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Morning Devotion from Romans: God’s Righteous Judgment · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, family. Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: a prayer warrior. I pray all the time. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to pray first. but today we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be in Romans chapter two, verse number one, Romans
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  Speaker 1: chapter two, verse number one. And this one's called God's
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  Speaker 1: righteous judgment. I'm going to tell you straight up right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're not all going to be in. My hope is
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  Speaker 1: that we'll be on the same page about judgment, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take it like this. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: kind of like have different views on this different point
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  Speaker 1: of views on this. But I have a question when
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  Speaker 1: we get into it that, um, was posed to me yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, by Holy Spirit God. Amen? That I never
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  Speaker 1: thought about before. But we'll get there before we get there.
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  Speaker 1: So Father God, I thank you so much for the opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity right now to testify of your greatness, your goodness,
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  Speaker 1: your holiness, your righteousness. You are the righteous judge. And
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  Speaker 1: who are we to judge, right? That's what we hear
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  Speaker 1: all the time, Lord God, from people who are outside
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  Speaker 1: of the kingdom. They say, you can't judge me. And
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  Speaker 1: I think they're right. Father God, teach us what is
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  Speaker 1: really true about your word concerning judgment. I pray, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that you will enlighten us, teach us, carry us through this.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, that your Holy Spirit will reign and rule
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  Speaker 1: in our hearts and our minds, and that you will
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  Speaker 1: continue to lead us forward, knowing that we are victorious
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  Speaker 1: in you. In you, we could do all things, Lord God.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord. But without you, you say we could
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. So we want to be in Christ. I
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  Speaker 1: pray that you will guide us, guard us, protect us
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  Speaker 1: by your ways, Lord God. Protect us, set forth your
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  Speaker 1: archangel angels to protect me, my family, our grandchildren, my
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  Speaker 1: whole entire bloodline, every single person that's listening and watching,
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  Speaker 1: representing their family as well, that you will guide, guard,
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  Speaker 1: and protect them as well. I pray by faith, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that we will have an encounter with you, Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and that you will hold us up and that you
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  Speaker 1: will keep us up and that we will be ready
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  Speaker 1: and stay ready according to your purpose and plan, which
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  Speaker 1: is 100% perfect for our lives individually and corporately. In
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' holy name, I pray this by faith. And those
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  Speaker 1: who agree, we say amen to the amen. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: into this. Like I said, prepare yourself. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is going to challenge the way we think concerning judgment.
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  Speaker 1: And there's two ways of spelling judgment. I literally found
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  Speaker 1: that out yesterday while I was doing the title. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought I spelled it wrong. I'm always spelling judgment
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  Speaker 1: with a J-U-D-G-E. And then I realized in the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: I read the Berean Study Bible, the BSB, and there
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  Speaker 1: was no E in judgment. So I looked it up
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  Speaker 1: and you can spell it both ways. So God's righteous judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Brother John, I see you. Good morning. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. And yeah, mercy and grace to all. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for showing up, my bro, my friend. This one's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a little heavy for a morning devo,
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  Speaker 1: but I believe it's necessary, amen, that we talk about
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  Speaker 1: it as believers, right? So Romans chapter 2, verse number 1.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what we have here. I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 1: you a question I believe that was posed to me
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  Speaker 1: by Holy Spirit God. You, therefore, have no excuse. You
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  Speaker 1: who pass judgment on someone else For on whatever grounds
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  Speaker 1: you judge the other person, you are condemning yourself. Ouch.
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  Speaker 1: That hurts, right? Because you who pass judgment do the
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  Speaker 1: same things. And I believe this part, doing the same
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  Speaker 1: things while you're passing judgment, I think that's the key
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  Speaker 1: to this scripture. I could be wrong. Amen. When I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it out loud right now, live, um, inspired
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  Speaker 1: by Holy Ghost, to figure, hey, if I'm doing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing, how am I judging you for doing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing I'm judging you on? Right? I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that would make any sense, and I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: would be any benefit to anyone. Sister Joanne, I see you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo,
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  Speaker 1: my sister and my friend. So, I have a question. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: While I was reading the scripture, you know, sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: try to avoid things, but, uh, I believe Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: was like, nah, you ain't getting away with this. The
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  Speaker 1: question was, in this part of scripture, is Apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: talking to believers or unbelievers here? The reason why I
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  Speaker 1: say that, because if you keep on reading, amen, Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul talks about an unrepentant heart. And last time I checked,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the way I think, I'm a thinker.
