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The Enemies of Worship - 7/5/26 - Bro. Todd McKeehan - Meadows Baptist Church · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  >> Amen.
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  I tell you what worship is.
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  It's honesty before the Lord.
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  >> Amen. I don't know a more humble man in
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  this building than that man right there.
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  Amen. Just wants to sing for his Lord. I
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  tell you this, if we get our own ideas
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  and opinions out of the way, it would
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  probably help our worship a whole lot.
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  Amen. And uh I like what that that song
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  says. I don't know how he did it. All I
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  know is that I was blind. Now I see.
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  Amen. And I can tell you this. If you
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  ever been saved, you know exactly what
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  that means. Amen. And I bless the name
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  of the Lord for it. So good to have my
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  father-in-law, Brother Todd McKon, here
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  with us tonight. And I appreciate him so
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  very much. And looking forward to
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  hearing what he has for us. You going to
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  help the preacher tonight?
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  >> Amen. You help him preach. And I tell
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  you this, I know he'll feed our souls.
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  And I know what we need tonight. And we
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  need a touch from heaven is what we
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  need. And so you pray that God would
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  help him tonight. preacher, you come and
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  you share with us what the Lord has
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  placed upon your heart and close it out
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  how you see fit.
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  >> Amen. Exodus chapter number five
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  tonight. Exodus chapter number five. It
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  is good to be in church. Amen.
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  Appreciate the Lord letting us be here
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  today. And I so I was sitting there
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  thinking while the brother was singing,
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  I was just thinking about how good God's
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  been to me.
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  >> Amen.
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  And uh
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  when God saved me, I had no idea what he
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  was going to do. And uh God called me
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  into ministry. I had no idea what he was
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  going to do. And uh Missy and I tried to
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  have children for a long time. I don't
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  know if I ever I've ever told all that
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  here, but and uh struggled, went through
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  a lot of things. And then God gave us
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  Abby. And uh and I was just sitting
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  there thinking how that here I am now my
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  my baby girl
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  and uh she's married to the pastor of
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  this church
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  >> and God has put them here and they're
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  serving and uh I don't deserve for God
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  to bless my family like that. And uh but
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  he has been so good to us and I and I
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  bless his name. Amen.
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  >> And I thank the Lord for it. But I I
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  mean, God has been so so so good to my
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  family, and I'm I'm so thankful for it.
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  Uh I tell you, if I got what I deserve,
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  I'd be in hell. But I sure am grateful.
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  God saved me. And uh I appreciate the
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  blessings of God on every way. Amen. I
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  appreciate God sending Charlie in our
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  life. And uh and and uh was joking there
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  a moment ago. Somebody said that he said
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  you was hard on him. And I said, "Well,
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  I tried to run him off." if I really did
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  didn't do any good. Amen.
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  But I am glad I wasn't able to. I
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  appreciate him and how God is using him
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  here is uh it excites me. Amen. And I
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  know y'all are you need to be thankful
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  for that God sent you a man that'll
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  preach this book without fear and favor
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  of man. Amen. And uh and I I thank the
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  Lord for him and how God's using him and
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  how God's using Abby and their family
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  here. And uh and I appreciate the Lord.
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  Amen. Being so kind to us. And I'm just
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  kind of overwhelmed. Just be honest
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  about it. And uh God has been so good.
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  Exodus chapter number five tonight.
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  Exodus chapter number five. If you're
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  familiar with you with your Bible, I
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  trust that you are, you understand what
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  what's going on in Exodus chapter number
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  five. And the children of Israel been in
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  bondage for some time and God is setting
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  the stage to deliver them out of
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  bondage. In chapter number five, Moses
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  and Aaron go into Pharaoh to demand that
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  they be let go. And we'll pick up our
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  reading in Exodus chapter number five
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  and verse number one. If you're able,
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  would you stand as we read the word of
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  God? Try not to preach long tonight.
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  Just got a few simple thoughts and um
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  just try to be a help and a blessing to
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  you tonight. Exodus chapter number five
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  and again verse number one. And
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  afterward Moses and Aaron went in and
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  told Pharaoh, "Thus sayith the Lord God
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  of Israel, let my people go." Watch
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  this. Here's why. But he wanted them to
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  be let go that they may hold a feast
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  unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh
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  said, "Who is the Lord that I should
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  obey his voice to let Israel go? I know
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  not the Lord, neither will I let Israel
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  go." And they said, "The God of the
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  Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we
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  pray thee, three days journey into the
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  desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our
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  God, lest he fall upon us with
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  pestilence or with sword. And the king
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  of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye
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  Moses and Aaron, let the people let the
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  people from their works get you under
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  your burdens? And Pharaoh said, Behold,
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  the people of the land now are many, and
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  ye make them rest from their burdens.
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  And Pharaoh commanded the same day the
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  task masters of the people and their
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  officers, saying, "You shall no more
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  give the people straw to make brick as
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  here to for. Let them go and gather
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  straw for themselves. And the tail of
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  the bricks which they did make here to
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  for you shall lay upon them, and you
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  shall not diminish ought thereof, for
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  they be idol. Therefore they cry,
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  saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our
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  God. Let there more work be laid upon
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  the men, that they may labor therein,
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  and let them not regard vain words. And
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  the task masters of the people went out,
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  and their officers, and they that spake
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  to the people, saying, Thus said
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  Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go
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  ye, get you straw where you can find it.
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  Yet not ought of your work shall be
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  diminished. So the people were scattered
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  abroad throughout all the land of Egypt
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  to gather stubble instead of straw. and
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  the task masters hastened thee. I'm
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  saying, fulfill your works, your daily
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  task, as when there was straw, and the
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  officers of the children of Israel,
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  which Pharaoh Pharaoh's task masters had
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  set over them were beaten, and demanded,
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  "Wherefore, ye have not fulfilled your
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  task in making brick, both yesterday
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  as here to for." Then the officers of
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  the children of Israel came and cried
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  unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest
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  thou with us uh with thy dealst thou
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  thus with thy servants? There is no
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  straw given unto thy servant that they
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  may say to us, make brick, and behold,
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  thy servants are beaten, but the fault
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  is is in thine own people. But he said,
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  Ye are idol. Ye are idol. Therefore, ye
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  say, let us go and do sacrifice
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  to the Lord. Let's pray together.
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  Father, thank you for the privilege to
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  be in church tonight. God, you have been
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  so good to us. God, you've been so good
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  to me, and I want to thank you for your
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  kindness, God. Lord, to me and my
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  family. Thank you, God, for loving me
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  tonight and caring for me. Thank you,
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  God, for being a friend tonight that
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  sticketh closer than a brother. Thank
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  you, God, for how you blessed us
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  tonight. Thank you for the day that
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  you've given us. Thank you, God, that
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  you're in control, Lord. Thank you, God,
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  that nothing takes you by surprise, God.
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  Thank you, Lord, that you got all power
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  in heaven, the earth, and you're able to
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  do all things, God, above and
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  exceedingly, we can even thank or ask.
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  And I thank you for, Lord, just for
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  that. Thank you for who you are tonight.
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  And I pray you'd help us, God. I pray,
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  God, that you would speak to our hearts,
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  God. I pray you'd give us what we need.
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  I pray, God, that you would give me
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  liberty tonight. Bind the forces of
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  hell, God. Do the work that only you can
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  do. Move in the power of conviction.
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  Lord, we'll thank you for it in Jesus
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  name. Amen. And amen. Thank you for
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  standing
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  again. Exodus chapter number five, Moses
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  and Aaron have went in unto Pharaoh and
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  demanded that the people of God be let
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  go. And here's the reason that God
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  wanted them to be let go. That they may
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  go out in the wilderness, verse number
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  one, and hold a feast unto the Lord. And
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  then in verse number three, the Bible
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  said that they should go there and
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  sacrifice unto the Lord our God. So
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  what's going on? What you'll find is
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  that uh the Lord wanted uh the children
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  of Israel be delivered from bondage that
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  they could go out in the wilderness and
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  worship. And that's what all this was
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  about. That's what the feast was about.
