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1 Timothy chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Timothy chapter 5. Let us pray.
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  Oh Lord, our God, our King are everything.
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  We thank you, Lord, we thank you, Jesus, Yeshua, we thank you
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  for another day to come and worship you in spirit and truth.
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  We thank you God for life and life eternal and life abundant.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll help us to navigate through this time,
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  Lord, through this season. Father, I pray that we will
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  supernaturally know through your written, revealed will and word
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  will know what to do and what to say.
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  God will know where to go. Lord, let us be effective in the
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  ministry that you have called us into.
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  God, I pray that you'll open doors that no man can shut.
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  God shut doors that no man can open.
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  God shut the mouths of the lion. Father, I pray that you will
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  help us to walk on water. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you will help us to heal people.
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  God, your people, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help
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  us to restore sight to the blind.
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  God, help us to restore hearing to the deaf.
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  Lord, help the dumb to be able to talk.
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  God, help the lame to be able to walk.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you, Lord, will restore
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  people back to their right minds.
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  Lord, I pray against any of the demonic haunts.
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  God, any of the demonic attacks, Lord, in the name of Jesus,
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  silence the accuser today. Cast them into the judgment.
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  You have a waiting for them. In the mighty name of Jesus, I
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  pray, God Almighty, break out. Holy Spirit, break out.
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  Holy Spirit, come fill us today. Overflowing into the highways
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  and the hedges and the byways, into the homeless shelters, into
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  the hospitals, into the schools, into the courtroom.
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  God Almighty, I pray that the Holy Spirit will fill US
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  mightily. God, let us not be cowards.
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  Let us not shrink back. Let us not be fearful.
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  God, let us be strong and courageous.
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  Lord, I pray against the senseless taking of life.
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  God, I pray, Lord, that the blood of the martyr will be the
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  seed of the church. God, I pray that you will help
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  us to understand that this is not our home.
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  Lord, we were made for so much more.
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  God, I pray that you will continue to fuel us for the
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  journey. Help us, Lord, to know that you
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  are fighting our battles. Help us to crush the head of the
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  snake. God help us.
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  Lord Jesus, help us to know that you are and that you are
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  everything and that you are fighting our battles and that
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  you are leading us home. Lord, where you are is where we
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  want to be. Let your Kingdom come and your
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  will be done on this earth just as it is there in heaven.
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  Help us to be your hands and feet.
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  Help us to love you more. Father God, you are everything.
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  Yahweh, everlasting, Adonai El Elyon, the Most High.
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  God, you are the one who sees. You're the healer, you're the
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  banner, you're the provider, God, you are Lord Jesus and it's
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  in your holy and precious name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Rebuke not an elder, but treat him as a father and the younger
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  men as brothers. This is some age-old wisdom that
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  God wants to impart to all the believers who choose to get
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  their nose in the book. Once you start feasting upon
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  God's Word, you're going to find that the peace of God starts
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  flooding in. And a lot of it has to do with
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  very practical application. When you read through the book
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  of Proverbs, when you read through the entirety of God's
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  Word, what He does is very simply and methodically starts
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  to reveal the very things in our lives that are going to keep us
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  from the traps and from the deception and from the offense.
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  It's going to keep us from losing our life, from ticking
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  people off by treating them as lesser and lording over others,
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  and it is going to result in a harmonious relationship.
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  When you take these words to heart, when you actually believe
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  them, when you actually put them into practice, it is almost as
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  if God knows what He's talking about.
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  And He wrote all of it in the fabric and the DNA of life and
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  all of the tapestry all around us.
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  And so when you read these words and you put them into practice,
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  you're going to be amazed at the peace that comes in because
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  you're keeping yourself from so much harm.
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  You're keeping yourself from offending people.
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  You're keeping yourself from stepping on people's toes.
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  You're keeping yourself from arguments.
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  You're keeping yourself from so many things that could very well
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  cost you your life because of the disrespect and hear God
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  plainly and simply, black and white tells you that we are not
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  to treat the older generation as if they don't know anything, and
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  we're not to treat the people that are our age as if they are
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  not wise. And this is God's wisdom in
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  practice to the older women as mothers, the younger as sisters
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  with all purity. This is how you keep yourself
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  from so many traps and pitfalls. If you will see older women the
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  same way and treat them as you would your own mother, then you
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  will keep yourself from falling into a pit of despair.
