enabling them to be
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lazy. I was always struck by this
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sweet old lady at my church a number of years ago when I used
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to go to a church in another town.
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And this sweet old lady is a walk into the prayer meeting,
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she said. I saw this homeless man and
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there was a part of me that just wanted to reach out and help him
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and and I did. I helped him and and I loved
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him. But then the other part of me
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inside was saying, get up, get off off your off your off your
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legs, you know, get up right now and and work.
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Come on, you've got a body, go and work.
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And that's kind of struck that this sweet old lady would have
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such a, you know, that tough kind of love would be so strong
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in her, in her views. But she was right, wasn't she?
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You know, often we can work. Many of us.
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We have no excuse. Now, this isn't for the person,
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of course. You know, I'm not talking about
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the person who has severe things that have stopped them from
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working. Of course, we're not talking
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about that kind of person. We're talking about the person
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who plays video games all day, who just relies upon benefits or
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upon money from the government and they just refuse to work.
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We've got to be very careful how much time we give to that person
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because we're not helping them. You know, some of you often ask
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me, men particularly, how do I stop, you know, going to the
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Internet, how do I stop all of these thoughts in my mind and,
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and stop going back to that same sin over and over again?
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Would you know what I think for a lot of men it is it's this.
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Some men go to bed with far too much energy, far too much
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energy. As a man, you know, we were made
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to be totally wrong out. Even women, we were made to
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work, to be going to bed just exhausted.
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So, you know, you put your head to the pillow and you're asleep
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within a few seconds. But some men, some, and I lived
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this life when I was younger, go to bed with far too much energy,
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just relaxing on social media, chilling out, watching movies.
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Do a bit of this, do a bit, you know.
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But no, we should be doing the chores of the house.
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We should if we're family men, we should be spending time with
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our children. We should be working.
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If you can't be the main breadwinner, I would challenge
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you. Men, don't just work one job,
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work 2, work three jobs, even if you have to.
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You are meant to be looking after your wife, the weaker
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vessel, so she can be that, the homemaker and look after this
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home that you know you've both been entrusted to.
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These are just some of my thoughts.
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I know you might think I sound like a dinosaur, a bit of an old
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fashioned man, but I do believe these are biblical principles.
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I'm open to your views though. Let me know what you think in
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the comments section. The third person who we should
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be very careful about helping is the angry person.
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Look at Proverbs chapter 19 and verse 19.
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Very interesting verse. Proverbs 19, verse 19.
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I think I've said this before in previous videos, but if you are
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someone who wants more wisdom, study the book of Proverbs
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because a lot of Christians when I sort of I realize how wise
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they are, I'm like, where did you get your wisdom from?
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Often it's because they spent a lot of time studying this book
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and I love to read it every year or so.
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I try to get through the book of Proverbs at least once.
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And it's also a wonderful book because it's got 31 chapters, so
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you can have one read 1 chapter each day of the month.
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OK, Proverbs 19, verse 19, A man of great wrath will suffer
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punishment for if you rescue him, you will have to do it
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again. Some of you, and it's I admire
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this about you, you've got a heart of gold.
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But some of you, you've bailed people out far too many times.
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You know, you've had someone's back.
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This person has been angry. Maybe they've got into a fight
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or they've even got in trouble with the law and you've bailed
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them out. But what's this verse saying
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right here? It says if you rescue them,
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you'll have to do it again and again and again.
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Why? Because they haven't had to pay
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the price for their sin. They haven't had to face up to
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to the ramifications of their wrongdoing.
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And when we do this, we're not helping anyone at all.
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But then there's another thing. There's another verse in
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Proverbs that this is the first verse that came to my mind when
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I thought about this series of things.
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People you can't help, people you should be wary of, and it's
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Proverbs 22 and verse 24. It says make no friendship with
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an angry man and with a furious man, do not go, lest you learn
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his ways and set a snare for your soul.
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So here this, this principle that we're hearing in the world
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all the time. You know, the four people you
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spend the most time with, that is who you'll become.
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Just nod your head. Have you ever heard of that
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before? You know, the people you hang
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around with, that's who you'll become.
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Well, this was in the Bible. You know, bad company corrupts
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good morals. And here it's saying, if you are
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friends of an angry person, don't be surprised if you soon
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start getting a bad temper. Very, very interesting.
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And again, I can see that in my own life when I've been friends
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with someone who's had a bad temper or who's used wrong words
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and suddenly I start using those wrong words.
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So just be careful. Again, we want to love these
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people. We want to show respect for
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them, grace to these people. But if you're spending close
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time with them all the time and you're just allowing them to get
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angry without challenging it, you're not helping them at all.
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So challenge that person and ask them and maybe even say, listen,
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if you continue in your bad temper, I'm going to have to
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refrain from this friendship because I know that's having an
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effect on me as a Christian in my own soul #4.