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  That's what the sacrifice was about. It
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  was about the people of God worshiping
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  uh the true God of heaven. And so God
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  desired for them to be set free so they
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  could worship. And I want to say
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  tonight, but I'm glad that we have
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  freedom to worship in the house of God
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  in this country. Amen. How? But but can
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  I say this that if you've never been
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  born again, if you've never been saved
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  by the grace of God, though you live in
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  a free country and have the ability to
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  worship in freedom, you still cannot
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  worship the God of heaven because you've
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  not been freed from the bondage of sin.
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  And that's what's going on in this
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  chapter. God uh desires for his people
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  to be delivered from the bondage that
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  they were under that they could go out
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  and worship. AND THAT IS STILL the
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  desire of God tonight for people to
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  worship him. And you know that the devil
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  will do everything in his power to try
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  to hinder God's people from worship. Is
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  that right? Now in this text, what
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  you'll find is that Pharaoh begins to do
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  everything he can to try to prevent the
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  people of God from going out in the
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  wilderness to worship. And he does he
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  uses many tactics here in the next
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  several chapters uh to try to stop or
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  prevent the people of God from going out
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  and worshiping God. And I want to preach
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  tonight. God help me with all that mind
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  on this thought. I want to preach on the
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  enemies of worship. Or maybe I could say
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  this. The tactics that the enemy that
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  enemy uses to prevent our worship. Amen.
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  Now it is God's will for us to worship
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  tonight. Now, I want to say I think
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  there's a lot of messed up there's a lot
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  of uh messed up ideas in this country
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  about what worship really is. Amen. If
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  you study the word of God, you'll find
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  that worship is a main theme throughout
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  the scripture. Matter of fact, the word
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  worship in its various forms uh appears
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  more than 200 times in the word of God.
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  But the reality of worship reaches far
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  beyond those references. And really uh
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  from the opening pages of Genesis uh to
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  the closing chapters of Revelation, uh
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  you'll find worship uh woven throughout
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  every page of the word of God. Amen. And
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  can I say this that man was created to
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  worship God. Man's recreated for the
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  glory of God. And and you know listen,
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  if man does not worship the God of
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  heaven, if individuals do not worship
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  the God of THIS BIBLE, THEY WILL FIND
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  something to worship. Amen. AND YOU KNOW
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  WHY? BECAUSE MAN IS CREATED TO worship
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  God. He's designed to worship God. And
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  if mankind does not worship the God OF
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  THE BIBLE, HE WILL WORSHIP SOMETHING.
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  That's why we have, listen, all the
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  false uh uh uh religions in in the day
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  and time we're living in. And that's why
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  people are prone to idol worship and and
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  many people worship them theirelves and
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  their pleasure and their sin. And that's
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  what we're seeing in this day is PEOPLE
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  THAT DO NOT WORSHIP THE GOD OF HEAVEN,
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  the God of the Bible, UH WILL FIND
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  SOMETHING TO WORSHIP. AMEN.
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  >> Because my man is created, he is
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  designed to worship. Now the English
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  word worship comes from an old word
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  which means worthiness or to ascribe
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  worth. It implies honor, reverence or
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  devotion to something or someone deemed
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  worthy. How can I say tonight that the
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  God of heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ is
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  the only one worthy of our devotion.
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  He's the only one worthy of our
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  reverence. He's the only one worthy OF
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  OUR LIFE. HEY FRIEND, but but he is
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  indeed worthy. Amen. Hey, listen. And
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  and I want you to notice that uh worship
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  is the dividing line between those that
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  serve God and those that serve themsel.
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  Amen. NOW, AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT of mixed
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  up ideas about what worship really is. I
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  want to say worship is more than uh just
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  a musical performance. It's more than
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  just an emotional stir. Worship is much
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  more than that. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I
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  believe worship is a lifestyle. Amen.
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  Somebody said this that worship is the
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  heart's response to God for who he is.
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  Amen.
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  >> It it means again to ascribe worth.
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  Amen. I MEAN WHAT IS HE WHAT IS HE worth
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  to you? Amen.
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  >> How many is he worth our time? Is he
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  worth our affection? Is he worth our
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  attention? Is he worth our treasures?
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  What is he worth to you and I? That's
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  what true worship is. And uh listen,
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  somebody said this. Think the preacher
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  SAID IT THIS MORNING. SOMEBODY SAID THAT
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  worship uh is is an is a the obedient
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  response to God's revealed truth. AMEN.
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  IT'S NOT just an emotional stir. Not
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  just a musical experience, but is a life
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  of obedience to revealed truth. Matter
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  of fact, the first MENTION OF WORSHIP,
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  Y'ALL NEED TO LOOSEN UP JUST A LITTLE
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  BIT. I'M going to preach FOR A LITTLE
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  WHILE. NOW LISTEN ABOUT YOU'LL FIND THE
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  FIRST mention of worship in Genesis
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  chapter number 22. How when Abraham was
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  going to take Isaac and offer him up up
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  there on Mount Morai and what he's doing
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  is he's given the Lord the very best
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  that he has. And what he's saying is
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  he's SAYING THAT GOD IS worthy of his
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  best. And so he's going to give he's
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  going to offer his son unto the Lord of
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  glory. WHY? BECAUSE HE'S worthy h to do.
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  And that's WHAT'S GOING ON. AMEN. I WANT
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  TO SAY TONIGHT CHARLES Spurgeon said
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  this, "Man was made to adore his maker
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  and worship is the flower of all
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  religion." G. Campbell Morgan said,
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  "Worship is the highest and noblest
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  activity of which man IS CAPABLE." I
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  JUST DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TRUE BIBLICAL
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  WORSHIP IS GOING ON IN OUR CHURCHES.
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  HAVE FRIEND. LISTEN, I don't know how
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  much true BIBLICAL WORSHIP IS GOING ON
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  IN OUR OWN PERSONAL LIVES. AMEN. BECAUSE
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  IF YOU IF YOU DON'T WORSHIP IN PRIVATE,
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  YOU WILL NOT worship in public. AMEN.
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  >> AMEN. FRIEND, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF
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  THINGS GOING ON UH THAT THAT'S JUST A
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  WHAT IT IS. IT'S A SHOW. AMEN.
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  >> AMEN. I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS
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  LIKE THAT GOING ON. It's just a show and
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  it's just entertainment. But I'm telling
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  you, FRIEND, LISTEN. IF YOU IF YOU
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  WORSHIP GOD IN PRIVATE, THERE WILL BE
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  SOME WORSHIP OF GOD IN PUBLIC. AMEN.
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  >> AMEN. FRIEND, YOU SAY, "PREACHER, I'M
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  NOT TOO EMOTIONAL." I'M TELLING YOU
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  FRIEND, IF IT IF YOU if you ever really
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  get a hold of the idea how that you was
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  a wretched sinner, UNDONE, GUILTY, HAD
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  nothing you COULD DO TO SAVE YOURSELF
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  AND A HOLY GOD OF HEAVEN WANTED TO HAVE
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  A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU SO MUCH THAT HE
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  SENT HIS SON TO COME TO THIS WORLD TO
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  DIE FOR YOU, THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE YOU
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  BACK TO HIMSELF. I'M TELLING YOU,
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  FRIEND, LISTEN, THAT WILL THAT WILL STIR
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  UP SOME EMOTION ON THE INSIDE. AMEN.
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  >> AMEN, FRIEND. AMEN. AMEN. You study the
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  the Bible though, you'll find there's
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  many things associated with worship.
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  Prayer is associated with worship.
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  >> Obedience, righteousness, all these
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  things are associated with worship.
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  AMEN. I MEAN, SOMEBODY CAN COME in here
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  and raise their hand, talk about how
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  much they love Jesus, but if they go out
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  there and live like the devil and listen
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  and do everything that that that is
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  contrary to THE WORD OF GOD, THEY'RE NOT
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  WORSHIPING.
