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The Truth About Apostasy Part 3 - 2/15/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  >> Amen. I'm thankful he touched me. Amen.
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  If you have a Bible, turn with me to the
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  book of Jude tonight. Book of Jude.
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  And u
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  so thankful God's blessed our church
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  with talent and u I appreciate the Lord
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  being so good to us.
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  >> And I tell you church, don't ever take
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  it for granted what you've got here.
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  >> And it can be gone in just a minute.
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  And uh circumstances of life arise,
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  death comes sometimes unexpectedly. And
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  before you know it, all that talent can
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  be gone. Amen.
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  >> And you just make sure you say,
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  "Preacher, well, it ain't about that."
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  Well, I agree with you. It's not about
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  that. But I tell you this, what we do
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  for the Lord, it ought to be excellent.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And you ought to play skillfully. And I
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  appreciate our musicians. I appreciate
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  our choir. I appreciate uh brother Galen
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  and uh all everybody that has a part in
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  the music here at the church and I thank
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  you for it and I thank you for allowing
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  me to lead in that and I appreciate it
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  very very much. Jude, I want to look
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  tonight here of just a few verses and
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  continue our study here. And I wanted to
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  just continue this on Wednesday night,
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  but I couldn't get away from it this
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  afternoon. And u I I felt like this past
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  Wednesday night was very beneficial
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  study and I want to continue with that
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  and try to be a blessing if I may. I
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  tell you this, I know it's not worth
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  anything if it just comes from me, but I
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  want it to be from him. And so I feel
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  like this is where he led me tonight. If
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  you find your place, the book of Jude
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  will stand on reference to the reading
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  of God's word. And uh we'll read this
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  chapter here tonight. And uh
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  I love this text. I I think when you
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  study this, if you know anything about
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  your Bible very much, the passage second
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  Peter verse chapter number two mirrors
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  this text a whole lot. There's a lot of
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  things that are said um there kind of
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  running along the same vein and it's no
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  coincidence that this is the text
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  nearing the book of Revelation of course
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  describing the end time and I really
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  believe this is where we're living at
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  and I think it's something we ought to
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  be well aware of. Amen. And uh
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  considering that subject, I know it's
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  not something we like to talk about. Um
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  but I think it's something we need to
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  talk be talking about more. And the
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  identification of apostasy uh around us
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  and even within us if we're not careful
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  that spirit of antichrist will even work
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  on us. And I'm thankful he can't have
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  control over us. I'm thankful he can't
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  possess us. Amen. If you're saved by the
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  holy saved by the grace of God, filled
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  with the Holy Spirit, you cannot be
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  possessed. Um, but I do believe you can
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  be oppressed. And so, we want to
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  identify that and also be able to
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  identify uh the words coming from others
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  around us that are in this spirit. And
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  so, I want to look tonight. Let's let's
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  begin reading verse number four again of
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  Jude. And uh we'll look there verse
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  number four. The Bible says, "For there
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  are certain men crept in unwares, who
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  were before of old ordained to this
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  condemnation, ungodly men, turning the
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  grace of our God into lasciviousness,
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  and denying the only Lord God and our
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  Lord Jesus Christ. And I will therefore
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  put you in remembrance, though you once
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  knew this, how that the Lord, having
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  saved the people out of the land of
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  Egypt, afterward destroyed them that
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  believe not. The angels which kept not
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  their first estate, but left their own
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  habitation, he hath reserved an
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  everlasting chains under darkness under
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  the judgment of the great day. Even as
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  Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about
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  them in like manner, giving themselves
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  over to fornication, and going after
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  strange flesh, are set forth for an
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  example, suffering the vengeance of
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  eternal fire. Likewise also, these
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  filthy dreamers defile the flesh,
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  despise dominion, and speak evil evil of
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  dignities. Yet Michael the archangel in
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  contending with the devil, he disputed
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  about the body of Moses. Durst not,
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  bring against him a reing accusation,
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  but said, "The Lord rebuke thee." But
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  these speak evil of those things which
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  they know not. But what they know
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  naturally as brute beast, and those
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  things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto
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  them, for they have gone in the way of
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  Cain, and ran greedily after the heir of
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  Balum for reward, and perished in the
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  gains of core. These are spots in your
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  feast of charity. When they feast with
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  you, feeding themselves without fear,
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  clouds they are without water, carried
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  about of winds. Trees whose fruit
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  witherth, without fruit, twice dead,
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  plucked up by the roots, raging ways of
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  the sea, foaming out their own shame,
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  wandering stars, to whom is reserved the
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  blackness of darkness forever. And Enoch
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  also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
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  of these, saying, "Behold, the Lord
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  cometh with 10,000 of his saints, to
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  execute judgment upon all, and to
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  convince all that are ungodly among
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  them, of all their ungodly deeds which
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  they have ungodly committed, and of all
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  their hard speeches which ungodly
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  sinners have spoken against him." Now,
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  we're not going to get that far in the
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  text tonight, and I wanted to read that
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  just so it can be fresh in your mind.
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  And I want you to stay up with me uh on
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  this text. If you would please keep your
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  Bible handy. We're going to be using
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  them tonight. And I want to preach on
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  the thought tonight, the truth about
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  apostasy, part number three. And we pray
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  that the Lord will help us and add a
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  blessing to the reading of his word.
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  Father, thank you for this time tonight.
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  Thank you, Lord, for your truth. And
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  God, I pray tonight, Lord, that you
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  would help us uh God, to endure sound
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  doctrine tonight. I pray that you'll
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  give us wisdom, discernment as we
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  navigate these portions of scripture. Uh
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  Lord, many of these things, some of
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  these folks may have never heard of. And
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  so God, I pray uh Lord, that you would
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  open our ears and our hearts to your
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  word tonight. And God, I pray you give
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  us wisdom and discernment to divide the
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  truth rightly. And God, I thank you for
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  what you do. Get glory to yourself. Save
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  the sinner nearest hell. Reclaim the
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  backslid. And for what you do, we'll
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  give you thanks because we ask it in
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  Jesus name. And God's children said you
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  can be seated. Thank you for standing
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  tonight. Tonight, last week we left off
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  in verse number nine. And I made just a
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  few brief statements concerning verse
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  number nine. But I want to look verses
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  9, 10, and 11 tonight with the help of
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  the Lord. And that's going to require me
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  to cover a lot of ground. And so I need
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  you to stay with me tonight. I need you
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  to pray for me that the Lord will help
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  us. And so tonight when we come to this
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  text, of course, we left off last time
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  there considering uh Michael the
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  Archangel. We made mention of this uh
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  just just briefly talking about the fact
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  that he did not even uh bring a
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  accusation against the devil. We talked
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  about the hierarchies of the world. We
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  talked about the disrespect of those
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  that despise dominion according to verse
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  number eight. Uh they reject authority
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  and they speak evil of those uh that are
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  legitimate authentic authority. And we
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  described their devotions. We described
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  uh their destruction as well. But
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  tonight when we consider verse number
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  nine, it's going to go further uh in
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  this thought here. Not the examples but
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  uh the employment of apostasy. And and
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  the Bible says, "Yet Michael the
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  archangel." Now tonight, Michael the
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  archangel comes on the pages of
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  scripture in the book of Daniel. He is
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  mentioned there in Daniel chapter number
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  10 and verse number 13. We know Daniel
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  there was praying and he become weak in
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  the battle because of the weight of the
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  prophecies. The Bible says that Michael
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  came and strengthened Daniel because of
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  the great mental oppression that he was
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  facing. And he is labeled as the
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  archangel here in the text. And that
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  simply means that word ark there means
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  the chief. And so Michael is the chief
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  angel. He is the number one angel there
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  in God's army. He's mentioned again in
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  the book of Revelation 12 and verse
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  number 7 where he is accompanying a
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  group of angels to go and take out the
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  dragon of course which is the devil
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  himself. And we see so we see here by
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  way of introduction Michael here is
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  mentioned alongside of the devil. Notice
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  what the Bible says there in verse
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  number nine. It says when contending
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  with the devil he disputed about the
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  body of Moses. And so Michael here, this
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  chief angel in charge of God's
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  rulership. When you think about Michael,
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  he is a mediator. He is a a man really
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  angel. We would say that he is the one
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  that's going to be the one there in the
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  book of Thessalonians that's going to
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  sound the trumpet. There's the the
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  trumpet will sound. The voice of the
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  archangel, the Bible says. And so
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  that'll be Michael's voice that they'll
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  hear from heaven at the rapture. And so
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  he is the one that really gets handsy
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  with the devil in the book of
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  Revelation. He's the archangel that I
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  believe according to the book of
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  Revelation chapter 20. He's going to
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  deal with the devil that very last time.
