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John 13:34-35 - Love One Another · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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All right, well, welcome, Calvary Chapel.
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I'm going to pray and we're going to give you my testimony,
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which a lot of you may have heard just from being in the
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groups and stuff, but some of you haven't.
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I kind of felt like the Lord was going to allow me to do that
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cautiously because, you know, we're up here to preach the
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Word. But the testimony is what God
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has done in my life. So let's pray, you know, as
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secure. I'm security in this church and
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I pray with my eyes open all the time for you guys.
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So just be mindful of that. But anyway, we had Lord, we come
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before you today humbly asking for your hand to be upon us.
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As always. We can't get out of our minds
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our brothers and sisters that we know that are hurting.
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We have Dave Reynolds daughter Grace bicycle accident had
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surgery where we pray that you would continue to touch her and
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heal her. Our sister Deb Rossovic lost her
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mom couple days ago where we lift her and her family up to
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you Lord that you would as always.
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You're always with us Lord that you would touch them.
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We pray for Deb de Zembo who works in a nurse.
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She had a knee replaced and Lord again, you know, you, you touch
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us all, you heal us all, or we ask for your hand upon her.
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And thank you for the report we got from Ruby with her cancer.
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Lord, we just, we just thank you for your, your goodness in all
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things, Lord, for today on our, on our body, Lord, that you
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would be glorified and, and what we do here, Lord, you're
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glorified in the worship, Lord, and, and in your word, Lord, and
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we just thank you for your faithfulness to us always.
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And we just thank you in Jesus name, Amen.
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So I'll, I'll tell you a little about a little bit about who I
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am and try not to take too much time with that, but there is a
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clock there and I'll be mindful that as best I can.
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And I wasn't sure how much to prepare because I don't know how
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long it would take me to do or say what I So you could be here
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for two hours, you could be here for 15 minutes.
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I don't know. We'll see how it works.
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I'll get you out in time. So I've been part of this church
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for 26 years. I had to ask my wife that
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because again, I don't keep track of stuff really well.
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She told me 26 years. I'm an elder here.
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I teach a men's Bible study in the front for at 9:15 in the
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morning for guys that can come, me and Tom Brubaker and and
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Steve Eichelberger, we'll teach that.
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I, I always put that out to guys.
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You're, you're more than welcome to come.
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It's just guys, we're going verse by verse through the
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Bible. We're in Colossians and it's,
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it's good. It's, it's a time for us to have
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fellowship. It's our discipleship.
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These guys disciple me. You know, iron sharpens iron,
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you know, because when you're not that sharp, you get
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sharpened. And these guys are great guys.
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I love your, your husbands that come and husbands, sons and
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whoever can come. But you know, I always say, if
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you got, if you're a man here and you got a bunch of kids and
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you got a wife and you got issues, you, you need to take
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care of that before you come to Bible study.
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You need to be with your wife Sunday morning and help her get
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the kids. So don't ever feel pressured to
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have to come to something like that.
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You do what the Lord tells you to do.
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You need to take care of your family and but you know, most of
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us sitting back are older guys. So we're past a lot of that.
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But so I told you, I'm I'm the youth leader right now along
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with my son Sam helping out and maybe some other guys and gals
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as time goes on. I'm also, like I said on
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security. We do have the armed security
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here as best we can do. We're going to get more
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training, but we are here to defend you, protect you no
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matter what. And you saw what happened here
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last week and I think it was Minneapolis.
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It's it's horrifying to me to think that somebody would do
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that to people. But you know, I don't want to
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get real involved with all that. But it disturbs me greatly when
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the Chief Police says I can't understand this or we didn't
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have any cause to suspect him. They're like no hints with
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mental illness. And I'm like, he's a guy
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identifying as a woman. He's got mental and spiritual
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problems. He should not been allowed to
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have a weapon. But when your culture says it's
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OK to be that way, then that's what's going to happen.
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And I don't hate those people at all.
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They need to come and they need to find Jesus and they need to
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get their life straightened out because it's, it's just not
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right. You know, it's, it's not right
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and things like that happen. But you know, I feel horrible
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for those families and those kids.
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But we, we will do everything in our power to protect you here as
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best we can with our lives. OK, so I was saved when I was 8
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years old, you know, one of those deals where my dad put me,
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put me to bed and asked me if I wanted to ask Jesus into my
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heart. And I did.
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And I believe that at that time, I was his.
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I don't ever remember a time in my life where I felt like God
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was away from me or didn't want me.
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I had a godly mother and father. I that's just the way I lived.
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I, I can't ever remember not wanting to be in church.
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You know, I, I was always wanting to be in church.
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And Wednesday night, it's different.
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Like a lot of kids didn't want that.
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And I always told people that I was 50 years old when I was 12.
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I always felt like I was old. Now I look in the mirror.
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I feel like I'm 16 years old. And I look in the mirror and I'm
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like, man, that's long gone. You know, I need to bend down to
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pick something up. And a couple times in the last
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two months, I hit the floor because my something happened in
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my back right down on the floor. So 16 is long gone.
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A biggest part of my life besides my parents is I, I went,
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I worked at a camp when I was a kid.
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I went there from the time I was 8 till I was 15.
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It was a Christian Boys Brigade camp, sort of.
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I don't know. We had a stockade, A flagpole.
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They blew revelry and taps and you had to line up in formations
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and we had captains, sergeants, corporals, and, but it was
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teaching you godly things, teaching you crafts.
