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Jesus is Right for Whatever is Wrong in Your Life - 3/13/26 - Bro. Josh Montgomery · 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. I had that on my heart. Amen. And
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  uh I'm just thankful that Jesus puts a
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  song in your heart when you get saved.
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  Amen. And I sure appreciate the meeting
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  this week. I appreciate this man of God.
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  And uh I'm thankful. I was praying uh
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  for the meeting. And I'll be honest with
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  you, and he don't know this. I hadn't
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  told him this, but when the Lord
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  prompted me to have him come uh what I
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  believe he's going to preach tonight,
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  what God put on his heart is the reason
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  why I felt impressed to have him come.
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  And uh what he's going to preach
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  tonight, I'll tell you this, it's
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  something that we all need and it's
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  straight from his heart. Amen. And this
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  is probably the only time you'll ever
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  hear him go over 30 minutes. Amen. And I
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  told him, "Preach as long as he needs."
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  Amen. And I appreciate him so very much.
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  And he's a hero of mine. And preacher,
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  you come preach to us tonight. Take all
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  the time you need. Close it out how you
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  see fit. And I ain't got you the mic
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  yet, have I? Amen. Okay.
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  >> There you go. You'll be hooked up now.
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  So, praise God. Let's get behind him.
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  Amen. And we met to worship. Amen.
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  Preach to us, Doc.
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  >> Amen.
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  Well, it's good to be in the Lord's
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  house tonight.
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  >> And it's good to be saved and washed in
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  the blood of the lamb of God.
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  >> And uh it's good to know that there is
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  more to it than this. Paul said, "If in
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  this life only we have hope, we are of
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  all men most miserable." But I'm glad
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  there's more to it than this.
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  >> And uh I love that good good singing
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  tonight. It's been a blessing to be
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  here. Somebody asked if I was going to
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  sing tonight. I probably ain't. This is
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  my sixth straight day preaching and I my
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  voice is waning a little bit. I quit
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  smoking last week
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  and uh started vaping but it's still not
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  helping me as much and uh
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  y'all think I'm kidding. I really am.
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  Okay, some of y'all really but uh I
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  think it is time to preach tonight. And
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  uh but let's take our Bibles this
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  evening and find the book of 1 Timothy
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  chapter 5. And uh the pastor asked me
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  about this message. Uh am I on, brother?
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  There we go. Okay. Give me If you got
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  any more monitors, that'd be great. I
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  like I like monitors. I don't care if
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  they can hear me as long as I can hear
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  me. And uh save my voice. I still got
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  two more times Sunday. Um but uh he
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  asked about this last night and so I the
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  Lord's not told me no. If I strike out,
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  it's the preacher's fault. I'm off the
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  hook. Okay. Like it's preacher's fault.
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  But um I'm going to say this too while
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  you're turning. I appreciate your p your
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  pastor and his wife and his children.
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  And um I can say this because I've been
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  in his spot.
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  >> He's young.
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  >> Don't make an old man out of him. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> He's a young man. Let him grow with you.
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  >> The good thing about having a young
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  pastor is you can have the same pastor
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  for a long time.
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  >> I mean, who wants to call 80 year old
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  pastor? You ain't going to have maybe 20
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  minutes. I'm out being mean. It's just
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  the reality of it. And so
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  I mean it's the truth. I mean I mean how
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  many guys getting called? I mean so um
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  potential you can have him pastor you
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  for 60 years. And uh some of you are
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  like oh lord don't worry you ain't going
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  to be here that long. And uh but but
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  love him, pray for him and uh let him
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  grow with you.
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  >> And you uh you back him up and say,
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  "Well, why does he do what he does?"
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  Well, he was born in the 2000s. That's
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  why. Amen. And uh but uh he's got a
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  heart for God.
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  >> And I'm going to tell you this too. Paul
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  told Timothy, "Let no man despise thy
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  youth."
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  >> I started pastoring my church when I was
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  21. Uh I'd got married in September. The
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  church called me in November.
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  >> And so we got thrown right in the frying
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  pan. And there were people at our church
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  at the time that thought because of my
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  age that I would just preach and not
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  pastor.
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  And uh you need to let them and I I
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  don't know anything. All right, but let
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  him be your pastor. Let him be your
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  preacher. God will bless you for it.
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  >> And uh you know, everybody wants to brag
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  on Harold Sidler and Maize Jackson, all
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  those guys. They were 21 one time.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> And they grew. So you pray for him, back
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  him up, support him, and God will bless
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  you for it. And uh then take care of his
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  wife, appreciate her, and take care of
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  her. I've been saying this lately, and
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  uh y'all to do something for their
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  birthdays.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> And good. If you if if you don't if you
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  already do, praise the Lord. If you
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  don't, I hope the fleas of a thousand
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  camels infest your armpits and you die
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  scratching. But uh do something for
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  their birthdays. I'll tell you this too,
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  uh do something for their youngans's
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  birthdays. I'm a preachers's kid. And uh
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  I asked my church a couple years ago, I
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  said, "Would you take part of my
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  birthday bonus and start giving my kids
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  something for their birthdays?" I said,
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  "No, pastor, we're you're keeping your
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  bonus and we're going to do something
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  for your kids." cuz I know a lot I know
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  they're just babies now. Uh but as they
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  grow up, uh I preach in a lot of places
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  where I meet preachers kids that are out
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  because I saw how the church treated
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  their daddy. And so you be good to him
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  and his family and I promise you this,
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  God will bless you for it.
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  >> He didn't tell me to say any of that.
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  But um I'm getting I'm middleaged now.
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  I'm 34. So if I live to be 70, I'm
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  pretty much middle age.
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  >> I mean, that's kind of morbid when you
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  think about that. Uh, but I can start. I
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  can't wait to get old and say what I
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  want to. Uh, and my wife said, "Lord,
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  help that day." But, but, uh, God will
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  bless you for it. And, uh, I know
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  Brother Austin preached that direction
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  Wednesday night, and I appreciate what
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  the church done Wednesday for them. That
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  is, you'd be surprised. I preach in
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  churches that are, uh, and, oh man, it's
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  disrespectful. I pastor a small a
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  smaller church than this. I preach in
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  churches twice this big. They don't do
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  anything for their pastor's birthday.
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  They don't do anything for their
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  anniversary. they never take care of
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  them. And so, God bless you for doing
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  what you did Wednesday night, church. I
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  commend you and thank you for it. And uh
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  praise God. And then I appreciate
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  Brother Austin. He's my buddy and we've
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  had a good time hanging out the last
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  couple days riding together. He forgot
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  his Bible tonight. Can you believe that?
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  He forgot his Bible. But luckily, the
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  pastor had an extra NIV in his office
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  and so we gave him that one.
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  I'm just kidding. Okay. I'm just
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  kidding.
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  Would you stand tonight for the reading
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  of his word? 1 Timothy chapter 5.
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  Somebody say, "You cut up and laugh a
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  lot." Look, I've been in church every
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  night this week. If I don't laugh, have
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  a good time in church. Last time I
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  checked, the joy of the Lord is your
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  strength.
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  >> And uh I'm not going to let Baptist or
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  Democrats ruin my shout. I'm just going
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  to have a good time and enjoy Jesus.
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  Amen. And I thank God for it. 1 Timothy
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  chapter 5 tonight and verse number 23.
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  My favorite part of the sermon. I preach
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  verse by verse at my church through
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  books of the Bible. There's a blessing
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  about that. You always know the next
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  verse you're going to get to. The bad
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  part is you get to verses like this one
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  where you can't skip it because if you
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  skip the verse, everybody knows he
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  didn't know anything about that verse.
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  He skipped it. And uh so we're going to
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  look at this verse tonight and give you
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  the burden of my heart tonight. Amen.
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  Again, preacher, thank you for
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  everything. I I really appreciate the
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  opportunity to be here. 1 Timothy 5:23,
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  Paul says, "Drink no longer water, but
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  use a little wine for thy stomach's sake
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  and thine often infirmities."
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  Let's go to God in just a word of prayer
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  tonight. Lord, we love you tonight
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  because you first loved us. Lord, I
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  thank you, Lord, for the opportunity
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  it's been these nights to be here at
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  Meadows Baptist Church with Pastor
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  Branch and his family and his church
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  family. Lord, there's a good spirit
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  here, and I thank you for that. And I
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  appreciate these people, Lord, how they
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  love their preacher. And Lord, I hope
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  they receive just an admonition,
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  encouragement that I just gave there.
