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Creation Settles It · Wetumpka Church of Christ Online

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Have you ever been in a discussion / ends up being like
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an argument over things that really don't matter.
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Things that you feel like you are, right.
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And the person that you have a disagreement with probably feel
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like they have it right too. Maybe something trivial.
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Like do you actually squeeze your toothpaste from the bottom
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of the thing? Or do you like squeeze it in the
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middle? Like you're strangling?
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Someone which one is the proper way or does the toilet paper
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actually go from the top over? Or does it go on the under?
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You see we have yes, and I'm seeing some looking at the other
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partner saying. Yeah, it's over.
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I told you it's over these things.
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Really don't matter. All of, you know, Kyle but
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column best Lee. We're in the situation like
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this. And Kyle said, he called me.
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He said, look. We're in this disagreement. and
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normally Bethany's always right, but I really feel like I'm right
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this time and he says We're trying to figure out, did Drew
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their older, son. Did he ever play baseball?
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And I'm like, what? He's like, I believe he played
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baseball and you were his coach and I was his coach and it is
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funny because Bethany's like he's never played baseball in
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his life and it just happened that that week Mallory was
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upstairs in our attic and she opened up like this Bennett had
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pictures in it and she had seen a picture of our whole t-ball
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team. And there's Kyle, this coach me
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as a coach, my brother died. As coach and all our kids in
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front, malli did not want to prove Bethenny wrong, but she
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went up graciously and got that picture.
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And I took a picture of it and we sent it to Kyle and I can see
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Colin the other hand just jumping up and down.
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I'm right. I'm right.
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I'm finally right? Yes, and he shows Bethenny the
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picture and he's like, here's proof.
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Yes, he actually played baseball.
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And so it's one of those where, you know, we might have fun
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going over trying to figure out different things, different
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discussions or different, disagreements that we might
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have. But in the end.
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It really doesn't matter. But sometimes this also happens
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when it comes to religious matters.
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Things that are a little more important things that not a
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little. They are important things that
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determine salvation or not. And I know you guys probably
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heard this and you'd probably had this discussion with
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individuals and they probably will probably say we're just
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going to have to agree to disagree.
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We're going to have to agree that no matter what.
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I tell you. You're not going to change your
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mind. No matter what you, take you to
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me, no matter what you show in scripture.
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You're not going to change your mind.
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We'll just let God handle it when we get in heaven.
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Or maybe it's like well, you know, I'm just gonna do the best
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I can and I'm gonna pick and choose what I want to do.
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And then when I get to heaven, it's God's grace that's going to
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cover all the rest, you know, the Bible is not really a set
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code. It's just like a suggestion on
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things that we could do. I know from the heads that are
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nodding you've experienced this. But, you know, there, when we
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read scripture, there are certain situations, certain
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things that as we go through God.
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Through the inspiration, hasn't told his the apostles.
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Those I write the New Testament that there are things that we
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can forever know that can be forever settled.
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That there is no questioning if it's right or wrong.
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There is no discussion as far as is it just a cultural thing.
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Is it just something about the lifestyle is that their social
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thing that's happening right now and they have a specific way of
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doing that. And the way they do it.
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Is they might put a phrase as it was in the beginning?
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Or in the beginning, God created them male and female.
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God uses. Creation.
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He goes all the way back to Creation, the way that he
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designed it. The way, the only time that we
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see and when it was created, it was very good in God's eyes.
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Why? Because it is correct, is the
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way he designed it to be. And so when we go through
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scripture, there's certain issue, certain topics that Our
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forever. Black and white in regards to
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they are. Right?
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Or they are wrong because God has said, this is how it was
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when I created it, you know, there might have been some
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deviations from the time he created it, but then when Christ
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comes back and says no now, this is how it's supposed to be.
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And from now on, that's where how it's supposed to be because
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he knows exactly how it's supposed to be created.
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And so, we're going to discuss this is one of my friends read
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Swindle. He did several lessons on these
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and I listen to someone, and I call him.
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I said, hey, do you mind if I kind of adapt this a little bit,
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you mind, if I kind of use this in a lesson?
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He's like, yeah, go ahead just do whatever.
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And I say, I might try it all in one.
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He's like, yeah, good luck with that.
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And as I started doing these lessons, I realize, yeah,
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there's no way I can do that. So, I'm going to basically have
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two questions that we're going to deal with and maybe
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eventually I'll be able to discuss the other the other ones
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later, at least two of the other ones as well.