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  >> AMEN, FRIEND. BECAUSE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
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  WORSHIP GO HAND IN HAND. Prayer and
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  worship go hand IN HAND. OBEDIENCE AND
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  WORSHIP go hand in hand. Amen. Tonight.
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  Amen.
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  >> And if we're NOT WOR LISTEN, IF WE'RE
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  NOT WALKING A LIFE OF PRAYER AND
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  OBEDIENCE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, MY FRIEND,
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  THEN WE ARE NOT WORSHIPING.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Now, in our text, Pharaoh is trying to
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  hinder. He's trying to stop. And he uses
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  several tactics, if you will. And I want
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  to show them to you in these chapters.
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  And I'll be done tonight. I want you to
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  notice first of all in in these in the
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  first several verses here, he uses the
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  enemy of distraction. Look what the
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  Bible said in verse number four. And the
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  king of Egypt said unto them, where
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  where uh wherefore do you Moses and
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  Aaron, let the people from their works?
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  He said, get you under your burden. And
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  then look what he said in verse number
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  six. And Pharaoh commanded uh the same
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  day the taskmaster of the people and
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  their officers, saying, "You shall no
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  more give people straw to make brick as
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  here to let them go and gather straw for
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  themselves. And the and the tail of
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  bricks which they did make here to four,
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  you shall lay upon them, and you shall
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  not be diminish ought thereof. For watch
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  this, for they be idol, therefore they
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  cry, saying, let us go and sacrifice to
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  our God." Amen. You know what Pharaoh
• 17:41
  said? It's simply what he's saying. He
• 17:42
  said they've got too much time on their
• 17:44
  hands.
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  >> And you know that true worship takes
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  time. It takes meditation. It takes
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  solitude. And what Pharaoh is saying is
• 17:53
  they've got too much time on their
• 17:54
  hands. AND WHEN THEY'RE think about God,
• 17:57
  they think about going out in the
• 17:59
  wilderness and and and they're offering
• 18:01
  a sacrifice UNTO GOD. AND SO WHAT WE
• 18:04
  need to do is we need to get them busy
• 18:06
  AND OCCUPY their mind SO THEY DON'T HAVE
• 18:10
  TIME to think about going out and
• 18:13
  worshiping. And that's why he increased
• 18:15
  their burdens. THAT'S WHY HE TOOK THE
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  STRAW. HE SAID THEY'RE IDLE. THEY'VE got
• 18:19
  too much time on their hands. We need to
• 18:22
  get them busy so they they don't think
• 18:24
  about worshiping God. Amen.
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  >> And I say a moment ago, it take real
• 18:29
  worship takes solitude. It takes
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  meditation. Amen.
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  >> And we live in a day when there's so
• 18:34
  many things to rob our attention and rob
• 18:37
  our affection and we're distract people
• 18:40
  are so distracted IN THE DAY AND TIME
• 18:42
  WE'RE living in.
• 18:43
  >> Yeah.
• 18:44
  >> Amen. Friend, I mean, listen, I don't
• 18:47
  know about you, but how you get down to
• 18:49
  read your Bible and and and there'll be
• 18:50
  a notification on your phone and next
• 18:53
  thing you know, you pick it up and 20
• 18:55
  minutes later, how you you engulfed in
• 18:57
  in in looking at something on THE PHONE.
• 18:59
  AM I AM I TELLING THAT RIGHT? HOW? WHY?
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  BECAUSE WE'RE THE DEVIL IS using
• 19:04
  devices. He's using things to rob OUR
• 19:06
  ATTENTION TO DISTRACT US. BECAUSE HE
• 19:09
  KNOWS IF WE'RE NOT meditating on THE
• 19:12
  WORD OF GOD. LISTEN, IF HE KNOWS WE'RE
• 19:14
  NOT CONTEMPLATING ON THE GOODNESS OF GOD
• 19:16
  AND WHO GOD IS, WE WILL not worship.
• 19:19
  AMEN. IF WE'RE JUST TOO BUSY AND WE'RE
• 19:22
  GOING ABOUT THE day and we don't have
• 19:24
  time to read, we don't HAVE TIME TO
• 19:25
  PRAY, WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO MEDITATE ON
• 19:28
  THE WORD OF GOD, FRIEND, THEY'LL THEY
• 19:30
  WILL NOT be true worship.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And and I'll tell you what, listen, uh
• 19:36
  he he he he wanted to distract them. And
• 19:39
  I'm afraid he's getting that in the day
• 19:42
  and time we're living in. He's doing a
• 19:43
  good job. I hate to give him any kind of
• 19:45
  credit, but he's certainly doing a good
• 19:47
  job. Amen. I mean, you come to church,
• 19:49
  see people looking at the phone, and you
• 19:51
  get people checking this and checking
• 19:53
  that and thinking about this and
• 19:54
  THINKING ABOUT THAT, AND THEY'RE already
• 19:56
  planning the next day and the next week.
• 19:58
  You know why? Because we HAVE BUSY
• 19:59
  LIVES, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF
• 20:01
  THINGS GOING ON. IS THAT RIGHT?
• 20:04
  >> AMEN. AND I MEAN, THINGS that are not
• 20:06
  necessar necessarily sinful OR WRONG,
• 20:08
  BUT WE'RE JUST BUSY. WE GOT TOO MANY
• 20:11
  THINGS GOING ON. AND AND LISTEN, PARENTS
• 20:13
  ARE ENGULFED IN IN THEIR CHILDREN AND
• 20:16
  TRYING TO MAKE THEM A NEXT SUPERSTAR in
• 20:18
  the SPORTS WORLD AND AND THINGS LIKE
• 20:20
  THIS FRIEND AND THEY LISTEN THEY'RE SO
• 20:22
  ENGULFED IN THAT THAT THEY DON'T HAVE
• 20:24
  TIME HOW TO WORSHIP GOD. AMEN.
• 20:28
  >> AMEN.
• 20:29
  >> DISTRACTED AND AND YOU SAY, "PREACHER,
• 20:31
  IS there anything wrong with that?" I
• 20:33
  AGAIN I I THINK THERE'S a lot of things
• 20:35
  that that that we do THAT WE GET
• 20:37
  ENGULFED in that WE GET CARRIED AWAY IN
• 20:40
  THAT IS NOT necessarily wrong
• 20:43
  >> but it's just distracting.
• 20:45
  >> Go ahead.
• 20:46
  >> Amen.
• 20:47
  >> Oh listen friend, we live in a
• 20:50
  distracted society. I mean who would
• 20:51
  ever thought that there was such a thing
• 20:53
  as distracted driving?
• 20:56
  >> Amen.
• 20:57
  >> Is that right?
• 20:58
  >> Amen. Oh, what are you I'm just simply
• 21:01
  saying this. He's trying to get their
• 21:02
  mind off God. He's trying to get their
• 21:04
  mind off the things of God. Amen. Ain't
• 21:06
  no wonder we come to church and we can't
• 21:08
  have a We can't worship God. We got our
• 21:10
  mind on everything else. WE'VE GOT OUR
• 21:12
  MIND ON THINGS THAT DON'T MATTER.
• 21:14
  Instead of INSTEAD OF PULLING AWAY FROM
• 21:16
  THE WORLD AND GETTING OUR MIND FOCUSED
• 21:18
  ON GOD. AMEN.
• 21:20
  >> AND MOST OF THE TIME WHAT HAPPENS, WE
• 21:22
  COME RUNNING IN AND WE HADN'T HAD ANY
• 21:24
  TIME WITH GOD DURING THE DAY. AND I
• 21:26
  LISTEN, WE COME RUNNING IN, WE AIN'T
• 21:28
  SPENDING TIME ALONE WITH GOD, MEDITATING
• 21:31
  ON HIM, AND THEN WE COME IN AND WE
• 21:32
  EXPECT HOW TO UNPLUG FROM THE WORLD AND
• 21:36
  WORSHIP GOD. FRIEND, IT'S NOT GOING TO
• 21:38
  HAPPEN BECAUSE WE'RE TOO DISTRACTED.