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  Lord, I I thank you for all they do for
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  them. I pray God that you continue to
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  knit the heart of this church and this
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  pastor together that you may bless them
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  and Lord many souls may come to Christ
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  and that Jesus would be glorified uh
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  through the ministry of this church. May
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  the greatest days of Medis Baptist
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  Church uh yet be in her future. Bless
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  Pastor Charlie and his wife and his
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  babies and this church. Use them for thy
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  glory. The Lord help in this message
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  tonight. Lord I want to be obedient uh
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  to what you've given us and Lord help us
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  to be a blessing to God's people. Bless
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  protect my family while I'm away tonight
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  in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for
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  standing. You may be seated. I
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  appreciate you for standing for the
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  reading of his word. Uh when I preach, I
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  I try to study preaching. I try to read
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  books on preaching just as a mechanic
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  would always be uh studying his art. I
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  always want to study on preaching
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  because I want to be the best preacher I
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  can be first of all for the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. But then I want to be the best
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  preacher I can be for my church and and
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  try to be able to feed them. And one man
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  that I was reading behind, he said this
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  about preaching. He said, "Preaching
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  ought to do three things. Number one,
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  you ought to read the text. And then
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  number two, you ought to explain the
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  text. And then the last thing you ought
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  to do is apply the text. Well, that's
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  what I want to do with this verse
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  tonight. First Timothy 5, uh, Paul is
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  dealing with several different things.
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  He's dealing with the qualification of a
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  widow, rebuking an elder, meeting the
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  monetary needs of the pastor, things of
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  that nature. AND THEN RIGHT in the
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  middle of it all, he gives this little
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  word of admonition to Timothy. And he
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  says, "Drink no longer water, but use a
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  little wine for thy stomach's sake and
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  thine often infirmities." Now, some of
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  y'all are real nervous and some of y'all
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  are real excited. There's half of y'all
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  tonight that thinks you're going to get
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  to go by the ABC liquor store on the way
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  home and have scripture to do it. Then
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  the rest of y'all are wondering, "What
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  has our pastor brought into our church?"
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  All right, so let me just go ahead and
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  clear the air. I am against the
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  consumption of alcohol.
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  >> I preach in North Wilsburg, but I'm
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  against moonshine, too. Okay? I I mean,
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  I I'm against the consumption OF
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  ALCOHOL. WINE IS A MOCKER, AND STRONG
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  DRINK IS A RAGE, AND whosoever deceived
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  thereby is not wise. I'm against
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  alcohol. Somebody say, "WELL, YOU KNOW,
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  PREACHER, JESUS TURNED WATER INTO WINE
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  in John 2." WELL, IT WAS NOT fermented
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  wine, and I'll prove it to you FROM THE
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  BIBLE. HAD JESUS TURNED THAT WINE OR
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  that water into AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE,
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  THEN WE are all going TO HELL TONIGHT.
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  BECAUSE THE PROPHET HABACH SAID, "WOE to
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  him that PUT HIS STRONG DRINK TO his
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  neighbor's lips." And so if Jesus made
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  that water INTO AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE,
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  THEN WE'RE ALL GOING TO HELL TONIGHT CUZ
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  THAT MEANS JESUS would have sinned THAT
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  WAS NOT FERMENTED WINE. JESUS NEVER GOT
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  AROUND ANYTHING that stayed dead. Amen.
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  >> And so, uh, I'm glad tonight that Jesus
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  did not do that and what's going on in
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  this passage. There's three things I
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  want to say about it in explanation.
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  Then I'll make my application and then
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  we might go to Dario and get an ice
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  cream cone. How about that? But don't
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  tell my wife she loves Dario. Would
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  y'all join me in prayer? They might put
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  a Dario in Salsbury. Okay. Every town
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  needs a Dario. I believe that every
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  creature needs a preacher and every town
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  needs a Dario. All right. Three things
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  tonight in this verse. I see. First of
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  all, I want us to note the sickness
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  pronounced. Notice what Paul says. Drink
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  no longer water, but use a little wine
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  for thy stomach's sake and thine often
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  infirmities. You know what this verse
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  teaches us tonight? Very simply, it
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  teaches us you CAN BE SAVED, YOU can be
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  separated, YOU CAN BE SOLD OUT, YOU CAN
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  BE SERVING GOD AND STILL get sick. All
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  right.
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  >> You listen to that crowd on TBNN. You
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  listen to that Kenneth Cop and all that
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  crowd. Uh they'll preach and tell you
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  that if you live for God, if you LOVE
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  THE LORD, UH METER BY METER, LIFE WILL
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  GO SWEETER. YOU'LL NEVER GET SICK. Uh
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  you'll never have a bad hair day. You'll
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  never have any problems. It'll all JUST
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  BE GOOD IN THE HOOD AND ALL THAT GOOD
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  STUFF. BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU
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  TONIGHT, HERE'S WHAT JOB SAID. MAN UH
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  THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN IS A FEW DAYS
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  AND FULL OF TROUBLE. We are not promised
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  AN EASY LIFE. OH, WE'RE not promised
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  THAT LIFE WILL ALWAYS BE A BED OF ROSES.
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  HONEY, SOMETIMES WE'RE PROMISED THORNS
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  AND WE'RE PROMISED TRIALS AND
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  DIFFICULTIES AND STORMS THAT WE WALK
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  THROUGH IN THIS LIFE. Here's Timothy.
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  HE'S SOLD OUT. HE'S SAVED. HE'S LIVING
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  FOR GOD. HE'S TRYING TO SERVE THE LORD.
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  HE'S TRYING TO BE FAITHFUL WHERE GOD'S
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  PUT HIM. AND YET, HE STILL GOT SICK.
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  RIGHT.
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  >> I dare say in the audience of this size
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  tonight, there are people representing
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  here that's all have been touched with
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  cancer. Somebody in your family, maybe
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  you personally, I know he's praying for
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  the dear sister last night and praise
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  God for the good report. But it seems
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  like more and more we hear about
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  sickness and we hear about infirmities
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  and we hear about to turmoil AND AND WE
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  SAY, "WAIT A MINUTE THOUGH. I'M TRYING
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  TO SERVE GOD AND I'M TRYING TO BE
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  FAITHFUL and I'm going to Sunday school
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  AND SUNDAY MORNING AND SUNDAY NIGHT AND
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  I'M BEING FAITHFUL, BUT YET SICKNESS and
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  calamity still touch my life." You know
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  what I'm talking about tonight?
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  >> It's still going to happen.
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  >> Now, what is Timothy's sickness here?
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  Well, it was personal. He said, "Thy."
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  >> It was private. He said, "Thy stomach's
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  sake." I'm not trying to be rude
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  tonight, but nobody wants to talk about
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  stomach issues. But Timothy's probably
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  dealing with dysentery is what most
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  Bible commentators believe. This
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  dysentery probably resulted because they
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  did not have the water filtration
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  systems that we have today. And so is
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  common today. Most people get dysentery
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  from the drinking water. And I believe
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  that's what causes Timothy's trouble. It
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  was personal. It was private. But it was
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  perpetual. He said, "Thine often
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  infirmities." It wasn't just something
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  he dealt with one day, pastor. It was
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  something that was constantly in his
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  life. Do you KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE to wake
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  up every morning and your problem be
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  staring you in the face? I'm not talking
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  about your spouse, okay? But I'm talking
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  ABOUT PROBLEM, THAT TRIAL, THAT
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  DIFFICULTY be staring you in THE FACE.
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  YOU HOPE THAT WITH THE EVENING'S NIGHT,
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  with the sun going down, you hope you
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  hope in THE MORNING'S LIGHT THAT IT'LL
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  JUST GO AWAY. BUT THAT PROBLEM'S STILL
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  THERE.
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  >> IT just won't go away. Yeah,
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  >> there's sickness pronounced in this
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  verse. The second thing I I see in this
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  verse is the sadness of Paul.
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  >> Now, let me teach Sunday school for a
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  minute on Friday night. We all know
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  tonight that Paul was an apostle born
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  out of due season.