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  Speaker 1: Last time I checked, if you haven't repented or if
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  Speaker 1: I haven't repented, we're not born again. Right? Right? There's
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  Speaker 1: no salvation without repentance. You're not saved if you never
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  Speaker 1: turned from your wicked ways and turned to the righteous
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  Speaker 1: ways of the Lord and asked Him to forgive you
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  Speaker 1: for your sins. So it's interesting. This scripture is very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people like to go
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  Speaker 1: to scriptures like this when they see preachers out in
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  Speaker 1: the street, you know, and they say, you can't judge.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says don't judge. And you're out here judging, right?
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  Speaker 1: So that's the question I had. Who's... Who's the apostle
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  Speaker 1: talking to? Who is he inspired to talk to? The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit inspired the apostle to write these scriptures down.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote 13 letters to the churches. Who is he
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  Speaker 1: talking to? He's talking to the outsider or to the insider?
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  Speaker 1: He's talking to the believer or unbeliever? Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: But from here, you can't really see who he's talking to.
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  Speaker 1: But if you keep on reading, you will see it.
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  Speaker 1: You will see and you will get a better point
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  Speaker 1: of view. So it's easy to recognize the faults of
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  Speaker 1: others and overlooking the same struggles in our own lives.
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  Speaker 1: It's very easy to do. Oh, look, Sam is doing XYZ.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to say that. I dare to come on
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  Speaker 1: these social media streets doing lives and Bible studies and
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  Speaker 1: morning devos. So best believe people are going to be
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  Speaker 1: looking through and scrolling through and seeing all the flaws
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  Speaker 1: and trying to amplify, oh, well, he's a DJ, he
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  Speaker 1: plays secular music, so he's a hypocrite, or he does
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  Speaker 1: this and he does that, or he's having struggles in
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  Speaker 1: his home, or this, that, and the other, however they
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  Speaker 1: see it, amen, they're going to point out your struggles
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  Speaker 1: and my struggles, right? But listen, God is faithful. He's
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  Speaker 1: the righteous judge, amen? He knows the whole situation, right?
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  Speaker 1: We don't even know snapshots of each other's lives, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, right? God knows the whole thing from beginning
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  Speaker 1: to end. So it's easy to recognize the faults of others.
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  Speaker 1: We may criticize someone for their attitude, right? And this
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  Speaker 1: person claims to be a believer, works in a church
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  Speaker 1: and everything, and they have a bad attitude all the time,
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  Speaker 1: always angry, right? I don't want to be that guy.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you don't want to be that person either. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: I realize that You know, this is the only thing
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  Speaker 1: I could think of. Like you see when you see preachers,
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  Speaker 1: they look angry all the time when they're preaching. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I think about that? I think, in my
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  Speaker 1: humble opinion, is that the power of God working through
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  Speaker 1: the preacher, right? It's not for everybody. It's just for
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  Speaker 1: the ones I know. That I know they're not angry.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that I believe the flesh is fighting at
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  Speaker 1: those moments against the preacher. So there's a struggle right there.