• 21:42
  >> You're right,
• 21:43
  >> Amen. He wanted to use distraction. You
• 21:45
  said, "Preacher, I'm not doing anything
• 21:47
  wrong." Well, I'm just asking you this.
• 21:48
  I'm just asking you, are you too busy?
• 21:51
  Amen.
• 21:53
  >> Amen.
• 21:54
  I mean, if listen, if I'm too busy to
• 21:56
  read my Bible, I'm too busy.
• 21:58
  >> That's right.
• 21:59
  >> If I'm too busy to pray, I'm too busy.
• 22:01
  Somebody help me. Amen.
• 22:03
  >> And we just get too busy. Amen.
• 22:05
  >> That's right.
• 22:06
  >> Life I I live I understand we have we
• 22:08
  have families and we living a chaotic
• 22:10
  life. I'm telling you, friend, if we're
• 22:12
  going to really worship God, we must
• 22:13
  make time. WE MUST MAKE TIME FOR HIM.
• 22:16
  AMEN.
• 22:18
  >> There's the enemy of I got to hurry.
• 22:20
  There's an enemy uh uh uh here of
• 22:23
  distraction. But notice this, there's
• 22:24
  the enemy of discouragement. In this
• 22:27
  chapter, you'll find that in verses 12
• 22:30
  down through verse number 21, what
• 22:32
  happens is they cannot fulfill their
• 22:34
  work. They cannot continue doing what
• 22:36
  they're doing. They It's too much for
• 22:38
  them and they they can't gather the
• 22:40
  straw and make the bricks they're
• 22:42
  supposed to. How? Because it's just too
• 22:44
  much. It's just they're overwhelmed and
• 22:47
  overloaded. And what happens is that the
• 22:49
  task masters have began to beat the
• 22:52
  people that were in charge and make
• 22:54
  their lives more difficult. Why is that?
• 22:58
  Because Pharaoh knew if he could break
• 23:00
  their spirit,
• 23:02
  he would he would keep them from wanting
• 23:04
  to go out in the wilderness and worship.
• 23:07
  Amen. Can I tell you what he's doing in
• 23:09
  the day and time we're living in is he's
• 23:11
  discouraging people.
• 23:13
  >> I mean, think about it. They understood
• 23:15
  that God was g they had God had told
• 23:17
  them that they were going to be
• 23:19
  delivered. Uh but here finally God sends
• 23:22
  Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh to demand
• 23:25
  their deliverance and their situation
• 23:27
  does not get better. It gets worse.
• 23:30
  >> Yeah.
• 23:31
  >> Amen.
• 23:32
  >> And they're disheartened and they're
• 23:34
  frustrated and a a and they're they're
• 23:36
  physically exhausted. And because of
• 23:38
  that they get discouraged. And when THEY
• 23:41
  GET DISCOURAGED, THEY BEGIN TO LASH OUT
• 23:44
  AGAINST LEADERSHIP. That's right.
• 23:45
  >> Look, look, look what the Bible said in
• 23:47
  verse number 19. And the officers of the
• 23:50
  children of Israel did see that they
• 23:52
  were they were in evil in an evil case.
• 23:55
  And it was said, you shall not finish u
• 23:58
  from their bricks of your daily task.
• 24:00
  And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood
• 24:03
  in the way as they came forth from
• 24:04
  Pharaoh. And they said unto them, "The
• 24:07
  Lord look upon you and judge because she
• 24:10
  have made our savior to be a boore in
• 24:12
  the eyes of Pharaoh and the eyes of his
• 24:14
  servants and to put a sword in their
• 24:16
  hand to slay us." THEY LISTEN THEY THEY
• 24:20
  HAVE GOTTEN DISCOURAGED BECAUSE THEIR
• 24:22
  circumstances
• 24:24
  had not gotten better.
• 24:26
  >> YEAH.
• 24:26
  >> AND THEY BLAMED IT UPON MOSES and Aaron.
• 24:29
  AND THEY BEGIN TO LASH OUT AGAINST THE
• 24:31
  MAN OF GOD. UH BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE IT
• 24:34
  WAS THE PREACHER'S FAULT. UH FOR BECAUSE
• 24:37
  THEIR SITUATION WAS NOT BETTER.
• 24:39
  >> YEAH.
• 24:40
  >> AMEN.
• 24:41
  >> AND YOU KNOW WHY? THE WHY THE THE REASON
• 24:44
  THEY'VE DONE THAT IS because they were
• 24:46
  discouraged and they be got bitter about
• 24:48
  what was going on.
• 24:50
  >> Amen.
• 24:51
  And I'm going tell you friend, you get
• 24:52
  discouraged and you get upset and
• 24:55
  frustrated just about life, about
• 24:57
  circumstances, disappointed about things
• 24:59
  that are going on. Things are not going
• 25:01
  your way. Things don't work out the way
• 25:03
  you think they should. Maybe God hasn't
• 25:05
  answered your prayer the WAY YOU HOPED
• 25:07
  HE WOULD. AND THINGS ARE NOT JUST NOT
• 25:09
  GOING. LISTEN, JUST EXACTLY THE WAY YOU
• 25:12
  YOU WOULD LIKE FOR THEM TO GO.
• 25:14
  >> And you get discouraged.
• 25:17
  One of the first things UH THAT WILL
• 25:19
  COME OUT of that is he'll rebel OR GET
• 25:22
  ANGRY WITH LEADERSHIP.
• 25:25
  >> AMEN.
• 25:26
  >> That's what's going on in this text.
• 25:27
  >> Amen.
• 25:29
  >> And what the LISTEN AND THEY WERE SO
• 25:31
  DISCOURAGED. THEY THEY WERE upset
• 25:32
  before. They were THEY THEY WERE
• 25:34
  EXCITED. THEY WERE GOING TO get to be
• 25:35
  set free. They were going to get to go
• 25:37
  out in the wilderness and worship. BUT
• 25:39
  NOW LISTEN, THEIR LIFE IS SO HARD. THEY
• 25:42
  GAVE UP THE IDEA OF WORSHIP AND SAID,
• 25:44
  "WE JUST WE JUST WANT YOU TO GO AWAY. WE
• 25:47
  WANT ALL THIS TO GO AWAY AND WE DON'T
• 25:49
  CARE ABOUT WORSHIP."
• 25:51
  >> You know why? They're discouraged.
• 25:52
  >> That's right.
• 25:53
  >> Amen. Now, you may never get
• 25:55
  discouraged.
• 25:57
  Amen. You Yeah. I mean, you may
• 26:00
  everything you you may be on the
• 26:01
  mountain top all the time.
• 26:03
  >> Amen. But I'm telling you, it's
• 26:06
  difficult to worship God when YOU'RE
• 26:07
  DISCOURAGED.
• 26:09
  >> IT'S DIFFICULT. SOMEBODY HELP ME. IT'S
• 26:11
  DIFFICULT TO WORSHIP GOD when things are
• 26:14
  not going your way. Or it's difficult to
• 26:16
  difficult to worship God uh when things
• 26:19
  are when when you're just discouraged.
• 26:21
  Amen. Watch what we'll find. I ain't got
• 26:23
  time to preach ALL THIS TEXT. YOU'LL
• 26:25
  find that there's several things that
• 26:27
  that create discouragement in the heart
• 26:30
  of the believer. And you'll find every
• 26:31
  one of them in this text. Amen. Say,
• 26:33
  "What is it?" Well, first of all, there
• 26:35
  it was fear. Yeah,
• 26:37
  >> they were f focusing on circumstances
• 26:39
  instead of on God. Amen.
• 26:41
  >> And then then you'll find that that
• 26:43
  failure. Amen. Sin or mistakes lead to
• 26:47
  discouragement. You'll find that fear
• 26:49
  and failure. You'll find a frustration.
• 26:51
  Things not turning out as expected.
