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99% OF CHRISTIANS HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD IT IS TO WATCH THIS STUFF · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  You have never seen anything like this before.
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  OK, so here's my challenge to you.
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  Can you put the toothpaste back in the tube?
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  The fact is this guys, there are some things you can never unsay.
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  There are some things you can never Unsee, and there are some
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  things you can never undo. May I ask you a very personal
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  question? What are the things you wish you
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  could unsay? Matthew 12 verse 36 says, But I
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  say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they
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  shall give an account thereof in the day of judge.
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  And a wiser man than me once said, light words weigh heavy in
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  God's balance. I think the message is crystal
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  clear. We need to be careful with our
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  careless words. Here's a question for you.
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  Do you have WhatsApp? Just nod your head if you do.
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  Now answer me this question. Have you ever unsent a message
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  on WhatsApp? Come on, let's be honest, we've
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  all done it at some point, and maybe it's because we've
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  regretted what we've said, or maybe we just want to rephrase a
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  sentence in a better way. But in the real world, you just
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  can't do that. You cannot unsend messages.
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  You cannot unsay things. Once we say something, we
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  literally breathe life into that sentence.
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  And some sentences can never be forgotten.
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  Now please don't misunderstand me.
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  Some sentences provide so much good sentences like will you
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  marry me or it's a girl or I love you.
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  But some sentences should never have ever been uttered like
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  you're ugly or I hate you or I wish I never met you.
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  If you're Australian, this is just for you.
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  Now, I know the stereotypes aren't all true, but I do expect
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  that one or two of you listening right now have a boomerang
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  somewhere in your house. And even if you're not from Down
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  Under, I'm sure we've all seen a boomerang spinning in the air
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  until it returns to the exact place.
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  Where it was. Thrown.
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  Our words are kind of like that. You throw them out and just like
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  a boomerang, they come right back to you.
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  So over to you. What boomerang words are going
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  to come back around to you when you stand before God on the last
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  day? I mean, we've just heard Jesus
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  Christ tell us that every single idle word that you and I speak,
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  it'll be brought into account if you're a Christian, we'll see
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  them again at the Bema Seat Judgment, where rewards will be
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  given to the children of God. But for anyone watching who
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  hasn't yet trusted in Christ, there's a scary moment awaiting
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  you at the Great White Throne Judgment, when you will be
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  judged for all that you've said, all that you've done.
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  But there will. Be no mercy on that.
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  Day because you chose to reject Jesus's mercy on earth.
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  What goes through your mind when I tell you that, that even
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  though these so-called idle words that you've long forgotten
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  about the Lord hasn't. They're recorded and they will
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  be reviewed one day. Hey, you might just want to
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  write this verse down, but Psalm 141 verse 3 says set a guard, oh
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  Lord, before my mouth, keep the door of my lips.
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  Imagine that. Imagine having a set of
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  bodyguards standing over the entrance of your mouth saying
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  don't say that. You'll regret it.
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  Don't do it because once it's out, it can never come back.
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  It's no secret that words can cause lasting ruin long after
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  the speaker is gone. I still remember things that
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  were said to me when I was a teenager and even younger than
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  that. And even now, all those years
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  on, those words still echo into my insecurities.
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  What about you? I mean am I the only one here or
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  can you also remember things that were said about you when
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  you were young, 20304050 years ago and yet they still leave a
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  mark on you today? A little while ago ago a friend
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  of mine told me a story. He used to mock a girl at his
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  school with his friends. They would say really unkind
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  things. Decades later, 40 years on, he
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  decided to try knocking on her childhood home.
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  Sure enough, it was her who stood at the door.
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  She'd aged, but it was still the same girl who he'd laughed at.
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  So he said, I don't know if you Remember Me but I just want to
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  say I'm sorry. Me and my mates, we laughed at
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  you in school and I've always regretted her.
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  Maybe the Lord is nudging one of us right now to do something
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  very similar. To write a letter, to send a
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  message, to apologise. We can't take the words back,
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  but maybe we can seek forgiveness and try to make
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  amends. Now let's talk about #2 things
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  that you cannot Unsee. I hesitate to share this next
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  part because I really don't want to sound like I'm boasting in
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  any way because honestly, there is nothing in Joe Kirby that did
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  this. It was 100% God and I could
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  honestly cry thinking about what a mess I was once in.
