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The Third Watch with Gary & Sara: # 6-Right or Wrong? Ep 2710 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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Speaker 1: Greetings to all of our listeners. This is Sarah Jewel,
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Speaker 1: co host with host Gary mccantz for Challenges of Faith
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Speaker 1: Radio and our series The Third Watch. The Third Watch
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Speaker 1: represents watchers during Biblical times who manned the town's tower,
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Speaker 1: in this case, between midnight and three am. These men
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Speaker 1: were on the lookout for warnings or threats against the
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Speaker 1: townspeople and so would provide early warning. These threats could
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Speaker 1: be sudden raiders or military aggressors, but even messengers that
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Speaker 1: carried critical information and whether too, could have an impact
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Speaker 1: if something dire was seen on the horizon. And so
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Speaker 1: we two, Gary and I are watches on the tower,
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Speaker 1: keeping look out in the dark hours to alert you,
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Speaker 1: to wake you, and do not only warn you, but
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Speaker 1: give you hope. And that hope is in the power
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Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. He's coming back soon and we need
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Speaker 1: to be ready. And so, Father God, once again we
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Speaker 1: come before your throne of grace. Yes, undeserved mercy, but
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Speaker 1: we know you love us and want us to know
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Speaker 1: you and the wonderful future you have in store for us.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we can't understand the challenges we have in our faith,
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Speaker 1: but we know that by keeping you in our hearts
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Speaker 1: and minds, and knowing that your spirit is with us,
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Speaker 1: we can overcome to prayer and supplications because we can
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Speaker 1: always lean on your strength and direction. Lastly, I want
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Speaker 1: to thank you for Gary mccantz, who has been faithful
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Speaker 1: in faith and obedience to your calling. He's an example
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Speaker 1: of perseverance in faith and we hold him up to
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Speaker 1: you for blessings. Ask that you give all of us
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Speaker 1: a double portion of faith, wisdom, revelation and encouragement. And
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Speaker 1: I pray this all in Jesus' name. Listeners, thank you
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Speaker 1: for tuning in. As you are well aware. Here in
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Speaker 1: the United States, the election cycle has caused great upheaval
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Speaker 1: in our country. That's an understatement, and I'm sure in
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Speaker 1: your own countries is commotion and turbulence, some politics, social problems,
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Speaker 1: and horrendous natural events. And I'm certain all of these
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Speaker 1: factors are causing distress in your hearts. For Christians, we
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Speaker 1: rely on prayer in God's Word our Bible. We also
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Speaker 1: lean into fellowship with other Christians and hearing and pondering
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Speaker 1: what our spiritual leaders are teaching and preaching in the
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Speaker 1: Word of God. We stay connected to our spirit virtual help.
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Speaker 1: We're encouraged, and we're prepared because we know the things
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Speaker 1: that are happening today are only going to increase. If
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Speaker 1: you've been paying attention to current events you are seeing
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Speaker 1: and hearing. Ah, it's amazing, disturbing talk and behavior, But
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Speaker 1: we as Christians have spiritual optimism. God has us and
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Speaker 1: I love this from the Book of Isaiah, chapter forty,
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Speaker 1: verse thirty one. And just think of this visual. It's
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Speaker 1: so beautiful. But those who wait on the Lord shall
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Speaker 1: renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles.
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Speaker 1: They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk
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Speaker 1: and not saints. Isn't that beautiful. Here's another one from
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Speaker 1: the Book of Isaiah, chapter forty one, verse ten. Fear not,
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Speaker 1: for I am with you. Be not dismayed your God.
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Speaker 1: I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I
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Speaker 1: will uphold you with my righteous right hand. God is
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Speaker 1: with us. We have that comfort. And Gary and I,
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Speaker 1: as watchers on the tower, want you to know that, yes,
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Speaker 1: there are threats on the horizon, but if you're alert,
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Speaker 1: you won't be overly surprised because you'll be prepared and
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Speaker 1: most certainly encouraged. When you begin to discern the disturbing
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Speaker 1: signs of our times. One of the themes that we
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Speaker 1: have hit upon in our series are people who twist
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Speaker 1: information to suit their platforms. We pointed out that in
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Speaker 1: order to be discerning, we needed to understand both sides.