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  I'm saying this man's a bad dude. Okay?
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  >> He's serious. All right? He's the
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  highest in God's angelic authority. And
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  the Bible says that him and the devil
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  disputed with the body of Moses. Now, we
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  mentioned that Lucifer last time he was
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  given authority. He was that cherub that
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  covered there according to Ezekiel
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  chapter number 28 and:es 12-1 17. And so
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  they're having a dispute here and we
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  notice that Michael's dispute is about
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  Moses death. Notice that in verse number
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  nine they disputed about the body of
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  Moses. Now there's argument about why
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  they were disputing over the body of
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  Moses. But what you'll discover about
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  Moses body is is that Moses did not have
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  a man burial.
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  Moses was taken by God and buried in a
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  place where nobody would know where he
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  was. Deuteronomy chapter 34 tells us
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  about Moses burial. God took him away
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  and buried him. And you'd say, "Well,
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  what's the reason for that?" Well, I
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  personally believe that if Moses had
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  been buried by a man, they would have
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  made a shrine on his grave and the
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  Israelites would have worshiped him and
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  they would have raised up a shrine unto
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  him to worship him for the rest of their
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  days. What they done is they'd made a
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  god out of it.
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  >> Right?
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  >> And so Moses was buried. And so the
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  Bible never mentions this dispute
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  anywhere else but this text. But the
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  illustration is nonetheless the same.
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  Michael and the devil are disputing
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  about Moses death. But you notice in
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  verse number nine in this story, there
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  is a moral that's declared. All right?
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  And I need you to stay with me. I'm
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  going to give you a lot more scripture
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  stuff tonight. Okay? I want you to hang
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  with me. It's got an application. All
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  right? Listen to what he says in verse
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  nine. He durst not bring against him a
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  railing accusation, but said the Lord
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  rebuke thee. And you say, preacher, what
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  does that mean? Well, when you think
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  tonight about the authority that Michael
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  has as the angel, the fact that in the
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  future, he's going to be the one to
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  banish the devil perpetually into that
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  that lake which burnth with fire and
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  brimstone. He's going to be the one that
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  gets rid of him. And all the authority
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  that Michael has, even he himself, in
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  spite of the fact that Lucifer had great
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  authority in heaven, God had placed him
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  at the highest of the highs in his
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  angelic authority. Michael still did not
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  bring an accusation against him. You
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  said, "What do you mean by that?" Well,
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  it says he didn't bring a railing
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  accusation. What does that mean? It
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  means that he didn't come to him
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  injuriously
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  and say, "Oh, Lucifer, you fake. You
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  phony. You stepped out on your
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  authority." No. Michael respected it.
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  You know what we're lacking this day and
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  time?
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  >> That right there.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You know, I hear so much amongst the
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  ranks of church people in this day and
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  time. I'm thankful it's not here. Amen.
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  But I hear people talking men down
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  constantly. Constantly. and and it's
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  over and over and over again. And
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  Michael, he wasn't even bringing
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  accusation against the devil. And I I've
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  heard people say this, "Well, when I get
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  to heaven, God's going to let me punch
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  old Satan in the face." I just don't
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  know about all that. All right?
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  >> God's going to deal with him. Okay?
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  >> And it's not our it's not our place
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  tonight to bring about judgment. The
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  Bible says, "Judge not, lest you be
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  judged." Amen. What judgment you meet,
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  you're going to be measured with all.
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  Amen. What that simply means is is when
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  you cast the judgment out there, you
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  just be sure that it's going to come
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  back and probably double. Amen.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> I know tonight the Bible teaches us that
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  we're to be judges of all things as
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  Christians, but the application's
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  different. You need to know your Bible.
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  Amen. Michael didn't even bring an
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  accusation against the devil. Notice
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  that he said, "The Lord rebuked thee."
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  You see here as well in this text,
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  there's a reference here in my Bible to
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  that phrase, "The Lord rebuked thee."
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  Jesus there in Zechariah chapter 3 and
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  verse number two or God the father there
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  in the text uh Joshua was standing
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  before the Lord the Bible says and the
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  devil spoke against him and the Lord
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  spoke and he rebuked the devil there in
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  that text you see God's the one that
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  vengeance belongs to
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  >> right
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  >> he's the one that judgment belongs to
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  he's the one that rebuke belongs to and
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  so the moral declared is this that if
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  Michael wouldn't bring an accusation
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  against the devil
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  look what these men do according to
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  verse number 10. But these speak evil of
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  those things which they know not, but
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  that which that what they but what they
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  know naturally as brute beast and those
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  things they corrupt themselves. And so
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  in verse number nine, there is the
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  example of Michael, this great angel
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  that he wouldn't accuse the devil of
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  things he was even guilty of. In verse
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  10, these apostates, they speak evil of
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  things that they don't even know about.
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  >> Right?
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  >> What does that mean? And well, you see
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  their language in verse 10, it says they
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  speak evil. Apostates always got a
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  really wide-lipped lifestyle.
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  >> Amen. Likes to talk.
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  >> Likes to tell his opinions and his ideas
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  about things. I know this is Sunday
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  night and this is just rubbing you a
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  little bit wrong, but stay with me,
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  okay?
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  They like to talk about things that they
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  know nothing about. And you say, "What
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  is that, preacher?" Well, number one,
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  salvation by grace through faith.
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  >> Amen. These men don't know about
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  salvation, but they always want to talk
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  theologically about salvation. Well, you
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  believe in that once-s saved, always
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  saved stuff.
