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"I Didn't Know Whether He Was an Angel Pretending to be Homeless" · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  You've probably already seen this viral clip of a homeless
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  man preaching a powerful sermon. But did you know the person who
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  filmed the video recently released an update video about
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  the man? I wanted to be a preacher when I
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  was 6, but I didn't know the price I had to pay.
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  Much wisdom, much grief, much sorrow.
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  Ain't no otherwise you don't get it.
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  But if you could just go through the fire, you'll be like, go,
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  yeah, the serious look, just like y'all got that serious
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  intense look because he's trying to find his way.
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  He's trying to figure it out. It's frustrating.
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  My family, my friends, all these things is, is, is is distracting
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  me from the truth. And it's difficult to give in,
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  especially when you're young man.
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  But if you can go through it, you'll come out like go if I can
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  go through the fire, they don't want to go through the fire.
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  They want the Lotto and go to Jamaica in the Bahamas that do
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  their own self esteem. But he said if you wait till I
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  exalt you, I give you desire to your heart.
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  Everybody hurry. I don't know where they're
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  going. But when they get there, oh,
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  they're going to be sorry. The faster you try to get there,
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  their career, that money and you're going to figure it out.
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  That man, it was the journey. It was not the destination.
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  You was in a hurry to get there, to come up, to beat this, to be
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  there. And when you get there, you're
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  going to feel discouraged more than you did before you even
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  started to get there. I would say this, this a man was
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  pushing a basket. This man right here, they grill,
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  you know, don't, don't look at the outside appearance.
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  I've seen him in action. He would push the basket and I
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  was under the bridge and I was talking to everybody except him.
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  He was the last person I talked to.
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  He said why didn't you talk to me first?
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  He said I should have talked. He said don't you ever pass by a
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  man pushing a basket and don't acknowledge them?
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  I never do it in my life again. I talked to the person pushing
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  that basket. How's your day?
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  How you doing? I talked to the holy people
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  because I said be careful how you entertain strangers.
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  It's for us to inspire somebody else.
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  It's for me to pull the weak ones up.
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  It's for you to pull the weak ones up.
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  We don't go through this because of our own selfish reason.
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  We go through this and give him a testimony how far God has
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  brought me. It was never about me.
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  I thought about me before. I'm going through this.
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  He say back up, man, who are you going to inspire?
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  Who are you going to tell somebody about the glory, the
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  grace of God? If you don't go through it, get
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  out of yourself. And once I step back, I've been
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  saying the deep things of God and so I don't play with him.
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  I don't ask him for a lie. I just said give me my my
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  portion for today. I don't want a lot of things.
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  Just give me enough that I can deal with.
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  Be humble, acknowledge him in all your ways.
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  When I do wrong, I said something wrong to offend you.
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  Forgive me. I got to say it right away.
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  Get it over with. Let let your light shine among
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  men. They might glorify your Father
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  in heaven. It's real, man.
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  I experience it all the time, 24/7, but I ask for it.
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  I ain't got nothing to hide. My birds are heavy.
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  But when I wink, He's strong through me, He speaks through
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  me. But you got to you.
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  He got to get you in that point where ain't nowhere else to go
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  but to him. He said those that I love, I
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  correct them. I chastise him but we get mad at
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  the correction. He said if I don't love you, I
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  will correct you. He could have took our life,
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  Amen. He can take the life, but he
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  corrected me. It is almost unbelievable what
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  the cameraman reveals about this man 10 years on and I can't wait
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  to show it to you. But first, everyone needs to see
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  this. You're.
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  Going to be a businessman now. You don't have to beg for
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  anybody. How I could take this?
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  I thank you very much. Yeah.
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  You just take that and you're going to use it to buy more
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  stuff. This is the Yeah, you're going
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  to buy more stuff. You won't have to bag.
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  You won't have to wait here. Alone you don't.
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  Have to be alone? No, you take this.
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  Yeah, I think, yeah. Take this, this is yours.