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  >> Paul was the I had a fellow on Facebook
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  tell me he was a prophet.
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  >> And so I put Luke 16:16 for the prophets
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  were until John. And he said, "Well, you
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  tell the Lord that." I said, "I don't
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  have to tell the Lord you're not a
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  prophet. He already knows that." Okay.
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  Amen. I have the gift of exhortation.
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  Can you tell? Amen. And sarcasm is my
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  spirit. Sarcasm is my love language.
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  Just be honest with you. Uh
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  but uh Paul is the last of the apostles.
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  He has apostolic power. I could take you
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  to Acts 14 tonight and show you where
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  Paul healed a man that was a lame man. I
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  can take you to Acts 20 where Paul
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  didn't read my book on why you should be
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  a 30-minute preacher. He preached for
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  six hours. Yep.
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  >> Right.
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  >> Sounds like some camp meetings I've been
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  in.
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  You know, you get in a meeting
• 15:08
  >> and it's be like 9:30 at night. They've
• 15:10
  had 184 preachers already. And the
• 15:12
  moderator struggling. Should we have
• 15:13
  another preacher? And we're like, you
• 15:15
  know, please no. And there's always one
• 15:17
  MORE ON THE BACK. PREACH. I'm like, shut
• 15:20
  up. We want to go to Waffle House.
• 15:24
  I mean, Paul's preaching that night. I
• 15:26
  I'm a preacher's kid, okay? I can say
• 15:28
  stuff like that. I mean, you know, it's
• 15:30
  just it's just, you know, hang an amen
• 15:32
  on that thing. Let's go to THE HOUSE. WE
• 15:33
  GOT IT. I mean, we got it. Okay, let's
• 15:36
  go home. But my wife said the reason
• 15:38
  guys preach long, they like to hear
• 15:39
  themselves talk. Okay,
• 15:41
  PAUL'S PREACHING FOR 6 HOURS. UDICUS
• 15:45
  FELL OUT OF THE WINDOW. Long preaching
• 15:47
  can be deadly.
• 15:51
  Udicus died.
• 15:54
  It's very dangerous. Amen. Some of y'all
• 15:58
  ain't laughed all week long.
• 16:01
  YOU KNOW WHAT PAUL DID, THOUGH? HE He
• 16:03
  went down there and raised that boy from
• 16:05
  the dead.
• 16:06
  >> That's apostolic power.
• 16:07
  >> I mean, Paul Paul is OVER THERE IN ACTS
• 16:10
  28. HE JUST GOT SHIPWRECKED. AND WHAT'S
• 16:12
  HE OVER THERE DOING? HE'S HEALING PEOPLE
• 16:13
  THAT MIGHT LEAD THEM. HE'S HELPING
• 16:15
  PEOPLE, BEING A BLESSING to them.
• 16:16
  >> I mean, that's amazing.
• 16:18
  >> Yeah.
• 16:19
  >> Paul has spent his ministry healing
• 16:21
  people that he don't even know.
• 16:23
  >> You're right.
• 16:24
  >> Now, this just ain't anybody who's sick
• 16:26
  in 1 Timothy 5:23. It's his preacher
• 16:28
  boy.
• 16:29
  >> He saw Timothy get saved. He saw Timothy
• 16:32
  get sold out to God, get called to
• 16:33
  preach. I MEAN, HE IS TIMOTHY'S NOT ONLY
• 16:36
  JUST FATHER IN THE FAITH, BUT PROBABLY
• 16:38
  THE ONLY FATHER FIGURE he has in his
• 16:40
  life because we don't know where
• 16:41
  Timothy's dead. He's at
• 16:42
  >> right.
• 16:43
  >> If there's anybody that Paul would want
• 16:46
  to heal,
• 16:47
  >> it'd be Timothy.
• 16:48
  >> Y
• 16:49
  >> Why don't Paul heal Timothy? I'm going
• 16:51
  to give you two options, and you can
• 16:53
  pick either one that works for the
• 16:54
  sermon. It could be that the healings
• 16:56
  were not like, you know, uh at any time,
• 16:58
  what a superpower. you know, they just
• 17:00
  heal somebody when they wanted to. And I
• 17:01
  believe that's true. I don't think they
• 17:02
  just heal. I think the healing had to be
• 17:04
  in the will of God. And I want to remind
• 17:05
  you that every healing in the Bible was
• 17:08
  always for the purpose of evangelism.
• 17:10
  >> It was always THE SCRIPTURES HAD NOT
• 17:12
  been completed yet. And so those
• 17:14
  miracles and sign gifts were to prove to
• 17:17
  people their vindication in the gospel
• 17:19
  ministry.
• 17:20
  >> That's the reason we don't have to have
• 17:21
  signs today. We have scriptures.
• 17:24
  >> But here's what I believe. I I do
• 17:27
  believe the first part, but I believe
• 17:28
  the main thing here, I don't think Paul
• 17:30
  could heal Timothy in this passage. You
• 17:32
  remember in 1 Corinthians 12:13 and 14,
• 17:34
  Paul talks about spiritual gifts and the
• 17:36
  signs and that one which is perfect is
• 17:39
  come which was done in part to be done
• 17:41
  away with. I think the sign gifts are
• 17:43
  fading off the scene. And I think Paul
• 17:45
  is losing his ability to heal in this
• 17:47
  passage. I can take you to two other
• 17:49
  places in the scripture where Paul
• 17:50
  didn't heal somebody. Over there in
• 17:52
  Philippians chapter number three,
• 17:53
  Apapraditis brings him a love offering.
• 17:55
  And Paul writes back to the church of
• 17:56
  Philippi and said, "God had mercy on
• 17:59
  Apapraditis and on me because she had
• 18:01
  heard he had been sick, even dying to
• 18:03
  death."
• 18:04
  >> Now, Apaproditis brought Paul a LOVE
• 18:06
  OFFERING. IF THERE'S ANYBODY I WANT TO
• 18:08
  HEAL, SIR,
• 18:09
  >> say amen, evangelist. IT'S THE GUY
• 18:10
  WRITING MY CHECK.
• 18:14
  >> Then at first, some of y'all like, wait,
• 18:16
  you know, I can't believe you're talking
• 18:17
  about money. Well, you want your boss,
• 18:18
  man, to get sick and can't write your
• 18:19
  check. Somebody help me. Amen. Over in 2
• 18:22
  Timothy 4, he left Trothamus sick at
• 18:24
  Mileum.
• 18:25
  >> Left him sick.
• 18:27
  >> I don't think Paul could heal Timothy.
• 18:28
  Them sign gifts are fading off. I'm
• 18:30
  going to tell you, as much as your
• 18:31
  preacher loves you, as much as he cares
• 18:32
  about you, there's a line where he can't
• 18:34
  help you.
• 18:35
  >> You're right.
• 18:36
  >> You know why? At the end of the day,
• 18:37
  he's a man.
• 18:39
  >> He's the man of God, but that man is the
• 18:41
  first part of he's just a man. He's
• 18:43
  God's man, but he has limitations.
• 18:45
  >> You're right.
• 18:46
  >> That's where Paul's at.
• 18:48
  >> There's a sickness pronounced. There's a
• 18:50
  sadness of Paul, but then there is a
• 18:53
  solution prescribed.
• 18:55
  This is where y'all been wanting me to
• 18:56
  get to. Preacher, what is this about
• 18:59
  drinking wine? Well, first of all, the
• 19:01
  Bible does not say Paul does not tell
• 19:03
  Timothy to drink wine. He said, "Use
• 19:07
  little wine for thy stomach's sake." If
• 19:10
  Paul was telling Timothy to drink wine,
• 19:12
  then Timothy is now disqualified from
• 19:14
  ministry. Because in 1 Timothy 3, Paul
• 19:18
  says that the man of God is not to be
• 19:19
  given the wine. You're
• 19:20
  >> right.
• 19:21
  >> HE LITERALLY SAYS IN THE PREVIOUS VERSE,
• 19:23
  "KEEP THYSELF PURE."
• 19:26
  >> So what's Paul telling Timothy to do?
• 19:28
  Here's what I believe. I You remember we
• 19:29
  talked about that Timothy's problem was
• 19:32
  a mainly a result of the drinking water.