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  And I believe when Jesus comes in your
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  heart, he died once and he rose once.
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  And so when he comes in, he comes in to
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  stay.
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  >> Amen. He's either there or he's not.
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  Somebody say, "Amen." and all the other
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  theological discussions that they will
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  come into. They will split hairs over
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  just about anything in that Bible.
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  They'll argue with you about who wrote
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  the first five books of the Bible.
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  They'll argue with you about who the
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  angels or who the sons of God are in
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  Genesis 6. They'll argue with you about
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  all the most USELESS INFORMATION WHEN
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  GOD didn't tell us. Amen. THERE'S A
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  REASON WHY HE DIDN'T TELL US. AND LET ME
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  SAY THIS TONIGHT. WHERE THE BIBLE STAYS
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  SILENT, you know what we should do?
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  Stay silent. Amen. When somebody wants
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  to come and talk to you about the
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  Apocrypha. All right. Now, the Apocrypha
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  is that little book that's in the middle
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  of the Bible that they talk about, those
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  books that are in between Malachi and
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  Matthew. When somebody wants to ask you
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  about that and try to reason with you
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  theologically about that, you just
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  dismiss them. Okay?
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  >> Right?
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  >> God preserves 66 books
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  >> in our King James Bible that are for us
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  tonight.
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  And when people want to argue about
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  things that have no that do not make a
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  hill of beans to salvation or if they
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  want to try to undermine the doctrines
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  that we believe salvation by grace that
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  without the shedding of blood there's no
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  remission. Hey, there's men in this day
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  and time that preach that it did the
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  blood is not necessary for salvation.
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  What I'm saying is is these are
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  apostates.
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  They're always talking. You look at
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  their lifestyle and they're constantly
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  in these chat rooms. They're constantly
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  on the internet making theological
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  discussions. They're constantly pushing
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  their agenda on people, trying to draw
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  people under them. And it's all talk.
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  >> And when you look at their ministry, it
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  has nothing to do with the word of God.
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  Their language is blasphemous. Look what
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  he says in verse 10. But these speak
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  evil. That means that they're trying to
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  undermine. And that word evil means they
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  have an ulterior motive.
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  They'll tell you something that might be
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  truth, but in their heart they've got
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  another agenda in mind.
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  >> They will manipulate you and they are
• 16:57
  blaspheing. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost
• 17:00
  of God when they go against the word of
• 17:02
  God and its precepts. He said they speak
• 17:05
  evil of those things which they know
• 17:07
  not. What do they not know about? Well,
• 17:09
  they don't know about salvation. They
• 17:11
  don't know about the scriptures. They
• 17:12
  don't know about the spirit of God. that
• 17:14
  this is what they want to talk to you
• 17:15
  about,
• 17:16
  >> right?
• 17:17
  >> They want to deal with you on your
• 17:18
  feelings.
• 17:20
  What does it feel like to you? See, I I
• 17:22
  felt this way. I I felt led this way.
• 17:26
  But they never want to talk to you about
• 17:27
  scripture. Young people, be aware of
• 17:29
  this. All right?
• 17:30
  >> And the thing about it is in this day of
• 17:32
  technology that we have, young people
• 17:34
  are getting involved in this more and
• 17:36
  more. You're
• 17:36
  >> right.
• 17:37
  >> People down at the schoolhouse want to
• 17:39
  get into theological discussions because
• 17:40
  they've been internet trained.
• 17:42
  >> You're right. You say, "Preacher, that
• 17:44
  ain't no way that's true. It was there
• 17:45
  when I was in school."
• 17:47
  >> That ain't been that long ago. But what
• 17:48
  the proof I'm trying to make here is
• 17:50
  this is people are getting this stuff
• 17:53
  more than they ever have.
• 17:54
  >> And that's why you need to know your
• 17:56
  Bible, their language. They speak evil
• 17:58
  of those things which they know not.
• 18:00
  When somebody's always casting doubt on
• 18:02
  Mary being a virgin,
• 18:05
  >> come on. When somebody's always casting
• 18:07
  doubt on Jesus being the sinless son of
• 18:10
  God, when they're casting doubt on the
• 18:12
  fact that he could not sin, it was
• 18:14
  impossible for him to sin. When they do
• 18:16
  that, you just know
• 18:20
  >> they don't believe like you do. Amen.
• 18:24
  >> They speak evil of those things which
• 18:25
  they know not. Notice not only their
• 18:28
  language, but notice their lack. They
• 18:29
  don't know. Verse number 10, verse
• 18:31
  number notice the next phrase. But what
• 18:33
  they know naturally,
• 18:36
  you see, their lack is is they don't
• 18:37
  have a spiritual knowledge. What does
• 18:40
  the Bible say? It says, "For the carnal
• 18:42
  man receiveth not the things of God,
• 18:45
  neither can he know them because they're
• 18:47
  spiritually discerned." Let's turn and
• 18:48
  look at that. 1 Corinthians chapter 2,
• 18:53
  verse 14.
• 18:57
  1 Corinthians chapter 2:14. But the
• 19:00
  natural man receiveth not the things of
• 19:02
  the spirit of God. For they are
• 19:03
  foolishness unto him. Neither can he
• 19:06
  know them because they are spiritually
• 19:08
  discerned. They're lack the Holy Ghost
• 19:10
  don't live on the inside. Right?
• 19:12
  >> They have no spiritual insight.
• 19:15
  >> They have no ability to discern right
• 19:17
  from wrong. They their senses have been
• 19:20
  haven't been exercised because they have
• 19:22
  no senses to exercise
• 19:26
  >> their language, their lack. 1
• 19:28
  Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 4:4, put
• 19:31
  it in your margin. You notice not only
• 19:33
  their lack, but notice their lust in
• 19:34
  verse 10. But what they know naturally
• 19:37
  as brute beast in those things they
• 19:40
  corrupt themselves. Now, what does this
• 19:42
  tell us? Well, the Bible says there that
• 19:44
  they speak evil of the things that they
• 19:46
  don't know about. They want to dispute
• 19:48
  about everything that we're sure of. But
• 19:50
  what they know naturally, that's their
• 19:52
  carnal life, their their their fleshly
• 19:54
  life. Look what the Bible says. as brute
• 19:57
  beast in those things they corrupt
• 19:59
  themselves. These men are full of lust,
• 20:02
  >> right?
• 20:03
  >> And you see, they're so vocal and open
• 20:05
  about their spirituality.
• 20:08
  They're always casting doubt on what we
• 20:11
  believe and why we believe and trying to
• 20:13
  undermine the faith that was once
• 20:15
  delivered. But if you got into their
• 20:17
  personal life, what you would find is
• 20:20
  men and women who are laden with sin,
• 20:23
  >> right?
• 20:24
  They are controlled by their lust.
• 20:26
  Whether it be the dollar, whether it be
• 20:28
  fornication, whatever it is, most of
• 20:31
  them it's alcoholism. Amen.