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  And if you see the women in your life that are your age as your
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  sisters and not as potential mates and potential lovers when
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  you already have a wife, then you will keep yourself from so
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  many pitfalls and so many snares.
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  And you need to understand when you put this into practice,
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  you're going to be guarded and have guardrails and safeguards
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  around your marriage and safeguards whenever you are in a
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  situation with the opposite sex. You will not see them as a
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  lover. You will not see them as a
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  lustful object. You will see them as a mother.
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  You will see them as a sister. And you will see that God's plan
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  for the ages is for one man and one woman to have their husband
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  or have their wife and to not let the love to spill into the
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  streets, friends. And this is what safeguards
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  families. And Jesus Christ said there was
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  only one way out of a marriage, and that was infidelity.
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  Because when you cheat on your spouse, there is no going back
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  from that. There is no healing from that.
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  The wound is a gaping hole and it is pussing out with the
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  infection because it cannot be covered over, because it is a
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  defilement that is so incredibly hurtful that you cannot get over
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  it. And that is why the enemy tries
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  to entangle and snare us in lust and try to entangle and snare us
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  in infidelity because he knows that that is the quickest way to
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  break down the family unit, which is his Plan 3 honor widows
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  that are widows indeed. So Paul here is going to get
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  into a section that say make sure you do your homework.
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  Don't be giving the church finance out to people who don't
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  actually need it, that are just asking for an unnecessary
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  handout for. But if any widow have children
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  or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home and to
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  requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before
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  God. So the welfare system needs to
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  start with the widow's own family, if there are those
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  within her own family that can take her in and to help keep her
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  up. That's what needs to happen
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  before the church steps in, and that will actually help with the
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  edification of what God intends for the family unit, for us to
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  be able to see Jesus at work through our hands and feet, and
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  that is what is pleasing unto God. 5 Now she that is a widow
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  indeed, and desolate, trust in God and continue using
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  supplications and prayers night and day.
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  So the woman who is holy and the woman who truly needs the help,
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  it will be shown through her prayers and through what she is
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  doing, not just in asking for a handout, but it will be shown in
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  her character. 6 But she that lives in pleasure is dead while
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  she lives. So Paul here is writing to the
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  church, he's writing to Timothy and Ephesus and he's saying you
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  can tell when when a woman who does not actually need help, she
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  is just looking for a handout and she's just looking for a way
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  to be able to keep up her lavish lifestyle.
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  And he's saying do not support those that are stuck in worldly
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  desires and worldly passions and his and that are discontent with
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  just food and clothing. And that is what God has called
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  us to, to just be content with food and clothing.
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  And he will provide that friends, He will provide your
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  food and he will provide your clothing.
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  He will provide for you friends and you need to be content with
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  what you have and quit thinking about all the things that you
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  need or what you don't have. Friends 7 And these things give
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  in charge that they may be blameless.
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  So he's telling Timothy, he's telling us, listen, you don't
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  need to apologize for refusing to help people if they don't
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  truly need it. 8 But if any provide not for his own and
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  especially for those of his own house, he's denied the faith and
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  is worse than an infidel. So he's saying that those that
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  do not provide for their own family are worse than an
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  unbeliever. How despicable is it for someone
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  who claims to be a believer, but they don't even get up and work
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  to provide for their own family? That is what he's saying, that
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  those people are worse than an infidel.
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  They're worse than an unbeliever.
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  We are called to work. And that if you go back to the
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  book of Genesis and you look, whenever God is dealing out the
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  punishment to man, He told him by the sweat of his brow, by
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  thorns and thistles, he'll try to make a living for himself.
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  And that is what we're called to do, friends, We're called to
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  work. We're called to put our hands to
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  the plow. We're not called to sit on the
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  sidelines and to be lazy. We're called to actually go out.
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  And it is God's plan for the man to be able to provide for his
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  family. And here we are in a society
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  where everything's based off of a double income and it is an
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  attack of the enemy. Friends, I want you to know.