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But as we go and second, Timothy 3:16 Says, all scripture is
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given by inspiration, God and.and profitable for all these
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things for correction for proof. So that what we the men of God
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might be pure holy in his Eyes, in other words, God, through his
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inspiration. Has told us, we have everything
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we need for our Salvation written in his book.
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We have everything that God wants us to know, in order to be
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saved everything that we need to know when we come to different
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issues and topics they're here. And you know, unfortunately it
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is this basic fundamental truth. That people seem to deviate from
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all the way at the beginning. I know that's what the word of
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God says, but God's going to understand.
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He's loving, he wants me to be happy.
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His grace is going to cover all those other things even though I
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know it says in God's word, you know.
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No, God says we have everything we need.
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If we just go by what it says in here.
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John 14:15, we do this with the kids.
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If you love me, keep my Commandments.
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If you love me, keep my Commandments all.
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Also Matthew 7:21. It says not everyone used to
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come says unto me. Lord Lord shall enter the
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kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of the Father Who
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Art in Heaven, so he's saying if you love me then Keep what I
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have here. Follow it.
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If you love me, then when I say to do those things, you're not
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just going to hear, but you're going to be a doer of that word
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as well. The topics that I'm going to be
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talking about or issues that not only divided, individuals
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congregations people, but their issues that when we look at it,
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God has settled it already. And it's a heart issue for us
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because we know how it affects families individuals.
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It affects what Society wants to call happiness, and I know it's
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a sensitive issue, but I want us to look at this in a different
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way where, you know, God's already settled it and it goes
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all the way back to Creation. Question.
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Number one comes from Matthew chapter, 19.
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Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any
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reason? Ternes me there?
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Matthew chapter 19. We're actually going to start in
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verse 3. You see the Pharisees came to
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him Fern to Christ testing him and saying to him.
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Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any
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reason? Here's the question.
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Pharisees those that knew the law.
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Wanted to come and ask Christ. Is it okay?
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Is it lawful? The man can versus wife for any
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reason. Let's say, hey, we got married.
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When we were really young. We really didn't know what we
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were doing. And, and now he's over these 20
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years. We've just caught a falling out
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of love. We're not really there anymore.
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And so we decided, we're just going to get a divorce.
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Now. We've, we're married to other
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individuals. There's no Fidelity whatsoever
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in our marriage before, but we're now happy.
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That's the question. Can you divorce for just any
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reason? You see our culture, our
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society. They can't answer that question
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for us. They can't answer that question
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because God has given us the answer to it.
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As time changes as culture changes as our own life
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experience. Change, that doesn't change what
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God has said in his word. And it's a hard topic, not
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because God's word doesn't tell us, it's a hard topic because of
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the emotions that's filled with in this topic and how it affects
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families and lives. So, please, please please,
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please, please understand. This is not one of those topics.
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I'm like, yes, I just can't wait to do this because I can't wait
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to just tell everyone about this is no know if I could, I
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probably wouldn't want to do that.
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But you know what? God, commands us to teach the
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whole truth. And I want to maybe bring help
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us to better understand this topic.
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By showing another form of reasoning that, you know, God's
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already settled it for us. And that's from when he created
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the world. Let's see how Jesus answered.
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First five, I mean verse 4 and he Christ answered and said to
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them, have you not read that? He who made them at the
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beginning, made them male and female.
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Think this is very, very interesting because all right,
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the Pharisees know the law and then Christ is saying, have you
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not read, of course, they've read.
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Remember Christ already knows. They're testing them and he
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says, he who created them in the beginning.
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That's from our scripture. First, John you want to turn
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their turn with their with me? First John chapter 1.
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Look at verse 3, in all things were made through him who
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Christ. And without him, nothing was
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made crisis saying, he who made all things at the beginning who
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me Who knows what it is? Like, at the beginning.
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Me, who knows? Exactly how it's supposed to be
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at the beginning. Me, who knows what God wants to
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happen, how it's supposed to be, I do.
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Christ saying I do and we see that as we continue on.
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He said, He who made all things at the beginning, made them male
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and female and for this reason a man shall leave his father and
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mother be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.
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So Christ is saying the one who created all things knows exactly
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what's supposed to happen. And he said when God, when
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Christ created this thing, he institute's Adam Eve.
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They're married. They have kids, they have this
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family. There.