• 19:34
  Here's what I believe Paul's telling
• 19:36
  Timothy to do. Take that wine, mix it
• 19:38
  with your drinking water. It'll purify
• 19:40
  it so you can drink it.
• 19:41
  >> Good.
• 19:42
  >> Rock of Ages had a missionary years ago,
• 19:44
  Brother Michael Adams. They was in the
• 19:45
  Philippines. They said, "Don't drink the
• 19:47
  water." Well, brother Michael's a
• 19:48
  cajinjun from down Louisiana down in the
• 19:50
  bayou, you know, Judam Elizabeth. That's
• 19:52
  where he's from. You know,
• 19:55
  he got thirsty and got a glass of water
• 19:57
  and got pure ale
• 19:59
  and drinking. He's still living to
• 20:02
  preach today. Praise the Lord. I mean, I
• 20:04
  guess you ate half that stuff ate down
• 20:05
  there in Louisiana. A little puree ain't
• 20:07
  gonna hurt you. Okay. I believe that's
• 20:09
  what he's doing. He's trying to purify
• 20:10
  that water. You know what Paul is doing?
• 20:12
  He's prescribing medication to Timothy.
• 20:15
  You're
• 20:15
  >> right.
• 20:16
  >> Now, you do not have the blessing of
• 20:18
  taking Paul's advice today.
• 20:20
  >> Amen.
• 20:21
  >> Now, I'm going to turn and look at the
• 20:22
  Baptistry because I know I'm in North
• 20:24
  Carolina, but if you used to go to my
• 20:25
  grandma's house and look under her sink,
• 20:27
  you'd find something called rock and
• 20:29
  rye.
• 20:32
  >> You right.
• 20:33
  >> Somebody said, "What's rock and ry?"
• 20:34
  Rock candy and a whole lot of Jack
• 20:36
  Daniels and a little bit of honey. My
• 20:38
  uncle walked around with a perpetual
• 20:39
  coffee old drunk. My grandma, I need
• 20:41
  some rock and ride. You know,
• 20:45
  we ain't going to ask how many's got
• 20:46
  some in their refrigerator tonight. All
• 20:47
  right.
• 20:49
  I can name some Baptist preachers that I
• 20:51
  know has some. Not that I've heard. I
• 20:54
  know they got it. Okay.
• 20:56
  And they want to use that verse. You
• 20:57
  know where Paul say use a little wine.
• 20:59
  Well, we have Robbitasin. Okay. All
• 21:01
  right.
• 21:02
  >> So, here's my point tonight.
• 21:06
  Timothy knows that Paul has the ability
• 21:08
  to heal, right?
• 21:10
  >> He's seen it. And no doubt Timothy has
• 21:13
  shared with Paul his issues just like we
• 21:16
  would share our prayer requests one
• 21:17
  another. Hey Paul, I'm having some I'm
• 21:20
  having some often infirmities. You know
• 21:22
  what he we know what Timothy's probably
• 21:24
  expecting a handkerchief because you
• 21:26
  know Paul people are getting hold of
• 21:28
  Paul's handkerchiefs at Acts and getting
• 21:29
  healed and he gets that letter
• 21:31
  handkerchief.
• 21:33
  >> I'm not being critical of how any church
• 21:35
  does this. Paul don't even call for the
• 21:36
  elders of the church to come and he
• 21:39
  don't even do that. You know what Paul
• 21:40
  does? Paul don't even pray for him. Paul
• 21:43
  said, "Timothy, take a little medicine
• 21:45
  >> for your stomach's sake."
• 21:48
  >> Timothy is expecting a miracle.
• 21:51
  But instead, he got medicine.
• 21:53
  >> Right.
• 21:53
  >> NOW, I BELIEVE TONIGHT, GOD IS ABLE
• 21:56
  THROUGH EXCEEDING ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL
• 21:57
  WE ASK. You believe that tonight? Say,
• 21:59
  "Amen."
• 22:00
  >> But if God healed everybody, there
• 22:02
  wouldn't be funeral homes.
• 22:03
  >> YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 22:05
  >> IF GOD FIXED EVERYTHING, there wouldn't
• 22:07
  be hospitals. That's right.
• 22:09
  >> THE SAD REALITY WE'VE GOT TO embrace is
• 22:11
  God don't heal everybody.
• 22:13
  >> You're right.
• 22:14
  >> We've got so charismatic in some of our
• 22:16
  Baptist churches.
• 22:18
  >> And I'm for having confidence and faith
• 22:20
  in the Lord. Don't misunderstand me.
• 22:22
  >> But what are you going to do if God
• 22:23
  don't
• 22:25
  >> Is your faith in THE LORD DEPENDENT ON
• 22:28
  HIM FULFILLING YOUR WISH LIST?
• 22:30
  >> OR ARE you going to still serve him and
• 22:32
  love him if he says no, I'm not going to
• 22:34
  do what what you want me to do?
• 22:35
  >> Come on. You see, medicine was not what
• 22:39
  Timothy expected. He's expecting a
• 22:42
  healing. HE'S EXPECTING A MIRACLE. BUT
• 22:45
  INSTEAD, HE'S GETTING MEDICINE. I'm
• 22:47
  preaching tonight on when you get
• 22:49
  medicine instead of a miracle.
• 22:53
  >> We all want miracles. We all want God
• 22:55
  just to presto, fix all of our problems.
• 22:58
  >> He don't do that all the time.
• 22:59
  >> You're right.
• 23:00
  >> You ever heard of Mary and Martha? Lord
• 23:03
  Lazarus, not just any Lazarus, whom thou
• 23:06
  lovest is sick.
• 23:09
  >> Lazar, I mean, it's just anybody Jesus.
• 23:11
  This is the Lazarus that you love. It's
• 23:13
  not the Lazarus you hate. It's the
• 23:14
  Lazarus you love. He's sick. You know
• 23:16
  what Jesus does? He was a terrible
• 23:18
  pastor. Terrible pastor. Didn't even
• 23:19
  show up at the hospital.
• 23:22
  Didn't even show up for the funeral.
• 23:26
  He'd been dead and buried four days. By
• 23:28
  now, he stinkketh.
• 23:30
  I got a friend of mine said he named his
• 23:32
  Sunday school program Lazarus because it
• 23:33
  stinkketh. Okay. But I mean I mean he
• 23:37
  stinkketh. It's bad. And then Jesus
• 23:39
  said, "All right, now let's go."
• 23:40
  >> Yeah.
• 23:41
  >> You know Mary and Martha, they they got
• 23:43
  upset at the Lord
• 23:44
  >> and they both expressed it different
• 23:45
  ways.
• 23:46
  >> Martha's a worker. She's a go-getter.
• 23:48
  When Jesus got in the edge of Bethany,
• 23:49
  she got up in his face. Lord, if you'd
• 23:51
  have been here, my brother hadn't died.
• 23:52
  She was exactly right theologically.
• 23:55
  >> Mary says the same thing, but she's
• 23:57
  sitting in the house. Oh, brother Eddie
• 24:00
  Davis, one of my mentors. He said, '
• 24:01
  Ain't it amazing Jesus didn't step one
• 24:03
  foot in the Bethany until Mary got out
• 24:05
  of the house.
• 24:07
  >> Brother Eddie said, "Lazarus would have
• 24:09
  never got out of the tomb had Mary not
• 24:12
  got out of the house."
• 24:13
  >> Some of you tonight, the Lord did not
• 24:14
  give you the miracle and you wouldn't
• 24:16
  say it out loud and you wouldn't want to
• 24:18
  tell nobody, but you're a little upset
• 24:19
  at the Lord.
• 24:21
  >> Right.
• 24:22
  >> Lord, you you could have fixed that.
• 24:25
  >> You could have healed my loved one.
• 24:26
  Yeah,
• 24:27
  >> you could have kept that my that divorce
• 24:29
  from happening.
• 24:29
  >> You're right.
• 24:30
  >> You could have kept that tragedy from
• 24:31
  happen, but you didn't. And you don't
• 24:33
  want to tell nobody. You wouldn't say it
• 24:34
  out loud, but you're a little upset at
• 24:37
  the Lord for not fixing it.
• 24:39
  >> That's good, brother.
• 24:41
  >> Right.