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And then when you got older, you, you got to go to get
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training for that. So I did that and it was sort of
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like a boot camp where we, we ran 3 to 5 miles every day.
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We swam for 1/2 hour every day. We had Bible study.
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We had to learn how to take care of horses, learn how to use
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weapons, take, you know, teach kids how to shoot bows.
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We worked in the kitchen. We just learned everything about
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the camp because we were training to serve.
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And when I became 16, I did that.
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It was a several week program. And I'm not the kind of person
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that that just likes to hike to nowhere.
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And involved in that training was these 20 mile hikes on the
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Appalachian Trail, like 4 days, 80 miles, full pack.
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And back then we didn't have good packs.
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They had bad shoes. And you know, we hiked them
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kids. And I hated that because I don't
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hike to nowhere. If I hike, there's a fishing
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pond at the end of it or an elk on a mountain somewhere.
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I'm hiking for a purpose. And that hike in the nowhere,
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like my son Daniel plays the bass.
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He, you know, he likes to hike and take pictures and all that.
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I got to have something at the end of that hike besides the
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pitcher, You know, I mean, I love the scenery and everything,
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but. But anyway, we did that.
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We, we canoed them for miles on the Allegheny River, mostly to
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test them to see what they're made of because these were the,
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these are going to be corporals in charge of your, your, you
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know, your kids at the camp. So they, they put me through
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that. And then I in turn with another
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fellow put them through. I, I did the training after that
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for two years. I was part of the leadership
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growth program to train these guys to be counselors.
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So we had to get them in shape. They had to get an advanced life
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saving card. I mean, Francis, I think, got
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one of them or was working on that.
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So you got to swim because you had to work the pool too.
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You had to be a lifeguard. So I was a lifeguard for a
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while. But that formed a lot of good
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things in my life, a lot of good relationships, and helped to
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take some of the things out of my life that didn't need to be
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there. Because even though you're saved
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at 8 years old, sin is always creeping at the door, right?
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Sin is always there. And the Bible says to not let
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sin reign in your mortal body. So that won't be master over
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you. And I was taught, you know, by
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my dad at a young age to read proverbs.
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You know, you hide the word of God in your heart so that you
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won't sin against them. All the different scriptures
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poured in there, but sin is still there and going through
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programs like that and camp and all that just, it made, made
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more of a man out of me than I guess I would have been left
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onto my own because given to my own devices, I wouldn't have
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been there. I, I worked in a shoe repair
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shop for five years in Greengate Mall.
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I don't know if you guys ever remember that I was in there
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fixing shoes when I went to school college.
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I went to Pitt and got a degree in administration of justice.
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I wanted to be a policeman, but went and did an internship in
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Edgewood and, and was it was so boring at the time.
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I just couldn't handle it. I wanted Miami Vice, you know,
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the TV stuff and it was all paperwork and I could do it now
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really good. But that's that's where I was
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out that I also when I was 14 years old, I started doing
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taxidermy work. I saw an ad in the back of a
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magazine and I got the books on how to do it.
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And I've been doing that for 51 years.
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I asked God as a young man to give me the ability to be able
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to do that, You know, 14 years old, I, you don't know, but I
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really enjoyed it. And to this day I'm still doing
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that. I still enjoy it.
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I love the work. It's provided extra money for
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the family and just I'm the kind of person like I love you guys.
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I love being at church. This crowd I love, but I don't
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like big crowds. And if you left me to my own, I
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would sit in my basement and work like 1620 hours a day.
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I'm good with that. But the Lord doesn't want that.
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He wants you out amongst people. But I'm, I'm, I'm not a big
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crowd person like concerts and things like that.
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The only big crowds I like is this you guys and the Pastors
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conference. I love the pastors conference.
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You know, 1200 guys singing and worshipping is awesome.
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I worked at Westinghouse Electric for 39 years.
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I was a inspector for 25 years or more, very boring, mindless
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job, very boring. But I did it to pay my bills,
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right? We got to work.
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You got to pay your bills. If you don't work, you're and if
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you don't work and you can work and you're not taking your
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family, you're worse than an infidel, The Bible says worse
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than an unbeliever. So I had to work and I did the
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job and I had a lot of good relationships with a lot of
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people there, made a lot of friends.
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But the last 10 years of work, I, I got a technician's job,
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Best job I ever had in there. I had it for 10 years.
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It fit me as who God made me. You know, when you get tests,
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when you're in middle school, they test you to see where you
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are. I think it was middle school.
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I found the paper when my mom passed away.
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My sister gave it to me. We're laughing because it has
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here I'm just an average guy. Average, average.
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Average comes the spelling, 20%. You know, I can't spell cat, you
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know, terrible. But then it went in one spot.
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I was 80%. So I'm looking at it.
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And I never saw that thing before.
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I think my mom was embarrassed to show me, you know, But the
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80% was, I don't remember the exact words of it, and I
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couldn't find a paper. But it had something to do with
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these reasoning and technical skills.
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Well, my parents didn't know anything about my dad said, you
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know, go to college, but I had the technical things in me.
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So when I get this job at work, it's all technical.
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I'm making standards, setting up machinery, ultrasonic test on
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dimensions and stuff, testing things down to A10 thousandths
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of an inch. That's like if you took your
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hair and pulled it out, it's, I think your hair is like 3000.
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So you'd have to split it 30 times to get a 10,000.
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So we're running these tubes through and, and here's this
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guy, here's this dummy and they're setting them up.
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And I can't spell the words, but I can set it up, you know, and
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I, I enjoyed the work for 10 years.