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  I want you to lock into what I'm about to say.
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  Everything is based off of both the husband and the wife working
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  so that you will farm out your responsibility to those who care
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  nothing for your children who just want to indoctrinate them
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  in the doctrine of demons. Friends, far be it from us.
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  If we will trust God with the little, He will multiply it.
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  We need to know that God is able to take our little and to make
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  sure that we have a roof over our head, clean drinking water,
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  food in our bellies and clothes on our back.
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  And they might not be the latest and greatest, they might not be
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  the keeping up with the Joneses status, but it will be plenty
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  and it will be enough. In this calls for wisdom,
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  friends. Nine, let not a widow be taken
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  into the number under 60 years old, having been the wife of one
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  man. So he's saying if she's under 60
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  years old, then she is not able to get the help from the church
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  that she's asking for. And he's going to tell us what
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  she ought to do ten well reported of for good works, if
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  she have brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she
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  has washed Saints feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if
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  she has diligent, diligently followed every good work.
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  So Paul here is telling us what are the requirements for the
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  church to step in and to help a woman who has lost her husband,
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  Not somebody who was a busy body, not somebody who was
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  promiscuous, but a woman who was faithful to her husband, who is
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  over 60 years old. And she has been doing the
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  things already. It's not as if they say if you
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  start doing these things, we will support you.
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  But she is already shown through her life of all the things that
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  she's doing for the church. Then it is easy for them to say
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  yes to her. 11 But the younger widows refuse.
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  When they've begun to grow wanton against Christ, they will
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  marry. So that is what the requirement
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  is. If it is a younger widow under
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  the age of 60, she is to remarry friends so that the church is
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  not burdened by her coming and asking for their help. 12 having
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  damnation because they have cast off their first faith.
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  So what he's saying is these younger women will grow weary
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  and disappear from the faith and Pierce themselves with many
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  sorrows if they just get put up. If they just get set up, if they
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  think that they just get a free ride, they'll fall away.
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  And this is Paul's wisdom, this is God's wisdom, and he wants us
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  to know what it is that the church is required to do, and
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  what they are free from not doing. 13 And with all they
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  learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, not
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  only idle, but tattlers also, busy bodies speaking things
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  which they ought not. So these younger widows have the
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  propensity to still be immature in their walk and to just go
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  around gossiping and telling white lies.
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  And Paul here saying put them under the strain of needing to
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  be remarried. And women are created.
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  Women need to be led. And that is why it is so
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  important to choose a husband who loves God more than they
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  love you. 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry and
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  bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the
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  adversary to speak reproachfully.
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  So here Paul is laying out the groundwork of what is pleasing
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  unto God. And it is for the wife to be a
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  homemaker. It is for the wife to rear
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  children. It is for the wife to keep the
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  house. And that's that is so incredibly
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  foreign to our current culture, but it is pleasing unto God and
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  it is his will for us even today.
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  This is not of antiquity. This is not for a different
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  time. This is for today, friends.
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  And if we will put this into practice, if we will trust God
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  that He will provide and that we don't need 2 incomes, you're
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  going to see miracles break out. You're going to see God keeping
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  your house in perfect peace. But by and large, most do not
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  put this into practice. 15 for some are already turned aside
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  after Satan. How sad is that These widows
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  lose their husband, and because they've lost the leader, they
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  get LED astray, and it is sad. 16 If any man or woman that
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  believes and have widows, let them relieve them, and let not
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  the church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows
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  indeed. So he's saying, let them first
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  be supported by their own family.
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  Don't burden the church. That should be the last resort.
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  17 Let the elders that rule be well be counted worthy of double
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  honor, especially they who labor in Word and doctrine.
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  So here he turns his attention to the elders of the church who
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  give their lives to Word and doctrine.
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  They give their lives over to studying of the Word and
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  teaching the Word. And he's saying let them be
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  counted of a double honor. And that was how he led this
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  whole chapter off about not rebuking an elder.
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  Friends. 18 For the scripture says, you shall not muzzle the
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  ox that treads out the corn, and the laborer is worthy of his
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  reward. So Paul is here saying that if
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  someone is preaching the gospel, then they deserve to be
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  supported by the gospel. And Paul knew this fact, but he
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  still refused it, and he was a tent maker, and he was no lesser
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  because he refused to be supported by it.