• 20:33
  >> What I'm saying is is THEY ARE
• 20:35
  CONTROLLED BY their lust. And the Bible
• 20:37
  says in verse number 10 that they
• 20:39
  corrupt themselves. That that word
• 20:41
  corrupt literally means they are
• 20:42
  bringing themselves to destruction.
• 20:46
  They are destroying their life
• 20:49
  physically.
• 20:51
  Be careful about a man who will preach a
• 20:53
  gospel and then go out in the world and
• 20:56
  live and act just like the world.
• 20:58
  >> Right?
• 21:00
  >> He might have a message, but that does
• 21:02
  not make him a man of God.
• 21:04
  >> JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAS something to
• 21:06
  say does not mean they're sent from God.
• 21:09
  >> Right?
• 21:11
  >> Their lust, they're headed for
• 21:12
  destruction. And what is it that's
• 21:14
  destroying them? Verse 10, as brute
• 21:16
  beasts in those things, they corrupt
• 21:18
  themselves. They are literally
• 21:19
  overindulgent.
• 21:22
  And it is their overindulgence that's
• 21:23
  going to kill them.
• 21:25
  >> Right?
• 21:25
  >> It is that that's going to take the life
• 21:28
  out of them because they have given
• 21:30
  themselves over to the flesh. They're
• 21:33
  headed for destruction. In those things,
• 21:35
  they corrupt themselves. Listen to what
• 21:38
  Paul said in the book of Romans chapter
• 21:40
  1. Paul dealt with this crowd talking
• 21:42
  about the Lord turning them over. Listen
• 21:45
  to what he says. Romans chapter number
• 21:47
  one verse number 26. For this cause God
• 21:51
  gave them up unto vile affections. For
• 21:54
  even their women did change the natural
• 21:56
  use into that which is against nature.
• 21:58
  So he's given them over to a reprobate
• 22:00
  mind. Verse 28. Even as they did not
• 22:02
  like to retain God in their knowledge.
• 22:04
  God gave them over to a reprobate mind
• 22:06
  to do those things which are not
• 22:08
  convenient. But you say preacher, what
• 22:09
  does that have to do with an apostate
• 22:11
  teacher? Well, listen to what he said in
• 22:13
  verse number 21. Because that when they
• 22:15
  knew God, they glorified him not as God,
• 22:18
  neither were thankful, but became vain
• 22:19
  in their imaginations, and their foolish
• 22:22
  heart was darkened. What does verse 22
• 22:23
  say? Professing themselves to be wise,
• 22:28
  >> they became fools.
• 22:30
  >> I'll tell you this, the Christianity
• 22:33
  that America's embraced is full of
• 22:35
  professors,
• 22:36
  >> right?
• 22:36
  >> It's full of teachers.
• 22:38
  >> But Paul said this to the Corinthian
• 22:40
  church. He said, "You've got many
• 22:41
  teachers." He said, "But you have not
• 22:43
  many fathers."
• 22:44
  >> Amen.
• 22:45
  >> Men that actually care.
• 22:47
  You see, those men don't care about your
• 22:49
  soul.
• 22:50
  >> Right?
• 22:50
  >> You say, "Preacher, what's an example of
• 22:52
  that?" Well, there's millions in this
• 22:54
  country that's flocking to them. But the
• 22:55
  word faith crowd, the the prosperity
• 22:58
  gospel crowd that says, "If you'll
• 22:59
  believe Jesus and you'll be obedient to
• 23:01
  him and send me your money, God will
• 23:02
  bless you."
• 23:03
  >> Right?
• 23:04
  >> While they fly around in their $10
• 23:06
  million pl private jets, amen, and live
• 23:08
  in their luscious mansions.
• 23:11
  off the money that they've robbed off of
• 23:13
  poor little people that they've sent a
• 23:15
  five cent cloth for $10 called a prayer
• 23:17
  shaw.
• 23:20
  >> What I'm saying is those people are
• 23:21
  apostates. You're
• 23:23
  >> right.
• 23:23
  >> Their life is ridden with lust.
• 23:28
  And Jo and Jude says here in the text,
• 23:30
  he says they are na they what they know
• 23:32
  naturally is brute beast. Those things
• 23:34
  they corrupt themselves. It literally
• 23:35
  means that they cannot stop indulging.
• 23:39
  Somebody that cannot control his fleshly
• 23:42
  appetite's got a problem. You're
• 23:43
  >> right.
• 23:44
  >> I'm not talking about eating. I'm
• 23:45
  talking about everything.
• 23:47
  >> Right.
• 23:48
  >> If you cannot control your appetite in
• 23:50
  the flesh, you will be in a mess.
• 23:54
  >> You're right.
• 23:55
  >> Notice this tonight. Like I said, I know
• 23:57
  this is not not fun preaching, teaching,
• 23:59
  whatever you want to call it, but it's
• 24:01
  still needed. Okay. Verse number 11.
• 24:05
  Jude says, "Woe unto them." What does
• 24:08
  that mean? Well, number one, he said
• 24:10
  they're they're they're cursed,
• 24:12
  >> right?
• 24:13
  >> Woe unto them. For they've gone in the
• 24:16
  way of Cain and ran greedily after the
• 24:18
  heir of Balum for reward and perished in
• 24:20
  the gains
• 24:22
  of core. So he gives three more
• 24:25
  examples. We've seen the employment of
• 24:27
  these men up to this point, but now he's
• 24:28
  given three more examples. First, his
• 24:30
  examples were Israel and those
• 24:33
  backsliding men or really those lost men
• 24:35
  that came out of Egypt there and didn't
• 24:37
  believe God. And the Bible says that God
• 24:39
  killed them there in the wilderness. And
• 24:41
  then there's the example of the angels
• 24:43
  that fell from heaven. And then there is
• 24:46
  the example there in the text earlier of
• 24:48
  Sodom and Gomorrah. And now he gives
• 24:51
  three more examples. He goes back to the
• 24:53
  scripture again. Jude is trying to drive
• 24:55
  this point home. Look, you need to know
• 24:57
  who these people are,
• 24:58
  >> right? You need to know what they look
• 25:00
  like. I know it's not entertaining, but
• 25:02
  the truth is tonight we're seeing more
• 25:04
  of this than we've ever seen it before.
• 25:06
  >> You say, "Preacher, I don't see it
• 25:08
  much." Well, your eyes are closed.
• 25:10
  >> That's right.
• 25:11
  >> It's everywhere.
• 25:13
  >> And listen to what he says. He says,
• 25:15
  "Woe unto them for they have gone in the
• 25:17
  way of Cain." Now, three things tonight
• 25:19
  out of verse number 11. I'm going to
• 25:21
  give you the big picture here and we'll
• 25:22
  be done. All right. First of all, he
• 25:24
  says that they have gone in the way of
• 25:26
  Cain. Well, what is the description of
• 25:28
  Cain? Well, Cain is the first child that
• 25:30
  was born into this world.
• 25:33
  Isn't that right?