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Is that join Union? And God says, that's how it's
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supposed to be. God wants the family and we see
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all the way from creation that that family unit is so unique
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because he wants the family to have that Purity within it.
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He also wants the church which is a church family to have that
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Purity in it. What family are we?
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We are the Lord's family. He's saying that's how it's
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supposed to be all the way back from creation.
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Man woman join together. You see all car culture?
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God has allowed our culture to determine when someone is
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married. When the marriage starts u.s.
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You have like a wedding ceremony and then you are proclaimed.
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Husband and wife. Well, that's not the same
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everywhere. Else and foreign country over
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there. I heard that to be married.
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You basically you have a stick in front of you, you hold hands
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and you jump over the stick. You know, how many kids would be
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Mary? Around here, but that is their
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culture as far as to become man, and wife in that, in that
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Civilization. So God, has allowed our culture
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determine when a marriage happens.
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I'll go back to Matthew, Matthew chapter 5.
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I mean, verse 6. So then they are no longer two,
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but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined
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together. Let no man separate God allows
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the culture to determine when someone's married, but God's the
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one that unites them God's. The one, that joins them
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together. God is the one that makes them
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one. The culture allows you to
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determine when you're married, but God, someone that unites
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them together. And he says, therefore what God
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has joined together. Let not man separate.
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What's Happening? Here is God saying, you know
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culture, you can do this. You can determine when they're
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married. I'm going to join them together.
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And what God's put together there shouldn't be any reason
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for them to be separated. Now, he gives us a reason but
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not all the reasons that mankind our society has given us, you
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know, I believe I was up in Huntsville, Alabama.
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When I saw this, you see Billboards all over the tongue
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and this one specifically said, hate your wife.
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Divorcer. 250 dollars. And a phone number is marriage,
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worth only $250. The sanctity of what God has
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joined together, only worth 250 bucks, but that's all it took.
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You call this number. You're like, yeah.
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I don't like my wife. My wife anymore, or I don't like
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my husband anymore. We're going to get a divorce.
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Here's 250 bucks. Let's do it.
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God saying, I don't think so. Because God is the one that
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joins them together. And I can go down to our culture
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and go down to the courthouse. And I can pay that $250 and I
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can go and get this little piece of paper that says now, I'm
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divorced. But you know what to God, you're
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still married. You're still joined together.
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That's why I saying, what God has put together that no man
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separate, but he explains more. As we keep going, Matthew
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chapter 19. Then Pharisees.
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Thought they had them and they said to him, but why then did
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Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and to
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put her away. If you're looking for that.
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It's found to Deuteronomy chapter 24 verses verses 1
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through 4. These are the Pharisees, they
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know the law, they're seeing it and they're trying to question
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Christ. Christ is saying I was there at
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the beginning. I know exactly how it's supposed
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to be formed and that would beginning.
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Its man and woman together for life.
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It's man and woman together. Now during that time, until when
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Christ comes on Earth. There is a deviation from that.
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In Christ. Explains it.
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And he said to them, Moses because of the hardness of your
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heart. And here's the correction.
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The Pharisee says they commanded it.
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The Pharisee says that Moses commanded in crisis have no,
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that's not it. Look he permitted.
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You divorce your your wives, but from the beginning beginning of
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one from creation. It was not so twice in this
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passage. God is Christ is going all the
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way back to the beginning. So this is how it's supposed to
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be. Yes, there is a deviation from
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it because the hardness of your hearts, but But that's not how
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it's supposed to be. This is how God instituted.
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This is how God wants it to be in.
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This is how it's going to be pure.
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This is how it's going to be the happiest that you can be is if
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you abide by what God has set up.
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You see when God created marriage.
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It wasn't an accident. It wasn't something that he just
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unintentionally did is something that was very intentional.
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And as we read through God's word, we can see how important
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that family is all throughout scripture.
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Because we see it not only in the physical sense, but we also
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see it in the spiritual sense. This keep going.
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Verse 9 and I who is I Christ? Who is I The Creator?
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Who is are the one that put it together that formulated that it
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created I say to you. whoever, you know, this is another
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interesting thing. whoever, You know who that encompasses?
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Whoever at this time period whoever at time period after
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this whoever in the future, whoever divorces his wife except
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for sexual immorality and marries another commits adultery
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and whoever marries her, who is divorced, commits adultery.