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  Your Christmas came in early this year.
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  Don't cry this. Is yours and this.
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  Is yours and this is yours. This is your Christmas.
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  Thank you. Very much.
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  You'll be fine. Stop crying.
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  You'll be fine. No problem.
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  Don't worry. It's all love, man.
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  Don't worry. Thank you very much.
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  Yes, man, Don't worry. Don't worry, everything will be
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  fine. Just hold on.
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  Everything will be fine. We're just going to sell this
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  and then keep the money and buy more stuff and sell, buy and
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  sell, buy and sell. That's the only way you're going
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  to do it. Thank you very much.
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  Have you ever known a homeless person who will not accept money
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  or food from anyone? Can I give you something?
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  My question is why can I give you anything?
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  Because God told me not to accept anything.
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  But like, I love for you, so can I give you something?
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  No. Just how you going to eat?
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  I eat every day. This is what happens.
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  Let me explain to you. Talk to me.
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  If I accept from you, right? Yeah.
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  I have to accept from every single person.
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  Yeah. What happens?
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  I'm going to have thousands and thousands of dollars, right?
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  Yeah. Listen.
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  To this though, yeah. What happens is the whole
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  journey is going to change. There's no longer going to be a
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  faith. Yeah, it's going to be
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  comfortability. It's going to be searching.
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  You shall find. What?
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  Can I buy you something. I can't accept anything from
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  you, my brother, for one. God told me not to accept
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  anything. I need to get help.
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  Yeah. Thank you.
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  And I'll give you something. I love.
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  You, brother, I love you. I know exactly what some of you
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  are thinking. Is it even right to film these
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  good deed videos in the 1st place?
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  We're going to talk about that. However, this one will break
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  your heart. What's your biggest?
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  Regret in life? 30 years ago, many young lady
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  had a son together but we couldn't afford it so we had to
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  give it to a couple for adoption.
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  I don't know if he has children or if I have grandchildren.
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  I don't know where he's at. I hope.
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  What's the family that I gave you to?
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  We all make mistakes. Man, thank you very much.
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  God bless you. God bless you too, brother.
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  I can't believe I'm saying this, but this video is proof that
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  most homeless people are more grateful and happier than rich
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  people. Are you sure?
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  How can I help? You, I'm sure I've got a Haven
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  card. I'm going into social
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  development tomorrow and I went last week and they were all
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  full. So they said just keep trying,
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  keep trying. So I'm going to just keep going
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  for it. And then they they've assured me
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  that I will. There's a winter program, shall
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  get it. You said I'm just a friend.
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  How can I help? You that is that'll last me.
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  It'll type me through because with our times and that we've
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  skipped meals or missed meals. So that will help me that that's
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  great. That's did you eat now?
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  I'm going to eat now and if I've missed them, I'm going to buy a
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  meal. No, I haven't yet.
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  Are you? Sure, I'm taking my time so that
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  you get blessed and God will. Show up in your.
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  Life. No.
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  You want to buy clothes, you go to the mall and then you spoil
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  yourself. I'm sure you take it, take it.
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  No, take it. No.
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  Take it. It's yours, you spoil yourself.
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  Thank. You so much.
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  Please. Yes.
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  So goodbye yourself. The best.
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  Yeah. It's OK.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you do everything you can to
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  spoil yourself. Yeah, this is my last.
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  Stop, stop, stop. You're going to do something for
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  yourself. I've been looking for someone to
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  place and then you appear. So this is yours.
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  Take this. No, take it.
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  It's yours. I've been looking for someone to
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  place. This is yours.
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  This is yours. God is blessing me.
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  It's not about me. It's not about me.
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  Yeah, no, it's all about God. It's not about me.
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  If God can bless you, he can bless me too.
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  Thank you, my friend. Yeah, thank.
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  Thanks a lot for God's Father in Jesus and pray for this man.
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  Thank you for this money by Jesus Christ God gracious man
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  from Jesus name Amen. Amen.