• 24:41
  >> I'm going to ask you a trick question.
• 24:43
  I'm telling you right now. I'm trying to
• 24:45
  trick you. Do not answer this question.
• 24:47
  You hear me? Do not answer it. You ever
• 24:49
  been been disappointed IN JESUS? NOPE.
• 24:51
  NOT ME, PREACHER. OH, REALLY? I say Mary
• 24:54
  and Martha WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST IS THE
• 24:57
  ONLY MAN that held the son of God, heard
• 25:01
  the voice of God, and saw the spirit of
• 25:03
  God at the same time. And John's sitting
• 25:06
  in a prison saying, "I'm not even sure
• 25:07
  if that's him."
• 25:08
  >> Yep.
• 25:08
  >> You're right.
• 25:09
  >> So, if John the Baptist is struggling
• 25:11
  with doubts, you better believe you're
• 25:13
  going to struggle with them, honey.
• 25:15
  >> Now, I've never been disappointed in
• 25:17
  him, my brother, but I've had it all
• 25:19
  planned out. Lord, this is what we need
• 25:21
  to do.
• 25:22
  >> You're right. I've even got a
• 25:23
  PowerPoint.
• 25:24
  >> You're right.
• 25:25
  >> Boom, boom, boom. Three bullet points.
• 25:27
  Let's do it, Lord. You That's all right.
• 25:29
  >> And then he don't do it like I want him
• 25:32
  to do it.
• 25:33
  >> And in reality, I get a little upset at
• 25:35
  him.
• 25:38
  >> We don't want to admit that because we
• 25:39
  goodbye on at Baptist. Well, I'll tell
• 25:41
  you right now, everything's good. Well,
• 25:42
  not everything. It's not always good.
• 25:45
  You're
• 25:45
  >> right.
• 25:45
  >> Preacher.
• 25:46
  >> And I tell you, if anything your
• 25:48
  preachers taught me is to be honest,
• 25:50
  >> sir.
• 25:51
  I'm gonna tell you, preachers are not
• 25:53
  superman.
• 25:55
  >> You're right.
• 25:56
  >> There ain't no buy on it at Baptist.
• 25:57
  Ain't no super Christians. We're all
• 25:58
  sometimes just barely getting by and
• 26:00
  trying to hang on to the next week.
• 26:02
  >> I told you about my kids last night. I
• 26:03
  got Dax and he's my oldest. He's got
• 26:06
  ball practice tonight. And uh then uh I
• 26:09
  got Judah. Uh hopefully we'll she's four
• 26:12
  years old and hopefully she won't go to
• 26:13
  the state penitentiary. Um
• 26:17
  we we supper early. She had a knife
• 26:19
  doing like this. I'm like, uh, I already
• 26:21
  see us in the courtroom. When did her
• 26:22
  murder attack start? Well, we was at
• 26:24
  Texas Roadhouse one night. She had a
• 26:25
  knife like this. Okay. Cute as a button.
• 26:27
  That's why she'll make a great serial
• 26:28
  killer. Nobody would ever expect it.
• 26:31
  But then my middle boy, his name's
• 26:33
  Sidler. And Siler, he'll be 10 next
• 26:36
  month. And um, this is how that's how
• 26:39
  the Lord gave me this sermon. The Lord
• 26:41
  had to preach it to me. And he still
• 26:42
  preaches it to me. Siler when he was
• 26:44
  born, when my wife was expecting Sidler,
• 26:46
  you mas just something wasn't right.
• 26:48
  Even with the pregnancy, things that
• 26:50
  nature, they even when he was born, he's
• 26:51
  just unusual. And as he got older, we
• 26:54
  noticed and I've never I want to meet
• 26:55
  this specimen of a kid. You know, you go
• 26:57
  you you mas go to the pediatrician,
• 26:59
  well, you know, he's in the 88th
• 27:00
  percentile. Where's this kid at, you
• 27:02
  know, that reads at age, you know, six
• 27:03
  months, you know, driving a car by age
• 27:06
  two. I mean, he's just got it all
• 27:07
  together. I want to meet this kid, you
• 27:08
  know, I don't know where he's at. I
• 27:10
  mean, there's this perfect kid
• 27:12
  somewhere. I mean, he talks knows Latin
• 27:13
  by 83, all this kind of stuff. And they
• 27:17
  told us he's not talking soon enough. He
• 27:18
  ain't got much to say. My wife said he's
• 27:20
  a Montgomery. Montgomery's have
• 27:22
  something to say.
• 27:25
  Shut up.
• 27:27
  You're riding with me tonight and you're
• 27:28
  using my Bible. Don't push it.
• 27:34
  I'm glad we get to serve God together.
• 27:38
  said, "Uh, he's not talking like he
• 27:40
  should, so speech therapy." We go to
• 27:42
  speech therapy and
• 27:45
  they said, "Well, he has speech delay
• 27:47
  and we think he has this and that and
• 27:49
  all this stuff." And and um we'd be in a
• 27:52
  restaurant somewhere and he'd put his
• 27:53
  hands over his ears and he'd hum back
• 27:54
  and forth. Couldn't handle crowds.
• 27:57
  Couldn't sit in church. My wife didn't
• 27:58
  sit in church for two years because he
• 28:01
  couldn't handle noise. She'd have to sit
• 28:02
  in my office with him.
• 28:04
  And then we're finally getting some
• 28:06
  appointments to get a diagnosis six
• 28:08
  years ago in March
• 28:10
  and the pandemic happened
• 28:13
  and all the appointments get cancelled
• 28:15
  and it was last May of uh 20 I'm sorry.
• 28:20
  Yeah. May of 2020 uh 24. So two years
• 28:24
  ago this coming up May that I sat in a
• 28:26
  doctor's office and the doctor said,
• 28:28
  "Sir, your son is stage two autistic."
• 28:31
  There's three levels of autism. We
• 28:33
  probably all know somebody that's stage
• 28:34
  one. They're high functioning people.
• 28:36
  Elon Musk is autistic. A lot of people
• 28:37
  don't know that. I'm like, I hope my son
• 28:39
  be like a super trillionaire like him
• 28:41
  except love Jesus, you know. Like that'd
• 28:43
  be awesome. Amen. Just tithe one time.
• 28:46
  Just one time, please.
• 28:49
  Level three is a child or individual
• 28:51
  who's completely non-verbal. Never talk
• 28:53
  or anything like that. Siters right in
• 28:55
  the middle.
• 28:58
  That's not what I wanted.
• 29:00
  >> Come on, preacher. Don't look at me like
• 29:02
  that.
• 29:03
  >> Come on.
• 29:04
  >> When you have a when you have a baby
• 29:06
  born, you don't expect that they may
• 29:08
  never leave your home.
• 29:10
  >> You're right.
• 29:11
  >> And I used to be scared of special needs
• 29:13
  people.
• 29:15
  You know, oh, don't look at me like
• 29:16
  that. It's just take ain't nobody here
• 29:17
  tonight. We see somebody out in public,
• 29:19
  they having some issues, what do we do?
• 29:20
  We walk around.
• 29:24
  >> But when it comes to your house,
• 29:28
  >> the problem with Sitler is you look at
• 29:30
  him, you can't tell it.
• 29:32
  And so when he's acting up in public,
• 29:34
  you've got all, and I'm not being this
• 29:35
  direct for the old people, okay? I love
• 29:36
  old people. My mom, my mom and dad are
• 29:38
  old people. I love them, okay? But that
• 29:40
  generation, y'all do something with that
• 29:42
  kid and they don't know we're trying to.
• 29:45
  >> You're right.
• 29:46
  >> Be careful about passing judgment.
• 29:49
  >> Every kid's not a brat.
• 29:50
  >> You're right.
• 29:51
  >> There's some kids that generally can't
• 29:53
  handle it.
• 29:54
  >> You're right.
• 29:56
  >> And your whole belt and switch thing, it
• 29:58
  don't help.
• 29:58
  >> You're right.
• 30:01
  just pray for him.
• 30:02
  >> Amen.
• 30:03
  >> Amen. So I say, "I don't like that."
• 30:04
  That's okay. I'm going home tonight.
• 30:06
  It's okay.
• 30:09
  >> And but we seeing that and trying to
• 30:11
  figure that out. And I I u it's not what
• 30:13
  I wanted.