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Speaker 1: But in addition to this, it's our responsibility to truly
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Speaker 1: understand what we are seeing and hearing and comparing it
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Speaker 1: to what we know of God's word, because there is
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Speaker 1: good and evil, contrary to what others would lead us
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Speaker 1: to believe, there are absolutes. We've told you that Jesus
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Speaker 1: is coming back, and we approach Jesus prophecy on the
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Speaker 1: last days. That is the end of our world as
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Speaker 1: it currently is. That many things are going to happen,
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Speaker 1: and we're seeing this unfold before us. In Two Timothy,
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Speaker 1: chapter three, verses one through four, the apostle Paul writes,
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Speaker 1: and listen to this. This is very poignant. But know
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Speaker 1: this that in the last days, critical times hard to
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Speaker 1: deal with will be here. For men will be lovers
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Speaker 1: of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,
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Speaker 1: having no natural affection, open to any agreement, slanderers without
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Speaker 1: self control, fierce without love of goodness. You see, listeners,
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Speaker 1: This is just an example of what has been prophesied
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Speaker 1: throughout the Bible. And here are the next two sentences.
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Speaker 1: This is two Timothy again, Chapter three, These of verses
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Speaker 1: four through five, and this is the new Living translation.
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Speaker 1: It says they will betray their friends, be reckless, be
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Speaker 1: puffed up with pride and love pleasure rather than God.
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Speaker 1: They will act religious, but they will reject the power
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Speaker 1: that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that.
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Speaker 1: Paul is telling his friend Timothy to stay away from
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Speaker 1: people like that. Well, I have to say that's very
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Speaker 1: apropos for what's going on in our society now. And
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Speaker 1: yes it's unsettling, but the word of God will heighten
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Speaker 1: our Just to be aware of these types of people
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Speaker 1: who are bent on the perception of what is right
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Speaker 1: and what is wrong, or what is good and what
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Speaker 1: is bad. It's their perception. We hear so much on
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Speaker 1: trending subjects from newscasters, pundits, influencers, and from certain groups
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Speaker 1: of people speaking publicly about what they believe is right
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Speaker 1: or wrong. It's not limited to public people either. It
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Speaker 1: could be our family members, friends, teachers, or neighbors. But
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Speaker 1: I want to digress for a minute. In doctor Tim
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Speaker 1: Lahay's book The Rapture, he writes that there are more
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Speaker 1: than three hundred prophecies of Jesus first coming to this earth,
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Speaker 1: and all have been fulfilled. Biblical scholars will attest to this.
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Speaker 1: That's over three hundred examples attesting that the Bible is trustworthy.
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Speaker 1: But then he writes, we find three times as many
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Speaker 1: prophecies in the Bible relating to his second company coming
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Speaker 1: as to his first listeners. This is noteworthy. It three
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Speaker 1: times as many prophecies for a second coming. So what
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Speaker 1: does this mean that those prophecies are real and that
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Speaker 1: Jesus is coming back. And it's critical we understand the
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Speaker 1: difference between what society thinks is right versus what God
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Speaker 1: thinks is right. And it's the reason I underscore that
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Speaker 1: Jesus is coming back and why we should be aware, alert,
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Speaker 1: and recognize what's going on around us, because the Bible
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Speaker 1: has preticted and foretold the events of the beginning of
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Speaker 1: end times. And my friends, we're in an environment where
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Speaker 1: people's behavior is one of self and not of God.
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Speaker 1: We're seeing more and more people and it's all ages,
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Speaker 1: men and women, people of all professions moving away from God.
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Speaker 1: And as they move away from God, what do they do?
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Speaker 1: They move closer to themselves and genuinely believe that their
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Speaker 1: opinions are right, even if these opinions fly in the
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Speaker 1: face of God's commandments and teachings. And you know, it's
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Speaker 1: interesting because many people believe in their hearts that they
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Speaker 1: are right, even if it's wrong in God's eyes. They
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Speaker 1: are trusting their inner sense as to what they believe
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Speaker 1: to be right or wrong, not only any godly spiritual sense,
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Speaker 1: because if we lean on God's teachings, his right and
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Speaker 1: wrong never changes, and it's clearly defined. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: our opinion of what might be right can change. It
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Speaker 1: can change with other people's influence by a family member,
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Speaker 1: a friend, a boy or girlfriend, a teacher, pundits, or
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Speaker 1: certain groups. Our overall inner human thoughts, that is, our
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Speaker 1: values of morals you know yourself. It can change with age,
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Speaker 1: it can change with experience, it can change with trends
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Speaker 1: and in time. In other words, our concept, our human
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Speaker 1: concept of what's right and what's wrong, good or bad.