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  Amen. You are a good man.
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  Thank you. OK, here's the part you've all
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  been waiting for. What happened to him?
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  Well, the cameraman makes such a fascinating suggestion that you
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  know I'm going to have to say something about it after the.
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  Things that he's saying, I mean, some of it is straight out of
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  straight out of the Bible. He says, you know, much wisdom,
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  much grief, much sorrow. The Bible says King Solomon said
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  with much wisdom comes much sorrow.
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  So that's scripture. What he was sharing.
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  A lot of people hear this stuff and they're like, wow, this is
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  so deep. They don't know this stuff is
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  already in Scripture. God will speak through people,
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  but at the end you got to remember that it's God who's
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  speaking. Sometimes we might get caught up
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  in the messenger and not realize it's not even the messenger.
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  Now, for the man in this video, I don't know who he is.
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  I don't know where he is. I'll say this, none of the
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  rumors have been confirmed. No one who has made any kind of
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  claim to knowing who this man is has been able to provide a first
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  and last name or has been able to confirm anything that they're
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  saying. I've gotten a lot of messages
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  outside of the comments, people asking me questions, people who
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  have been very interested in finding out who this man is and
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  who have looked for this man and nobody has been able to find him
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  that I'm that I'm aware of. A lot of people say this man is
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  an Angel and I say he very well may be.
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  And if he's not, that's OK. But there are Angels Among Us.
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  I personally have definitely met angels before.
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  There are angels out there. You'll see the scripture many
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  times being shared in the comments about be careful when
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  entertaining strangers. You may be entertaining angels.
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  Absolutely. And, and even he said that, and
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  I'll tell you what, sometimes angels will give hints like that
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  and share, you know, that scripture.
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  OK Are you ready to investigate the Bible verse they are
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  referring to Hebrews 13 verse two says do not forget to show
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  hospitality to strangers for by so doing some people have shown
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  hospitality to angels without knowing it.
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  Can I ask you a personal question?
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  Would you let a homeless person stay in your house?
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  Yes, yes, I can hear exactly what you're thinking.
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  So let me give you 3 things to think about next time you see a
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  homeless person on the street, or next time you meet any kind
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  of stranger #1 Angels are among us.
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  The scripture is clear. Not everything we see is as it
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  seems. A memorable example of this is
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  the men who came to visit Abraham.
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  And then lots. Both times these men appeared to
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  just be strange, but it was later revealed that no, they
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  were not mere mortals. No, they were divine beings.
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  They were angels. I'm confident you'll also
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  remember that instantly after the adversary challenged Jesus
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  Christ in the desert, angels came down and ministered to him.
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  A few years later, one of Jesus disciples, Peter, was also
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  helped by an Angel to return home back to his brothers and
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  sisters in Christ after he had been unfairly separated from
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  them. And you can read all about in
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  Acts 12. Now whilst it might feel like
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  these kinds of experiences are only for people in Bible times,
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  the Bible says there are angels who are reserved only for the
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  small children of God. The Bible also says are not all
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  angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit
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  salvation. In other words, it is not
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  impossible for any of us to meet an Angel as they are watching
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  over. And by the way, if any of our
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  off the curb subscribers have ever had an experience like
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  this, please do share it with me right now in the comments
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  section as I'd be very interested to hear from you.
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  And on that note, while we're talking about subscribers, if
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  you haven't yet, click subscribe and you're finding this video
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  helpful, please do. The second thing I want to say
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  is be careful. Some Christians will take this
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  verse and suddenly feel a pressure to pick up every
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  hitchhiker, to invite every homeless person to their house,
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  and to talk to strangers. Now please, please do not
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  misunderstand me. The last thing I want to do is
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  to discourage you from helping those who are in need.
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  There aren't enough Christians who are willing to roll up their
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  sleeves and mix with the lowest of society, those people, the
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  same people whom Christ died for.
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  But what I am saying is this. Just be wise.