• 30:17
  >> Can't communicate.
• 30:19
  >> He's talking talking a little bit. I'm
• 30:21
  going to tell you what are you going to
• 30:22
  do when that unexpected thing comes to
• 30:23
  your house.
• 30:24
  >> Come on, brother.
• 30:26
  >> Medicine's not what he expected.
• 30:28
  Medicine's not what he enjoyed. I don't
• 30:29
  like taking medicine. My grandma does,
• 30:32
  but I don't like taking medicine.
• 30:35
  You know, because you know why medicine
• 30:36
  tastes bad. And there's some things in
• 30:39
  life
• 30:41
  leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
• 30:47
  >> But that ain't what I wanted.
• 30:51
  >> You got dreams, you got ambitions, you
• 30:53
  got plans.
• 30:54
  >> Yeah. And then
• 30:57
  just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
• 31:01
  >> Medicine is something you got to endure.
• 31:02
  >> You're right.
• 31:03
  >> Remember your mama growing up, you got a
• 31:04
  cough, just swallow it,
• 31:06
  >> right?
• 31:07
  >> Stick that syrup, get that. Just swallow
• 31:09
  it. And sometimes in life, you just got
• 31:10
  to swallow some things.
• 31:12
  >> You're right.
• 31:14
  >> You remember uh you remember Jacob in
• 31:16
  our Bible? If any two people in the
• 31:18
  world deserve deserved each other, it
• 31:20
  was Jacob and Laban. They were both con
• 31:23
  artists.
• 31:25
  >> Jacob sees Rachel and she was beautiful.
• 31:28
  I mean, he fell head over heels in love
• 31:31
  with her. He goes to Laban and said, "I
• 31:32
  want to marry her. What do we got to
• 31:34
  do?" He said, "Serve me for seven
• 31:36
  years." And like Jacob's like, "Okay,
• 31:40
  that's a great deal. I'll work for seven
• 31:41
  years." Some of your dad's like, "Man,
• 31:42
  that'd be a great deal. Get my
• 31:43
  son-in-law work for him for seven years.
• 31:45
  I'll make some money off this kid." You
• 31:46
  know, layman's a con artist. Now, Rachel
• 31:50
  had a sister
• 31:52
  who had a great personality.
• 31:58
  >> TO PUT IT LIKE ANDY AND Barney was
• 32:01
  trying to tell Gomer about the cousin,
• 32:05
  she's nice.
• 32:08
  I mean, she's real nice. But is she
• 32:09
  pretty nice? Oh, she's nice.
• 32:13
  Don't tell me you ain't seen that Andy
• 32:14
  Griffin episode. You know exactly what
• 32:15
  I'm talking about.
• 32:19
  THE BIBLE SAYS THAT LEAH WAS tenderide
• 32:22
  in the Hebrew. That means she make a
• 32:24
  freight train take a dirt road.
• 32:27
  She was u g l y. Didn't have no alibi. M
• 32:30
  a m a. How you think she got that way?
• 32:32
  Her mama. I mean, she's ugly.
• 32:35
  I'm hip. I know the lingo. Okay. I might
• 32:38
  be old, but I'm not that old. I got it.
• 32:41
  She's ugly. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW LABAN
• 32:43
  PULLED THIS OFF, BUT THEY'RE HAVING THE
• 32:46
  WEDDING. AND HE WAKES UP THE NEXT
• 32:48
  MORNING. The Bible said, "Behold, it was
• 32:50
  Leah."
• 32:52
  That would be horrible.
• 32:55
  One, to marry the wrong woman, BUT THEN
• 32:57
  TO MARRY AN ugly woman. Of course, the
• 32:59
  old song says, "Always marry an ugly
• 33:00
  woman. That's the only kind. Because if
• 33:02
  she leaves you, you won't mind." Anybody
• 33:04
  else know that old song?
• 33:07
  >> You're never going to let me come back,
• 33:09
  but I'm going have a good time while I'm
• 33:10
  here. Okay.
• 33:14
  Some of y'all are so religious you won't
• 33:15
  even smile. But that's okay.
• 33:19
  Let's make the spiritual application.
• 33:22
  That ain't what he signed up for.
• 33:23
  >> He made a deal with Laban. I'm going to
• 33:25
  work for Rachel. And the next day, he
• 33:28
  did not get what he expected. God, I've
• 33:30
  served you. I' I've tried to be faithful
• 33:33
  and then you get something your life you
• 33:36
  didn't want.
• 33:38
  But you know, Paul knew something about
• 33:41
  medicine over a miracle.
• 33:43
  >> In 2 Corinthians 12, Paul says, um,
• 33:45
  >> yeah,
• 33:46
  >> asked the Lord three times,
• 33:48
  >> take his thorn.
• 33:49
  >> And all three times the Lord said, no.
• 33:52
  >> But here's what HE DID SAY. BUT MY GRACE
• 33:56
  >> IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE.
• 33:58
  >> YOU KNOW WHAT PAUL GOT? HE GOT MEDICINE
• 34:01
  INSTEAD OF A MIRACLE. BUT YOU TALK ABOUT
• 34:03
  some good medicine.
• 34:04
  >> Amen.
• 34:04
  >> HERE'S THE WHOLE POINT TONIGHT. GOD
• 34:06
  NEVER PROMISED HE WOULD HEAL EVERYBODY.
• 34:08
  GOD NEVER PROMISED HE'D FIXED
• 34:10
  EVERYTHING. BUT HE DID SAY THAT MY GRACE
• 34:13
  WOULD ABOUND TOWARDS YOU. THAT HE IS THE
• 34:15
  GOD OF ALL GRACE. IT MAY NOT BE A
• 34:17
  SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD. IT MAY BE SOMETHING
• 34:19
  ELSE IN YOUR LIFE. BUT I DO KNOW THIS.
• 34:22
  GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND
• 34:25
  TOWARDS YOU. THAT WORD TOWARDS YOU IS
• 34:27
  THE IDEA OF A FUNNEL. THAT MEANS GOD'S
• 34:29
  GOT A BUNCH OF GRACE. AND IF HE GAVE IT
• 34:31
  ALL TO YOU AT ONE TIME, YOU COULDN'T
• 34:33
  HANDLE IT. BUT HE'S GOT A LITTLE FUNNEL
• 34:35
  HE PUTS DOWN IN YOUR SOUL. AND WHEN YOU
• 34:37
  NEED IT, HE GIVES YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO
• 34:39
  GET YOU THROUGH MONDAY, TO GET YOU
• 34:41
  THROUGH TUESDAY. HEY, HIS MERCIES ARE
• 34:43
  NEW EVERY MORNING. I'M GLAD GOD KNOWS
• 34:46
  EXACTLY WHAT I NEED WHEN I NEED TO GET
• 34:49
  ME THROUGH DAY BY DAY.
• 34:52
  >> HALLELUJAH.
• 34:53
  >> AMEN.
• 34:54
  >> NOW, here's the reality I've had to come
• 34:56
  to. And y'all may think I'm not a man of
• 34:57
  great faith. God's pro God can heal my
• 35:00
  boy.
• 35:00
  >> That's right.
• 35:01
  >> You're right. But he's probably not
• 35:03
  going to.
• 35:04
  >> You're right.
• 35:08
  >> Probably not going to.
• 35:10
  So, you know, I've had to learn.
• 35:12
  >> Come on.
• 35:12
  >> Take my medicine.
• 35:13
  >> You're right.
• 35:15
  >> Amen.
• 35:20
  >> But you know, um, Jacob and Leah, and
• 35:24
  I'm not for Jacob had multiple wives,
• 35:26
  and God wasn't either. Just because the
• 35:28
  Bible records something don't means that
• 35:29
  God approves it. Can I get amen out of
• 35:31
  that? Yeah,
• 35:32
  >> Jake and Malia start having babies.
• 35:35
  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, then have a little
• 35:38
  boy named Judah.
• 35:40
  You know, if I was going to pick the
• 35:41
  tribe for Jesus to show up through,
• 35:43
  >> I'd pick Joseph. All the typology.
• 35:46
  >> Oh, yeah.