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It was a great blessing. It was, it was my ministry, my
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mission with my Co workers and friends there.
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The God puts us all in places, work, family, retirement, not
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retired. He gives us mission wherever we
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are. You don't have to be in Peru or
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Haiti or the Dominican. I've been there.
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I've, I've went on mission trips.
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I loved it, but I never felt called to live there.
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I felt called to live here, work in the factory, work in my shop,
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come to church, serve you guys and to love you guys.
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And, but work was good and you know, I survived that whole
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aspect of it. I met my wife when I was at Pitt
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when I was getting my degree and I asked her to marry me one
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month after I met her. I don't recommend that for
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people, but it worked out really good for me and we were engaged
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for three years. I also don't recommend that.
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That is that's just stupid torture.
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You know, you want to marry someone, you don't have a dime,
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you know, any money. And I think my parents should
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have said, you're in love with this girl, you're going to
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marry, just get married, move in with us or something because
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three years. And when we got married, we were
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both virgins. So three years, terrible thing
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to do to a person. Terrible.
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Don't do that. So back to high school.
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So I went to Hemfield High School.
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I graduated in 1979. I think in my graduating class
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there was 600 some people in there.
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And I was kind of the middle average guy, except they
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couldn't spell just the middle guy.
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And I wasn't super athletic and I wasn't super smart.
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So I was just the regular middle of the road guy.
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But I had friends that I had from, you know, grade school and
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middle school and in the high school I lost most of them
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because, you know, they went a different way.
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I was going to do what the Lord wanted me to do.
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And I I just didn't do the, the drinking and the pot smoking.
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And he's not perfect. He's still, you know, you look
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back on regrets and things, but the Lord kept me out of a lot of
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that stuff. And I mean, that's what you want
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for your kids, right? You don't want me up here
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telling you I did all these terrible things.
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I did a lot of bad, mischievous things.
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But you prefer your kids live and do what you want them to do,
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what God says, what the word of God says.
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But you know what? I love it when someone comes up
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here and says, I was into this stuff and the Lord took me out
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of that. I mean, it's awesome because God
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saves us whenever he chooses to. And I fully believe that if he
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wouldn't have saved me at 8 years old, I would have been a
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disaster. I mean, I would have hurt a lot
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of people. I just know it because you know,
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what's in your heart like that, that that bad part of us in
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there. God pushes it away.
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But there's that potential in there.
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And God kept me away from all those things because I always
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wondered what holds people back. I know what held me back.
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But for unbelieving people, to me, a lot of them are tame.
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And I'm like, what holds them back?
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Well, God held me back. He had to.
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And so I lose all these friends. I was never unfriendly with
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them. I just wasn't close friends with
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them anymore. So when I left high school, I
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had one friend left, Christian friend, good friend, not the
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acquaintances. And he went to another school
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and him and I are still friends. And I met friends after that
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through different things. My buddy Pete that I hunt with,
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I've known him for a long time. And Pastor Jeff up in Warren, I
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met through Pastor Clark at a conference and we hunt elk
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together and his son and my sons.
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And you know, I have lots of friends, but and in high school,
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I wasn't mean, I wasn't mean to people.
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You find the 1979 Hempfield yearbook and you'll find me in
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there. I think there might be one
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picture, but it says I was runner up for most courteous.
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So that tells me that I wasn't, I wasn't mean to people.
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So I was like, I guess I was nice, but you know, I just, I
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didn't have the close friends because of, you know, the
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lifestyle that we choose to do. It's just you have decisions to
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make. And that carried on into my
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adult life. I got to go to Japan and Korea
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for work for a couple weeks. Again, they needed some stuff
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inspected and they picked me and another person because they
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thought we would morally not shame the company, you know?
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And so they send us over there and we're just grunts working in
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a factory. We're not engineers, you know,
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we're just, I tell you, I'm just, there's the middle and
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there's the spelling and backup. But they send us over there and
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we got all these business meetings with engineers, really
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smart people and one guy from work, smart guy, nice to be
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with. But you get in these meetings
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and in Japan, they do a lot of drinking and smoking and stuff
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like that. And I did have a couple of
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drinks with the guys and I don't even drink, you know, but I
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drank a couple drinks with them. And the one guy said to me,
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perhaps you'd like one of our women.
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And I'm like, no, I'm, I'm married.
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And he said, you're married even here in Japan.
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And I said, yes, I am married, you know.
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And again, there's a language barrier there, but they got the
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point. Not to be mean, but you know,
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I'm married. I went on a hunting trip one
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time with an older guy. You know, he's 30 something.
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I'm like 20 years old in college.
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We drive down to Delaware. I have my dad's car and he we
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get there and the first thing he wants to do is he wants to go to
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a House of ill repute and Smyrna, DE And I looked at him
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and I'm like, you're married and you got two kids.
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You got this beautiful wife, two kids.
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I said, I am not going there and you're not taking my car, you
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know, and of course, you know, find out years later he's
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divorced and all that kind of stuff.
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But God calls us to be a certain way and we're saved no matter
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where we are. I had someone asked me one time,
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the lady at work said, you know, you say all these things.
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You say the Bible says this and that, but you're not like you're
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just like everyone else. You said if if I put a a
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beautiful naked woman in a room, kids hold your ears.
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Put a beautiful naked woman in a room and I put you in there and
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nobody would ever know it. And you'd, you'd, you'd, you'd
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do this or that. And I said, no, I wouldn't.
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I'm not accountable to you. I'm accountable to God.