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  Some of you will probably remember the story I told you in
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  our church interruptions video where I recounted when I was
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  preaching and a 30 something year old guy proposed to one of
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  our young sisters in Christ at our church.
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  This friend of ours. She was only around 21 years old
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  at the time and a stranger began talking to her that day while
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  she was shopping. She then rather bravely shared
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  the gospel with him and invited him to church.
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  But he saw this as an opportunity to take advantage of
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  the situation. And sadly, there are many people
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  out there who will take advantage of Christians.
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  So I'm just saying be wise in these situations, particularly
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  if you are a sister. Just because we're born again
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  doesn't mean we were born yesterday.
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  But on the flip side, however, please don't use this as an
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  excuse to never help those in need.
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  All of us can buy a sandwich. All of us can ask a homeless
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  person how they're doing. All of us can give a gospel
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  leaflet and some of you maybe God is calling you to even go
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  that extra mile and to apply that very scripture we've just
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  read to your own life to entertain strangers and show
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  hospitality to homeless people. Thirdly, remember the reward is
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  not spending time with an Angel. The reward is the Lord himself.
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  The Bible says, for I was hungry and you gave me something to
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  eat. I was thirsty and you gave me
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  something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited
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  me in. The whole point of entertaining
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  strangers is not to try and figure out whether this person
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  is an Angel or not, because you'll probably be quickly
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  disappointed as soon as you see that this stranger has dragged
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  some kind of dirt into your carpet.
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  Well, they've eaten all of the food in your house.
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  No, the point here is there is a special blessing that belongs to
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  those who offer hospitality to strangers.
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  You see, after committing your life to Christ, the unpopular
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  reality for song is that everything now belongs to the
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  Lord, including your home. And let me tell you something,
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  as an evangelist who's travelled around a little bit and even as
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  a little boy when I was on holiday, some of the greatest
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  times of Christian fellowship I have ever known is when we as a
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  family arrived at a church as total strangers and then another
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  Christian family or a Christian couple invited us for lunch.
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  Those times were some of the happiest time I personally have
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  ever known. It's been as if we've known
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  these very people for our whole lives.
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  Why is that? Because if you see a stranger at
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  your church and supposing that that person is a Christian, in
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  front of you is a brother is your sister.
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  And how many of you, If you turned around one morning in
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  church and you saw a relative of yours that you haven't seen for
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  a long time sitting there in one of the pews.
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  If you turn around and saw your brother or sister sat there
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  within a heartbeat, I every single one of you would invite
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  them home for a meal because they are your brother.
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  They're your sister, you love them.
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  And God's word tells us that there is no difference.
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  Just the verse before the one in Hebrews we've looked at it
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  actually says let brotherly love continue.
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  And then it says entertain those strangers.
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  For by doing so you might just have entertained an Angel too.
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  I hesitate to say this because I don't want to contradict what
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  I've just said, but some people, Paul, may not be in a position
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  to provide hospitality at the moment, either because of
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  financial reasons or because their house is too small or
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  their life is simply just way too chaotic at this moment in
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  time. And I want you to know if that's
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  you, that's OK. The Lord understands and the
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  Christian life is never to be a burden.
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  It is to be a life of sacrifice though.
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  And some people who can hear my voice right now, you do need to
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  make more sacrifices for Jesus. I I need to make more sacrifices
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  for Jesus. But for those of you who are
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  already overwhelmed by the ways of life, my goal of this video
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  was not to make you feel like any less of a Christian because
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  you cannot show hospitality. In fact, I remember a pastor who
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  one day rather proudly boasted about something that was a great
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  sacrifice, something that many Christians would struggle to do,
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  and that's having homeless people staying at his house.
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  He wore it like a badge of honour.
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  It gave him a a moral high ground.
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  And yet today, the last I heard about that pastor is that he's
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  more or less renounced his faith and he's nowhere spiritually.
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  That's why if we do do a good deed, we shouldn't announce it
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  with the trumpets because our Father who is in heaven will see
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  it and he'll reward us if we do it in secret.