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Christ is settling at right here by specifically, talking about,
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whoever I know what it's like, how it's supposed to be at the
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beginning because I was there, I created it.
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And now, because people are going to say, well, wait, wait,
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wait, wait, wait, wait, wait just a second here.
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We got married when we were young.
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We weren't Christians. And then we got divorced.
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And then I married again, there's no infidelity and
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whatsoever in the marriage and then we got married again, and
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then I became religious. And so, when I was baptized all
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my sins were forgiven. Therefore.
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I'm fine, and I can continue in that.
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Marriage relationship. That doesn't work.
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And let me explain why. Because baptism alone does not
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just save you repentance. Also saves, you repentant is
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turning away from that which separates you from God.
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And that's in if adultery is sin before you're married, adultery
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is still sin. When you're married, if adultery
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is sin, that didn't make sense, did it.
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If adultery is sin as far as when before you're a Christian,
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adultery is still a sin. When you are a Christian, let me
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give you example for this. I'm a robber and I steal from a
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bank. And as soon as I have the money,
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I run over to the church building.
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I asked when the elders go ahead and baptize me.
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Alright, my sins are washed away.
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I can keep the money know that. That doesn't work.
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We understand that. That doesn't make sense.
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Why? Because I committed an act that
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was a sin and I need to be reprimanded or I need to have
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the consequences of that sin. Same thing, I murder someone and
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I come right over here and I wash them.
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My sins is that mean, I'm totally gone and I have no, I
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don't have to serve the retribution from that.
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No. but because there's so much emotion stuff sit around the
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idea of marriage and divorce and remarriage.
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We think it's okay. Again, I want us to understand
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it's not the culture. That's determining it anymore.
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It's no longer. Just what we feel or what we
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think. It Christ has brought it all the
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way back to the creation. Cultures change from creation on
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to where we are today a lot. The Christ is saying, the
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culture doesn't determine it. I've determined it when I
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created it. And so, the question is far as
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can we divorce for any reason. No.
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Because Christ had just told us, that's the way it's supposed to
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be all the way when I created it.
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When it was good when it was very good.
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And no matter how my emotions are, no matter how it affects my
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family, no matter how, I wish we didn't have to say it.
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That's what God's word says. And if you think that's a really
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hard statement, you're exactly right.
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And that's exactly what the Apostle said to look at verse
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10. His disciples said to him, if
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such is the case of man with his wife.
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It's better not to marry. Why?
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He's like, there's no way out. Especially at this time.
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The infidelity was not as rampant as well.
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It was but not as much with the Jews.
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And they're saying, if that's the case.
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And and we just have to deal with it, then it's better not to
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marry. Why?
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Because it's such a serious thing.
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Love is not just a motion. Or, as I heard growing up.
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It's not a feeling that you feel when you get a feeling that
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you've never felt before. It is something that you work
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on. It is something that grows.
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It is something that you know what?
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I take the good and the bad. Why?
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Because I love you, no matter what.
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That's love. That is the agape, love that,
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God has for us and that's what he wants within our relationship
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and marriage, but Society is totally throwing that out the
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window and we need to get back to.
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What does God's word say? And when God's word says, this
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is the reason for it. And why how do we know it's not
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dealing with culture because he goes past all culture and he
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goes back to the beginning says, this is why because I created it
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and this is what is best. Matthew chapter 14.
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Matthew chapter 14. I think this is so interesting.
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Matthew chapter 14 talks about John.
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This is at that time verse one Herod, the tetrarch heard
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reports about Jesus and said to his servants.
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This is John, the Baptist. He is risen from the dead and
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therefore, these powers are at work in him for Herod had laid,
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hold of John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake
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of herodias. His brother Philips wife because
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John had said to him, it is not lawful for you to have her.
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Here's an example. You know what?
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John, you know what Christ describes John ass.
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And Matthew Chapter 11. Verse 11.
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It says there has been never been a person on the planet as
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good as or greater than him. Referring to John.
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Why was John in prison? Because he realized and he knew
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that this marriage. Divorce thing was not a cultural
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thing, was not just for the Jews.
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He went and told Herod it was not right for him to have his
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brother's wife. Now, if it is the case that you
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know will, once once you're baptized then all that's
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forgiving John was about to die because he realized that this
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was right and and people will say well, he's still under the
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Old Law. Yes, but what did he do?
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What was he doing? He was here preaching about
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salvation, his preaching of repentance and he is preaching
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of the Forgiveness of your sins. Why was he being?