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  He's telling us that the laborer is worth his wages and that we
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  should not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.
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  If you muzzle the beast when it's out there in the field and
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  you're asking it to work and it cannot eat while it works, it
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  will fall over. 19 against an elder received no accusation,
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  but before two or three witnesses.
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  So he's saying don't believe somebody whenever they rail an
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  accusation against somebody who is in authority.
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  Just because they say it does not make it actual.
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  You need at least two, but preferably 3 witnesses to
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  substantiate a claim. 20 them that sin rebuke before all that
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  others also may fear. So we don't need to give the
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  devil a foothold. We don't need to just latch on
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  to the gossip and the lies and the slander about somebody.
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  We don't need to believe all of the accusations that come our
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  way about those that are in authority.
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  A lot of times it's undermining and it's mutiny, friends, and we
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  could be guilty if we latch on to it and if we believe it and
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  run with it before we get at least two or three witnesses to
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  substantiate that claim. But we are given permission that
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  those that do sin, and it's validated by at least 2, but
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  preferably 3 witnesses. We are justified in judging
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  them. We are justified at justice.
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  We're justified at bringing about the charge and turning
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  them out friends. And we are justified in making
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  sure that they know that they have sinned and that they have
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  been found out. 21 I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus
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  Christ and the elect angels, that you observe these things
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  without preferring one before another, doing nothing by
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  partiality. God is no respecter of men.
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  God does not care about what you look like in the outside.
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  God cares that you clean the inside of the cup.
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  Don't show partiality because they give more money to the
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  church. Don't turn a blind's eye away
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  when somebody does something wrong.
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  Wrong is wrong, friends. It's black and white.
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  It's written here in the Scripture for us to search and
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  to know what God's heart is and what it is that we are to do
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  that pleases God. And when people step out of
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  line, they need to be told that they have so that they can
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  correct it. We don't need to just sugarcoat
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  things, friends. We need to make sure that we
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  give people the opportunity to repent and to turn and to
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  confess and to be restored. God is a God of restoration.
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  God is a God of reconciliation. We don't need to leave them out
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  in the cold if they are truly repentant.
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  And you can see here that the things that we do, the angels
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  are watching. You need to understand that God
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  uses humans to teach angels lessons.
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  How amazing is that 22 lay hands suddenly on no man neither be
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  partaker of other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.
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  So Paul here saying do your homework.
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  Don't just love somebody into hell.
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  Don't just sinfully show mercy, people need to be corrected and
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  given the opportunity to turn away from those sins and to
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  learn the ways of God. 23 Drink no longer water, but use a
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  little wine for your stomachs sake and you're often
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  infirmities. So it's plain as the nose on
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  your face that God is not a God of just pure abstinence when it
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  comes to alcohol. And of course this was written
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  in a time where alcohol was less fermented, less alcohol content,
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  less volume of alcohol within a beverage.
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  And we have taken it and we have made it much stronger.
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  But you need to understand that during this time, Paul was
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  writing to Timothy telling him to have a little wine.
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  Don't just think that you can be holier than thou by not drinking
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  at all. But we do not need to be a
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  stumbling block to those that we know that stumble from alcohol.
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  And this calls for wisdom 24 Some men's sins are open
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  beforehand, going before to judgement, and some men, they
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  follow after. Some people wear their sins on
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  their sleeve, friends, and some people hide them in a closet.
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  And we don't know anything about them until they're found out
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  because God brought them out, friends.
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  And you need to understand that God has to deal with sin.
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  He cannot be around it. And he did it all on the cross.
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  And love covers a multitude of sins.
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  We'll end on 25. Likewise.
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  Also, the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and they
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  that are otherwise cannot be hid.
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  So God deals with things, He brings it all out to the light,
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  the good and the bad. If you think that you are
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  secretly sinning, your sin will find you out.
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  And if you think that no one sees all the things that that
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  you're doing and you're not seeking any kind of recognition,
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  God will bring those out to friends and you will be rewarded
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  and honored in due time. Do not grow weary in doing good.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you so I just got. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.