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  But if we tell all men about it, our only reward will be a reward
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  for a man. That's why personally, I'm not
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  sure whether it is a good thing to have all of these videos of
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  us filming homeless people and giving them money.
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  I personally, I really enjoy the videos.
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  And in one sense it's great because it brings those precious
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  souls out into the public so that people can pray for them
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  and be moved by their stories. And it then encourages other
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  people to give to the poor because you.
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  You see what a big difference it makes to that individual.
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  But then on the other side of the coin, the Bible does say,
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  But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know
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  what your right hand is doing. In other words, this blessing,
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  this gift should be top secret. But just off the back of that,
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  there are some people who make these kind of videos and they
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  honor that verse by not showing their face on the camera because
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  they don't want to receive any glory for the good deeds they're
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  doing. And for those guys, I really do
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  have a lot of respect. So I'll leave you to make up
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  your own mind on that one. But while we are thinking about
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  homeless people, may I quote the very challenging lyrics from
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  Johnny Cash's song Jesus Was a Carpenter.
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  Jesus was a Carpenter, and he worked for the saw and hammer,
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  and his hands could join a table true enough to stand forever.
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  But would he stand today upon the sands of California and walk
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  the sweating blacktop of New York and Mississippi?
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  Would he be a guest on Sunday? A vagrant on a Monday, with the
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  doors locked tight against his kind?
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  You know, it's a big question, isn't it?
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  Would Jesus Christ be welcome in your church?
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  Because if you want a definition of homelessness, listen to what
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  Jesus Christ said about himself. Foxes have dens and birds have
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  nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.
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  There was nowhere for Christ to put his head down at night
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  because he had no home. But I can promise you this,
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  Christ isn't homeless anymore. He lives in the greatest home
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  that was ever made heaven. But he also wants to live
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  somewhere else. He wants to live in your heart.
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  And the question is, is there room in your heart for Jesus or
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  does someone else live there? Is there something else which
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  occupies your heart, meaning that there is no space for the
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  Saviour? Is that thing too big that Jesus
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  Christ can't live there? If the answer's yes, let me ask
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  you another question. Whatever this thing is that you
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  adore, whatever this thing is that you worship so much, can I
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  ask you, did this person, did this thing die for you?
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  Does this thing shed its own blood to wash away all of your
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  sins so you could be forgiven? Did this thing lay down every
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  earthly comfort and essentially become homeless so that he could
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  come down to to earth and rescue you in your sin?
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  Did this thing rise from the dead to offer you eternal life?
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  Because you know what I'm going to say next?
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  Jesus did everything, all of those things for you.
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  And this great man offers you the privilege of coming into
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  your life, into your heart to change you, to save you, and to
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  give you a hope beyond the grave.
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  So if I were you, I would make room in your heart for Jesus,
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  because all those who do that now Jesus says I will make room
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  for you in heaven. The Lord Jesus Christ once said,
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  my Father's house has many rooms.
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  If that were not so, would I have told you that I am going
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  there to prepare a place for you?
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  Is there a room in heaven with your name on it?
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  Are you one day going to dwell in the courts of heaven forever
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  and ever? Well, I want to tell you, by the
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  Lord's grace alone, I've got a room in heaven.
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  And I hope that right now as we speak, the Lord Jesus Christ is
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  also preparing a place for you two.
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  Just a moment ago I mentioned about Christian sacrifice, and
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  some of you might have been thinking, what does that even
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  mean? Jesus has done everything for
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  us. Well, of course, I don't mean we
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  can contribute anything to our salvation.
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  When I say the word sacrifice, I mean service.
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  And if you want a beautiful example of what sacrificial
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  service for the Lord looks like, you need to listen to this man's
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  story here. And if you haven't yet
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  please do subscribe. And also please do check out the
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  links to the original videos of the homeless people in my
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  description. God bless you all and thank you
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  for watching.