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Why was he baptized? Those for the Forgiveness of
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their sins. And if we think, well, if you
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just become a Christian, you have your sins washed away, then
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you're fine to stay in that marriage.
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Then why didn't John tell Herod that?
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Hey Jonna, I mean here at I know I know this is really troubling
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for you. I know that you have your
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brother's wife and but here I got something for you.
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Here's way to get around it. Okay, you just come I'll baptize
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you and wanting and you guys can stay the Way You Are.
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Because John didn't do that. John be inspired by the word of
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God knew that wouldn't do it and because of that John was
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beheaded and he died because he stood up for what God wanted.
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And that's the truth. You see in this situation here.
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Christ went back all the way to Creation.
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And because Christ goes back all the way to Creation.
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It settles it. And a discussion.
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My emotions. My feelings, my thoughts.
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Doesn't compare to what God had planned from the beginning.
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And we need to do what God desires more than our own
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desire. Even when it's hard.
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Because what is our number one goal in life is to be with him,
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eternally. And what's the only way that we
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can be with him? Eternally.
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It's by abiding by his word and making sure that we are pure in
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his eyes. And if we're living in sin as
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Christ calls adultery. We can't be with him.
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And I hope you understand. I'm going to say this in the
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most loving way that I can. Because it's not my words.
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It's What God Says. That's what we are going to be
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judged by. Question number two.
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Yeah, it's just getting harder. Can a Christian say
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homosexuality is wrong? In a Christians, say,
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homosexuality is wrong. Let me give you some statistics
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4.5% of this nation of done identifies as homosexuals.
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Sixty-seven percent of this nation.
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Believes. It is morally acceptable.
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Thirty percent believe is morally wrong.
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The here's the thing that when you do the math, it doesn't make
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sense. 75% of this nation, believe it should be legal or
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okay for them to be married. You seen the math, you 30
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percent believe that is morally wrong than some of that 30% is
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saying, it's morally wrong, but it's okay, if they get married,
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I'm just going to stay out of it.
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I'm not going to deal with it. It's all right, for them to get
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married. If it's morally wrong.
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Then we are saying then. They are separating themselves
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from God and if they're separating themselves from God
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and I say it's fine. I don't love those people.
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Because if I love those people, then I'm concerned about their
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soul. And I'm not going to watch them
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and agree with them and accept them as they traveled the road
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to damnation. Isaiah 5:20 says woe to those
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who call evil good and good evil, who put Darkness for light
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and light, for Darkness who put bitter for sweet and Sweet for
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bitter. You know, why all this is
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happening. It's because we're falling into
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the things that we see on TV. You see TV is putting it up in
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there. They're highlighting it and
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they're saying, oh, it's not a sin.
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It's just an alternate lifestyle.
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You can call Anything by a different name.
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But if it's in, it's still sin, no matter what we call it.
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But unfortunately, our society is starting to accept it.
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And embrace it. Turns me to Romans chapter 1.
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Romans chapter 1. Paul here is introducing himself
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to the Romans. He's never been there.
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He's never seen them. He's never talked with him, and
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he's designed to go to them, and he kind of introduces himself,
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kind of talks a little bit about himself and then we get to
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Romans 1:16. So I've just introduced you
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don't really know me yet. But this is Paul here.
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Let me give you a little information and he says verse
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16, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the
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power of God to Salvation for everyone, who believes for the
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Jews personals. The Greeks 4 verse 17 in it.
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The righteousness of God is revealed from Faith to Faith.
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As it is written, the just shall live by faith.
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As far as introducing yourself to the Romans and they gets
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there in saying, hey, I just told you a little bit about
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myself. I just want you to know I'm not
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ashamed of the Gospel of God. Why?
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Because it has salvation within it.
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It is God's word to those that are righteous.
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He's wanting them to know something.
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He's wanting him to know. This is who I am and I'm not
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ashamed of the gospel and we're going to find out exactly why he
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is saying this because as we look at the context, it doesn't
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end there. He continues on and he's proving
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why he's not a shame because he's going to have to confront
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things that the Romans probably don't want to hear.
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I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of God of God, because he brings
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belt salvation Verse 18. Remember verse 17 says, he's
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righteous. Verse 18 for the wrath of God is
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revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and ungodliness of
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man, who what suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
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He's on the Romans. No, look, I'm not afraid.