• 25:35
  >> Genesis chapter 3 and 4, Cain comes into
• 25:37
  this world. And the Bible says that Adam
• 25:41
  and Eve, they they conceive. Cain is
• 25:43
  born. And then Abel, his brother, is
• 25:44
  born. And out of that relationship, the
• 25:47
  Bible says that Cain was a tiller of the
• 25:50
  ground, and Abel was a keeper of the
• 25:51
  sheep. And the days came that they were
• 25:54
  to give a sacrifice for their sin. And
• 25:56
  this was not a new thing, mind you, that
• 25:58
  Cain had been told what to do just like
• 26:00
  Abel had been told what to do because
• 26:02
  Adam and Eve, God took that animal and
• 26:05
  took the coats of skins meant an animal
• 26:07
  had to die and he made coats of skins
• 26:09
  for their covering. There was a blood
• 26:11
  sacrifice for the very first sin that
• 26:13
  was committed. And without the shedding
• 26:15
  of blood, there's no remission. But Cain
• 26:17
  knowing this fact, knowing and willfully
• 26:20
  admitting the fact that he did not do
• 26:22
  what God told him to do, he brought an
• 26:25
  offering of the fruit of the ground of
• 26:26
  the best. Amen. But let me say this, the
• 26:29
  best you have to offer is not good
• 26:30
  enough in the eyes of God. Abel, he
• 26:33
  brought of the first ones of his flock.
• 26:35
  And the Bible says that God was
• 26:36
  displeased with Cain's offering, but he
• 26:38
  was pleased with Abel's offering. And
• 26:40
  so, because of the fact of that, Cain
• 26:42
  became angry. And you know what
• 26:44
  happened? They got in the field. And the
• 26:46
  Bible says that Cain in his anger did
• 26:48
  what? He slew his brother Abel.
• 26:51
  >> Right?
• 26:52
  >> And you say, "Preacher, what's the
• 26:53
  example of that?" Well, I would say that
• 26:55
  Cain, number one, he's self-righteous.
• 26:58
  >> These apostates are self-righteous. And
• 27:00
  you say, "How is that, preacher?" Well,
• 27:02
  Cain wasn't willing to slay a lamb for a
• 27:05
  sacrifice.
• 27:06
  >> But he was willing to take out his
• 27:08
  brother.
• 27:09
  >> He was not willing to do things God's
• 27:12
  way. And so rather than shed blood in
• 27:14
  the prescribed manner, he decided he
• 27:16
  would shed blood of his very own
• 27:18
  brother. And you say, "What do you mean
• 27:20
  by that?" Well, let me just say this.
• 27:22
  Canaanism in the world in which we live
• 27:24
  today, sheds the brethren blood,
• 27:26
  brethren's blood on the altar instead of
• 27:28
  dying to sell.
• 27:29
  >> Right?
• 27:31
  >> Did you hear what I just said?
• 27:33
  Canaanism, what it looks like in this
• 27:34
  day and time, sheds the brethren's blood
• 27:37
  instead of dying to say,
• 27:40
  >> right?
• 27:41
  Say, "How is that, preacher?" Well, Cain
• 27:43
  had a choice. He could get right with
• 27:46
  God, or you know what he had to do, him
• 27:48
  and his anger, he had to eliminate his
• 27:50
  brother,
• 27:51
  >> right?
• 27:52
  >> What do we see in this world which we're
• 27:53
  living in today?
• 27:55
  >> It's a competition.
• 27:56
  >> That's right.
• 27:57
  >> It's self-righteousness. Those that can
• 27:59
  get bigger or grow better or do
• 28:01
  whatever, it's become a competition.
• 28:03
  It's because people HAVE BECOME SO
• 28:05
  SELF-RIGHTEOUS. That is a qualification
• 28:08
  of apostasy.
• 28:09
  >> Amen. You say, "How is that, preacher?"
• 28:12
  Well, there's only two boys ON THE WHOLE
• 28:14
  FACE OF THE EARTH. And you know what
• 28:16
  Cain, his religion, instead of reaching
• 28:18
  out, you know what he does? He slits his
• 28:20
  throat. You're
• 28:20
  >> right.
• 28:21
  >> You know what? That's what this world's
• 28:22
  religion does.
• 28:23
  >> That's what liberal modernism does in
• 28:25
  the church.
• 28:27
  Amen.
• 28:29
  >> All these churches in the world today
• 28:31
  that we want to say, "Well, uh, we're
• 28:34
  glad that, you know, our youngans are
• 28:36
  going to church and we're glad that, you
• 28:37
  know, they're in a place where they're
• 28:39
  hearing the word of God, but you look at
• 28:40
  the way they live and how they act.
• 28:42
  They're doing nothing operate. They're
• 28:44
  not operating at all by this book.
• 28:47
  >> Come on.
• 28:47
  >> Not even close." And we want to say,
• 28:50
  "Well, they're in church."
• 28:53
  >> Come on. And what they're doing is is
• 28:55
  they're going down a a two-fold road to
• 28:57
  hell from a church pew. Amen. Somewhere
• 28:59
  just because there's a preacher up there
• 29:01
  that says he's preaching a gospel, but
• 29:04
  he's so self-righteous, he's so self-
• 29:06
  consumed that really all he wants is the
• 29:08
  money from the ministry.
• 29:10
  >> You're right.
• 29:11
  >> Amen.
• 29:13
  >> Cain is self-righteous.
• 29:16
  Listen to what John said about him in 1
• 29:18
  John 3 and verse number 12. Verse number
• 29:20
  11. And he said, "For this is the
• 29:21
  message that you heard from the
• 29:22
  beginning, that we should love one
• 29:24
  another." Verse 12, "Not as Cain, who
• 29:27
  was of that wicked one, and slew his
• 29:29
  brother, and wherefore slew him, because
• 29:31
  his own works were evil, and his
• 29:33
  brother's righteous." You say,
• 29:34
  "Preacher, there's no preachers in these
• 29:36
  churches taking people's life." No, but
• 29:38
  they're taking other men's wives by the
• 29:40
  groves. You're
• 29:41
  >> right.
• 29:42
  >> I know it's not fun preaching tonight,
• 29:44
  but I plan on preaching it. Amen. I'm
• 29:46
  telling you, this crowd, Amen, that
• 29:48
  wants to look like the world and act
• 29:50
  like the world and allow you to come in
• 29:51
  there and dress just like you do out in
• 29:53
  the world, amen, which you shouldn't
• 29:55
  dress that way out there anyway, you
• 29:57
  come in there looking like the world and
• 29:59
  the preacher, rather than preaching a
• 30:00
  sermon, all he's doing is gaping at all
• 30:02
  the women in the congregation.
• 30:06
  >> You say, "Preacher, that ain't the same
• 30:07
  thing." Let me tell you, it is, friend.
• 30:09
  He They'll take your marriage out.
• 30:11
  >> You're right.
• 30:12
  >> And if they can't get your marriage,
• 30:13
  they'll get your children. You're right.