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I'm not going to do it. And she said, you're a liar.
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And I said, well, you can think that, but I'm, I'm not, I mean,
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I'm not perfect, but I'm not going to do that.
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I don't want to do that. I was going to read something to
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you out of Peter here. And again, you have to excuse me
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if some of my stuff's like a little scattered, but Peter,
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chapter 4, you don't have to turn to these things because
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I'll, I'll read them to you. You know what I was going to
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say. There isn't that, but there is.
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I was in the wrong book here. OK, let's see, I had this verse
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right now, says there in verse 7 in chapter 4.
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First Peter, the end of all things is near.
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Therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose
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of prayer. Above all, keep fervent in your
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love for one another because love covers a multitude of sins.
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Be hospitable to one another without complaint, as each one
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has received a special gift, enjoy it, employ it, and serving
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one another has good stores of the manifold grace of God.
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Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking the
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utterances of God. Whoever serves is to do do so as
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one who is, who is serving by the strength which God supplies,
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so that all things, so that in all things God may be glorified
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through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs to glory and dominion
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forever and ever. If you go back before that,
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though, in verse 3, it says for the time already passed is
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sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the
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Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, less
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drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable
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idolatries and all this, they are surprised that you do not
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run with them into the same excesses of dissipation and they
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malign you, but they will give an account to Him.
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So you get maligned, you get made fun of when you don't do
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the things that the world wants you to do.
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But I would tell you that you got to do what God calls you to
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do, especially young people, you know, So I tell these young kids
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all the time. One girl even said, you know, I
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get tired of you talking about we were in Proverbs for a while
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and every other verse was about the immoral woman and man.
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And, you know, I felt bad in a sense because I got to keep
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pounding this. But that's like the biggest
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problem with people. I mean, look what the apostles
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told the Gentile believers. Simple.
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Hey, this is what we're telling you.
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Abstain from sexual immorality and meet sacrifice from idols.
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In other words, stay away from immorality and stay away from
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the world. And that's our, our call to, to
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all of us, myself, all of us and our children to stay away from
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that kind of stuff. God has a better purpose for us,
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you know, So when we come here, when Pastor Clark or Lewis or
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myself or one of the guys on Wednesday night, we're teaching,
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it's the same stuff. It's over and over again because
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we need to keep hearing it till the day we die.
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Pastor Chucko, he said if it's new, it's not true.
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If it's true, it's not new. You're going to hear the same.
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Now, it might be new if you never heard it before, but if
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you've been in a word, you're going to hear the same stuff
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over and over again because we got a message for you.
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Follow the Lord and when you mess up, he's full of grace and
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mercy and love and he forgives you.
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I was telling the guys this morning, I was listening to
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Pastor John Corson the other day and he was talking about our sin
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and how good, you know, we know God has forgiven us for past sin
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and we know that he'll forgive us for everything in the future
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because we're his, right? And he paid the price for us.
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But he said, you know, he's forgiving you.
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He's forgiven you while you're in a course of sinning.
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And that struck me because it's like when we look at our kids,
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we we forgive their past sin. Well, we know we'll forgive them
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in the future, but while they're sinning, that's hard to deal
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with. And God deals with it.
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His Son paid the price for that sin.
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He forgives us while we're doing it.
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That's grace upon grace. And you know, Paul said that,
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you know, with all that grace, you know what stops us from just
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taking liberty with that and sinning?
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And Paul said, may it never be that we would do that.
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A God that would lay his life down for me and for you and
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sacrifice himself like that for people that are against him and
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often times hate him. And he, he loves us so much that
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he forgives us no matter what. So I'm, I'm forgiven all the
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time and it doesn't give me license to sin because I don't
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want to do that. And you know that too.
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As a Christian, the minute you think something wrong, God has
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that touch in your brain. Hey, you shouldn't have done
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that. The minute you say something
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wrong, he catches you. I told the guys, you know,
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probably told the kids too, was there was protesters when we
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were coming in, might have been even coming in for Bible school.
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There was some protesters up at the courthouse holding all kind
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of ridiculous signs. And I, for whatever reason, I
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rolled the window down and I hollered at them losers.
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They did lose. But I shouldn't have done that.
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And I, you know, I thought about that.
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Why did I do that? I couldn't have, you know, best,
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like Pastor Lewis said, keep your mouth shut, you know,
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because once you let it out, it's too late.
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And I thought, what if that was one of you guys?
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I just called you a loser. I have to talk about that after
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church. If you were there in the crowd,
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you know, I'll explain it. But, you know, you just don't
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want to do that. We got to watch what we say.
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We slow to speak. So anyway, I tell you those
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things about myself so that, you know, saved at 8 years old.
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But still, we're all so imperfect and when you're, when
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you get saved, when you're young, you tend to look at other
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people that are smoking the pot and drinking the beer and you
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start to look down on them and you start to think you're better
26:16
than them. There's that self righteousness
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in there and I, I'm sure I had that.
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I don't remember a lot of those days, but I can see, look back
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and think maybe people thought that about me.
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And but the older you get, you start to realize, here's your
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walk. You start down here at 8 years
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old or 38 years old or 78 and you're climbing up towards,
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you're pressing for that high call what God wants you to do.
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But there's always some dips in there.
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So I go back to when I was 8 years old and thinking about
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those people. It's, it's such a wrong thing to
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think those were friends, family.
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The things aren't right, but God loves those people and he loves
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the people that I worked with. And for all the faults, you
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know, we have a different message to him.
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It's not that I'm better than you or anyone else.