• 35:46
  >> Man, you talking about some preaching we
• 35:48
  could do if Jesus showed up through the
• 35:49
  line of Joseph. But he didn't do that,
• 35:51
  >> right?
• 35:52
  >> He showed up through the line of Judah.
• 35:55
  >> He showed up through a tribe of a
• 35:58
  product of what Jacob did not want.
• 36:00
  >> You're right.
• 36:01
  But it was what Jacob did not want that
• 36:03
  God used to bring his son on the scene.
• 36:06
  >> Yes.
• 36:07
  >> And it COULD BE THAT GOD WILL USE WHAT
• 36:10
  YOU DID NOT WANT
• 36:12
  >> to manifest his son
• 36:14
  >> in your life.
• 36:17
  >> I looked at that doctor.
• 36:20
  Looked at that doctor that day. It was a
• 36:22
  day after Mother's Day on that Monday
• 36:23
  morning. I said, "Doc, shoot straight
• 36:25
  with me. What am I looking at with my
• 36:26
  boy?" He said, 'A high school diploma is
• 36:30
  going to be very difficult to
• 36:31
  impossible.
• 36:35
  Another smack in the face.
• 36:39
  We found a little Christian school.
• 36:41
  They're not exactly our flavor and our
• 36:43
  stripe, but they have a special needs
• 36:44
  program. They love my boy.
• 36:46
  >> Amen.
• 36:47
  >> They're good to my boy.
• 36:49
  >> And uh God in one I mean $7,000 bill,
• 36:55
  700 bucks a month.
• 36:57
  And I don't I mean I don't know anybody
• 36:59
  can afford an extra $700 a month.
• 37:02
  >> I mean unless you're Austin, but I'm
• 37:03
  just
• 37:05
  can't nobody afford extra $700 a month,
• 37:08
  >> right?
• 37:09
  >> And I was in a meeting one night. I had
• 37:10
  no faith. No faith. I mean, I was
• 37:12
  thinking about selling a kidney,
• 37:14
  donating plasma. I mean,
• 37:17
  >> come on.
• 37:18
  >> Selling dope, whatever I got to do. I
• 37:20
  mean, I didn't know what I was going to
• 37:20
  do. I was going to do what I had to for
• 37:22
  my boy. Okay.
• 37:24
  >> Look, y'all should be happy that I'm
• 37:25
  cutting up. That means I feel at home.
• 37:27
  Okay.
• 37:27
  >> Amen.
• 37:29
  >> And one night in a meeting
• 37:32
  at your church,
• 37:34
  some of my preacher friends found out
• 37:36
  about it and they raised all the school
• 37:39
  bill that night and pay for it all in
• 37:41
  one night.
• 37:42
  >> I'm like, "Well, praise God. That's
• 37:44
  wonderful, but he's still never going to
• 37:45
  get a diploma."
• 37:47
  Big whoop. Few months later that we got
• 37:50
  an email. There's going to be an awards
• 37:51
  banquet at the school. And I'm like,
• 37:53
  well, it's probably going to be some
• 37:54
  Democratic, you know, participation
• 37:55
  trophy, you know, all that kind of
• 37:57
  stuff. And so we're sitting out there,
• 37:59
  they're calling out awards. And they get
• 38:02
  to the A honor roll. That means, which I
• 38:05
  didn't know what that means cuz I've
• 38:06
  never been on a honor roll, but that
• 38:08
  means you ain't either, have you? Okay,
• 38:12
  I feel you, man. I feel you. It's okay.
• 38:15
  Cool shoes. You cannot be on a honor to
• 38:18
  have cool shoes. Look at mine. And I
• 38:20
  have sharks on my socks. We're going to
• 38:21
  make it. We're gonna be good. What are
• 38:22
  you laughing at? Okay.
• 38:27
  You did? Well, bless your heart. God
• 38:29
  bless. I want to shake your hand.
• 38:32
  I'm just messing with you. They call an
• 38:35
  A honor roll out. They're going through
• 38:37
  all those names. They said Sler
• 38:39
  Montgomery
• 38:41
  a honor roll. He got all A's that
• 38:45
  semester.
• 38:46
  >> We went back for the second semester
• 38:48
  awards. All A's. Yeah,
• 38:51
  >> we're we're five semesters in two years
• 38:54
  of school. We just went last Friday.
• 38:56
  >> All A's.
• 38:59
  >> He's reading.
• 39:00
  >> He's at the top of his class.
• 39:02
  >> His teacher told me the whole other day,
• 39:04
  he said eventually we might be able to
• 39:06
  move him to a regular class with regular
• 39:08
  students. He's progressing that much.
• 39:10
  >> AMEN.
• 39:11
  >> GOD'S NOT HEALED HIM, BUT GOD'S GIVEN
• 39:14
  GRACE.
• 39:16
  >> AMEN.
• 39:16
  >> NOW, HERE'S WHAT WE WANT. YOU KNOW, WE
• 39:18
  TALK AND I'M about done. We talk about
• 39:20
  the Red Sea miracle, the children of
• 39:21
  Israel, Red Sea. God parting the Red
• 39:23
  Sea. We talk about how great that and
• 39:24
  boy that was a great miracle. But you
• 39:26
  know that only happened one time,
• 39:27
  >> right?
• 39:28
  >> God only opened up the Red Sea one time.
• 39:31
  >> But every morning and EVERY EVENING FOR
• 39:35
  40 YEARS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE
• 39:37
  SABBATH DAY, GOD RAINED MANA DOWN FOR
• 39:39
  ALL those Jews to eat.
• 39:41
  >> Here's what happened. WHAT DO YOU THINK
• 39:43
  MEANT MORE TO THOSE ISRAELITES? GOD
• 39:45
  OPENED UP THE RED SEA one time or every
• 39:48
  morning AND EVERY EVENING THEY WENT TO
• 39:50
  BED THE NIGHT BEFORE WITH EMPTY
• 39:52
  CUPBOARDS, BUT THE NEXT MORNING WHEN
• 39:54
  THEY WOKE UP AND THEY OPENED THEIR TENT
• 39:56
  DOOR HAD EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEEDED LAYING
• 40:00
  AT THEIR DOORSTEP, YOU KNOW WHAT THEY
• 40:02
  HAD TO LEARN HOW TO DO? JUST DON'T STEP
• 40:04
  OVER THE MANA. DON'T DON'T STEP OVER
• 40:06
  WHAT GOD'S DONE. AND I'LL TELL YOU, IF
• 40:08
  WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, OH, WE'LL FORGET HOW
• 40:10
  GOOD AND HOW GRACIOUS GOD'S BEEN. OH,
• 40:12
  BUT IF WE'LL SPEND SOME TIME LOOKING
• 40:14
  AROUND, WE'LL SEE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US
• 40:16
  GRACE. HOW WE MAKE IT THROUGH LAST YEAR,
• 40:19
  I'LL TELL YOU HOW WE MADE IT. ONE DAY AT
• 40:21
  A TIME BY THE GRACE OF GOD. HOW WE GOING
• 40:23
  TO MAKE IT THROUGH THIS YEAR? I'LL TELL
• 40:25
  YOU HOW. WE'LL MAKE IT BY GRACE THROUGH
• 40:28
  FAITH EVERY DAY. GOD WILL BE FAITHFUL.
• 40:31
  GOD WILL BE GOOD. HE'S NOT FAILED. HE'S
• 40:34
  NOT LET YOU DOWN.
• 40:38
  >> SO, just take your medicine.
• 40:40
  >> Amen.
• 40:42
  And don't step over the mana.
• 40:45
  Now I'm winding down.
• 40:48
  Brother Branch, one thing I worried
• 40:50
  about when my boy ever get to play ball.
• 40:54
  Now I heard a preacher preach the other
• 40:55
  day playing balls. I see him, you
• 40:56
  shouldn't play on Sundays and
• 40:57
  Wednesdays, but every other night of the
• 40:58
  week's good.
• 41:01
  I love baseball. I love football. I love
• 41:05
  all that. And I wanted my boy ever get
• 41:06
  to play ball. Come on. So we signed him
• 41:09
  up last year for coach pitch.
• 41:12
  >> Second best hitter on his team.
• 41:13
  >> Amen.
• 41:15
  >> Pop. He's got the best hand eye
• 41:17
  coordination.
• 41:18
  >> You know what?