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Speaker 1: It's changeable. And while people will say we have an
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Speaker 1: innate radar for what's right and what's wrong. I personally
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Speaker 1: think it's been disabled. Hearts have been hardened to God's commands.
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Speaker 1: But again I reiterate God's commandments, his teachings, his standards
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Speaker 1: do not change, but we do. Okay. Admittedly, no human
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Speaker 1: is perfect or sinless, So with that in mind, we
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Speaker 1: can be misguided an awful lot. The surety of some
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Speaker 1: believing that they are right without backup of God's word
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Speaker 1: is a candle in the wind. Gary and I are
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Speaker 1: watching the horizon, and we are seeing many people who
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Speaker 1: seem like good and reasonable people suddenly varying way off
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Speaker 1: the mark of God's teaching, and the confusion expands. Your
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Speaker 1: conscience might or might not tweak you if you do
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Speaker 1: something bad, because you might think you have a cause
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Speaker 1: and you're justified in aggressive behavior, for example, insulting someone
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Speaker 1: we perceive to be uninformed or biased, and it's likely
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Speaker 1: that that person may have as strong a notion as
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Speaker 1: we do on the subject. And what happens, well, we
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Speaker 1: know what happens. Both parties end up jousting rather than
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Speaker 1: having a respectful dialogue, because one person's right is another
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Speaker 1: person's wrong. But does anyone can consider what God's word
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Speaker 1: says on the matter. I'm going to talk about some
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Speaker 1: things that show people clearly leaning on their own desires
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Speaker 1: rather than what God has mandated. I mean, even God
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Speaker 1: himself has been twisted by those who are radical in
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Speaker 1: their religious beliefs. And we see this type of aggressive
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Speaker 1: behavior increasing. And you've got to admit, listeners, all you
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Speaker 1: have to do is turn on TV and watch what
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Speaker 1: the newscasters are saying, or go through your news streams.
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Speaker 1: You will see aggressive behavior language is increasing.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: If you're committed to a specific political party, you'll see
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Speaker 1: even our leaders are name calling and setting up one
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Speaker 1: another for possible, really dangerous retaliation. They're leading us to
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Speaker 1: accept bad behavior as good defense. These high profile politicians
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Speaker 1: of both parties don't uphold God's tenant of loving your
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Speaker 1: neighbor as yourself. No, these politicians clearly do not love
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Speaker 1: their neighbor. They certainly don't like their challenger. Yet when
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Speaker 1: we back these politicians, we are accepting an eye for
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Speaker 1: an eye. We're accepting bad behavior with the defense of well,
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Speaker 1: the other guy is doing the same thing. Their wrong
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Speaker 1: behavior is so called right defense. Here's another example of
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Speaker 1: accepting wrong for right or bad for good? This is chilling.
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Speaker 1: I witnessed this discussion that Ben Shapiro, he's host of
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Speaker 1: the Ben Shapira Show, head with a trans man. Now,
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Speaker 1: so you understand, this person is a biological woman but
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Speaker 1: identifies as a man, and as such, the person asserted
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Speaker 1: that a man can get pregnant because this trans man
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Speaker 1: rejects the scientific fact that she is a woman, proving
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Speaker 1: to herself, slash himself and followers that as a man
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Speaker 1: she can get pregnant. I hope you could follow that.
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Speaker 1: But listeners, this is what's happening in the United States
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Speaker 1: right now. Groups of people are setting up dynamics for
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Speaker 1: changing genders with merely human desire to change gender, with
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Speaker 1: disdain for God's initial creation in the womb. The decision
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Speaker 1: is good to them, but how does God view that decision?
