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Sunday Sermon: The Lord Detests These Things · The Reading Instruction Show

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  Welcome to Brother Andy's Church of Biblical
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  Sanity. I'm Brother Andy, Andy Johnson. It's
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  happened again. Someone else got shot by ICE
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  agents today. So, I have nothing but respect
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  for those Christians as well as Muslims and Buddhists
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  and Jews and humanists, agnostics and atheists
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  who are sincere in their beliefs. and who do
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  their best to live their values. This would include
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  many of my friends and my relatives. And in my
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  experience, most of the Christians I've met are
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  good people, are kind people who do their best
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  to do the right thing every day. This has been
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  my experience. And some of my friends and family
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  are really exceptional Christian people who go
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  about their lives saying nothing while screaming
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  the love of Jesus out of every pore. And if you
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  believe that Jesus is the Son of God and died
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  for our sins, that's wonderful. I will do my
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  best to respect that. Your beliefs and your values
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  are yours. They are precious to you as mine are
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  to me. And I have no issue with you. I have issue,
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  however, with the imitation Christians whose
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  religion is nothing more than performance art,
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  wallowing in narcissism and egocentricity. They
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  equate patriotism with a perverted version of
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  religion and morality. They proudly stand for
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  the flag and kneel for the cross and justify
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  killing and stealing and lying and beating and
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  suppression. 1 Corinthians 1 .13, if I speak
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  in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
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  not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging
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  cymbal. And I'm hearing a lot of resounding and
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  clanging coming from a whole lot of people who
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  claim to be Bible -believing Christians. And
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  I'm guessing it's hard to hear the word of the
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  Lord above all the gong and cymbal noise. So
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  that's where I started. Brother Andy's Church
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  of Biblical Sanity. I also started it in response
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  to recent events. Renee Goode was murdered by
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  ICE agents 60 miles up the road in Minneapolis,
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  and today another guy was murdered. ICE agents
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  are in our communities, including here in Mankato,
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  Minnesota, and they're displaying a level of
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  cruelty bullying, and injustice that can only
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  be described as evil. And I have a hard time
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  believing that the Jesus of the Bible is okay
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  with this. And I have a hard time believing that
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  St. Paul or any of the writers of the 21 Epistles
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  would not speak out against this if they were
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  writing their letters today. The epistles, by
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  the way, are letters written to real people from
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  Paul, James, Peter, John, and Jude. So, what
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  would Paul say if he were writing a letter to
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  the Americans today? From the Book of Americans,
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  chapter 12, verses 13 to 17, I quote, have you
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  people gone insane? Are you nuts? Are you not
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  reading the Bible? Have you lost your sense of
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  decency and shame? Stop cherry -picking Bible
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  verses to justify cruelty and indifference. By
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  your justification, you're beating, abusing,
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  stealing, lying, and killing by proxy." Paul's
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  letter to the Americans. Now, we are our country,
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  and our country is us. And we've put on Gollum's
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  ring, and our country is changing. Our precious,
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  we say. Our wealth and abundance are ours, we
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  say. This is our country, we say. You can't have
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  it, it's ours. God loves us, we say. And while
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  much of the world starves, we fill our grain
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  bins with grain, and we fill our bellies with
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  double shot, non -fat, organic, no -foam, lacto
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  -expresso, latte -expresso. A greedy narcissistic
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  president is turning us into a greedy narcissistic
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  country. We take whatever we want by whatever
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  means we want because we're bigger, stronger,
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  more powerful, and wealthier. And we turn our
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  backs on the children, on sons and daughters,
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  brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers who
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  are hungry, poor, sick, imprisoned, and in pain.
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  And we close our eyes to the cruelty so that
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  we can say our prayers to Jesus and thank God
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  for America. We ask God to bless America and
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  we say to hell with everyone else. And as you
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  do this to the least of these among you, said
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  Jesus, you do it unto me. You do it unto me.
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  So, Bible -believing Christians, let's turn to
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  our Bible verse of the day. From Proverbs 6,
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  16 to 19, I quote, there are six things the Lord
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  hates, seven that are detestable to Him. Number
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  one, haughty eyes. Number two, a lying tongue.
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  Number three, hands that shed innocent blood.
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  Number four, a heart that devises wicked schemes.