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  But if you know my story or if you've read my book 100 Pure
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  Thoughts, you'll know that I struggled with this one
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  particular thing for many years. But I cannot emphasize this
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  enough. It was by God's grace alone He
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  crushed that sin in my life. Now that's not to say I'm
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  perfect. I still find it tough when I
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  walk down the street sometimes. I still think thoughts that I'd
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  be embarrassed if some of you knew what I was thinking at
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  times. But all of that being said, it's
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  been years since I've watched that certain type of content on
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  the Internet. Why do I tell you all of that?
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  Because I want to tell you this. Even though it's been years
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  since I've watched that kind of content on the Internet, I can
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  still see so much of it with perfect total clarity in my
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  mind. And that's what you reap when
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  you spend nearly two decades filling your mind with this sin,
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  my dear friend. The reality is this.
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  Some things you just simply cannot Unsee.
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  Doesn't matter how hard you try, you will never forget some of
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  those things. And if there's a young man or a
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  young woman watching this right now, I plead with you, play any
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  game in the world, but do not play this game.
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  You need to get rid of this right now.
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  You need to take it seriously. Even if you're older, this
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  message is still for you. This sin needs to stop, right?
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  Let's jump over to Psalm 101, verse three.
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  I will set no wicked thing before my eyes.
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  You know, that verse isn't just talking about the obvious stuff
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  that I'm hinting at, but it actually applies to all kinds of
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  content. Take Twitter, for example.
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  You might go on there just to catch up on some political news
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  and before you know it, things pop up in your feed, things you
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  didn't look for, things you didn't want to see.
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  At points, I've had to take long breaks to avoid the feed
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  altogether because I've seen heartbreaking things on that
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  feed on Twitter that I will never Unsee now.
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  And that's really the point I want to drive home here.
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  We've got to be so careful what we allow to go into our eyes,
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  because our eyes are like portals.
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  They are windows to the soul. Whatever we put in front of them
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  doesn't just stay there. It goes in.
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  It finds its way into our hearts, and then it sinks right
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  down deep into the soul. Are you ready to talk about #3
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  things you cannot undo? Do you remember Esau in the
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  Bible? Hebrews 12, verse 17 tells us
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  that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was
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  rejected. He found no place for a penance,
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  though he sought it carefully, with tears.
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  Esau treated sacred things lightly.
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  He sold his birthright for a bowl of Stew, and when it was
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  gone, it was gone and he couldn't undo it.
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  You probably already know that the scriptures are full of
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  examples of things that cannot be undone.
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  For instance, when the door of Noah's Ark was shut, that was
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  it. The people outside who laughed,
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  who ignored the warnings, they now could not get in.
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  Can you imagine the banging, the pleading as the rain came down,
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  But the door was shut. Judgment had come, it was too
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  late. My dear friend, if you are not
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  born again, that will happen to you one day.
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  The doors of heaven will close too.
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  Jesus said in Luke 13, verse 25, when once the master of the
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  house has risen up and shut the door, that's it, There's no more
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  chances. So while there is still time,
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  repent, because unless you repent, you will all likewise
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  perish. About this example, David and
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  Bathsheba, his unfaithfulness couldn't be undone.
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  Yes, there was forgiveness. Yes, there was restoration, but
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  the sadness, the split, the broken hearts, they remain.
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  Do I have permission to share a Bible verse with you that I
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  memorized when I was a very, very young man?
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  It's Proverbs 6, verse 30. Three and he's.
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  Talking about someone who has fallen into a very similar sin
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  to David, it says his reproach shall not be wiped away.
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  That's the nature of certain sins.
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  They leave. A lasting mark, even though we
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  don't say it out loud, it still lingers in people's minds and
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  silently, whenever you meet that person, whenever you converse
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  with that person, people think, I've not forgotten what you did
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  20 years ago. Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus
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  for 30 pieces of silver. And that act cannot be undone.
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  And now it's forever recorded in Scripture.