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Speaker 1: Is it right that man can usurp God's creation? No,
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Speaker 1: it's wrong. We're not God. But for those who are
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Speaker 1: without God, they believe they have the right to change
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Speaker 1: genders and insist others accept that change. Now, we've talked
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Speaker 1: about abortion before in a previous podcast, where some people
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Speaker 1: believe it's a woman's right to terminate a baby through abortion.
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Speaker 1: I made the point that suppose the child the woman
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Speaker 1: wants to abort is female, doesn't that female have a
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Speaker 1: right to her own life. Now again, I'm not speaking
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Speaker 1: of medical emergencies where the mother's life is at stake.
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Speaker 1: I'm speaking about a woman and her supporters who want
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Speaker 1: the right to terminate a baby at any stage, and
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Speaker 1: they see it as good and right. But I can
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Speaker 1: assure you God sees it as bad and wrong. And
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Speaker 1: this is a debate we need to have with not
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Speaker 1: only others, but ourselves. Is it about us or our
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Speaker 1: preconceived rights, or is it God's will in his creation.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to bring up some one nine verses thirteen
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Speaker 1: and fourteen again which I brought up in a previous podcast.
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Speaker 1: For you created my inmost being, You knit me together
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Speaker 1: in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am
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Speaker 1: fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know
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Speaker 1: that full well. Even then they knew that a child
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Speaker 1: in the womb was in fact a child, a human being.
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Speaker 1: But listen, I know of many good people who support abortion.
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Speaker 1: But again, we need to define what is good in
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Speaker 1: decide if God honors our own opinions. I don't think
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Speaker 1: he does, as it goes against his word. Now, why
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Speaker 1: do people considered the term sin, that is a word
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Speaker 1: that means offenses against God? Do they consider sin? I
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Speaker 1: don't think many people hold on to that concept anymore.
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Speaker 1: Now as Christians, we certainly do, and each of us,
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Speaker 1: Christian or not, are guilty of committing offenses against God.
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Speaker 1: And if we don't turn from our ways and confess
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Speaker 1: our sins, God won't overlook our transgressions. He's a holy God.
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Speaker 1: Jesus died on the cross for us. He took our sins.
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Speaker 1: We can't take this lightly. It's not a myth. He
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Speaker 1: died so we could be saved, and his resurrection gives
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Speaker 1: us that certainty. Hey, but if we shrug off our
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Speaker 1: sins think that what we want is right and good,
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Speaker 1: well we're fronting God who created us, and we're breaking
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Speaker 1: his law. Remember what I said earlier regarding what the
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Speaker 1: apostle Paul wrote to Timothy. I'll pick out just a
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Speaker 1: few remarks Paul said, But know this that in the
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Speaker 1: last days, critical times hard to deal with will be
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Speaker 1: here for men will be lovers of themselves. Listen as
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Speaker 1: we're seeing this now, and Paul mentions other negative attributes
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Speaker 1: so apparent in our days that Paul pointed out centuries
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Speaker 1: ago is and this is what he said. They are
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Speaker 1: not open to any agreement without self control and without
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Speaker 1: love of goodness, okay, without love of goodness, because they
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Speaker 1: don't know goodness. They only know what their definition of
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Speaker 1: goodness is to them. It's all subjective. And we can
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Speaker 1: go through lists of what people say is right or good,
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Speaker 1: but what's the standard. Is it good for them but
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Speaker 1: it's bad for you? And if it is, how has
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Speaker 1: that resolved? So here's where we go to God? How
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Speaker 1: does he view it? Said? Part about this question is
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Speaker 1: that so only people either don't believe in God or
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Speaker 1: have a light attitude toward God. They don't consider his sovereignty,
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Speaker 1: his might, his will, and his absolute righteousness, his absolute
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Speaker 1: standard of right and wrong, good and bad. And in
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Speaker 1: face of that, he can't endure sin. But he gave
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Speaker 1: us a way out of our wrongness of our sin.
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Speaker 1: He opened the door for us through Jesus and Jesus
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Speaker 1: work on the cross. Jesus took on all our sins
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Speaker 1: because there's no way we can live a sinless life.
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Speaker 1: And in order to be saved to have salvation and
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Speaker 1: have a place in heaven, we need to embrace Jesus.