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  Speaker 1: There's a war. active live while someone's preaching that's my
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  Speaker 1: point of view of it i don't think the people
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  Speaker 1: are always angry when they're preaching because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are loud when they preach they're animated when they
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  Speaker 1: preach when they preach it's not like they're angry i
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're angry it's just that there's a war
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  Speaker 1: going on right there right right now there's a war
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  Speaker 1: going on my flesh wants to me to stay asleep
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  Speaker 1: this morning the flesh was like i just stay asleep
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  Speaker 1: and worry about it no one cares anyway and i'm
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  Speaker 1: like nah man i have a morning devo i dedicate
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  Speaker 1: this time to the lord And people who come on,
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  Speaker 1: we're dedicating this time together to the Lord. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a war going on. Amen? Sometimes I might look angry. Right?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not angry. I'm full of joy. And so are
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  Speaker 1: you if you're born again. And it's not the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: of God. that leads men to repentance. It's the kindness
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  Speaker 1: of God that leads men to repent, right? And it's
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  Speaker 1: also not the anguish, the righteous anger that people say
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  Speaker 1: they have that leads people to the Lord. It's actually
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  Speaker 1: the joy of the Lord, which is our strength. that
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  Speaker 1: people see and they're like, wow, this person's full of joy.
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  Speaker 1: So we could criticize someone for their attitude, their dishonesty,
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  Speaker 1: their anger, or this is the one, the sinful behavior, right?
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  Speaker 1: You see sinful behavior if you're my brother or my sister, amen,
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  Speaker 1: you see me acting wild, you know, pull me to
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  Speaker 1: the side and say, hey, I think you need to
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  Speaker 1: take a break because you're acting crazy. And I will
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  Speaker 1: receive that. Not a lot of believers will receive it,
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  Speaker 1: especially if they They consider themselves in some kind of
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  Speaker 1: high rank in church. A lot of them will be like,
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  Speaker 1: who are you to tell me? But me, personally, I
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  Speaker 1: receive that. I don't want to go in tangents, different
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  Speaker 1: directions all the time, and then come up here like
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  Speaker 1: if nothing is wrong. I have issues going on personally, right?
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that it's sinful issues. It just
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  Speaker 1: means that trying to figure some things out, asking God
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  Speaker 1: to help. Amen? Amen. asking my brothers and sisters to
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  Speaker 1: keep me accountable. It's all good. But, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a whole, when we see sinful behavior, make sure that
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  Speaker 1: that sinful behavior that you're going to approach your brother
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  Speaker 1: or sister in love, in love, that you too are
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  Speaker 1: not going through the same or you're not doing the
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  Speaker 1: same things. I think that's what passing judgment, doing the
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  Speaker 1: same things mean. You know, be truthful, be honest to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: before you approach someone else. I think that's what scriptures
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  Speaker 1: are saying. So Romans 2 and 1, Apostle Paul is
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  Speaker 1: delivering a powerful reminder. And I believe he's speaking to
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  Speaker 1: himself as well as he's speaking to the people. We
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  Speaker 1: are not called to sit in God's judgment seat. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what people mean, especially unbelievers. You can't judge me.
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  Speaker 1: I think what they really, and some of them probably
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  Speaker 1: don't understand what they're saying. They're close to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what the scripture is saying. We can't sit in the
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  Speaker 1: judgment seat that God sits in. I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying. Because a lot of times they say only
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  Speaker 1: God could judge me. And they are absolutely 100% correct.
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  Speaker 1: God is the righteous judge and he will judge. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not called to sit in God's judgment seat.
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  Speaker 1: God alone. Who's the righteous judge that's coming back? Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: God alone sees the heart and the intention of the heart,
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  Speaker 1: and he sees it perfectly. I don't see the intention
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  Speaker 1: of your heart perfectly. I don't see the intention of
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  Speaker 1: your heart at all, to be honest, but God does.
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  Speaker 1: He sees it perfectly. He knows every motive of our heart, right? Also,
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  Speaker 1: he judges with complete righteousness. God doesn't judge unrighteously. God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't judge, you know, just pointing fingers and guessing. No,
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  Speaker 1: he knows. He knows the motives of our heart. He
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  Speaker 1: knows what we're thinking. Guess who don't know what we're
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  Speaker 1: thinking right now? Can only hear what we say. The enemy.