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The 4th person we should be very wary about helping is the
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mocker. Again, we're in Proverbs still,
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Proverbs Chapter 9, and we're going to read verses 7 to 8.
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He who corrects A scoffer gets shame for himself, and he who
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rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.
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Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you.
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Rebuke a wise man and he will love you.
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You see, there are some people in life.
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You've met them, I've met them and they always have to have the
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last word. I remember there was a man who
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was at a church and he had a bit of position in this church.
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And my friend who was younger used to say to me, listen, this
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guy, he's always right. He's so he believes he's right
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about everything. I could imagine him he even
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having an argument with God. That's how bold he is in in his
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arguments. He just thinks he's always
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right. And the Bible here saying if
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there's a foolish person, if there's someone who's mocking,
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if they're scoffing, just be careful.
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Don't waste your time on them because you're not going to get
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anywhere with them. They won't listen.
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They'll refuse to listen. There is, you know, taking this
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verse on a bit of a diversion here, this, this principle.
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There's a verse that really hits me very hard.
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And it's this verse. As a young person, I used to
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read this and see it as a challenge that I need to repent
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from a, a certain sin. And it goes like this, he who is
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reproved or he who is warned many times and yet stiffens his
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neck will be broken suddenly without remedy.
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And I used to think all the times I hear preachers warning
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against a certain sin, all the times I read it in the
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Scripture, all the time, the times the Holy Spirit convicts
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me turn from this turn from this.
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And I keep stiffening my neck. I keep refusing to to turn away
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from it. But that is going to end badly
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one day. One day God's just going to, you
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know, reprove me without remedy. Now, for some, this could be
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very, very much the end. Death could be what what
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happens. But for others, it could be
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something that that really does, you know, just completely takes
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the, you know, the wind from your lungs, if you like, takes
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takes the feet from beneath you. There is things that happen in
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life. You know what I'm kind of trying
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to get to here with this. So friends, I'm just saying to
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you, let us make sure that we are teachable.
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The Bible talks about that so much.
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If an older person or a Christian or someone who wants
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to help us offers us insight, let us have open ears and be
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teachable. Let us not be those people who
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always have to have the last word and always think they're
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right. Now we are actually going to do
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something a little bit different.
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As you know, on this channel, I just sort of, we just have
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coffee together and there's very little editing.
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But I do want to show you a little clip from a, a preaching
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video of mine on my street preaching channel that I'd like
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you to just watch and then listen to what I'm going to say
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about it. Hallelujah.
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Are you going to read it and be serious, Sir?
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Because people died for this? Yeah, I'm.
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Yeah, they died for this book, Sir.
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If you're going to be silly, I can't give it to you.
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I'm sorry. People literally shed their
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blood and died because people say keep this message quiet.
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We don't want Christianity to spread.
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We don't want the world to be turned upside down.
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And they were put to death with these beliefs.
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So that's why I'm not giving this out loosely.
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Anyone who's going to read it seriously, I'll give it to you.
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But if you're going to take take the Mick, I can't.
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I don't want to just give it away because anyone want to take
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it and read it seriously. Thank you.
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God bless you. Now, why did I show you that
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video? I'll tell you why.
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When I was a young St. preacher, my mentor, Vinny Commons, who I
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often talk about, I've got a lot to be grateful for for this man.
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He said to me once when I was getting into a sort of debate
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with some, you know, rather scoffing young people who were
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laughing at me, who were being rude.
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He said, he just whispered in my ear, Joe, stop the conversation.
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The Bible says do not cast your pearls before swine.
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And Jesus himself said that don't give those precious things
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to those who trample on it unless they turn around and
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devour you. Now the video that you saw up
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there, here I am preaching on my own.
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Vinny wasn't there, but I just felt as this young man, I saw
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him as I'm preaching, he was raising his hands.
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He was doing all of this, you know, he was laughing.
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And he came up for the John's Gospel.
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And I've seen many times before these John's Gospels, they RIP
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them up. They throw them in a bin.
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Some of them, they even set them on fire.
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And it breaks your heart and even makes you quite angry when
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they do that. And I just got a sense that
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verse came to my mind. I shouldn't give him that.
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And I asked people when I put this video out, was that harsh?
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And one or two people said maybe I would have given it to him and
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and given him the benefit of the doubt.
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But the vast majority of people said, there is a time where
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you've got to say, no, I am not going to to do this.
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You need to know how serious this is.
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So again, just be wary of giving too much time to a scoffer.
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Warn them and say, I'm going to stop this conversation because
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you are mocking that which is sacred.
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Hey, I wonder if you thought about the fifth person that we
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should not help. Well, it's false.
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Teachers. If you've got your Bible still
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there, please turn to second John.
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And we're going to look at verse 10:50.