• 26:53
  Fatigue, physical and emotional
• 26:56
  exhaustion. AMEN. AND THAT'S WHAT'S
• 26:58
  GOING ON IN THIS TEXT. THEY'RE
• 26:59
  PHYSICALLY they're emotionally
• 27:01
  exhausted. They're they're full of fear
• 27:03
  AND THEY'RE FULL OF FRUSTRATION. AND
• 27:06
  WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THEY BEGIN TO REBEL
• 27:08
  AGAINST THE MAN OF GOD. And sin enters
• 27:10
  the camp.
• 27:12
  >> Amen. And then there's friction.
• 27:14
  >> Amen. A problem in relationships.
• 27:18
  Those things bring discouragement in the
• 27:20
  heart of the believer. You hear me?
• 27:22
  >> And when you're discouraged, it's hard
• 27:24
  TO WORSHIP.
• 27:26
  >> AND THAT'S why there is such an attack
• 27:28
  ON GOD'S PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY WE'RE LIVING
• 27:30
  IN SUCH A DISCOURAGED WORLD. IT SEEMED
• 27:32
  LIKE GOD'S PEOPLE ARE SO DISCOURAGED, so
• 27:35
  defeated. Many people are walking with
• 27:37
  their head down all the time, TALKING
• 27:39
  ABOUT HOW HARD LIFE IS, HOW HARD
• 27:41
  CIRCUMSTANCES ARE, AND THE THINGS THAT
• 27:43
  ARE GOING WRONG INSTEAD OF WHAT'S GOING
• 27:46
  RIGHT.
• 27:48
  >> That's right.
• 27:49
  >> Amen. Hey, discouraged. I got to hurry.
• 27:51
  I'm trying to get somewhere.
• 27:54
  >> There's the enemy of discouragement or
• 27:57
  the tactic of discouragement. But I want
• 27:59
  you to notice in chapter number eight,
• 28:00
  watch this. In chapter number eight,
• 28:02
  Pharaoh uses another tactic or another
• 28:04
  enemy, I guess you could say, to try to
• 28:06
  prevent the people of God from
• 28:08
  worshiping. In chapter number eight,
• 28:10
  verse number 25, he uses the enemy of
• 28:14
  distance.
• 28:16
  Look what he said. Verse number 25,
• 28:17
  chapter 8.
• 28:20
  And Pharaoh called for Moses and for
• 28:22
  Aaron and said, "Go ye sacrifice to your
• 28:24
  God in the land." And Moses said, "It is
• 28:27
  not meat to do so, for we shall
• 28:30
  sacrifice the uh we shall sacrifice the
• 28:33
  abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord
• 28:35
  our God. Lo, shall we sacrifice the
• 28:37
  abomination of the Egyptians before
• 28:39
  their eyes, and will they not stone us?
• 28:41
  We will go three days journey into the
• 28:43
  wilderness and sacrifice the Lord our
• 28:45
  God as he as he shall command us." So
• 28:49
  notice what Pharaoh said in verse 25. HE
• 28:51
  SAID, "YOU CAN YOU CAN SACRIFICE, you
• 28:54
  can worship, but do it in the land."
• 28:57
  >> Yeah.
• 28:57
  >> Amen. You say, "What's wrong with that?"
• 29:00
  Well, Egypt in your Bible is always a
• 29:01
  type of the world.
• 29:03
  >> And well, Pharaoh said, "You can worship
• 29:05
  your God. You can do all those things.
• 29:08
  Just do it right here in the land. Stay
• 29:10
  here in Egypt and worship." But you KNOW
• 29:12
  WHAT GOD KNEW? GOD KNEW THAT THEY COULD
• 29:14
  NOT worship in Egypt. They could not
• 29:17
  worship in the world. They had to come
• 29:19
  out from among the world in order for
• 29:22
  them to worship. Amen.
• 29:23
  >> And I'm telling you, the Bible is still
• 29:25
  very plain. We're to come out among the
• 29:26
  WORLD AND TOUCH NOT the unclean thing or
• 29:29
  to separate from this world. But I tell
• 29:31
  you, WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY WHERE PEOPLE
• 29:34
  WANT TO TRY TO BRING THE WORLD INTO
• 29:36
  CHURCH AND THEY WANT TO TRY TO PAINT IT
• 29:38
  UP AS WORSHIP. THEY WANT TO BRING THE
• 29:40
  WORLD'S MUSIC IN THE CHURCH AND TRY TO
• 29:42
  PAINT IT UP AS WORSHIP TONIGHT. BUT I'M
• 29:45
  TELLING YOU, FRIEND, FOR YOU AND I TO
• 29:46
  REALLY WORSHIP GOD, WE GOT TO COME OUT
• 29:49
  FROM THE WORLD.
• 29:50
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
• 29:51
  >> AMEN.
• 29:53
  >> YES, SIR.
• 29:54
  >> HEY, LISTEN. AND THERE'S A COMPROMISE.
• 29:56
  YOU CAN WORSHIP NOW. YOU CAN WORSHIP.
• 29:57
  JUST stay here.
• 29:59
  >> Oh, you can worship God, but just do it
• 30:01
  while you're in Egypt.
• 30:03
  >> Amen. It amazes me. God, help me. I'm
• 30:06
  Lord, help me.
• 30:07
  >> It amazes me how many people think and
• 30:10
  they will justify their sin.
• 30:12
  >> Yeah.
• 30:13
  >> AMEN. AND JUSTIFY. HEY, LISTEN. SOME OH,
• 30:17
  LORD HELP ME, JESUS. HEY, the main
• 30:18
  streak about A MILE WIDE. COME. HEY, I'M
• 30:21
  TELLING YOU, LISTEN. CAN I JUST SAY
• 30:22
  THIS? SOMEBODY OUT IN THE WORLD THAT'S
• 30:25
  SINGING MUSIC THAT GLORIFIES EVERYTHING
• 30:27
  THAT BIBLE'S AGAINST. IT GLORIFIES SIN
• 30:30
  AND WICKEDNESS AND DRUNKENNESS AND
• 30:32
  FORNICATION. I'M TELLING YOU, FRIEND,
• 30:34
  GOD IS NOT IN THAT.
• 30:37
  AND WE AIN'T GOING TO PULL IN THE
• 30:39
  PARKING LOT, LISTEN TO THAT KIND OF
• 30:41
  MUSIC AND COME IN HERE AND HEAR THE
• 30:44
  MUSIC OF GOD AND EXPECT THE WORSHIP.
• 30:48
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
• 30:49
  >> AMEN.
• 30:50
  >> AND IT AMAZED ME HOW MANY PEOPLE WANT TO
• 30:52
  JUSTIFY.
• 30:54
  >> AMEN.
• 30:55
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
• 30:56
  >> WELL, THEY TALK ABOUT GOD IN THEIR
• 30:58
  CONCERT. I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY
• 31:01
  ABOUT GOD, FRIEND, WHEN THEY'RE SINGING
• 31:03
  ABOUT EVERYTHING AND PROMOTING
• 31:05
  EVERYTHING THAT GOD IS AGAINST. THEY ARE
• 31:08
  NOT FOR GOD.
• 31:10
  >> AMEN.
• 31:12
  >> AND THEY ARE NOT PROMOTING THE GOD OF
• 31:14
  THIS BIBLE. AMEN. THEY'RE PROMOTING
• 31:16
  FLESH AND THEY'RE PROMOTING WICKEDNESS
• 31:18
  AND THEY'RE PROMOTING WORLDLINESS. AND
• 31:20
  FOR GOD'S PEOPLE TO REALLY WORSHIP GOD,
• 31:23
  WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME OUT FROM
• 31:24
  AMONG THAT.
• 31:26
  >> YES, SIR.
• 31:27
  >> AMEN.
• 31:28
  >> AMEN. Lord help me.
• 31:30
  >> But notice here, notice that so Pharaoh
• 31:33
  compromised. Look what he says in verse
• 31:35
  number 28. And Pharaoh said, I will let
• 31:38
  you go that you may sacrifice to the
• 31:40
  Lord your God in the wilderness. Only
• 31:41
  you shall not go very far and treat for
• 31:44
  me. Oh, you can you can leave Egypt.