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  Number five, feet that are quick to rush into
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  evil. Number six, a false witness who pours out
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  lies. And number seven, a man who stirs up dissension
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  among brothers. So let's take a look at these
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  biblical words, shall we? Number one, haughty
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  eyes. Haughty means to be arrogant. and condescending
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  to those you feel are your inferiors. You see
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  yourself as superior to others. And this is the
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  epitome of Donald Trump. This is the epitome
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  of the America First movement. God bless America,
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  you say, and to hell with everyone else because
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  we're Americans. USA, number two, a lying tongue.
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  Donald Trump lies all the time. And that, my
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  friends, is an empirical fact. And empirical
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  means it can be verified by observation or experience.
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  In fact, we can measure this empirical fact.
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  In 2021, the Washington Post wrote that Trump
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  made false or misleading claims. 30 ,573 times
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  over his first four years as president. Now I
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  know the reflexive action of some is to say,
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  fake news, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's
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  just a reflex. You can't help yourself. Everything
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  that doesn't support your worldview is fake news.
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  But let's consider, for the sake of argument,
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  that the Washington Post exaggerated. For the
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  sake of argument, let's say that Donald Trump
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  only did a tenth of that. Let's say for the sake
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  of argument, he made only 3 ,000 false or misleading
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  claims in his first four years. Are you still
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  okay with that? Number three, shed innocent blood.
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  People have been killed. Rene Good was killed,
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  as others have been. A guy was killed in Minneapolis
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  again today, up in Blaine. I forget his name.
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  These are just the ones we know of, by the way.
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  Innocent people in Gaza have been killed. Innocent
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  people were killed in Venezuela. Civilians. How
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  many more are being killed? Now here again is
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  another reflexive response. Oh, yeah, you say
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  why thousands of innocent babies are killed by
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  abortions every year. That's the reflex I often
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  get from people. And here's the thing. If you
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  believe abortions are evil, more evil does not
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  justify that. And your excuses, Obama did this
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  and Biden did that. They're not president. Trump
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  is president. And you are supporting this man
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  despite what your Christian Bible says. You're
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  not reading it. You're not understanding the
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  major themes. Number four. Wicked schemes. Wicked
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  is a deliberate intent to do wrong, to cause
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  harm. And a scheme is a plan, usually a secretive
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  plan. Using the Department of Justice for revenge
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  and retribution, sending these ICE agents in,
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  sending in our government's military into states
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  and cities only with Democratic governors and
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  mayors. to abuse, intimidate, terrify and suppress.
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  These are wicked schemes. They're the results
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  of wicked schemes. These are bad and evil things.
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  Redistricting states and suppressing votes to
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  try to stay in power. This is a wicked thing.
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  It's called cheating and it's not okay. The ends
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  don't justify the means here. Number five, rush
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  into evil. Evil is the opposite of love as light
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  is the opposite of darkness. Evil is using power
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  to meet one's needs at the expense of other.
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  And it has become a reflexive action by our government.
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  Good love is nurturing self, others and the environment.
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  Evil is that which destroys, takes from the self,
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  from others and our environment. Let me ask you,
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  what's going on with this government, with ICE
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  agents, with military in our cities, with healthcare
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  being taken away? Is that nurturing or is that
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  taking away? Is that love or is that evil? Number
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  seven, stirs up dissension. And a question for
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  you, are there more or are there fewer people
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  marching in the streets today than there were
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  two years ago? Now, these verses have been from
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  the book of Proverbs. And it's thought that most
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  of this book was written by King Solomon. Question
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  again. Was he lying when he said that the Lord
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  detests these things? Is this the fake news of
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  the time? And I'll end this again. I'm going
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  to repeat. I greatly respect those who strive
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  to live their values. I have lost my patience
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  with the imitation Christians whose religion
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  is nothing more than performance art. How dare
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  you judge us you say judge not lest you be judged
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  you've got a log in your eye. You're a bad person
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  Okay, you'll get no argument there. I am a bad
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  person Yet here I am judging the heck out of
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  imitation Christians Why? We can't afford to
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  wait until you get to heaven for God to judge
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  you You're messing things up down here right
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  now. So if you're not going to judge yourself,
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  I guess I'm going to have to do it for you. This
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  has been Brother Andy's Church of Biblical Sanity.