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As The Pit Burns: Backfires! · Adventures: Bible Truths in Action

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  Who are you? I'm Batman.
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  Batman, is that really you? I didn't think you'd be dumb
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  enough to end up here in hell. You should have asked Jesus into
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  your heart. Hey Batman, you bowed.
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  Yes, I did. Boss, I knew it was you all
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  along. Yeah.
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  What are you doing with that Batman costume on?
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  I'm. Tired of sitting around here
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  doing nothing? I'm going to go make a
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  difference in the world. What kind of difference?
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  A bad difference? What other kind is there?
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  There is no other kind Master evil rules.
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  Things are about to change around here, Damon.
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  I'm going to find God's secret place.
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  What? That's the reason for the
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  costume. I can't get into God's secret
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  place looking like myself, but with this clever disguise, I can
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  go anywhere. Master, do you know where God's
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  secret place is? No, that's why I have to find
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  it. If I can just get into God's
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  secret place and cause some big problems, then God's reputation
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  will be ruined. Yeah, no one would serve God
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  then. Not if he can't protect the
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  people. Exactly.
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  Everyone wants protection so they'll run from God and write
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  to me, Batman. Wait a minute.
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  I thought I heard one time that God's secret place wasn't a real
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  place. You know that can be seen.
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  What do you mean? Where did you hear that?
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  In church. You know, all the time You sent
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  me to church to cause trouble. So I heard this preacher say,
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  God's secret place is not a place place.
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  God's secret place is being a doer of God's Word.
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  What are you talking about? People get into God's secret
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  place when they put their trust in God and His Word.
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  No matter what happens, God promises to keep those people in
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  perfect peace. That's what Isaiah 26 three
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  says. So God's secret place is
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  anywhere and everywhere Christians are.
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  Yeah, and God gives his angels charge over the Christians who
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  dwell there to keep them safe. Angels guarding Christians.
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  Yeah, God sends his angels to guard and protect him when they
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  speak His word. I have an idea.
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  What's this costume for? Put it on.
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  But I don't. Be quiet.
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  Put it on. And this too.
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  OK, but I don't like this one bit.
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  So what's new? All right, now get out there and
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  cause chaos, Batman. But I thought you were going to
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  find the secret place. With angels on the loose, Are
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  you kidding? Who's going to run things if I
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  get hurt? No one.
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  Exactly. And we can't have that.
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  This is a 24 hour a day, seven day a week job.
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  Now. Fly, Batman, Fly.
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  OK. I may never see him again.
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  David, did you feel what I just felt?
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  I think so, but we're all out of Pepto Bismol.
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  What are you talking about? There's a rumbly in your tumbly.
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  That rumbly wasn't my tumbly. I felt.
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  The earth move under my feet. Oh, that You're feeling the
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  worship rumble? The worship rumble.
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  What's that? It's God's children worshipping
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  you know who again? No, we've got to stop this
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  worship rumble, Damon. Those kids are tearing up the
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  very foundations of hell. How can I torment people if I'm
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  worried about this place caving in on me?
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  You remember what you know, who said God invented praise even
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  for the kids to steal the enemy and quiet the avenger?
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  That's us, You know. God inhabits the praises of his
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  people and he's a big guy. I know that, Damon, Do I look
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  dumb to you? Dumb.
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  No. Ugly.
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  Yes. Who asked you?
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  Ouch. Wait, that's it.
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  We'll make them think it's dumb. Make who think what's dumb.
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  Christians. Christians aren't dumb.
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  I know that. But if we can get Christians to
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  think worshipping God is dumb, then they'll be dumb.
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  The only people dumb enough to think worshipping God is dumb
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  would be people too dumb to receive well, you know who as
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  Lord and savior of their lives. Correct me if I'm wrong, Master,
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  but the dumb ones aren't the problem.
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  It's the smart ones that are worshipping God.
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  Worshipping God is always the wise thing to do.
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  Then we have to figure out a way to make the smart ones dumb.
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  But the smart ones have God's word to make them.
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  Smart. Then we'll.
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  Just have to steal God's word from them.
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  How? When they're being taught, we'll
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  do things to distract them from hearing the word of God, so they
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  won't understand anything. What they don't understand, we
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  can steal. We can.
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  Yeah, it says so in the Bible. Mark, Chapter 4.
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  Well, if the Bible says we can, then we can.
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  What was that for? If the bang that says we can,
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  then we can. I hit you because you sounded
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  like one of those faith Christians.
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  Oh yeah, I did. Now get up there, distract those
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  kids and steal the word of God from them and hopefully they'll
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  stop worshipping God. On my way.
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  And if you fail, I'm as good as God, Damon.
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  Oh, Damon Damon Status report. Cloudy skies today and tonight.
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  Slight chance of rain. Winds from the north at 30 mph.
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  That's the weather report. I want the status on how things
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  are going here in the Kingdom of darkness.
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  Well, it's still dark. I know it's still dark.
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  How's our attendance? I want to double this year, you
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  know. Well, we're off to a bad start.