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I'm a Sinner saved by God's grace.
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And that's the message that we have to give people.
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I had a friend at work who asks me all the time I worked with
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them for. He was probably there 15 years.
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He was in a tech job with me. Really nice guy, really smart
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guy, way smarter than me. But he was living with his
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girlfriend and we'd been talking on like I had my Bible on my
27:28
desk. I had all my different stuff
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pinned up there. People knew I was a Christian.
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Yes, they could convict me of being a Christian at work.
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The evidence was there. I was going to jail, but he
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would ask me, am I going to go to hell for living with my
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girlfriend? And I always told him, no, you
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go to hell for rejecting Jesus Christ as your savior.
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But I said, are you asking me if that's right or wrong?
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And I said it's absolutely wrong.
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This is what it's called in a Bible.
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It's called fornication. You, you not to have relations
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with a woman till you're married.
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And you know, he's, I'm still friends with them.
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But he asked me that a lot of times.
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I was never mean to him. He, he knows and knew that I
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loved him and you know, I would do whatever for him.
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But you still have to speak the truth, right?
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Just like with this crazy person that shot these people.
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It's not loving to tell people you're OK when you're not.
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It's not loving to condone transgenderism and homosexuality
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and bring them into church and tell them, you know, we're all
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God's children, we're all part of this and you're OK.
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It's not OK. God loves you, but He wants
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something better for you. And it's very unloving to let
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people go and not hear the word, to condone things that are evil
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and not speak of it. And it's to be done in love
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again. I, I had friends at work that
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were lesbians and I never hated any of them.
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But they knew that I disagreed with the way they lived.
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And when I got to talk to them, I would tell them, because it's
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not what God wants for you. It's destructive.
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And it was evidenced by, you know, their lifestyles.
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You know, there's all kind of crazy things that happen, but
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getting down to what I really wanted to talk about today is
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and I'm never going to get it all done, I'm sure.
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But I come to church here to serve, to be with you guys.
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I don't know all your names. Even if you tell me your name 10
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times, I might forget it because I'm it's just, it's just not
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there, but your faces. So I see you all.
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I love you all. I'm greatly encouraged by you
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all. I feel bad for people that that
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can't come to church. There are people that cannot
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come. I get that.
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I feel bad for people that can come and don't come.
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You know, if you look in Hebrews chapter 10, you guys all know
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this verse. And this is not to bring
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condemnation on anybody, but it is for me, because I know even
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on days where I might not feel like coming to church, the Bible
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gives us a command, right? It's Hebrews chapter 1019, Dawn
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says. Therefore, brethren, since we
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have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of
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Jesus, by a new and living way which he inaugurated for us
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through the veil that is his flesh, and since we have a great
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high priest over the House of God, let us draw near with a
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sincere heart in the full assurance of faith, having our
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hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience.
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Thank God for that and our bodies washed with pure water
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again, thank you, Lord, let us hold fast the confession of our
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hope without wavering for he who promises faithful and let us
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consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.
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I mean, that's what happens when I come in here with you guys,
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especially with the guys, like in the in the men's breakfast,
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you know that one of the guys teaches and John Leeds worship
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and we talk, we discuss Proverbs.
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That's what happens in Bible studies.
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And I'm sure in the ladies Bible studies and all the studies,
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we're stimulating each other to love and good deeds.
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We're talking about the word of God, how it applies in our lives
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and what a difference it makes. And I have to have that.
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So I have to come here to be with you.
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I can study on my own. When I'm in my workshop, I'm
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listening to our radio station. If I work 8 hours, I get 8 hours
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of Bible teaching and music in there.
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If I would work 16 hours a day, which I really can't anymore,
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you know, too many things going on, but I would do that.
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But it's still not the same as sitting down face to face with
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you guys and having that fellowship.
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And it isn't that I got to run up and give you a hug or
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anything like that. It's your face and your
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presence. You know, I come in again, I
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come in on a Wednesday night and Gina's up here and maybe
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Daniel's over there and they're practicing.
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They start worship and I look and there's like 2 people and
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then, you know, I go do other stuff and I look and then
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there's 20 or whatever, how many come and that's, you know,
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whatever God brings, that's fine.
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But what I'm, what I get out of that is here's, here's these two
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or three so faithful to come in here and worship the Lord.
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Whether anyone shows up or not, they're going to worship.
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But it's great pleasure when you come in and there's people and
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you get to talk to them and see them.
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It's encouraging. So I'm, I'm sure it's
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encouraging for the pastor, pastors and those.
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When I teach on Wednesday night, I'm OK with like 10 people.
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I'm OK because afterwards we get to discuss things.
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That's the benefit of Wednesday night.
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We're teaching through the Psalms.
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When we stop, you got time to ask questions.
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Like there's no time today, but you got time to ask questions.
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And I love that. That's why I like with our men's
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Bible study and, and the men's breakfast, we get the time to
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talk and we get to, you know, stimulate us to love and and
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good deeds. So it says to stimulate one
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another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling
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together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one
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another. And all the more as you see the
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day drawing near. So the day is drawing near and
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we don't know when Jesus is coming back.
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Could be any day, right? We believe that Jesus could come
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any day and we got to be ready for that.
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And I want to be encouraged and I want to be with you guys.
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When I go away. I, I hate to leave my family and
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I don't like not being at church when I come back.
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I'm at church like I'm leaving Friday.
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I'm going elk hunt. And oh, happy New Years by the
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way. September 1st is the new year
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for people who hunt. January 1st is meaningless.