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Speaker 1: So listeners, here's the situation. You can believe or not.
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Speaker 1: You have that choice. But I believe we are in
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Speaker 1: end times. We are seeing so many of the prophecies
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Speaker 1: of people who are ramping up bad behavior and beliefs.
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Speaker 1: They are holding anything they consider good or right solely
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Speaker 1: based on their opinions and not of Gods. So now
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Speaker 1: is the time for discernment. Now is the time to
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Speaker 1: weigh what is right and what's wrong, what's good and
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Speaker 1: what's bad. Listen to what people are saying, compare it
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Speaker 1: to what God says, because now is the time to
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Speaker 1: make a choice. Now is the time to find Jesus
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Speaker 1: before it's too late, because if he shows up and
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Speaker 1: you're not ready, it's a done deal. Well anyway, my friends,
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Speaker 1: I'm done, and I thank you for listening to me,
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Speaker 1: and I thank Gary for challenges of faith and hosting
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Speaker 1: the Third Watch. Hey, we're all in this together, but
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Speaker 1: we all have hope because you know what, we all
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Speaker 1: have our God. So if anyone would like to reach me,
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Speaker 1: you can email me at Team of God at earthlink
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Speaker 2: Thank you, my sister Sayah or you'll continued prayers, returning
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Speaker 2: as a co on Challenges to Faith Radio program and
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Speaker 2: lending your voice on the Third Watch series today number
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Speaker 2: Thank you Good Pods. Welcome back to Challenges to Faith
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Speaker 2: Radio program. I am Garry McCants like technology, God and
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Speaker 2: you are listeners. As you just heard from Sarah. Today
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Speaker 2: we're discussing right and wrong, right or wrong, right versus
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Speaker 2: wrong with people, people discerning and understanding what we're hearing
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Speaker 2: and laying it aside. The words irrespect of what you
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Speaker 2: hear today globally. You know the story is told where
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Speaker 2: a chicken and a pig we're talking one day and
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Speaker 2: the chicken said, we have a great life here. The
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Speaker 2: pig responded, yes, it's nice. The chicken, our farmer takes
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Speaker 2: great care of us. He feeds us and gives us
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Speaker 2: a great place to live. And in some cases it's
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Speaker 2: she that's taking care of the chicken and the pig.
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Speaker 2: For the pigs are yes, it's all really good. The chicken,
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Speaker 2: I would like to do something good for him. The pig,
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Speaker 2: that sounds okay, sure, why not? The chicken. Let's give
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Speaker 2: him a ham and egg breakfast in the morning. The
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Speaker 2: pig goes silent. The chicken, what's wrong with breakfast? The pig?
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Speaker 2: For you, that's involvement. For me, that's commitment. You see,
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Speaker 2: the pig knew the difference between right or wrong because
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Speaker 2: it was going to cost him or her their life.
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Speaker 2: Kind of like what's hare ended it with as relates
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Speaker 2: to making a choice today for Christ. But the question
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Speaker 2: is how do we know what is right and what
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Speaker 2: is wrong? How do we base decisions on? Remember, now
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Speaker 2: you got those gray areas of life. That's even from
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Speaker 2: the Bible. The Bible doesn't address each and every issue
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Speaker 2: of life. So how can you and I find out
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Speaker 2: what God would have us to do in the area
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Speaker 2: is the right and wrong and know that we're making
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Speaker 2: the right decision. When we want to know whether something
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Speaker 2: is right or wrong, all we have to do is
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Speaker 2: consult the Bible. In areas where the question lies knowing
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Speaker 2: right from wrong from the Bible. Do you know the
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Speaker 2: Bible doesn't cover each and every issue in the Christian
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Speaker 2: walk in life, this ajourn you know here in this
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Speaker 2: race battle, the spiritual warfare. And so in knowing that,
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Speaker 2: you also know that you and I have to use
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Speaker 2: wisdom to discern the will of God and whether something
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Speaker 2: is right or something is wrong. And if we can
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Speaker 2: understand those basic principles laid down by God Almighty, then
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Speaker 2: we can know we don't have to guess whether something
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Speaker 2: is right or something is wrong. For example, you ready,
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Speaker 2: I know you are. The Bible does not say that
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Speaker 2: abortion is wrong precisely, say what wait a minute, now,
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Speaker 2: this is the third wif series. But we know that
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Speaker 2: God formed us in the womb and called us by
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Speaker 2: the name before we are born. And you can see
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Speaker 2: that in Jeremiah chapter one, verse five. Oh you didn't
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Speaker 2: know that, did you? And we also I know that