• 30:15
  >> I've known good people that go to them
• 30:18
  type of churches. And what they'll do is
• 30:20
  is they'll they'll let those people
• 30:21
  older people, they got saved back when
• 30:23
  the church was right with God. And and
• 30:25
  and as the progression goes on, it just
• 30:27
  gets a little farther and a little
• 30:28
  farther and a little farther away from
• 30:30
  the word of God. And and so what happens
• 30:32
  eventually, they're approving a gospel
• 30:34
  that's not biblical. They're approving
• 30:36
  an operation of a church that's not
• 30:38
  biblical. And so everybody in the church
• 30:40
  starts looking like the world. And what
• 30:42
  happens is that older generation gets
• 30:44
  left on a curb somewhere. You want to
• 30:46
  judge how a church is doing. You watch
• 30:48
  how they're treating the elderly folk,
• 30:50
  >> right?
• 30:53
  >> Well, we got a church, man. We got all
• 30:54
  these young people, but they ain't an
• 30:56
  elderly person in sight.
• 31:01
  >> Cuz they believe the truth,
• 31:03
  >> right?
• 31:04
  >> But all the younger ones just said,
• 31:05
  "Well, we just they're not they're
• 31:06
  holding us back."
• 31:08
  >> And I've heard preachers say that. I had
• 31:10
  to leave that church because it's
• 31:12
  holding me back.
• 31:14
  >> You know what? The ministry is not about
• 31:15
  holding us back.
• 31:16
  >> You're right.
• 31:19
  >> You say, "Preacher, well, it might could
• 31:20
  have been." It wasn't a spiritual thing.
• 31:22
  You can tell by the way they said it.
• 31:24
  All right.
• 31:25
  >> It's different than going forward for
• 31:26
  God and going forward in the flesh.
• 31:28
  >> Right?
• 31:29
  >> I tell you, somebody's going forward for
• 31:31
  God, they ain't going to tell you no
• 31:32
  church was holding them back.
• 31:34
  >> That's right.
• 31:35
  >> Look, I'm not on my soap box tonight.
• 31:37
  I'm telling you the truth. All right?
• 31:38
  this self-righteous attitude that they
• 31:40
  have. They think that, you know, what I
• 31:42
  do is good enough. You say, "Preacher,
• 31:43
  how is that?" Well, what was Cain's
• 31:45
  problem?
• 31:46
  >> It was his works. He was not willing to
• 31:49
  do what God said in order to be
• 31:52
  accepted.
• 31:53
  >> Said, "I want to look the way that I
• 31:55
  look,
• 31:56
  >> do the things that I do, and be just how
• 31:58
  I am, and God will accept me that way if
• 32:00
  he really says he loves me."
• 32:04
  But let me say this, friend. And it's a
• 32:06
  shame that so many of those men will
• 32:07
  shed blood. You say, "Preacher, they
• 32:09
  don't shed blood in this life." But
• 32:11
  think about all the people that die and
• 32:12
  go to hell.
• 32:13
  >> Yes.
• 32:13
  >> Because of their faulty gospel.
• 32:16
  >> And what they'll do is is they'll shed
• 32:17
  their blood. And the fact of the matter
• 32:19
  is Christ's blood's already been shed.
• 32:21
  You're
• 32:21
  >> right.
• 32:23
  >> He took the hard part.
• 32:24
  >> Amen.
• 32:25
  >> Just preach the word.
• 32:27
  >> Live the word. Be what it says. Operate
• 32:30
  how it says.
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  >> Yes.
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  >> He's self-righteous. They've gone in the
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  way of Cain. And that's that's that's
• 32:35
  the way a lot of churches are operating
• 32:37
  in this day and time.
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  Come as you are. Leave as you were.
• 32:42
  Live however you want to live. Listen to
• 32:44
  whatever you want to listen to. Drink
• 32:45
  whatever you want to drink. Go wherever
• 32:47
  you want to go. Be with whoever you want
• 32:48
  to be with. If they don't appreciate
• 32:50
  you, you just leave them and go find you
• 32:52
  another one.
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  >> Let me just say this on that note right
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  there. Okay? Come on.
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  >> When your young ones are are courting in
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  their courting years, don't let them run
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  around with 10 or 15 different young
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  people.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You say, "What do you mean by that?" I'm
• 33:07
  saying when when they when your daughter
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  or your son has 10 different girlfriends
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  or 10 different boyfriends, you know
• 33:12
  what you're doing? You're setting them
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  up for divorce.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> I know that don't sit well, but that's
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  the truth tonight. That's exactly what
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  it is. Cain was self-righteous. These
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  have gone in that way. They are
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  operating in the flesh. What they desire
• 33:29
  is the way that they are following. Not
• 33:32
  only you see self-righteous Cain, but
• 33:34
  second of all here, and I need to move,
• 33:35
  you see the self-indulgent Balum in
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  verse number 11. Woe unto them, for they
• 33:40
  have gone in the way of Cain and ran
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  greedily after the error of Balum for
• 33:45
  reward. Now, who is Balum tonight? I I
• 33:48
  don't want to I ain't got time to preach
• 33:50
  the whole story to you, but if you want
• 33:51
  a brief overview, give you time to go
• 33:53
  back and study it. Numbers chapter
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  number 22 through numbers chapter number
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  24 is the life of Balum. Balam is a
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  faulty prophet. He was a soothsayer that
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  lived in Israel. And the Bible says that
• 34:05
  the king of Moab, Bailac, saw that
• 34:08
  Israel was coming. They had just took
• 34:10
  out the Amalachites. God had given them
• 34:12
  victory. And what was happening is is
• 34:14
  all of Israel's marching up that valley.
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  And and Bailac's getting wind of it. He
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  don't like it. He don't like what's
• 34:20
  going on. He's afraid he's going to get
• 34:22
  hurt. He's afraid his kingdom is going
• 34:23
  to get taken from because Israel's
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  coming and like a bulldozer, they're
• 34:27
  taking out everybody that comes with
• 34:28
  him.
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  >> Right?
• 34:30
  >> And so Bailac calls Balam unto himself,
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  tries to offer him money, offers him
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  money one time. Balam says, "I'm not
• 34:37
  going to go. I don't I don't want that
• 34:38
  money. I can't do that. God's blessed
• 34:40
  them. There's nothing I can do about
• 34:41
  it." What happens is he goes, those men
• 34:44
  go back to Bailac. Come back. Bailac
• 34:46
  makes him another offer. And Balam goes
• 34:48
  to the Lord again and asks if he can go.
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  And God tells him he can go. But what he
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  was doing was he was testing him.
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  >> Y
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  >> and so you know what Balam goes and what
• 34:57
  happens on the way that donkey Amen
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  rares up and throws him off
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  >> and out of that that donkey throwing him
• 35:05
  off. The donkey speaks to him.
• 35:10
  >> Speaks to him and the donkey asked him,
• 35:12
  "Why'd you whip me these three times?"
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  You think I'm I'm not You think I'm
• 35:15
  joking? It's in there. Amen.
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  >> Asked him, "Why'd you whip me these
• 35:20
  three times?" And and the donkey says,
• 35:22
  "Do you not see the man standing over
• 35:24
  there?" And the Bible says that God
• 35:25
  opened Balam's eyes and the angel of the
• 35:27
  Lord was standing over there with his
• 35:28
  sword drawn sword drone ready to take
• 35:30
  his life. Why? Because he was heading to
• 35:32
  help the enemy.