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September 1st is the first day of dove season.
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I know if we're little doves, but it's dove season.
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So for a person that hunts January, I could, I could go to
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bed at 9:00 on New Year's Eve. I don't care when September
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starts. It's the new year for me and I'm
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going hunting. So I'm, I'm going, I'm going out
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to Colorado with my older boy Daniel that plays the drums and
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my buddy Pastor Jeff and his boy and a bunch of other guys that
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will meet up out there and just enjoy the time and getting away
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and being up in the mountains and chasing elk.
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One of the simple pleasures in life.
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You know, my, my buddy Pastor Jeff, he says that we're driving
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out last year, you know, and he says almost like almost apology.
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He says, you know, so I have to tell you, I really love this.
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And I said, well, I do too, but he's a pastor and he can't say
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that he loves something else besides the Lord.
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And I said, there's a difference.
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I don't love El Cunton more than I love the Lord.
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I don't love El Cunton more than I love my wife, but it's just
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something we do. I love it, but there's a lot of
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different words for love. We only have one, you know,
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there's a lot of different meanings for it.
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And I said, it's OK, man. I, I really, I love it too, but
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I love the Lord more. I love my wife more, my kids
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more, but I still go, I, I don't like to leave.
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I don't like to leave my wife and my kids, but, but we go.
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So if you got a hunting license, happy New Year, good weather's
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coming. We thank the Lord for the, the,
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the good weather. So I'm going to go over to
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Colossians and I know I'm not going to get through all this
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stuff. I, I really wanted to talk to
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you today mostly about our love for one another and how it's
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evidenced in the way we get together, the way we serve one
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another. Like Brad and you know, with the
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kids and all the workers over there helping the Bible school
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thing. I was blessed by the teens that
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came out and helped, you know, so there's a lot of maturity in
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these young people to come and serve, to give up their time.
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I was blessed by that. You know, Pastor Lewis talked
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about and James about true religion.
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I think he got to that part. But this is true religion that
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you take care of widows and orphans in your in their
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distress and you remain unstained by the world.
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Stay away from the bad things of the world.
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But look out for the the least of these, right?
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You have John and Kelly go to the old folks homes and those
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are the least, you know, they've been there alone.
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Great ministry you have Dave and Dana adopted a couple little
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girls from a broken home, taking care of orphans in air distress.
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And so, you know, we, we look for that as believers and the
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word calls us what to do. Like I said, I'm not an
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administrator. When I was at camp, I, I reached
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the rank of captain, but I was really just a Sergeant because I
36:54
needed the captain to tell me, John, you get those boys up at
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6:00 AM, you run them for five miles, you'll be back here at a
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certain time. I needed to be told everything
37:04
to do. He was a guy that planned out
37:07
all the stuff for the next trip. I, I can't do that.
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I can barely plan myself, you know, But I like the word of God
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because it tells me what to do. It's not a Gray area to take
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care of people that are hurting. It's not a Gray area for us to
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come to church. It's not a Gray area for us to
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love one another in first Peter, it says love covers of multitude
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of sins. You think about that.
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You know we're to love one another.
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There's so many verses in there. Gina sent me this thing with all
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these love one another verses on here and I got some of them, but
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I'll probably never get to them all.
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There's no doubt if you read the New Testament, any Old Testament
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that we are called to love one another.
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You don't have to like be an agreement with everything.
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We're going to disagree on stuff.
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You might not like this or like that, but love covers a
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multitude of sins. And when Jesus paid the price
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for our sin, he covered everything.
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So who are we not to forgive each other and to love each
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other? I, I had a, a friend at work and
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honestly, I don't remember which one it was now, but he was
38:15
saying some stuff about me that it wasn't true.
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And he's my friend, you know, so I was talking to this other
38:21
person and he said, how can you even be friends with him?
38:23
How can you even talk with him anymore?
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He said this about you. And I thought about it for a
38:30
second and I said I'm no better than him.
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I said I may have said stuff about him and I don't remember.
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And I would hope that he wouldn't disown me as a friend.
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Love covers a multitude of sins. So you know in your, your
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closest relationship, if you're married, your wife, you know my
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wife has to cover a multitude of my sins and she does the same
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for me. My advice to people is never go
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to bed angry. Don't let the sin go down on
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your anger. Make amends.
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Say you're sorry, men, man up. Even if it's her fault, you tell
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her you're sorry. God holds you responsible for
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your household. Bring peace because love covers
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a multitude of sins. Sorry about that.
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Let's see Colossians chapter one, verse 3.
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I'll read these to you. Hopefully I wrote the right
39:27
things down here because sometimes I'll write something
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down that's the wrong thing. We give thanks to God the Father
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of our Lord Jesus Christ. Praying always for you since we
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heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you
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have for all the Saints because of the hope that is laid up for
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you in heaven of which you have previously heard in a word of
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truth, the gospel, my footnote in this Bible says in regards to
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that love which you have is says one of the visible fruits of
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true saving faith is love for fellow believers.
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And a lot of the verses that I poured out of here were love for
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fellow believers. At the very basic minimum, it's
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you guys. Me and you, you and whoever,
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it's love for us as brothers because the Bible says if they
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see the the love in you, it makes the difference.
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I don't know. I had a quote.
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I say I didn't have it up there. I probably didn't give it to
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him, but I wrote it down. You guys heard of Tertullian?
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I think Lewis or Clark mentioned them.
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Yeah. Tertullian.