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  Speaker 1: So don't think the enemy could read your mind. That's
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  Speaker 1: why in spiritual warfare, when you're approached by a demon-possessed
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  Speaker 1: person or a witch or someone who's trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: distract you, or encourage you to sin, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: your mind, in your mind, if you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: come all out to the person or offend them, in
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  Speaker 1: your mind, you could pray to the Lord. He hears
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  Speaker 1: your prayers that are in here, and he will help
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  Speaker 1: you through that situation. I know that for a fact.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in a lot of situations where I say,
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  Speaker 1: I better be praying, right? Because this activity around me
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  Speaker 1: is demonic, right? So in my mind, I could pray. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you speak it out of your mouth,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy will pick that up. The demons will pick
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  Speaker 1: that up and be like, oh, that's what he wants
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  Speaker 1: or that's what she wants. Yeah, let's try to disrupt that.
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  Speaker 1: Even though we win all the time. In Christ, we win.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's a strategy we could be using
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  Speaker 1: since we know that God can hear our thoughts. The
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  Speaker 1: enemy can't. So we have a secret way to speak
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. without the enemy even knowing what we're saying.
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  Speaker 1: So this doesn't mean we should ignore sin. Because I
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  Speaker 1: know I have to balance this out too myself. Ignoring sin.
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  Speaker 1: For years I would look at situations in churches and
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, nah, can't be. It's none of my business.
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  Speaker 1: Let me walk the other way. I was ignoring sinful
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  Speaker 1: behavior because I felt What about me? How about if
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  Speaker 1: I fall into that or, you know, I'm not perfect?
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  Speaker 1: Be careful with that, right? We are responsible. We are
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  Speaker 1: responsible people. We can help one another in these areas
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  Speaker 1: to get up and get out of those situations. And God,
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  Speaker 1: of course, gives us a path of escape, a way
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  Speaker 1: to escape temptation, sinful behavior, right? Bad attitudes. He can
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  Speaker 1: adjust those things if we allow His Spirit to adjust
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  Speaker 1: it in our hearts. So this doesn't mean that we
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  Speaker 1: should ignore sin or pretend that right and wrong don't exist.
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  Speaker 1: The world says, that's your truth, Sam. It's not my truth.
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  Speaker 1: That's right for you. That doesn't mean it's right for me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not get into that. We're believers in Christ. Christ
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the righteous judge. He is the righteous one, right?
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  Speaker 1: We have no excuse as believers to continually walk in
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  Speaker 1: sinful behavior, to continually walk in darkness. Right? But we
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  Speaker 1: have to show grace to the people who are outside
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  Speaker 1: of the kingdom. Just like when we were outside the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: people had grace on us and they prayed for us.
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  Speaker 1: They included us in church services, right? Even though we
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  Speaker 1: were enemies of God. So I'm mindful of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always trying to help the newbie. in the church. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm drawn to the new believers because I know how
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  Speaker 1: it is when I was a new Christian. Amen. I
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  Speaker 1: would hear certain things that people were hurling my way
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  Speaker 1: and not realizing. I don't think they realized. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand what they were talking about. For instance, when I
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  Speaker 1: first got saved, some men of God would say, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's see how long your Holy Spirit is going to
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  Speaker 1: last when life really hits. And I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: had no clue what that was. So I ignored it
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know what they're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: but Holy Spirit, God's going to help me through whatever
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  Speaker 1: comes my way. That was my attitude. But if I
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  Speaker 1: was distracted by that or if I took that to heart,
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  Speaker 1: it would have kind of threw me off course a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in the beginning. So I'm mindful of that
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  Speaker 1: just because of my experience. So I tend to help
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  Speaker 1: out the newbie a lot. So God's word calls us
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  Speaker 1: to have discernment, right? To... before we correct to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're doing it in love and also make
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  Speaker 1: sure that, you know, we're not doing the same exact
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  Speaker 1: things according to scripture, past judgment, when we're doing the
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  Speaker 1: same things. Right? Very important. Love is very important when
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  Speaker 1: you approach this. Correction, right? Accountability. Me personally, I'm not too,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too into accountability partners. The reason why, this
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  Speaker 1: is just me, you know, you, You don't have to agree.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying because in order for you to be accountable,
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  Speaker 1: you have to agree, number one, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: be truthful. How about if one day you're my accountability partner?