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Speaker 2: God is the giver of life and it's the only
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Speaker 2: one who has a right to take life. And you
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Speaker 2: can see that in Exodus chapter twenty, verse thirteen. And
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Speaker 2: by knowing these facts, we can now understand that God
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Speaker 2: is pro life and the fact that our days are
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Speaker 2: numbered by him, and it shows that he alone decides
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Speaker 2: when a human beings should die. Oh you thought it
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Speaker 2: was your human doctor. Oh you thought it was the
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Speaker 2: education person. You thought it was a social person, a
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Speaker 2: criminal justice person. You thought it was a judge. You
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Speaker 2: thought it was your pastor the pew member. Oh, you
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Speaker 2: even thought it was a politician. He alone decides when
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Speaker 2: a human beings should die. And you can see that
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Speaker 2: in you're ready to write it down. I know you are,
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Speaker 2: Psalm one thirty nine, verse sixteen. Joe chapter fourteen, verse five.
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Speaker 2: You know you know I love stories, no lies. But
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Speaker 2: there was a no swimming sign up at a sand
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Speaker 2: pit many years ago. But there was some children swimming
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Speaker 2: in this pond and they were disobeying the sign. And
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Speaker 2: that sign was posted because there was a sinkhole in it,
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Speaker 2: and so it was a danger for anyone to swim in.
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Speaker 2: One of the children behind the flounder in the water
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Speaker 2: and began to drown you. And I know that we
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Speaker 2: to obey those in authority. Roman chapter thirteen makes it
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Speaker 2: very clear. But we also know that God wants us
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Speaker 2: to take a higher principle when a human life is
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Speaker 2: at state. So The question is should a person disobey
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Speaker 2: the no swimming sign and not save the child from drowning?
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Speaker 2: Of course not you know this, But the point is
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Speaker 2: that somebody saved the young child from drowning and had
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Speaker 2: to instantly discern that the value of human life was
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Speaker 2: Guess what higher value than disobedience to the nose women signs.
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Speaker 2: Think about it. If the children had obeyed to sign
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Speaker 2: the first place, they might not have merely drowned. The
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Speaker 2: same principle applies to trying to find what is right
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Speaker 2: and what is wrong where the Bible is silent. The
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Speaker 2: Bible doesn't say you should wear a seat felt, but
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Speaker 2: since we understand that we're to obey those who are
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Speaker 2: the governing authorities, we should wear our seat felt because
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Speaker 2: it's the law. And it's a known scientific fact that
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Speaker 2: seat felt saved lives. And you can see that in Romans,
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Speaker 2: chapter thirteen, verse one through three. And so if somebody
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Speaker 2: asks you what the Bible says about gambling, that's just
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Speaker 2: as an exemple. You can't find a specific answer about
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Speaker 2: this in the scriptures per se, but you can find
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Speaker 2: scriptures about loving money more than God. You've heard people say,
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Speaker 2: including pastors unscripturally that the root of all evil is money.
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Speaker 2: That's not what the Word of God says. So you
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Speaker 2: find out what it said. But over Second Timpty chapter three,
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Speaker 2: verse two, it's clear you can find scriptures about greed
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Speaker 2: over in First Tempty chapter six, verse nine, and about
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Speaker 2: coveredeen ext chapter twenty, verse seventeen. Oh yeah, and about
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Speaker 2: storing up treasures on earth instead of in heaven like
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Speaker 2: Matthew chapter six, verse nineteen talked about. An example would
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Speaker 2: be over in Proverbs chapter ten, verse twenty two. I
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Speaker 2: know you're turning while drinking zipping my waters. The word,
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Speaker 2: not the blessing of the Lord, brings wealth without paying
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Speaker 2: for twelve for if so, the question is when you
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Speaker 2: want to know whether something is right or wrong, all
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Speaker 2: you have to do is simply consult the vibe in
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Speaker 2: areas where the question lies now and you already know
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Speaker 2: that some elections are over they're over, and others statewide,
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Speaker 2: province wise, village wise, wherever your locality happened to be
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Speaker 2: in the United States, others are coming up. But the
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Speaker 2: question becomes should a Christian vote or not? Or should
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Speaker 2: a believer or run for a political office. Guess what
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Speaker 2: the Bible appears to be silent in this area. But
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Speaker 2: if you look closely at Paul's teaching on how Christians
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Speaker 2: are living in society, we can turn the Romans chapter thirteen,
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Speaker 2: verse one. I know you wrote it down the word
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Speaker 2: for there's no authority except that which God has established.