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I'm not ashamed of the Gospel. Because I'm not ashamed.
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It's because we have salvation through it.
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But God also who is righteous. He's just he also is going to
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have wrath on those that are unjust.
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Who unrighteous those? That suppress the truth.
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Two others. And now I know you guys are
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probably thinking, I thought this was about creation.
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Settles it. What does?
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If you look at Romans 1:20. We're going to start verse 19
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here because what may be known of God is Manifest in them for
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God has shown it to them. What has he shown to them his
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righteousness for since what the creation of the world?
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His invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by
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the things that are made even his eternal power and godhead so
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that they are, who are they? If you go back up, Remember
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Verse 18, they those who suppress the truth.
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Are without excuse. Paul's introducing himself.
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Tells him, he's not ashamed of the Gospel.
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Why? Because their salvation found
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within it. There's wrath that's going to
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come to those that are unrighteous to those that are
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suppressing the truth. And he said that truth is being
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suppressed because no one has an excuse, because if you just look
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around you, you can see God everywhere.
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You can see God. and as we keep going, there's more to it.
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Let's look at 21 22 and so on because there's no excuse.
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Why? Because although they knew God,
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they did not glorify him as God nor we're thankful.
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But because it became futile in their thoughts and their foolish
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Hearts were darkened, professing to be wise, they became fools
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and changed the glory of The Incorruptible.
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God into an image. Into an idol.
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Into thing. That is it a testament and
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Abomination to God and made like corruptible, man, and birds, and
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four-footed, animals and creeping things.
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Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness.
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And the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among
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themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and
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worshipped and served the creature rather than the
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Creator. Who is blessed forever.
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Amen. I'm going to stop right there,
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and we will continue in just a second.
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But here, as he is reading through this, he's saying
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there's no excuse for you to not know that there is a God for.
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You can see it all around you. But the Romans here are taking
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those things that they can see all around them and they're
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saying, you know, we're going to take the creature that God has
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made, and we're going to make him our God.
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The Romans are suppressing. What is really the truth?
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There is a God, there is one true God.
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And they're now saying that. It's alright.
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We can just make those things that God created that we can see
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around us and we're going to make him our own God.
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Do you see how that could anger God?
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The wrath of God would be upon them because they are taking
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what they know could be right. People are suppressing.
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What is true? That there is a God.
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And now they're saying now we're going to make this creature, Our
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God rather than the Creator. They are now worshipping or they
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have exchanged the true God for a lie.
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Of a man made God. God doesn't want this.
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He's tired of it. And so he goes.
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He goes on. Two verse 26.
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He says for this reason you see he's connecting all these things
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now. For this reason.
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He's connecting the creation and his authority.
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He's connecting the creation of his power.
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He's connecting the worshiping of the creature rather than the
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Creator the Creator. And he settles this issue.
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For this reason, God gave them over to vile passions, who those
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that were believing in this lie. Those that were Following
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unrighteousness, those that have taken, what God has made a made
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that that image of those things and start worshipping these
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idols. He gave them over to vile
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passions for even their women exchanged, the natural use of
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what is against nature. Likewise.
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Also, the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned
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in their lust, for the other men.
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With men committing, what is shameful and receiving in
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themselves. The penalty of their error,
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which was Dune look in verse. 26 exchanged, the natural use for
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what is against nature. This is not Mother Nature.
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He's talking about what I created, what I began from the
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beginning. It's against nature.
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It's against how I determine it. It's against how I created its
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against what was supposed to happen.
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Because you guys believed in this lie, and because you guys
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are falling, I do I'm allowing this to happen.
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I'm allowing you to do base yourself.
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I'm allowing you to do these things.
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Not because I want it because you guys are going to do it
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anyways. He's saying, but that's not how
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it's supposed to be. Creation tells us that that is
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not how God created it. Look at these three things is
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against nature verse 27. Committed.
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What is shameful because of our audience?
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I can't give you the actual definition of this.
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It is not the definition that you read in Webster's
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Dictionary. If you go back and look at
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Strong's Dictionary, if you go back, look at Thayer's or others
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and you look up what this word actually means.
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It's a lot worse than what we're thinking.
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Shameful is. And because of this, they've
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received in themselves, the penalty of error, which was due.
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Let me give you a little bit of background for the Romans.
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Preference on who someone was with was not connected to
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masculinity. Okay, this time, let's say I am
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a warrior. Strong Warrior.