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  Speaker 1: This is just an example. Amen. This is just an example.
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  Speaker 1: It's not true. I'm not going to say this never happened.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine Brother John was my accountability partner and he called
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  Speaker 1: me and I'm having the worst day of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't want to talk about it. Brother John
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  Speaker 1: would ask me, hey, how's your day? How's this situation
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  Speaker 1: in your life? Are you okay? He's holding me accountable
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  Speaker 1: to some things that we were sharing amongst each other.
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  Speaker 1: This never happened. I'm just using Brother John as an example.
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  Speaker 1: And I could literally lie and say, yeah, everything's good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay. I'm good. Right? So that's why, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to me, accountability has to work both ways. And we
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  Speaker 1: have to be honest. Right? Sometimes people are not honest
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  Speaker 1: when they're being held accountable. So there's a difference between
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  Speaker 1: lovingly correcting someone and condemning someone when they do something wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We know that God, there's no condemnation for those who
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  Speaker 1: are in Christ Jesus. So there should be no person
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  Speaker 1: approaching you or me who says they're in Christ Jesus
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  Speaker 1: condemning you or me. Very simple, logical way of thinking, right?
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  Speaker 1: So there's a difference between lovingly correcting someone condemning someone
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  Speaker 1: and when people usually are having that condemning spirit that
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  Speaker 1: pointing finger is usually because they have a proud heart
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  Speaker 1: or hypocritical heart if you think about it amen this
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  Speaker 1: might be a little bit internal for believers so unbelievers,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me for a minute. Amen? This might be just
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  Speaker 1: a message for the church or for believers right now,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But if you read Romans chapter 2,
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  Speaker 1: the whole chapter, I want you to ask yourself a question.
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  Speaker 1: Is it possible when he talks about unrepentant heart, can
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  Speaker 1: a believer have an unrepentant hard heart? Just a question. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't have enough time to get on to
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  Speaker 1: all the details. But I had to read this because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait, who's the apostle talking to? It
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  Speaker 1: was the first time I ever thought about it that
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  Speaker 1: way when I was going through this study. Right. Through
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  Speaker 1: this morning Devo prior to today. So just something to
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  Speaker 1: think about. Jesus taught us to examine ourselves for sure,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. Right. Matthew chapter seven, verses three
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  Speaker 1: to five. Read it for yourself. Jesus taught us to
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  Speaker 1: examine ourselves before pointing out another person's faults. He never said,
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  Speaker 1: don't judge. I know a lot of people say, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: don't judge. He said, do not judge or you too
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  Speaker 1: will be judged in the same measure you judge somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't say, don't judge. Of course, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be judgment. And he's the righteous judge. So it would
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  Speaker 1: be hypocritical for the Lord Jesus to tell us not
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  Speaker 1: to judge when he himself is going to judge. Think
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  Speaker 1: about it. Just a logical way of thinking. Amen. I
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  Speaker 1: know this is a morning devo, but we could think
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. I hope you could think in the morning. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus taught us to examine ourselves. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's another internal message for believers. Amen. Because unbelievers, think
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  Speaker 1: about it, don't have Holy Spirit God teaching them these principles.
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  Speaker 1: That's why grace is very important. Love and kindness is
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  Speaker 1: very important when we approach someone with these type of matters.
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  Speaker 1: And now, I think personally, we're not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: judging outsiders. Judgment comes first to the house of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says. People who are outside of the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God don't even know that they're in bondage to sin.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that you were in bondage to sin
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  Speaker 1: before Christ Jesus saved me? I didn't know. I thought
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  Speaker 1: I was just going with the flow. You couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: me I was doing anything wrong when I wasn't saved.
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  Speaker 1: I was just doing everything everybody else was doing. I
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  Speaker 1: was doing the same things that everybody else was doing. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: So I think we couldn't even judge each other at
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  Speaker 1: that point when we were lost. So, Jesus is the
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  Speaker 1: key here. So before you criticize someone today, pause. Selah.