• 35:33
  >> Right?
• 35:33
  >> So, you know what happens? He goes on up
• 35:35
  there to the enemy. God lets him go
• 35:37
  against his will. Amen. And so he goes
• 35:40
  up there and this story goes on. You can
• 35:41
  read it all. Numbers 22- 24. He goes up
• 35:45
  there and four different times he gets
• 35:48
  seven off seven offerings, offers them
• 35:50
  on the altar four different times. And
• 35:52
  all four times he's going to curse the
• 35:54
  children of Israel. God turns the curse
• 35:56
  into a blessing. God's not going to
• 35:58
  allow Balam to curse the children of
• 35:59
  Israel. But every single time Balam
• 36:02
  speaks, he can't speak a curse, but he
• 36:04
  speaks a blessing over the children of
• 36:05
  Israel. And out of that, children of
• 36:07
  Israel are blessed over and over and
• 36:09
  over again. And Bailac's getting mad
• 36:14
  because he's paying him all this money.
• 36:17
  And so now he's not winning anymore.
• 36:20
  Well, instead of cursing them, Balam
• 36:24
  decides to tell him, "All right, since
• 36:26
  cursing them is not going to work, what
• 36:27
  you need to do is you just need to make
• 36:29
  them sinful."
• 36:31
  You say, "Preacher, how is that?" Well,
• 36:33
  Bailac was the king of Moab. And all
• 36:34
  perversion stemmed out of Moab and
• 36:36
  Ammon, those two uh incestuous sons of
• 36:39
  Lot's children,
• 36:42
  and all this perversion. They were
• 36:43
  wicked as the devil. All types of
• 36:45
  fornication stemmed out of those cities.
• 36:47
  You say, "What is it, preacher?" Well,
• 36:49
  Bailac caused the ladies of Moab to go
• 36:51
  and to seduce the men of Israel. Numbers
• 36:54
  25:es 1-3 tells the story. And so out of
• 36:58
  that, what happens is Balam causes
• 37:01
  Israel to sin and God's greed with them.
• 37:03
  You can turn there and read it. Numbers
• 37:04
  chapter 25. And you say, "Preacher, what
• 37:07
  does that have to do with Balum?"
• 37:10
  Well, Balam turned over the entire
• 37:13
  group, the entire nation of Israel to
• 37:15
  Moab for money. You're
• 37:18
  >> right.
• 37:20
  >> Listen to what the book of Revelation
• 37:22
  says in chapter two about verse verse 14
• 37:25
  about Balam sin.
• 37:27
  The angel of the church in Pergamus is
• 37:30
  speaking here in verse 14. He says, "But
• 37:32
  I have a few things against thee,
• 37:33
  because thou hast there them that hold
• 37:35
  the doctrine of Balum, who taught Bailac
• 37:38
  to cast a stumbling block before the
• 37:40
  children of Israel, to eat things
• 37:42
  sacrificed unto idols, and to commit
• 37:44
  fornication."
• 37:47
  Balam turned over the entire nation of
• 37:49
  Israel under sin for money.
• 37:51
  >> That's right.
• 37:52
  >> And I called them out a little bit ago,
• 37:54
  but I'm going to blister their high
• 37:55
  again. this crowd. Amen. That's taking
• 37:57
  people's money and selling them out.
• 38:01
  >> There's a hot place in hell for them.
• 38:03
  >> Amen.
• 38:05
  >> And Balum, the Bible says, they've ran
• 38:07
  greedily. They they HAVE RAN SO FULL of
• 38:09
  lust. Balam was so self-indulgent,
• 38:12
  DESIRING THAT MONEY, WANTING WHAT HE
• 38:14
  COULD HAVE IN HIS FLESH. HE TURNED OVER
• 38:17
  THE ENTIRE nation to sin. And they some
• 38:21
  hierlands in this country, they'd turn
• 38:23
  their whole church over if it meant it
• 38:24
  double their paycheck.
• 38:25
  >> You're right.
• 38:28
  >> They'd turn the whole congregation over.
• 38:30
  They'd bust it right down the middle. It
• 38:31
  wouldn't matter. It wouldn't bother them
• 38:32
  a bit to do that if they could get a
• 38:35
  better paycheck.
• 38:36
  >> You're right.
• 38:36
  >> Amen.
• 38:37
  >> I've heard preachers talk about that and
• 38:39
  I It makes me sick to my stomach talking
• 38:41
  about how they went to a place and they
• 38:43
  didn't get enough money and so they
• 38:44
  didn't take the church.
• 38:47
  >> God ain't within a million miles of,
• 38:49
  >> right? Amen. You go where God wants you
• 38:51
  and he works out that
• 38:52
  >> you're right.
• 38:55
  >> You say, "What does that mean?" THEY'RE
• 38:56
  APOSTATES.
• 38:58
  >> AMEN.
• 38:58
  >> They're repbates. AND YOU SAY,
• 39:00
  "PREACHER, HOW DO WE IDENTIFY THEM?"
• 39:02
  WELL, THEY'RE SELF-RIGHTEOUS LIKE CAIN.
• 39:04
  They're consumed. Their ministry is
• 39:06
  fruitless.
• 39:08
  BUT THEY'RE SELF-INDULGENT LIKE BALUM.
• 39:10
  ALL THEY'RE AFTER IS THE DOLLAR.
• 39:13
  >> ALL THEY'RE after is a little more
• 39:15
  money, A LITTLE NICER PLACE, A LITTLE
• 39:17
  BETTER LIFESTYLE. THEY HAVE NO CARE FOR
• 39:20
  THE church of God,
• 39:21
  >> right?
• 39:22
  >> They're self-indulgent.
• 39:25
  Peter said this about the same subject.
• 39:28
  Second Peter chapter 2
• 39:31
  verse number 15, which have forsaken the
• 39:34
  right way and are gone astray, following
• 39:36
  the way of Balum the son of Bosor, who
• 39:39
  loved the wages of unrighteousness, but
• 39:41
  was rebuked for his iniquity. The
• 39:43
  dumbass speaking with man's voice,
• 39:45
  forbade the madness of the prophet. GOD
• 39:48
  HAD TO TAKE A donkey to tell him how
• 39:51
  foolish he was.
• 39:55
  >> I'm telling you, there's some men,
• 39:57
  friend, that they they're going to live.
• 39:59
  They're going to ride that train till
• 40:00
  the day they die. And when they get
• 40:01
  there, they're going to realize how big
• 40:03
  of a mistake they make.
• 40:05
  >> Amen.
• 40:07
  >> The ministry is not a hierarchy.
• 40:12
  It's not authority so we can have a
• 40:14
  paycheck.
• 40:14
  >> You're right.
• 40:16
  >> Dr. Scott Cer said this. He said, "I
• 40:18
  don't serve God for a paycheck in my
• 40:19
  pocket or a plaque on the wall
• 40:23
  >> or a pat on the back."
• 40:25
  >> Right?
• 40:28
  >> But Balam turned the whole crowd over.
• 40:32
  I'll give you this and I'm done tonight.