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  And even when people do some kind of behavior where they
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  betray someone, we call them a Judas.
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  What about Lot's wife? One simple instruction.
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  Don't look back. But what did she do?
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  She looked back. And instantly she became a
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  pillar of salt. So final.
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  It was so final. There was number return.
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  Perhaps on a slightly lighter note, have you ever spilled ink
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  from one of those old ink pen pots before?
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  Well, what happens? You try to clean it up, but then
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  you just smudge it more and then it spreads.
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  And the more you try to wipe it, the worse it gets.
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  And like toothpaste out of the tube, once it's out, it's done.
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  Some things we just cannot put back.
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  But everyone take a deep breath now and remember this.
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  Here is the good news for the Christian.
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  Some things actually can be undone.
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  Why? Because God is in the business
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  of restoration. Let me give you an example.
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  In my first year of university, when I was a fresher, I
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  backslid. I walked away from God for one
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  whole year and I'm ashamed of who I was during that time.
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  Honestly, if someone had filled me back then, you would be so
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  surprised to see some of the things I did.
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  But the Lord didn't leave me there.
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  Through some pretty tough circumstances that summer, He
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  brought me back. Now going into my second year, I
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  was different. As I said before, I actually
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  started memorizing the book of Proverbs and from there God took
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  my broken mess and started to piece me back together again.
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  Proverbs 29 verse 11 says a fool uttereth all his and proverbs 10
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  verse 19 says. In the multitude.
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  Of words. There wanteth not.
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  Sin. But he that refraineth his lips
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  is wise. So I made a conscious decision
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  to be quiet, to be gentle, and to just talk about Jesus very
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  gently. One of the nicest.
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  Compliments I've ever received to this day was from someone who
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  said she wasn't a Christian, she said.
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  Joe, you have changed so much. You've just gone so quiet and so
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  humble, and of course that gave a tremendous opportunity to say
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  it's not me. It's all God.
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  All glory to Him. He's the one who's changed me.
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  He truly can restore what the locusts have eaten, and he's
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  done that for me. And I know some of you listening
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  right now, you've got tears in your eyes because you know He's
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  done it for you. You know how far He's brought
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  you. He's given you a new start, a
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  new beginning, a family, a job, peace.
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  And most of all, He's given you salvation.
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  He's given you his Son, Jesus Christ.
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  Yes, there are many things in life that can't be undone, but
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  in eternity the Lord has. Undone them all.
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  He's reversed everything and he's wiped the slate clean.
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  Colossians 2 verse 14 says that he has blotted the handwriting
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  of ordinances that was against us and took it out of the way,
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  nailing it to his cross. Jesus took your debt and
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  cancelled it forever. So if you need a second chance
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  today, if you want a clean start, if you want to turn over
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  a new, don't look anywhere else, Just look at the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. 1. Look at Him.
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  One look, one plea will save you.
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  Why? Because Jesus became the
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  propitiation for our sins. That means He.
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  Took God's wrath. Redirected it away from us and
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  absorbed it himself, he said. I'll take the rap, I'll take it
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  for Joe, I'll take the rap for Peter, for Jane.
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  I will stand in their place because I love them and I'm
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  willing to take that so that they can be forgiven and so I
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  can share heaven with them if only they'll put their trust in
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  me. That's what Christ, that's what
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  Yeshua has done for us. He undos all our wrongs, gives
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  us eternal. Life and even.
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  Entrusts us with heavenly jobs one day despite our poor record.
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  Maybe you are at the end of your life and you wonder, is it too
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  late for me? For me it's not.
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  Jesus can still trust you, but first you've got to trust in
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  Him. Will you do that?
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  Will you come to the cross where Jesus died right now between you
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  and me? I was this close to including
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  this. Really.
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  Powerful story about a town, gossip and a pillow.
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  But I thought many of you have already heard me tell that story
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  before. But if you haven't by any
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  chance, please just click here. Now it's recording.
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  Try again. Sorry, I've got it wrong.
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  This is toothpaste and. This is your finger.
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  Go on. Where's it gone?
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  I'm making this video and all of this is going to get cleaned up
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  in just 5 minutes time.