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It was not determine. Hey, if I had another mail or if
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I had a child or something and I was living with them.
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They'll that had no determination in regards to if
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there are masculine person or not.
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It was accepted in that culture. In other words, in many times.
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It was actually approved of because of the Gods in which
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they Fellowship tour they worshipped.
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And so this was a common thing. Which makes me understand a
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little more. Why?
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When we go back to verse 17. For in it, the righteousness of
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God is revealed. This is why Paul is talking in
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beginning, his discussion in his introduction says I'm not
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ashamed of the Gospel of God. For it brings salvation.
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Why is he not ashamed? Because He is wanting them to
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understand because I'm going to tell you a few things that you
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guys just probably don't understand because you have been
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ingrained so much by your culture that you guys are living
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in sin. I'm going to call what is right,
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right, and I'm going to explain to you what is wrong and it is
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wrong because it's against God's word.
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It's against what how God created things and the order in
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which he did it. He said, because of that,
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there's wrath that God has for the unjust, the unrighteous.
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And those that are saying it's okay, those that are covering up
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the LIE. They're suppressing that truth.
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You want to know what God really thinks about it.
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Go to Leviticus. The video Kiss chapter 18, that
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whole entire chapter is dealing with sexual morality.
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We're going to look at verse 21 22.
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And it says, and you shall not let any of your descendants pass
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through the fires of Molech nor shall your profane, the name of
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your of your God? I am the Lord.
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You shall not lie with a male as with a woman.
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It is an Abomination. I think it's very interesting as
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we read in the Old Testament. And as we read in the New
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Testament, that homosexuality is linked with idolatry.
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And you're like, well, we don't have a Dollar Tree today.
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What is idolatry? It is basically that we are
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putting something else in place of God.
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And if I'm placing my own desires, my own lust in front of
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God and his word. Guess what?
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It's becoming an idol. When you go back to James,
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chapter 1, It says that we are drawn away by our own lusts and
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less are fulfilled. It is a sin.
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That's what's Happening Here. The Romans are becoming or the
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Romans and made themselves their own Idols.
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Our nation has made themselves their own Al's Idols because you
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know, this is that humanistic mindset.
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It is all about me. I'm going to fulfill whatever I
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want to no matter what other people say.
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And the only way that I'm going to do that is getting rid of
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God, getting rid of his word and I can just do whatever I want
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and then we hear this mindset. You guys are just haters.
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God is love and if God's loved and he's going to love you, no
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matter what. Please please please.
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Please understand us. We have to have this mindset.
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We do not hate those who are homosexuals.
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We hate the practice. Of homosexuality.
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God loves their soul. We need to love their soul.
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And God tells us commands us to teach.
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And too many times we fall back and we do not, we avoid them, we
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try to shun them and we avoid what is truly loved and that is
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teaching them the love of God and the truth about it, you
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know, there's so many pastors that we can go to.
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We can go First Corinthians where it talks about and many of
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you were this, what their homosexuals, but they left it to
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follow God. But when we go back and we look
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at this verse again, creation is settling it, it's against
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nature. It's the way God created it.
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But what's interesting as well? It's going to go to Romans, back
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to Romans chapter 1. 28 on. Talks about all these
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unrighteous things that the Romans were doing.
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They're filled with unrighteousness verse 29 sexual
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immorality wickedness, covetousness.
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Maliciousness full of Envy murder Strife, deceit, full of
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Might evil mindedness. They are Whisperers backbiters
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haters of God, violent proud boasters, inventors of evil
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things disobedient, to parents undiscerning untrustworthy,
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unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful who verse 32 knowing
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the righteous judge of God. Remember, this is going all the
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way back now going. Over 17 going back to 18.
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God is just he is right. That's why Paul is not ashamed
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of the Gospel of God because it has salvation he is right.
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Knowing the righteousness of God and those who practice such
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things are deserving of death. Leviticus. 20:13, says anyone
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who practice these things. What homosexuality Were to be
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put to death physical death. We are now in New Testament is
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no longer this, the punishment of which God talks about is no
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longer that physical death. It is the spiritual death.
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You are separating yourself from God.
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A lot of times we just stop there.
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We don't finish it up. Because in the last part of
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first 30 to, not only do the same but also approve of those
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who practice them. Mallory was doing a lady's day
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not too long ago. When in one of the things she
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was talking about homosexually came up and afterwards, an older
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lady sweet sweet old lady came up to her and she says I have
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something you did a great job. I really appreciate you coming
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up here, but I have something against what you said.