• 31:47
  Just don't go very far.
• 31:51
  >> DON'T DON'T DON'T GO DON'T GET TOO
• 31:53
  INVOLVED in this thing. DON'T GET TOO
• 31:56
  far away from the world. Amen. I
• 31:58
  remember when I got saved, I mentioned a
• 31:59
  little bit of it this morning. I I
• 32:01
  remember when I got saved, I I mean, my
• 32:03
  family was tired of the lifestyle that I
• 32:05
  was living and and uh they wanted me to
• 32:08
  straighten up. They wanted me to uh you
• 32:10
  know, they wanted me to do better and
• 32:11
  get off the drugs and all these things.
• 32:14
  But I'm TELLING YOU, WHEN GOD SAVED ME
• 32:16
  AND I GOT SERIOUS ABOUT SERVING GOD,
• 32:18
  THIS LISTEN, THEY THEY wanted me to get
• 32:21
  they wanted me to do better, but they
• 32:22
  didn't want me to get that saved. YEAH.
• 32:26
  >> OH, YOU WENT TOO far now.
• 32:28
  >> Oh, I MEAN I MEAN YOU WENT THROUGH YOUR
• 32:30
  I MEAN YOU'RE TAKING THIS TOO FAR NOW.
• 32:33
  >> YOU'RE GOING TOO FAR WITH IT NOW. YOU
• 32:35
  MEAN YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR DRESS? YOU
• 32:37
  MEAN YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR MUSIC? YOU
• 32:39
  NEED TO CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE. YOU MEAN
• 32:41
  EVERYTHING NEED YOU'RE GOING TOO FAR.
• 32:45
  >> AMEN.
• 32:46
  >> Tell it preacher.
• 32:47
  >> AND THAT'S WHAT PHARAOH SAID. YOU CAN GO
• 32:50
  JUST DON'T GO VERY FAR. OH, YOU CAN GET
• 32:53
  SAVED. If he can't stop you from get
• 32:54
  saved, YOU CAN GET SAVED, BUT DON'T
• 32:57
  REALLY GET SERIOUS ABOUT SERVING GOD.
• 32:59
  DON'T REALLY DON'T REALLY COME OUT AMONG
• 33:01
  THE WORLD. KIND OF STAY IN between
• 33:04
  >> because he knew if he could keep them
• 33:06
  close, HE COULD STILL influence them.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> I'M GOING TELL YOU SOMETHING, FRIEND.
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  THE WORLD has got too much influence on
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  a lot of churches.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> And a lot of people in our churches and
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  they make decisions based on the world
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  instead of based on the scripture.
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  Amen. People make financial decisions
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  based on what's be a worldly ideas
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  instead of what the scripture says.
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  >> I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES PEOPLE CALL
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  ME AND SAY, "PREACHER, I GOT A JOB OFFER
• 33:32
  AND AND IT'S MAKING ALL THIS MORE MONEY
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  AND I'M I'M GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE. WHAT
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  DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?" I SAY, "WELL,
• 33:38
  have you have you got a church to go
• 33:39
  to?"
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Well, I mean, well, I don't know. I'LL
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  FIND ONE WHEN I get there. Said it ain't
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  the will of God.
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  >> That's right. PREACHER.
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  >> I SAID IT'S NOT THE WILL OF GOD. AMEN.
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  >> IF YOU MAKE A DECISION BASED ON FINANCES
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  AND IF YOU MAKE A DECISION BASED ON
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  THOSE THINGS AND NOT BASED ON WHAT THUS
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  SAYETH THE WORD OF GOD, IT IS A WORLDLY
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  DECISION.
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  >> AMEN. I'M NOT SAYING WE ARE Y'ALL RIGHT.
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  I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE NOT TO MAKE MONEY.
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  I'M JUST SIMPLY SAYING THIS, FRIEND. IF
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  GOD IF WANTS YOU TO TAKE ANOTHER JOB,
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  HE'LL ALREADY OPEN A DOOR IN A CHURCH.
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  HE'LL LISTEN, IT WILL NOT HINDER YOUR
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  WALK WITH GOD. HE'LL ELEVATE YOUR WALK
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  WITH GOD.
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  >> AMEN.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> I TOLD MY I TOLD I TOLD OUR DAUGHTERS,
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  this what I told our daughters. I said,
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  "Listen, when God sends a young man in
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  your life, if it's right, if that
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  relationship is right, CHARLIE DID I SAY
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  THIS. IF THAT RELATIONSHIP IS RIGHT,
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  HE'LL BRING YOU CLOSER to God. That's
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  right.
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  >> BUT IF IT'S WRONG, IT'LL TAKE YOU AWAY
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  FROM GOD.
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  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
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  >> AMEN. AND YOU CAN APPLY THAT PRINCIPLE
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  TO EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE. IF IT'S
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  RIGHT, IT'LL BRING YOU CLOSER TO GOD. IF
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  IT'S WRONG, IT'LL TAKE YOU FARTHER AWAY
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  FROM GOD.
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  >> AMEN.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Just don't go too far now.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> I got to hurry.
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  >> Amen.
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  Amen. There's the enemy of distance.
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  There's the enemy of division. And this
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  really what I want to get to. Look at
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  verse Look at chapter number 10. Look at
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  chapter number 10.
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  Chapter number 10. Look at verse number
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  Look at verse number 10. And he said
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  unto them, look at verse nine. Let's
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  just read it. And Moses said, "We will
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  go with our young and with our old and
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  with our sons and with our daughters,
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  with our flocks, and with our herds will
• 35:35
  we go, for we must hold a feast unto the
• 35:37
  Lord." And he said unto them, "Let the
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  Lord be with be so with you, as I will
• 35:42
  let you go, and your little ones, look
• 35:45
  not to it, for evil is before you." Look
• 35:47
  at verse 11. Not so. Go now, ye that are
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  men, and serve the Lord, for that ye did
• 35:54
  desire, and they were driven out from
• 35:56
  Pharaoh's presence. So, it's what half
• 35:57
  Pharaoh says this, he I'm paraphrasing,
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  but he basically said this, "The men can
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  go,
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  >> but the women and children has to stay
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  behind."
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  >> Yeah.
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  Amen. And you know what he's doing? He's
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  dividing the family.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen. He wants to divide the family
• 36:14
  because he knows if he can get that
• 36:16
  daddy that that man that man those
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  daddies out in the wilderness and he can
• 36:21
  keep those WOMEN AND THOSE CHILDREN, HE
• 36:23
  KNOWS that he can influence them. AND HE
• 36:26
  KNOWS THAT HE LISTEN THAT HE'LL HAVE
• 36:28
  THEM FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
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  >> YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE GOD'S PLAN HAS
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  ALWAYS BEEN FAMILY WORSHIP. AND GOD'S
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  PLAN IS FOR THE MAN TO BE THE SPIRITUAL
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  LEADER OF THE HOUSEH. AND IF GOD'S MAN,
• 36:40
  LISTEN, IF THE MAN IN THE HOME IS NOT
• 36:43
  LEADING THAT FAMILY IN A SPIRITUAL
• 36:45
  DIRECTION, HOW THERE WILL BE A VACUUM
• 36:47
  THERE AND THERE'LL BE SOMETHING THAT
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  FILLS IT.
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  >> AND Pharaoh said, "I'll be the one that
• 36:53
  filled it.
• 36:53
  >> That feels it."
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And we live in a day where families are
• 36:57
  divided
• 36:58
  >> and there's an attack on the homes.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> I'm telling you, God, help us tonight,
• 37:04
  friend. LISTEN, GOD ALWAYS THERE NEEDS
• 37:07
  TO BE FAMILY WORSHIP. But what we have
• 37:09
  in the day of time, I've seen it time
• 37:10
  and time again where there'll be a
• 37:12
  there'll be a THERE'LL BE A HUSBAND THAT
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  GETS ON FIRE FOR GOD AND REALLY WANTS TO
• 37:16
  SERVE GOD AND REALLY WANTS TO GO ALLIN
• 37:19
  FOR GOD. AND YOU THERE'LL BE A WIFE over
• 37:21
  here.