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If anyone, if anyone comes to you and does not bring this
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doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him,
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for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
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Wow. Oh, that's incredible, isn't it?
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So in other words, if someone comes with a false teaching,
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someone comes with, you know, a teaching that is is completely
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against the word of gods. Don't invite them into your
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house, the Bible saying, because you're sharing in their evil
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deeds. Now, how does this look
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practically? You know, should you bring a
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Jehovah's Witness in because they believe a completely
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different doctrine in a completely different Jesus?
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Should you have them into your house?
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Should you have into your house someone who believes in, you
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know, maybe in a different religion?
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Very difficult to talk. I'd actually be very interested
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to hear your opinion on this because I don't have an answer
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fully to this. But I do know that we should
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rebuke false teachers. I do know that we should have
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nothing to do with those who teach false things, and I think
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what the Bible is actually trying to say here is this.
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A little bit of homework after you've watched this video or
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tomorrow when you come to your daily devotion, would you do a
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favour for me? And would you read second Peter
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and chapter 2? Because you'll see why the Bible
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here in this verse takes such a hard line on false teachers
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because these guys, they're crafty.
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It says they'll, they'll sneak into, you know, innocent
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people's houses, that people who, you know, young women and
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they'll, they'll take advantage of them.
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You know, you know, they'll try and get money out of you.
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They'll act like they're they're clouds but they've got no water
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in them. They don't rain.
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They act like they're going to help you but but they provide
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nothing but dryness and sadness and aridness in the soul.
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OK, this next one is very serious and it's actually a
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scary warning for all of us. I believe the 6th person you
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should not help is the unrepentant.
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Look at 1 Corinthians 5 verse five with me.
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We're going to start verse 4 actually, in the name of our
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Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together along with my
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spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such
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a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that
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his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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So here we've got this man and he's done some very, very evil
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things. He's, if I can remember
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correctly, he's taken his father's wife for himself.
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That's really bad. And this is in the church.
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This happened in the Can you imagine that if that happened in
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your church, maybe you do know a similar situation.
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But these are, you know, we talk about how things are getting
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worse. Well, things were very dark back
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then. And that gives us comfort when
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we read the scripture that we know that they knew how bad
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things could be as well back in in the early church.
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But what's the lesson here? Well, I'll take you on a trip
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down memory lane. In my own life.
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I remember when I was starting out as an evangelist, there was
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a particular church member and you know, he was quite
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outspoken. I do believe he did love the
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Lord, but there was various issues there.
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He couldn't put the bottle down. He would go for months and
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months without attending. And we had a sort of in our
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church, it was, you know, you need to be there.
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We, we want to break bread with you.
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We need to, you know, keep you accountable at the church, you
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know, not as a way of lording it over you, but for your own help.
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We want to be there for, for one another.
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And this guy, as I said, he had so many issues.
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He was going into the world, he was using interesting language.
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You know, he was, he was basically living a double life.
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And this went on for years and years.
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And I remember many other church members were saying, this isn't
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right. That was saying he's a church
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member and he's, he's, he's, you know, and he's never with us.
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He never attends the church. And then there are other people
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who, you know, want to join the church and and they're asking,
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well, why is he in the church? And I've not been joined in yet,
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You know, all of that. You know what, what happens in
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churches? And so I brought the issue to
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the pastor and he said something that that really hit me hard.
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He said, Joe, if we cancel his membership, what we're
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effectively saying to this man is we're handing you over to the
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world. We're giving you over almost to
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Satan. And he said, I want to be very
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hesitant about doing that because that is a serious thing.
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We're saying we're breaking fellowship with you if you're
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not. And that's why he showed so much
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grace for such a long, long time.
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Now, I think there is a time that this has to happen.
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You see, there has to come a time where a person who we've
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tried to help for for a long, long period of time have has
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remained unrepentant, continued in sin, continued in wilful sin.
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There comes a point where you say, OK, you, you've spent so
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many years, so long right now turning from God and not wanting
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to to obey his word that that we give you over to to this
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evilness. Now why does the Bible say that
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because it says his his his soul might be saved in the day of the
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Lord Jesus. In other words, before the
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coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, he will realize, wow, I had so
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much safety when I was with Christ.
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I had so much peace when I was with Christ.
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I had protection. And this world, it's, it's a
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horrible place. And they'll see after drinking
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from broken systems, systems how how empty it leaves you.
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And they'll see just how it is a dangerous thing to be alien from
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the living God, to be apart from the living God.
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And that might bring them back into a place of repentance.
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I think that's what the Scripture's saying there.
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And I think sometimes it is very necessary to do that with a
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certain person. But again, this is a decision
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for for the church, the leadership in a church.
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And let them make that decision very, very carefully and not
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lightly. Lastly, the last kind of person
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that you can never, ever, ever help is the dead.