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Speaker 2: The authorities that exist have been established by God. I
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Speaker 2: know you knew that, didn't you? You didn't think about it.
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Speaker 2: Every citizen has a legal right to vote, so we're
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Speaker 2: more than free to not only vote, but to participate
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Speaker 2: in running for office. And the question is why, because
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Speaker 2: what he said exists by God. And so if you're
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Speaker 2: running around here complaining about the politician and yet you
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Speaker 2: don't vote, then you have no excuse because you could
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Speaker 2: have voted for someone else, or you could have voted
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Speaker 2: for someone in the first place. And if you chose
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Speaker 2: not to vote, that is before the reconal election, like
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Speaker 2: millions upon millions of Christians set out rather than voting
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Speaker 2: for whatever their reasons. And another example is that we
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Speaker 2: can know with certainty that we should not cheat on
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Speaker 2: our taxes by reading Romans chapter thirteen, verse six through seven.
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Speaker 2: And that's why we pay taxes, for the authorities are
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Speaker 2: God servants who give their full time to government. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: some of them probably should be stepping aside. But to
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Speaker 2: give to everyone which you owe them, you got to
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Speaker 2: remember the authorities are God's servants who give their full
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Speaker 2: time supposed to. So if you owe taxes, you paid taxes.
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Speaker 2: If revenue, then revenue, If respect, then respect, If honor,
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Speaker 2: then honor. We must pay our taxes and pay what
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Speaker 2: is our fair share, because the authorities are God's servants
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Speaker 2: who give their full time to governor. They may not
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Speaker 2: know it, but you know, I gotta tell the you
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Speaker 2: can take, whether it's a housekeeping supervisor, generatorial supervisor, whatever
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Speaker 2: the fancy name is today, once you become a supervisor
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Speaker 2: irrespective of your industry. Roman Chapter thirteen, verse one applies
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Speaker 2: period the positions ordained with God, not the person, so
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Speaker 2: to decide if you should just drive over the speed
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Speaker 2: limit or not. Roman Chapter thirteen, verse three and five
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Speaker 2: is very clear for rulers hold no terror for those
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Speaker 2: who do right, but for those who do wrong. Think
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Speaker 2: about it. Why would you fear an individual who's doing right?
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Speaker 2: Think about it. But the leader should fear that person
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Speaker 2: who's doing right. Do you want to be free from fear?
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Speaker 2: Of the One in authority? Do you really then just
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Speaker 2: do what is right and you'll be committed. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: know a lot of injustices and all of that, and
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Speaker 2: you gotta go in prayer. But at the same time,
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Speaker 2: while going in prayer, make sure your shoe lever is
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Speaker 2: doing something. You know. Think about the simple example I
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Speaker 2: can use. You're searching for a job. You got on
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Speaker 2: your knees. You pray you're gonna trust God for the job.