• 37:22
  >> Amen. And she still wants the world. She
• 37:25
  still wants to do her own thing. Uh she
• 37:27
  does not want to submit to authority.
• 37:29
  She does not want to submit to the word
• 37:30
  OF GOD. SOMEBODY HELP ME. AMEN.
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  OR OR YOU'LL HAVE A WOMAN THAT WANTS GOD
• 37:37
  AND WANTS TO RAISE HER CHILDREN RIGHT
• 37:38
  AND WANTS TO DO RIGHT, BUT YOU'LL HAVE A
• 37:41
  MAN OVER HERE, LISTEN, PUTS ON A FACADE
• 37:44
  AND TRIES TO ACT LIKE HE'S SPIRITUAL,
• 37:46
  BUT THE WHOLE TIME BEHIND THE SCENES,
• 37:49
  FRIEND, HE'S NOT LEADING HIS FAMILY IN A
• 37:52
  SPIRITUAL WAY, BUT HE'S FIGHTING AGAINST
• 37:54
  THE WORD OF GOD.
• 37:55
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
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  >> AMEN.
• 37:57
  >> That's right.
• 37:58
  >> And we see that over and over again.
• 38:01
  >> Amen. And he divides the families.
• 38:04
  >> Amen.
• 38:05
  >> Yes, he does.
• 38:07
  >> Mom and daddy are they're they're
• 38:08
  they're because one's want to go one way
• 38:10
  and others want to go another way.
• 38:13
  >> One's want to go God, another Amen.
• 38:15
  >> That's it.
• 38:16
  >> Amen. I'm telling you, God's plan is for
• 38:18
  a husband and wife, how both of them to
• 38:21
  sell out to God and TO GO WITH GOD AND
• 38:24
  LISTEN, RAISE THEIR children in the
• 38:26
  nurture and admonition of the Lord.
• 38:27
  Amen.
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  >> I think about this. I'm telling you, God
• 38:31
  helps. Ain't there's no wonder. There's
• 38:33
  no wonder our society's in this. And I
• 38:35
  thank God for America and I'm thankful
• 38:36
  for our country. BUT LET'S JUST BE
• 38:39
  HONEST ABOUT IT, FRIEND. UH WE LIVE IN A
• 38:41
  SOCIETY THAT'S WALKED AWAY FROM GOD. WE
• 38:44
  CERTAINLY HAVE LIVED IN PERILOUS DAYS.
• 38:46
  AND OUR SOCIETY, FRIEND, FOR THE MOST
• 38:48
  PART IS GODLESS.
• 38:50
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
• 38:50
  >> AND can I tell you what the PROBLEM IS?
• 38:52
  IT'S THE HOMES.
• 38:53
  >> That's it.
• 38:55
  >> That's exactly right.
• 38:56
  >> Parents have the idea where children
• 38:57
  make their own make up their own mind.
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  God help.
• 39:00
  >> Amen.
• 39:01
  >> Oh, THEY THEY THEY OWN THEY CAN MAKE UP
• 39:04
  THEIR OWN MIND. YOU KNOW, WHEN MY
• 39:05
  CHILDREN MAKE UP THEIR OWN MIND WHEN
• 39:07
  THEY GOT on their own. Amen.
• 39:09
  >> SOMEBODY HELP ME. AS LONG AS THEY UNDER
• 39:11
  MY ROOF AND LISTEN, EATING MY FOOD AND
• 39:14
  AS LONG AS I'M PAYING THE BILLS, WE'RE
• 39:17
  GOING TO DO WHAT THAT BOOK SAYS.
• 39:19
  >> AMEN.
• 39:21
  >> YES.
• 39:21
  >> Say that breeds rebellion. Now, hear me.
• 39:24
  Hear what I'm about to say.
• 39:25
  >> Listen. Rules without relationship
• 39:28
  breeds rebellion.
• 39:29
  >> That's it.
• 39:31
  >> YOU CAN HAVE RULES for your children if
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  you have a relationship with them.
• 39:36
  >> Amen.
• 39:37
  >> That's right.
• 39:38
  >> AMEN.
• 39:39
  >> BUT IF IT'S ALL JUST ABOUT RULES AND
• 39:42
  THERE'S NO RELATIONSHIP, YEAH, they will
• 39:43
  be rebellious. Yeah.
• 39:45
  >> But if you'll have a relationship with
• 39:46
  your children AND YOU'LL TEACH THOSE
• 39:48
  CHILDREN HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
• 39:50
  AND THEY'LL WATCH YOU WALK WITH GOD AND
• 39:52
  THEY'LL WATCH YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH
• 39:53
  GOD, FRIEND, IT WILL NOT BREED
• 39:55
  REBELLION, BUT IT'LL PROMOTE A WALK WITH
• 39:58
  GOD IN THEIR OWN HEART.
• 39:59
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
• 40:01
  >> AMEN.
• 40:01
  >> YES.
• 40:02
  >> That's right. Amen. Oh, he knows if he
• 40:05
  can divide the homes and distract the
• 40:06
  families, he can destroy unity. Amen.
• 40:09
  >> And there's no worship.
• 40:11
  >> Amen.
• 40:12
  >> Yeah. I think sometimes they know we
• 40:14
  come in here and I'm not talking about
• 40:16
  just I'm just talking about church in
• 40:18
  general. Y'all y'all know what I'm
• 40:19
  saying?
• 40:20
  >> Amen. People come in and they they've
• 40:23
  been they've been fighting and bickering
• 40:24
  all week.
• 40:26
  >> Amen.
• 40:27
  >> There's a power struggle in the home.
• 40:29
  >> Yeah.
• 40:30
  >> Amen.
• 40:32
  >> Preach.
• 40:32
  >> Amen.
• 40:33
  >> The husband ain't being the spiritual
• 40:35
  leader he needs to be.
• 40:37
  >> Amen. Wives full of rebellion. Children
• 40:39
  full of rebellion.
• 40:41
  >> Yeah. Preach. Amen. You say, "Preacher,
• 40:44
  I thought this supposed TO BE
• 40:45
  PATRIARCHY." I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT'LL
• 40:47
  HELP OUR NATION. IF OUR FAMILIES to get
• 40:49
  RIGHT WITH GOD, IF OUR FAMILIES ARE TO
• 40:51
  GET SOLD OUT FOR GOD AND LISTEN, FOR OUR
• 40:53
  MOM AND DADDIES TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT
• 40:54
  SERVING GOD AND RAISE OUR OUR CHILDREN
• 40:57
  FOR THE NURTURE AND ADMONITION OF THE
• 40:59
  LORD. AMEN.
• 41:02
  >> AMEN. Are we okay?
• 41:06
  >> Merlin Manson.
• 41:08
  >> Merlin Manson. Some of you may have
• 41:10
  heard him. Merlin Mansion is a an
• 41:12
  ungodly
• 41:15
  I don't know what it raw. I don't know
• 41:16
  what it kind of music that is. He tries
• 41:18
  to put out. It's ungodly. I know that.
• 41:22
  >> Wicked. Rips a has concerts where he
• 41:24
  rips pages out of the Bible and and just
• 41:26
  blasphemous.
• 41:27
  >> Yeah.
• 41:28
  >> And he made this statement. He said, "If
• 41:30
  you don't raise your children, I will."
• 41:35
  >> Amen. I said he said he said if you
• 41:39
  don't raise your children I will.
• 41:42
  >> In other words, if you don't pour into
• 41:44
  them, I'll pour into them.
• 41:45
  >> That's right.
• 41:47
  >> Amen.
• 41:48
  >> I'm telling you, friend, don't you turn
• 41:49
  out the way they are.
• 41:51
  >> We're letting the world pull in our
• 41:52
  children.
• 41:53
  >> Amen.