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Just turn in your Bibles to Luke Chapter 9 with me, Luke Chapter
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9 and we're going to read verses 59 to 60.
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Then he that's Jesus said to another, follow me.
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But he said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father.
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Jesus said to him, let the dead bury their own dead, but you go
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and preach the Kingdom of God. Now that verse is very strong,
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isn't it? Here's a man who's just lost his
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father, and Jesus is saying to him, no, don't bury your father.
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Go and preach the gospel instead.
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What is Jesus trying to say here?
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He's saying that this person is dead, they're gone.
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But the greatest concern you have right now is to tell those
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who are alive to turn to Jesus Christ to come to him in faith
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and repentance. You know, guys, this is a lesson
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I think many Christians we all need to hear.
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It was actually a game from my friend Vinny.
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He said, I don't know what is the biggest sport in your
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country over here. It's football, it's soccer.
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And he said, I want you to imagine, Joe, imagine right now
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you've got all of the football team, Manchester United and and
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the manager says to the football team, I want you to go up front
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to the striker. And I want you a net.
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I want you to make sure you you stay close to the net.
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Don't do anything silly. The defenders keep your guard
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on. You know, he's given all these
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rules out, all of these directions out to to the to the
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team. And then what happens is that
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the whistle blows, the game starts, and then the manager
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comes out onto the pitch and he notices that there in the stands
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are all of the football players and they're singing We love you,
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whoever the manager is. We love you whoever you're
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whatever team you're watching now, we love you.
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You're great, you're amazing. You're the best manager in the
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world. We love you so, so much.
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Is that manager going to be happy?
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Is that coach going to be happy? No, he's going to be fuming.
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He's going to say I gave you instructions to do go and play
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the match. And so it is, I think, with the
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church, yes, we are called to worship the Lord God, But if all
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we do is just worship him and we never go out and preach the
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gospel to this world that is dead, I think the Lord is going
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to have some words to say to us on the day of judgement.
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Yes, we know it's going to be a wonderful, a glorious day when
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we meet the Lord, when we stand before the Bama seat, the White
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Throne, judgement seat of Christ.
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We're all going to stand there. You know, when I get to heaven
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and we'll have years and years, millions, eternity where time
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doesn't exist, to praise the Lord God.
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When I get to heaven, I will be able to have perfect fellowship
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with you. We'll have wonderful fellowship
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together in heaven at the church, will have such unbroken,
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precious fellowship. But there's one thing when I get
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to heaven I cannot do. And what's that?
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Evangelism. I cannot preach the gospel
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because it's too late. And guys, there are people right
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now dying all around us who are going to a lost eternity.
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They're going to hell forever and ever and ever, separate from
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the living God. Why do I talk about this today?
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Just today in my morning devotion as I'm reading the
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Bible, the Lord really convicted me.
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There's a family member who we don't have the best relationship
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with, and that person's getting older and older and older, and
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we've kind of not spent time with them because bad things
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have happened in the past. But the Lord just convicted me.
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Can you honestly be OK with not having one last try at sharing
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the gospel with this person? Can you honestly see that person
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just walk into eternity gone and they're there for all of it?
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Joe, you're an evangelist. Why are you not sharing the
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gospel with that? Why have you not reached out one
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more time and told them about Jesus?
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And I thought, Lord, you're right, I need to do that.
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And I wonder right now if, as I've shared that in my heart,
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the Lords convicting one of you right now, there's someone you
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know who is getting closer to the end and you need to share
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the gospel with them or not just that you know that you should be
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doing evangelism to the world. You should be on your streets,
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giving out tracks, telling your work colleagues, telling them
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about Jesus. Because there comes a point when
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the dead is appointed for man wants to die.
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And after that, the judgement, there's no second chances.
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Once we die, once we're dead, it's over and we're either in
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heaven or hell. So preach Christ, preach him
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crucified while you still can. This one was a little bit more
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serious, but I did enjoy it. I hope you've had enjoyed your
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coffee with me. And I am really grateful to
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every single one of you who's a channel member, to every single
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one of you who prays for us. You know that we've had a very
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tough year in 2025. There's just been many different
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things that have happened to us and it's been hard at times.
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But I know you guys have been praying.
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And thank you for those of you who pray that we'd reach many,
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many lost souls out there. I really long to see more souls
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saved and thank you for those of you who support us through our
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website. I just want to say let you know
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I'm just grateful to everyone who watches the videos who
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comments likes. I don't take any of you for
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granted and it's just an amazing privilege to be able to preach
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the word and spend time with you guys.
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Can't wait to see you all in heaven and I hope will some of
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you it'll be a wonderful privilege if we even get to meet
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down here on earth. God bless you all.
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If you want to watch another coffee video, if you still got
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plenty of coffee in your pot, well, go and check this one out
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and we'll see you on the other side.