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  People are getting saved left and right.
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  How can that be? Easy.
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  They pray and give their hearts. To I know how they get saved.
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  Why do they get saved? Why?
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  Do they believe? In God they can't see.
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  God, they can't see their brains either, but that doesn't mean
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  their brains don't exist. Your brain doesn't exist.
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  Ow. Now let's go over the game plan
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  one more time. We.
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  Have a game plan? What game plan?
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  See what I mean? You don't have a brain.
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  I had a brain, but I left it in heaven when I started following
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  you. What did you say?
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  That I'm following you. Your wish is my command master.
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  Listen up. The game plan is to get kids to
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  say bad things. Like, I don't feel good.
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  I'm scared. I can't do it.
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  I don't have any money. I give my life to you, Jesus.
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  No. Why did you say that?
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  That's what kids say when they don't feel good or they're
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  scared or whatever problem they have.
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  Somebody's praying for them and before you know it, they get
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  saved. Quit saying good things.
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  How are you going to get kids to say bad things if you're saying
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  good things? I want you to start saying that
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  they hate. God.
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  But master why would anyone hate God?
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  God is love. If you say one more.
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  Good thing, Damon, I'm putting you in the torture chamber.
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  Please note I'm sorry, I'll say bad things from now on to
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  promised. Good.
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  And get those kids to say bad things when they say bad things.
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  Send in the report right away so I can send a demon to make it
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  happen. So if I can get them to say I'm
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  sick, you'll send a demon to make them really sick?
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  Exactly. Now get to it.
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  Get them to say something bad, Anything.
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  But master, isn't that copying God?
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  I mean, angels are sent by God to help Christians on the earth.
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  You're sending demons to hurt them.
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  What a surprise. You do have a brain.
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  Now get going. Well, on second thought, get
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  back here. That really hurt.
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  Now get going, We're in big trouble.
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  What's the matter, boss? It's those kids.
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  They're getting serious about God.
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  Every time I turn around, they're praying for each other.
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  Well, you're the devil. Do something.
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  Do what? I don't know how to stop them.
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  I'm afraid they'll hurt me. Master, where is the best place
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  to go for answers to a problem? I know it's not the psychic
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  hotline. The Bible.
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  Does the Bible tell how to get kids to stop living for God?
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  Evil company corrupts Good habits.
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  First Corinthians, 1533. Evil company corrupts good
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  habits. That's it.
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  We'll get other kids that like evil things to be their friends.
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  Their choice of friends effects their attitudes and behavior.
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  And before long, they won't be praying for each other.
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  And if we're lucky, they'll be making fun of prayer.
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  We'll actually be turning their hearts away from God and they
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  won't even know it. You're a genius.
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  I'm going to start calling you the Bible Answer Demon.
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  I didn't write the Bible. God did I?
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  Know that's why it will work. Now help me round up some evil
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  company Bible answer demon. Oh, Bible answer demon.
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  What's up your loneliness? The evil company we sent those
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  kids is working, but it's not enough.
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  Not everyone fell for it. There are still some kids
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  praying. Bad news.
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  Why? Even if only two agreed
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  together, we're in big trouble. What does the Bible say we can
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  do at this point? The Bible is the same.
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  Yesterday, today and forever. The solution is still evil.
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  Company corrupts good habits. First Corinthians, 1533.
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  We tried that. Some of the kids are too mean.
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  Nobody likes them. Even I don't like some of them.
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  Find some kids that call themselves Christians but don't
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  always act like Christians to be their friends.
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  Yeah, some kind of good kids that are still kind of bad.
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  Like a good kid that does everything right except that he
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  cusses or tells lies. Or a good kid that does
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  everything right except she disobeys her parents.
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  Remember, their choice of friends effects their attitudes
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  and behavior. Yeah, I see it.
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  Evil company corrupts good habits.
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  Come on, help me round up some not so evil company rats.
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  Big ugly, hairy, stinky rats with bow ties on.
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  What am I saying? Oh, it's you, Bible answer
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  demon. I need some more help.
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  What's up your awfulness? Check the scriptures again.
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  We need a phase three. What happened with phase two?
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  It helped, but there are still plenty of kids that aren't
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  hanging around my bad company. It's the parents that are
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  getting in the way. My mommy won't let me play with
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  you because you're a bad influence.
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  They make me sick. I think that's the idea.
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  Let me lay a little godly wisdom on you.
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  Here's your phase three Evil company corrupts Good habits.
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  First Corinthians, 1533. We've used that twice already.
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  I need more. Trust me, fear leader Evil
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  company does not have to be human.
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  Oh. Evil Company can be a video
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  game. Video.
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  Game an imaginary wicked friend. Imaginary friend.
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  A favorite trashy song. A song.
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  An evil cartoon. Cartoons.
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  It can be anything that gets them to turn away from God.
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  Remember, their choice of friends effects their attitudes
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  and behavior. Evil company corrupts good
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  habits. I don't know what I do without
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  you. Without you?