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I'm always thinking. Okay.
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Well, did I say something wrong? What happened?
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And she says, I disagree with what, with what you said about
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homosexuality. And now he's like, what do you
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mean? And she's like, well my son.
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Is homosexual and he says that he just can't help it.
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That's the way God made him. And so when you said that God
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says it's wrong that it's a sin while I disagree with you
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because my son is and and that's the way he is.
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Don't tell me that this issue is not in the church, guys.
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It is. And sometimes we avoid it.
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Or we approve it. This person was saying, well,
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because my son says it, then it's fine.
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She is approving of his sin. Which in verse 32 is liking as
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if she was also in joining in with that.
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And I don't think we always understand that when it is
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saying. They're deserving of death, who
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those that are practicing it, but not only those do the same
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but also approve of those who practice them.
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Remember the statistics at the beginning where it talked about
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75 of them approved up and said they should be able to be
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married. Some of those are the ones that
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thought is morally wrong. Guys, we can't let our emotions.
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We can't let those feelings as far as if this is within our
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family affect the way that God word is what it says.
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And we have to realize, there's no proof anywhere.
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They've done the study genetics. They've done all this testing,
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as far as if it is a genetic code or a gene where you can't
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help it. No, it is a choice.
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It is a lifestyle that you must choose in.
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Like we already talked about in James chapter 1.
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It is something that you are drawn away by that lust or that
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desire. And you fall into that sin.
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Because if we truly want to be loving, Let me back up.
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Here's my other question for you, when we were proving of
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those sins, you know, it also includes all those things that
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are unrighteous. Do we approve those that are in
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adultery? So happy for you, and I'm so
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thankful that you finally found someone when God says it's a
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sin. Now, I'm now I'm hitting a
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little closer, aren't I. We understand that with
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homosexuality, but, you know that also includes other sins.
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You see Saul when he was holding the cloaks as they were stoning.
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Stephen probably didn't say much at all, but he was approving of
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it. Without saying a word.
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You know, sometimes there's going to be a time and place
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where it's not, it will not be very good for us to say
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something at that time, at that time.
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That does not mean that you're approving of it.
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Okay? There's wisdom in that as well.
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But to prove a what someone is doing and saying, it's okay,
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it's fine. Yeah, I think they should be
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able to get married. That is what is being condemned
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here in verse 32. We do not need to be ashamed as
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Paul was saying of the gospel of Christ and because he's not
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ashamed of the gospel of Christ. He's going to tell them that
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what they're doing is wrong. There's a right.
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And there's a wrong and it goes all the way back to Creation.
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The way God had created it. Please understand.
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We need to be loving toward these individuals.
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We don't need to shun them because they're in sin.
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Just like someone else. That might be a liar.
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Someone else that might be an adultery, someone else that is
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deceitful there in sin and they need God's word.
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And gods commanded us to be able to teach.
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And to tell them the truth. Of what true love is.
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And true love is not avoiding it or ignoring it.
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It's teaching them. As Paul was saying, don't be
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ashamed of the gospel because it's only the gospel that's
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going to be able to change that person and have their soul,
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right. Our invitation.
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You know, it's really hard when you talk about these subjects to
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have an invitation because people are probably thinking.
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Well, if I go forward, they're going to think about these
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things that we just talked about.
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I don't want you to be deterred of Coming forward and making
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your life, right? With Christ.
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Because it just the topic because if you are in sin and
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you have not put on Christ and baptism, then you are in sin.
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And with the repentance of what you are doing or what you have
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done and the having it washed away in baptism.
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And living Faithfully for God. That's more important.
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Don't let just what we've discussed think.
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That's what people are going to think.
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That's not it. Don't let something like that.
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Hinder you from making your life with God.
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Or maybe you are a became a Christian.
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And yet you've let the things of the society.
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You've let the things of this world.
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Kind of hinder you from being what you need to be hindering
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you from being what? God desires you to be.
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And that is pure in his eyes. You can also make that, right?
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If it's in a public, if you have done sin publicly.
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Please, please, please don't leave here knowing that you're
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still left in your sin. Because we never know when God
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will come. We never know when he will call
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us home and what a day that's going to be.
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For those that are right in his eyes.
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So if you have any need at this time, won't you, please come
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home?