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Speaker 2: But did you get up on five? Did you fill
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Speaker 2: out some applications? Did you go to an interview? Do
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Speaker 2: what is right and you'll be commended. And for the
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Speaker 2: one in authorities, God serving for your good. But if
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Speaker 2: you do wrong, those of you who are in leadership
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Speaker 2: positions be afraid. For rulers, do not bear the sword
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Speaker 2: for no reason. Your Gods serving agents of raft to
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Speaker 2: bring punishment on the wrong do your accountability. Therefore is
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Speaker 2: necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of
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Speaker 2: possible accountability, but also as a matter of conscience. Think
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Speaker 2: about it, and you got to remember believe in the
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Speaker 2: house over the faith, especially for that believer who really
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Speaker 2: is not into the word of God. And understand the
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Speaker 2: spiritual warfare understanding that the devil has his own pastors,
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Speaker 2: he has his own children, and he's been giving the
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Speaker 2: authority over to the world's system, all these little kingdoms
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Speaker 2: and so forth. Today, think about the little two late
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Speaker 2: person that he's using. You don't need to be nervous
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Speaker 2: looking in your rear view mirror if you see a
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Speaker 2: police car coming and you're doing the speed limit. Okay,
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Speaker 2: but wait a minute now, just keep it real. There
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Speaker 2: are some injustices by law enforcement individuals who have violated
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Speaker 2: the authority of their badge and have harmed people. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's true, but for those who do right. But if
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Speaker 2: you're speeding, be afraid for rules to not be able
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Speaker 2: sword for no reason. Again, it's different than that law
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Speaker 2: enforcement practitioner on every level misusing their color of authority
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Speaker 2: on somebody period. I remember one time I was in
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Speaker 2: a rental car and I was driving the correct speed
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Speaker 2: limit in a certain southern state, and I watched the
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Speaker 2: officer come alongside of me for a few miles and
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Speaker 2: holding up traffic behind him, local traffic, and I was
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Speaker 2: intentionally maintaining the speed limit, and I knew what he
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Speaker 2: was really doing. I also took a moment to learn
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Speaker 2: what the state's law was. And in the end I
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Speaker 2: thank God for his hand to protecting with that partecular
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Speaker 2: law enforcement practitioner who I believe was trying to use
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Speaker 2: as badge of authority but on the wrong person. But
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Speaker 2: I am now more alert when I should not have
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Speaker 2: to be of the person wearing the badge and me
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Speaker 2: coming out of seclusion too. Did you hear me saying
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Speaker 2: thing about color? There are thirty one Proverbs, and it
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Speaker 2: seems to cause sight nicely with the fact that there
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Speaker 2: is one for each day of the month. Ever, take
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Speaker 2: a few days like February and goose with thirty days them.
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Speaker 2: But if you read a chapter a day in a
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Speaker 2: year's time, guess what, You've read the entire Book of
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Speaker 2: Proverbs twelve times. And this book is called Guess what
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Speaker 2: wisdom literature because of the fact that so much wisdom
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Speaker 2: could be found. And the point is that's a powerful
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Speaker 2: way to learn the mind of God is to read
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Speaker 2: his word daily, because someone that's in the Word of
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Speaker 2: God every day has the Word of God in them
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Speaker 2: and can make good decisions based upon those principles laid
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Speaker 2: down by God, the Holy Spirit, through men and women.
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Speaker 2: Women and men like Ruth who wrote the Holy Bible,
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Speaker 2: and prayer like you heard me open it up today
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Speaker 2: as relations to sayer. Prayer is a key element in
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Speaker 2: knowing the will of God when you're trying to determine
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Speaker 2: if something is right or wrong, and so is God.
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Speaker 2: The counsel from brethren of the house over to faith
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Speaker 2: and pastors and counselors in the right relationship with God.
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Speaker 2: You got to remember there's a multitude of safety and
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Speaker 2: such counsel like Proverbs chapter twenty four, verse six, twenty four,
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Speaker 2: verse twenty one and Proverbs chapter eleven fourteen talks about
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Speaker 2: remember Solomon, I know you do he was said to
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Speaker 2: be the wisest man on earth and his book of
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Speaker 2: Proverbs and Ecclesiastics, or think about deep wells of wisdom
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Speaker 2: for you and I. They're just waited to be mine
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Speaker 2: by somebody. Even James says, as we lack wisdom about something,
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Speaker 2: we can pray to God for it. Over in James
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Speaker 2: chapter one, verse five. The bottom line that what Sarah
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Speaker 2: and I are trying to share is we can know
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Speaker 2: right from wrong. We simply have to be immersed in
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Speaker 2: the Word of God. Get in the word of God,
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Speaker 2: in the word of God will get into you no
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Speaker 2: matter what the season is. Globally, I'm Gary McCants along
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Speaker 2: with my co hosts, author s on the third Watch,
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Speaker 2: number six