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  Speaker 1: Have a Selah moment. Pause and ask yourself, am I
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  Speaker 1: struggling with the same thing myself? So before I approach
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  Speaker 1: So and so with this, am I struggling with the thing?
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  Speaker 1: And if I am, I should release myself from that correction.
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  Speaker 1: Go to a brother, right, and say, hey, I need
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  Speaker 1: to pray for myself. Don't start gossip praying, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, I shouldn't be saying this, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but let's pray for something. Pray for me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a situation, right, that I'm seeing things. But if
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  Speaker 1: I'm struggling with the same area, help me. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord together so you can help me figure
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  Speaker 1: this out. Am I struggling with the same issue? So
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  Speaker 1: before you criticize someone else, ask yourself, are you struggling
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  Speaker 1: with the same issue? Or am I speaking out of
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  Speaker 1: love or pride, arrogance? A lot of people don't realize
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  Speaker 1: that they speak down to you. I'm one. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to know one of my touch points, Speak down
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  Speaker 1: on me and you're going to find out. I think
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  Speaker 1: we should be speaking to each other. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's anybody above or below us. We're all the same here.
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  Speaker 1: We're all on this same broken, fallen world. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're born again, we all have the same spirit. The same.
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  Speaker 1: No different spirit. No different measure. Your Holy Spirit is
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  Speaker 1: more powerful than my Holy Spirit. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: the case. We have the same spirit that rose Jesus
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  Speaker 1: from the grave. So together, we're better. Separate, divided, we
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  Speaker 1: are not good, right? This is not like the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have a united family of God, not a divided
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  Speaker 1: family of God. So am I speaking out of love
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  Speaker 1: or pride? Or you could ask yourself, am I seeking
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  Speaker 1: to restore this person or simply to prove them wrong?
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  Speaker 1: You could go ahead, prove me wrong all day. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. what that would benefit anyone. Wouldn't benefit me,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't benefit you. But some people move that way in
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  Speaker 1: their life. I'm going to prove that person wrong. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to expose this person. I'm going to expose that person.
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  Speaker 1: And they move that way. Really, who benefits from that?
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  Speaker 1: The only time I think exposing should be something that
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  Speaker 1: we should key in is if we see that there's
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  Speaker 1: a leader representing the church of Christ that's sending people
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. We should expose that to help
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  Speaker 1: those other people that are in this kind of hypnosis.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how else to explain it. Help them
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  Speaker 1: out of there, right? But to expose people's sin, we
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  Speaker 1: can do that all day, every day. I could stop
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  Speaker 1: doing morning devos and dedicate the rest of my life
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  Speaker 1: to exposing sin. Sin is everywhere. It's very easy. But
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  Speaker 1: how about how to deal with sin according to how God,
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  Speaker 1: as a righteous judge, deals with sin? That's something different, right?
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  Speaker 1: So instead of spending your day, your nights, scrolling, exposing
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  Speaker 1: someone else's failures, why don't you allow the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to reveal areas where we need growth, where I need growth. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: I think about this often. Amen? So remember, God is
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  Speaker 1: not asking you to be someone else's judge. He's calling
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  Speaker 1: us to walk in truth, to walk in humility. That's key,
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  Speaker 1: I think, and to reflect the character of our Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. So I know there's a lot here. Read
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  Speaker 1: the whole chapter for yourself. We were in Romans chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse number one. Amen. Judgment is a big, big issue
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  Speaker 1: concerning the church and how we should be moving when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to this areas, right? So I don't have
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  Speaker 1: all the answers, but let's go to the one who
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  Speaker 1: does have all the answers, the Lord Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 1: his word. So I'm out of time. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I know this was a little heavy. Amen. than usual.
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  Speaker 1: I was a born in Devo. Judgment is a big topic. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But I believe that that's where the Lord led me.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe that's where he wanted me to go today. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Brother John, wishing you and your family a blessed day
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  Speaker 1: as well. God bless you, my brother, my friend. So
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  Speaker 1: God bless you all. God keep you all. Remember always
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  Speaker 1: that God is good. Peace.