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  If only I had thought of that before I got thrown out of
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  heaven with you. All right, listen up.
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  We've been given orders to keep Christianity from spreading.
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  From now on, the people who are Christians are to be considered
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  as lost. Don't you mean found?
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  I once was lost, but now I'm found.
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  That's what the song says. OK, Jules, whatever the people
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  who are Christians now are. Found.
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  The point is we don't want it to spread to others that are still
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  lost, so any. Ideas kill everyone.
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  Yeah, we can't do that. Any other ideas?
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  Come on, think. He who in souls is Wise Proverbs
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  11/30. Jules, did Did you say
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  something? It's just a verse in the Bible
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  that I've been studying He who in souls is Wise Proverbs 11/30
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  and they represent. Jesus to the.
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  World sharing the good news that God loves everyone.
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  I'd like to take a moment right here to remind each and everyone
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  of you that under no circumstances are you to use the
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  name of the name of the Son of God.
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  Why can't we say the name of Jesus?
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  Do you hear that? Do you know what that is?
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  I'll tell you what that is. At the sound of that name, that
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  name you just said, every knee shall bow, and every tongue
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  confess that you know who is Lord.
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  So since I'm the boss, and since I don't like bowing, ain't
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  nobody going to use that name. You got that?
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  Sorry, boss. So how are we going to stop
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  Christians from telling other people about?
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  Don't say it. I mean the Son of God when God
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  says it's a smart thing to do. OK, maybe we need to look at
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  this problem a little. Different.
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  Instead of how to keep them Christians from telling others
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  about the Savior, we need to find a way to make them dumb.
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  Let's take a quick break and then come back to continue our
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  discussion. Doughnut.
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  Break. What did you say that?
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  For. I've brought doughnuts.
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  Alright, alright, finish your doughnuts and let's focus on our
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  new strategy. Instead of trying to get
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  Christians not to tell others about G, the Son of God, we want
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  to make them dumb so they don't do the wise thing that Jewel so
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  kindly pointed out. What was that verse again?
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  Ah. He who in souls is Wise Proverbs
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  11/30. That's the one.
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  OK, so how do we make them dumb? Kill everyone.
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  OK, wacko, you said that already.
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  It's a no can do. Any other ideas, huh?
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  What about distracting them while they're at school so they
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  don't pay attention in class? Yeah, but So what if they flunk
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  spelling when they go to church and learn about?
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  Don't say it. When they learn about the
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  Savior, they'll want to tell their friends and family the
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  good news that God loves them and that He sent Jesus to die
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  for their sins. Sorry, boss.
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  How many times do I got to tell you?
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  Don't say that name? Bada boom bada Bing.
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  I forgot I I said I was sorry. I just wanted to point out that
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  he who wins souls is wise. Doesn't have anything to do with
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  getting good grades at. School.
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  You've got a point. All right, so then forget
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  distracting kids at school. I've got it.
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  Let's embarrass them. Let's make them afraid to tell
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  people about the Son of God. That just might work.
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  Boss will make kids believe that people will laugh at them and
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  make fun of them. If they try to talk about you
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  know who. They'll be so embarrassed that
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  they won't even try to tell their friends about God's love
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  that he showed when he sent his son to die for their sins.
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  All. Right.
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  I feel like we're getting somewhere.
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  Let's take another break and then we'll solve this baby once
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  and for all. Potty Break.
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  Would just say that for. I gotta go potty.
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  All right, all right, let's recap.
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  Our goal was to keep Christians from telling others about.
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  The. Savior, but Jules informed us
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  that. What was that verse again?
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  He who in souls is Wise Proverbs 11/30.
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  Right, apparently. These Christians, they represent
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  the Savior. To the world.
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  Sharing the good news that God loves.
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  Everyone. So we thought making Christians
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  dumb would work. But the problem isn't learning
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  spelling and math like they do in school.
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  It's what they learned from the Bible.
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  That's hurting us. So then the boss came up with
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  the idea to make kids feel embarrassed to talk about you
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  know who? Will you let me?
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  Do the talk enough. Oh yeah, sure, boss.
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  Kill everyone The G Wacko What? Why didn't I think of that?
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  Oh, I know. Because we can't kill everyone.
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  That's why I didn't think of that.
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  Are there any? Other ideas?
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  Well, we can make them afraid to go to church.
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  You know, like if they're around a bunch of people, they might
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  get sick. OK.
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  That sounds good. Also, we could make them think
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  that if they go to church, they won't know anybody and they'll
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  feel lonely. Yeah, yeah, I.
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  Could see that. Or kill everyone.
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  Knock it off. OK, those are some good ideas,
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  Jules. Let's work on those.
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  Make kids afraid to go to church because they might get sick or
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  they'll feel lonely, or maybe they'll get into a fight with
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  someone. That way they won't be wise.
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  And what was that verse again? He Who and Souls is wise
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  Proverbs 11/30. That's it everyone.
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  Let's get to work. And yo, Jules, you've.
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  Done a good job. You didn't say.
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  The name. What name?
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  You know Jesus.