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He wrote something called the Apology written around 197 AD,
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and this is what he had it says. But it is mainly the deeds of
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the love so noble that lead many to put a brand upon us.
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And this is what they say, see They say how they love one
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another and how they are ready even to die for one another.
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The Bible says that they'll know we are Christians by our love.
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And it starts first in the House of the Lord, right with us.
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You don't have to really like me.
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You might think this guy's a lunatic.
41:03
He wants to go out and shoot doves and shoot elk and things
41:06
like that. But you still have to love me.
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You still have to love me. We can talk about the things you
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don't like and I'm willing to hear it.
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I'm willing to sit and discuss, come to the Bible study, come
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talk to me whenever we can talk about things.
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But even if we disagree, we need to love each other.
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We need to work it out. It's not just the suggestion,
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right? It's a it's a commandment.
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I'm going to read you something from John here real quick.
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John 1334 and 35, a new commandment I give you that you
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love one another even as I have loved you, that you also love
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one another. By this, all men will know that
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you are my disciples if you love one another.
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This is how people know who we are.
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I look back on my high school days.
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People knew I was like good. I was morally good.
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I was kind, you know, runner up for being courteous, but I don't
42:06
remember giving anybody the gospel.
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And I had a friend that I met like long after high school who
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said to me one time he became a Christian and he said, how come
42:15
you never told me about that man?
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I just my heart just sank. I could have, I could have maybe
42:22
been the one that led him to the Lord, you know, and I always
42:25
felt bad about that. So I purposed, you know, as life
42:29
went on, when I was at work, you were going to know I was a
42:31
Christian. You were going to know I was a
42:33
Christian because I did the best job I could do.
42:36
I was respectful with people as I could be, and I glorified God
42:40
in what I did. I mean, I made mistakes at work.
42:42
I had to apologize to my boss and tell him I shouldn't have
42:45
said that, but I always apologized.
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And you know, that kind of thing.
42:50
The worst example we could be of a Christian is to go to work and
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not do our job, defame the name of Christ by poor workmanship or
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things that we say and do. How we act needs to be present
43:03
in our work and you know it. Our, our testimony, our witness
43:08
matters greatly. But in amongst the church, I
43:12
don't work with you guys. I don't know you all that well.
43:15
Some I know better than others, but I'm called to love you and
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we will love you. We're here to serve you.
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None of these pastors come up here week after week to bring
43:25
you the word. We teach these, these folks work
43:28
with the kids, they do worshippers all kind of things.
43:31
The sound guys, the financial people, all the thing that goes
43:34
on in this church, all the ministries is done because they
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love the Lord Jesus Christ and they love you guys and willing
43:41
to die for you. Greater love hath no man than
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this. What man would lay down his life
43:48
for a friend, right? Maybe some people wouldn't do
43:52
that, and I think you guys would.
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You know, people always say you don't know what you'll do in a
43:56
situation. I said you have to know, you
43:59
have to know ahead of time. You need to know that you need
44:02
to do what God calls you to do. I've tried to live my life as
44:06
best I can according to what God wants me to do, and I don't
44:09
always do it. I mean, my, if you ask my wife
44:12
or my kids, they can tell you my imperfections and things like
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that. But I know that I'm a forgiving
44:18
man by the grace of God in you know, that's all a good thing.
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But we're commanded to love one another.
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Jesus said if you love me, you'll keep my commandments,
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right? If you love him, you'll keep his
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commandments. John 14 I'm going to read
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something out of John chapter 15.
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You read John, read first. John.
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Sometimes you want to hear about a lot of love that we're
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supposed to have. I mean, it's just, it's filled
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with things and things that we should do and how we should be.
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And John 1512, this is my commandment, that you love one
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another just as I have loved you.
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Greater love hath no man than this one, that that one would
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lay down his life for his friends.
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You are my friends. The Lord said, If you want to do
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what I command you no longer do I call you slaves, for the slave
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does not know what this master is doing.
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But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard
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from my father I have made known to you.
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that
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you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so
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that wherever you ask, whatever you ask of the Father, in my
45:25
name he may give to you. This I command you that you love
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one another. Not a suggestion for me.
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I cannot hide in my basement 24 hours a day and work.
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I need to be out. I need to be with you.
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And likewise, we're commanded to do that.
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And it's a great, it's a great commandment.
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Why wouldn't we want to? Even even the days where I don't
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feel like occasionally might be really tired or something like
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that. I get up and I drive here and a
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couple minutes after I'm here. I'm blessed by your husband's,
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you know, I'm blessed by these guys because we're talking about
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the Lord and they're keeping me straight.
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So I had a whole bunch of commands and 1st John, I'm not
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going to read. I'm not going to have time, but
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they're there for you. It's real simple to read.
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First John's very short, but I had this note I wrote down and
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said it is love that has sparked missions and ministries of mercy
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all over the world. You look at what Christians have
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done through love Hospitals, place things like a World
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Vision, Samaritan's Purse. The Christian Church is
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responsible for building the hospitals and the missions and
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feeding the poor and doing all those things.
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You don't hear a lot about that in a secular world.
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It's our mission. It's our call to love you first
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one another and to love people in the world, not the things of
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the world, not the sin in the world.
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Again, we lovingly call out sin. There's a reason why we do it is
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to protect people to to to to be apostate in the church and not
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call out sin and to let people continue on and sin is like I
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said before, very unloving. If we do that, run, run, find a
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place that teaches the word of God because you got to, you got
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to teach the truth and lying to people just to have them sit
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here doesn't serve them and it just dishonors the Lord.