• 41:55
  >> Hey, LETTING THE WORLD PULL IN. ARE YOU
• 41:57
  HEARING ME? I TURN THEM ON TO THINGS OF
• 41:59
  THE WORLD AND PROMOTING WORLDLY MUSIC TO
• 42:02
  THEM AND TURN THEM ON TO WORLDLY
• 42:03
  ENTERTAINMENT AND MAKING MORE ABOUT
• 42:06
  SPORTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE INSTEAD OF
• 42:09
  ABOUT GOD.
• 42:10
  >> AMEN.
• 42:11
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
• 42:12
  >> AMEN. AMEN. That's the enemy of
• 42:17
  division.
• 42:19
  I got to hurry. Give me Let me Let me
• 42:20
  give you one more. Let me give you one
• 42:21
  more. Look at verse 24. Chapter 10,
• 42:23
  verse 24. There's the enemy of
• 42:25
  dedication.
• 42:27
  Chapter 10 verse 24. And Pharaoh called
• 42:30
  to Moses said, "Go ye serve the Lord.
• 42:32
  Only let your flocks and your herds be
• 42:34
  stayed." Well, that sounds pretty good.
• 42:36
  I mean, you can go.
• 42:38
  You can take your families and you can
• 42:41
  go, but just leave the leave the leave
• 42:44
  the herds behind.
• 42:45
  >> Leave the animals behind. Well, that
• 42:48
  sounds pretty good. I mean, that sounds
• 42:50
  good. But look what the Bible said in
• 42:52
  verse number 24. And he said, "Let your
• 42:55
  little ones also go with you." And Moses
• 42:58
  said, "Thou must give us also sacrifices
• 43:01
  and burnt offerings that we may
• 43:03
  sacrifice in the Lord our God, and our
• 43:06
  cattle also shall go with us, and there
• 43:08
  should not and hoof be left behind." I
• 43:10
  love that. What What's he simply saying?
• 43:12
  He said, "You can take the animals." And
• 43:14
  Moses said, "No, we must have those
• 43:16
  animals to sacrifice."
• 43:17
  >> Yeah. Because when we get out there,
• 43:20
  we're going to have something to give
• 43:22
  God for who he is. Because he's worthy.
• 43:26
  Amen. And what Moses is saying is thank
• 43:29
  Listen, he's worthy of sacrifices and of
• 43:31
  offering and worship. And when we get
• 43:34
  there, we're going to have something to
• 43:35
  give him for who he is. Amen.
• 43:39
  >> As the world says, the world says there
• 43:41
  sal, you know, that we're have there's
• 43:42
  salvation without surrender and worship,
• 43:44
  without sacrifice and devotion, without
• 43:46
  giving. Yeah,
• 43:47
  >> you can get saved, but don't give him
• 43:50
  anything.
• 43:52
  >> Amen.
• 43:53
  >> Oh, YOU CAN GO TO CHURCH, BUT DON'T GIVE
• 43:55
  him anything.
• 43:58
  >> Don't offer him
• 44:00
  >> anything.
• 44:01
  >> And that's what real worship is tonight.
• 44:04
  Amen.
• 44:05
  >> Here's question. I'm talking about
• 44:07
  worship here. Here here's here's my
• 44:08
  question. I'm done. What? Listen. What
• 44:11
  is the most important thing in your
• 44:15
  life?
• 44:20
  Say, "It's God." Is it?
• 44:24
  >> Is it?
• 44:26
  >> Amen.
• 44:27
  >> Say, "It's the word of God." Is it?
• 44:30
  >> Go ahead, preacher.
• 44:31
  >> Or do we spend more time on worldly
• 44:33
  entertainment?
• 44:34
  >> Yeah.
• 44:35
  >> Than we do the word of God.
• 44:36
  >> Come on. God help us.
• 44:38
  >> Amen.
• 44:40
  >> I mean, I mean, what is the most
• 44:41
  important thing? Do we spend more of our
• 44:43
  money on on listen financial comforts in
• 44:46
  this world instead of the work of God?
• 44:51
  >> I mean what's the what's THE MOST
• 44:52
  IMPORTANT THING to us?
• 44:55
  >> Amen.
• 44:57
  >> YOU SAY MY CHILDREN IS THE MOST
• 44:59
  IMPORTANT THING. Are they?
• 45:03
  Amen. Then are you really teaching them
• 45:06
  right?
• 45:07
  You really guiding them right? I mean,
• 45:10
  what is the most important thing? I tell
• 45:12
  you what, I'll tell you what, in in our
• 45:14
  society, in my own life, can I just can
• 45:15
  I just put it that way? In my own life,
• 45:18
  if I ain't real careful, you know who
• 45:21
  can be become the most important
• 45:24
  person I could say? Me,
• 45:29
  amen.
• 45:31
  If I ain't careful, I'll worship me
• 45:35
  more than anybody else.
• 45:37
  And Pharaoh knew that if he could keep
• 45:40
  them people from worshiping God, he'd
• 45:43
  keep them in bondage and they'd never be
• 45:45
  able to fulfill the purpose and plan of
• 45:47
  God in their life. Amen. And I want to
• 45:50
  say tonight, friend, God's plan for us
• 45:51
  to worship. And I just wonder how much
• 45:54
  of it's really going on in our lives.
• 45:59
  How much really going on in our personal
• 46:02
  life? Amen. Let's bow our head for a
• 46:04
  word of prayer. I'm going to pray. I
• 46:05
  know it's hard tonight. I know it's
• 46:06
  tough, but I'm understanding God help us
• 46:08
  tonight. We live in a day of compromise.
• 46:11
  We live in a day of wickedness. We live
• 46:13
  in a day of worldliness.
• 46:16
  And if you and I are going to really
• 46:18
  worship God, friend, we're going to have
• 46:19
  to get serious about this thing.
• 46:22
  And I wonder if there'd be some tonight
• 46:24
  just be honest in your heart. You've
• 46:26
  been distracted. You've allowed things
• 46:28
  in your life to to hinder your time with
• 46:30
  God, to hinder your prayer life, to
• 46:32
  hinder your B and you're distracted.
• 46:34
  Maybe there's some here tonight. Listen,
• 46:36
  you're in church and thank God for it,
• 46:37
  but you ain't really serious about
• 46:39
  serving God.
• 46:41
  You ain't really serious about doing
• 46:42
  something for God. You ain't really
• 46:45
  serious about worship. You know what we
• 46:46
  ought to do? Lord, to get us all and beg
• 46:49
  God to help us
• 46:51
  to worship him because he's worthy. He's
• 46:55
  worthy of our life. He's worthy of all
• 46:59
  of our affection, all of our attention.
• 47:01
  He He's worthy of all of our finance.
• 47:03
  He's worthy of everything tonight.
• 47:09
  So here's the question. What is he worth
• 47:12
  to you?
• 47:14
  What is he worth?
• 47:17
  Daddy,
• 47:19
  is he worth you getting serious about
• 47:21
  serving God?
• 47:25
  Mama,
• 47:27
  IS HE WORTH
• 47:29
  MY GOD NOW? IS HE WORTH? You're really
• 47:32
  getting serious with God
• 47:35
  and raising them children, right? Young
• 47:38
  people, is he worth Is he worth
• 47:41
  everything?
• 47:44
  Is he worth you giving up some things?
• 47:48
  IS HE WORTH YOU DOING SOME THINGS FOR,
• 47:50
  giving yourself to?
• 47:54
  What's he worth to you? Father, thank
• 47:57
  you for the privilege to be in church
• 47:59
  today. I pray God that you'd help our
• 48:01
  hearts, challenge us, and change us
• 48:03
  tonight. And Lord, we thank you for it
• 48:05
  in Christ's name. Amen. Let's all stand
• 48:07
  tonight. Thank you for joining our
• 48:09
  service today. We'd love it if you join
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  us in person the next time you are able
• 48:14
  at Meadows Baptist Church. Our physical
• 48:17
  address is 2988
• 48:19
  Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
• 48:22
  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
• 48:25
  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
• 48:27
  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
• 48:29
  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
• 48:32
  evening Bible study at 700 p.m. For more
• 48:35
  information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.