• 41:21
  All the other parents would cheer
• 41:23
  >> when he'd hit. I'd chat.
• 41:25
  >> Come on, brother.
• 41:26
  >> And they want I mean, like I said,
• 41:28
  looking at Sil, you can't tell
• 41:29
  anything's wrong with him. And they'd
• 41:31
  want what in the world you doing? But
• 41:33
  they didn't know what I do.
• 41:35
  And they didn't know the officer I had
• 41:37
  sat in what I had heard
• 41:39
  >> and he'd get up there In fact,
• 41:42
  this year they're moving to kid pitch
• 41:44
  and they had practiced uh Tuesday night
• 41:46
  while I was in Monroe. And so the coach
• 41:48
  was pitching a little bit harder getting
• 41:50
  ready for kid pitch. I said, "How'd he
• 41:51
  do?" My wife said he hit seven out of
• 41:53
  10.
• 41:55
  Somebody said, "That ain't much."
• 41:58
  Well, you know what it is? It's just
• 41:59
  mana.
• 42:00
  >> That's right. You're right.
• 42:03
  And I'm going to tell you, if God's done
• 42:04
  it before, God can do it again.
• 42:07
  >> Don't step over the mana.
• 42:10
  >> See, Jesus will show up in things you
• 42:11
  didn't want.
• 42:12
  >> You're right.
• 42:14
  >> You may be down and feel like God has
• 42:19
  somehow forgotten
• 42:22
  that you are faced with circumstances
• 42:26
  you can't get through.
• 42:29
  Right now, it seems there's no way out
• 42:33
  and I'm going under. But God's proven
• 42:37
  time and time again, he'll take care of
• 42:42
  you and he'll do it again.
• 42:47
  He'll do it again.
• 42:50
  Just take a look at where YOU ARE NOW
• 42:54
  and where you have been.
• 42:57
  as he always come through for you. He's
• 43:03
  the same now as then. YOU MAY NOT KNOW
• 43:08
  HOW. YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHEN, BUT HE'LL DO
• 43:12
  IT AGAIN.
• 43:14
  And he'll do it again. He'll do it
• 43:18
  again.
• 43:20
  OH, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT WHERE YOU ARE
• 43:23
  NOW. I'm not in that DOCTOR'S OFFICE
• 43:24
  ANYMORE. I'M STANDING ON A BALL FIELD
• 43:27
  AND WHERE YOU were then and hasn't he
• 43:31
  always come through
• 43:34
  hasn't he always come through
• 43:39
  >> HASN'T HE ALWAYS COME THROUGH FOR YOU?
• 43:45
  HE'S the same now AS THEN. YOU MAY NOT
• 43:48
  KNOW HOW. YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHEN. AND I
• 43:53
  KNOW HE'LL DO IT AGAIN.
• 43:56
  And he'll DO IT AGAIN. I'M GLAD HE'S
• 43:59
  FAITHFUL. AND HE'S GOOD AT GOD. AND YOU
• 44:02
  MAY NOT KNOW HOW GOD'S GOING TO DO IT.
• 44:04
  AND YOU MAY NOT KNOW HOW HE'S GOING TO
• 44:06
  FIX IT. BUT HE'S TOO FAITHFUL TO MAKE A
• 44:08
  MISTAKE.
• 44:17
  >> Just take your medicine. Amen.
• 44:20
  >> He ain't failed you.
• 44:22
  >> You're right.
• 44:22
  >> He ain't let you down. You're
• 44:24
  >> right.
• 44:25
  >> God's never said, "Whoops."
• 44:27
  >> God's never said, "I didn't see that
• 44:28
  coming."
• 44:31
  >> He just always does right.
• 44:34
  >> He always does good. And it could be
• 44:36
  like Jacob one night, you're out in the
• 44:39
  field somewhere and an angel says, "Unto
• 44:41
  us a child is born."
• 44:43
  >> And standing somewhere in the shadows of
• 44:45
  your adversity,
• 44:46
  >> you'll find Jesus.
• 44:49
  Now, it may not be a special needs
• 44:50
  child.
• 44:52
  >> It may be a prodigal
• 44:54
  >> may be in need. Everybody's got
• 44:56
  something tonight. Remember that one
• 44:57
  issue of blood. Everybody's got an
• 44:59
  issue.
• 45:01
  >> But I'm glad Jesus
• 45:03
  >> is right
• 45:05
  >> for whatever is wrong
• 45:07
  >> in your life. I preached 37 minutes.
• 45:09
  Let's stand together. I appreciate your
• 45:10
  attention
• 45:13
  and say, "Come with us on tonight." I
• 45:15
  don't know what your need is. I don't
• 45:17
  know what you're facing. I don't know
• 45:19
  what you're carrying.
• 45:22
  But God ain't let you down, honey.
• 45:25
  God ain't failed you.
• 45:28
  Sometimes I got to preach this by faith
• 45:31
  cuz it looks like he has.
• 45:35
  But then a report card comes home.
• 45:39
  Then there's an RBI double.
• 45:43
  You know what he does now? He sits on
• 45:45
  the front row and he rots out my
• 45:47
  scripture while I preach. Sister, that
• 45:49
  boy that said never graduate high
• 45:51
  school. And what I'm finding out, I'm
• 45:53
  saving all them honor roll things. When
• 45:55
  that boy graduates, I'm going to put the
• 45:57
  diploma on top of it and I'm walking
• 45:59
  back in that doctor's office and I'm
• 46:00
  going to lay him on his desk as a
• 46:02
  testimony of the grace of God. I don't
• 46:05
  know what you need is tonight. I know
• 46:07
  God's faithful, God's good, and God can.
• 46:11
  Tonight,
• 46:13
  folks are praying. You mind the Lord
• 46:15
  tonight. God's spoken to your heart.
• 46:20
  Bring it to Jesus.
• 46:23
  Bring it to him.
• 46:26
  Lay at his feet. Say, "Lord, I can't,
• 46:28
  but you can.
• 46:39
  God, help your people tonight.
• 46:51
  I want an America.
• 46:54
  He say I'm getting medicine.
• 47:09
  We're living in a broken world.
• 47:13
  But I'm glad Jesus can fix it.
• 47:16
  But if he doesn't fix it,
• 47:19
  I'm glad he can help me get through.
• 47:23
  I don't need enough grace to get me to
• 47:25
  Janu to December of this year. I just
• 47:27
  need enough grace to get me home
• 47:29
  tonight.
• 47:30
  If he'll do that, he'll give me enough
• 47:32
  grace to get to church Sunday.
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  You mind God tonight? Your pastor comes.
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  It's going to be all right.
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  Just hang in there.
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  Father in Jesus, name.
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  Lord, thank you for the word of God.
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  God, I want to say thank you for your
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  servant.
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  Thank you for the testimony,
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  God. Thank you for those sermons that
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  come straight from the heart.
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  Lord, I'm thankful for
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  the truth in all of our lives, Lord,
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  that you're never
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  going to use us until you first break
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  us.
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  >> But Lord, when you break us, you'll give
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  us medicine.
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  >> Yes.
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  And I want to say thank you.
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  Thank you for the medicine, that grace.
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  Lord, the prophet took that role and it
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  was bitter,
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  but then it became sweet.
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  I'm thankful,
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  God, if we'll just take what you give
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  us, Lord. I know it might be bitter at
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  first, but God, I'm thankful it'll
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  become sweet.
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  Lord, would you help us, Father, be
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  obedient to you? I pray every heart
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  tonight was obedient to the word of God.
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  Lord, help us to be obedient to the
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  preaching tonight. I thank you again for
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  your servant, Lord. I pray for every
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  situation tonight. Lord, you know, every
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  need. I pray if there's somebody here
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  lost tonight, God, pray wouldn't leave.
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  Lord, if there somebody has a need,
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  Father, I pray God they wouldn't leave
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  till they get some answers from you.
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  Lord, I know that you're willing and
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  ready to listen. Father, if we'll speak,
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  thank you for what you've done for us in
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  Jesus name.
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  Amen.
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  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
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  We'd love it if you'd join us in person
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  the next time you are able at Meadows
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  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
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  2988 Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
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  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
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  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
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  evening Bible study at 7:00 p.m. For
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  more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.