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I have a whole bunch of verses on what the love looks like.
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I'm not going to have time to read them.
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I'm just going to read 1. I don't want to.
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OK, I'll read this one. First Thessalonians chapter 1511
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to 15. Therefore, encourage one
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another. I wrote this down as like this
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is what it's supposed to look like.
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Therefore, encourage one another, build up one another,
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just as you are also doing. But we request of you, brother,
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in that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you and
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have charge over you and the Lord and give you instruction
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and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their
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work. So when I look at like Brad and
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Janelle and these guys back here and our pastors and people
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serving the youth and the worship, like I'm amazed and,
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and, and I do I, I just love it. I can't do that.
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I can't do what they do, but I love it.
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I love that they do it. And I'm really appreciative of
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all that because, you know, it takes everybody in the body, all
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the parts, all the gifts that God gives us them to make things
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work. And the things that you do
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outside the church, right? The church is here to sharpen
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us, to inspire us, glorify God, you all to be edified, but to
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take that and go out into the world and do what we do.
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But again, it has to start here in our hearts with one another.
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So we esteem them very highly in love because of their work.
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Live in peace with one another. Pretty basic.
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Be peaceful. Don't do like what I did the
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other day and holler out the window.
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Not peaceful could have caused a riot.
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We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the faint
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hearted. So you know, just because we
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love each other doesn't mean there couldn't be church
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discipline too. You know, I, I, I'm not saying
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that everything's lovey dovey huggy, but love.
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There's respect in love and there's things that have to
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happen in love. If I, if I know you in this
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church and you claim to be Christian and we get to know
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each other and you're not acting the way you should be and vice
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versa for me, I'm not. I would expect you to say, hey,
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I see this in your life and we really need to talk about that.
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And we have to be humble enough to accept that.
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There was a couple that came here years ago.
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And again, if lost people come in here, I expect them to be
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different. I expect people not in the
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church to be living together and doing all that kind of stuff
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because that's what people do. It's not right.
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Don't answer to God for that, but I expect them to do that.
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That's just that's the world that I see all around me.
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But if you claim Jesus Christ, I expect something different out
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of you. And if we get to talking about
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it, I'm going to lovingly say this is what God wants.
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So I had a couple here. They both claim to be Christian
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and they were living together. And I said, brother, you know,
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that's that's just not right. You know, it's not good for you.
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It's not good for her especially.
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And he said, we can't afford it. So I asked Pastor Clark and
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Pastor Clark said, we'll do the wedding here for free.
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The people will make the food and bring it.
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And then he end up leaving the church.
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And he said, because I was like too mean or something like that.
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And I'm like, I didn't say you couldn't come to church.
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I'm just saying you claim to be Christian.
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This is what God calls you to do.
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And if, you know, people get saved, they don't know that they
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shouldn't do that. Well, this is what the Bible
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says, man. This is this is what you need to
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do. You need to be pure.
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You need to abstain from sexual immorality.
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And this is how to do it. We want you to be married.
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We want you to stay here and be discipled.
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But I love you too much. It's not like lovey dovey huggy.
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I love you too much to let you continue on in sin because the
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Lord does the same thing for all of us, right?
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He speaks to us. Hey.
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Hey, John, you're not doing the right thing with your money.
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I got to talk to you about that. I don't want to hear it.
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Next day I hear it again and again till finally you break
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down, say, all right, I give up. You're right.
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He has a plan for us. We've got to listen to him.
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And it takes the power of the Holy Spirit in us to live it
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out. It can't be done in our flesh.
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It's the Lord who speaks to us. It's the Lord who gives us the
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power to do that. OK, well, I'm way out of timer.
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I'm sorry I didn't. OK, so I think we need to do the
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Lord's Supper and the worship team should come up.
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I'll make this quick. So you got, I'm sorry it took a
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little bit longer. I didn't know if I'd have 10
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minutes worth of stuff for like way more.
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But so, you know, we take the Lord's Supper.
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To do in another unworthy manner is to do it lost and rejecting
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God. We're all, you know, in reality
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unworthy. But because of what Christ did,
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you are worthy to take the supper.
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If you believe in him, believe on him, know that he paid the
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price for your sins. So I'll pray and then we'll take
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the supper. Lord, we, we do love you for
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everything you've done for us and how it affects our lives,
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what you've kept us from and what you pull us out of by the
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power of your cross, what you've done.
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And we take this cup not as a ritual because it reminds us
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every week what you've done for us.
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And we said, we thank you for that.
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It's, it's amazing. So on the very night that Jesus
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was betrayed, he took the bread and he broke it and he said this
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is my body which is given for you.
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Eat this in remembrance of him in the same way he took the cup
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and he said this is a cup of new covenant in my blood and drink
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this in remembrance of me. And he said as often as you do
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that you remember my death till I come again.
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And I long for that day when he comes again.
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And at home, I hope I'm here with you guys or with my family
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doing something good. Your guys ever I should probably
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shouldn't promote the movie, but you ever see the movie Joe Dirt?
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You know, he always said, is that what you?
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Is that what you want to be doing when Jesus comes back?
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Picking on old poor Joe Dirt? I don't want to be found doing
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something wrong when Jesus comes back, even though I'm forgiven,
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I want to be here with you guys or I want to be up in the
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mountains with my buddy, maybe shooting an elk or something
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like that. I want to glorify God in
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everything that I do if I can, you know, knowing it's peaceful
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grace and mercy. All right, I get out of your
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way. It's all yours.