• 40:35
  They're self-righteous Cain in verse
• 40:37
  number 11. They're self-indulgent Balum.
• 40:40
  But then there's this man named Core.
• 40:42
  And the Bible says that they ran
• 40:44
  greedily after the error of of Balum for
• 40:46
  reward and perished in the gains of
• 40:48
  Korea.
• 40:50
  Kora is found on the page in the pages
• 40:52
  of scripture about numbers chapter 16.
• 40:54
  His sin is he's found before that.
• 40:57
  Kora's family is right along with Aaron
• 41:00
  and Moses. They were the Levites. They
• 41:02
  were the chosen ones to bear the
• 41:04
  presence of God and to bear the ark of
• 41:06
  God. And they were in charge of all the
• 41:08
  holy things. And the Bible says in
• 41:10
  numbers chapter number 16 that Kora gets
• 41:12
  two men to come with him. Two men by the
• 41:15
  name of Dayan and A Byron. And these two
• 41:19
  men, they join forces with Kora and they
• 41:21
  come unto Moses and they're going to
• 41:22
  stand against him. They've got a bunch
• 41:24
  of men with them about 250 I think the
• 41:27
  scripture says. And they go and stand
• 41:29
  against Moses and they say Moses you
• 41:32
  really shouldn't take all this authority
• 41:34
  to yourself.
• 41:36
  And they say something like this. All
• 41:38
  the people is holy.
• 41:41
  All the people is holy. Let's turn there
• 41:43
  and look at that. You need to see that.
• 41:45
  Numbers chapter 16
• 41:57
  number 16 verse number
• 42:02
  verse number three.
• 42:05
  And they gathered themselves together
• 42:06
  against Moes. Moses, this is Kora, son
• 42:09
  of Kohath, Dayan, and Abram, the sons of
• 42:12
  Eli, and Anne, and uh son of Paleith,
• 42:15
  sons of Reuben. Verse three, they
• 42:17
  gathered themselves together against
• 42:19
  Moses and against Aaron, and said unto
• 42:21
  them, you take too much upon you, seeing
• 42:24
  all the congregation are holy, every one
• 42:27
  of them, and the Lord is among them.
• 42:29
  Wherefore then lift you up yourselves
• 42:31
  above the congregation
• 42:33
  of the Lord. Notice verse four and five.
• 42:36
  And when Moses heard it, he fell upon
• 42:38
  his face, and he spake unto Core and
• 42:39
  unto all his company, saying, Even
• 42:41
  tomorrow the Lord will show who are his
• 42:43
  and who is holy, and will cause him to
• 42:45
  come near unto him, even him whom heath
• 42:48
  chosen will he cause to come near unto
• 42:50
  him. And this chapter reveals that these
• 42:53
  men get up offerings. Kora decides these
• 42:57
  men and Byram that they're going to get
• 42:59
  up and offer and they're going to go and
• 43:01
  offer this thing. And Moses, it comes
• 43:02
  down to the wire. And the Bible says
• 43:05
  Moses said, "The ones that are holy," he
• 43:07
  said, "if these men are not who I say
• 43:09
  they are." He he said, "These men are
• 43:11
  who they say they are, let the ground
• 43:12
  open up and swallow them whole."
• 43:15
  >> Listen to what the Bible says in verse
• 43:17
  number 30.
• 43:19
  But if the Lord make a new thing, and
• 43:21
  the earth open her mouth, and swallow
• 43:23
  them up with all that appertain unto
• 43:25
  them, and they go down quick into the
• 43:26
  pit, then you shall understand that
• 43:28
  these men had provoked the Lord. And it
• 43:30
  came to pass, as he had made an end of
• 43:32
  speaking all these words, that the
• 43:34
  ground clave of sunder that was under
• 43:36
  them, and the earth opened their mouth,
• 43:38
  and swallowed them up, and their houses,
• 43:40
  and all the men that have pertained unto
• 43:42
  Kora, and all their goods.
• 43:46
  You say, "Preacher, what is that?" Well,
• 43:48
  they were rejecting the authority of
• 43:50
  Moses, right?
• 43:51
  >> You say, "What is that picture of?"
• 43:53
  Well, Moses is the law.
• 43:55
  >> Amen.
• 43:56
  >> Moses was in charge of the children of
• 43:57
  Israel. And this is especially
• 44:00
  applicable in the day of anti-semitism
• 44:02
  that we live in,
• 44:03
  >> right?
• 44:04
  >> They came and they said, "All right, we
• 44:06
  we we've got a better plan, Moses. You
• 44:07
  don't need you've made yourself higher
• 44:09
  than everybody else.
• 44:12
  You don't belong up there. You need some
• 44:15
  help, Moses."
• 44:16
  And so you know what they're doing?
• 44:18
  They're trying to undermine the
• 44:19
  authority right
• 44:20
  >> of Moses.
• 44:22
  >> And so what happens? Moses says, "All
• 44:23
  right, he provoked the Lord. This ain't
• 44:25
  what God wanted."
• 44:27
  What happens out of that? Moses calls
• 44:29
  them out in their sin. And what do they
• 44:30
  do? They die. Jude says this. He said
• 44:34
  that they are perished in the game
• 44:36
  saying of core. And without going into a
• 44:38
  whole lot of detail about this, what
• 44:40
  that simply means is is that at the very
• 44:42
  moment of their sin, you know what God
• 44:43
  did?
• 44:48
  And you know where they went? To hell.
• 44:51
  >> Right?
• 44:55
  >> Why is that? Because they undermine the
• 44:57
  authority of Moses.
• 44:59
  >> Right?
• 45:01
  >> People in this day and time, the
• 45:02
  Christians, and let me say this, this is
• 45:04
  getting to be a more mainstream thing.
• 45:06
  And I' I've seen it a little bit here of
• 45:07
  late, and I don't know a whole lot, but
• 45:09
  I do know this. Anybody that stands
• 45:11
  against Israel is not my friend.
• 45:13
  >> Right. Amen.
• 45:14
  >> We've got so-called Christian people in
• 45:16
  this country.
• 45:17
  >> Come on, preacher.
• 45:18
  >> That are landlasting Israel.
• 45:20
  >> You're right.
• 45:21
  >> I mean, absolutely plowing them up.
• 45:23
  Look, now we know tonight Israel's
• 45:25
  sinful.
• 45:26
  >> We realize that. Okay, we know tonight
• 45:29
  that they're not right with God because
• 45:30
  if they were right with God, they'd get
• 45:32
  saved. Somebody say, "Amen."
• 45:34
  >> But God said, "I'll bless them that
• 45:35
  bless thee, and I'll curse them that
• 45:37
  curse thee." and all this crowd that
• 45:40
  wants to divide Israel and say that that
• 45:43
  does not apply in this day and time that
• 45:46
  say that it is not right to honor Israel
• 45:48
  anymore because when the church arrived
• 45:50
  God did away with Israel. That's not the
• 45:52
  way it works.
• 45:53
  >> Amen.
• 45:53
  >> Right.
• 45:54
  >> Paul said in the book of Romans, he said
• 45:55
  even at this present time, there's a
• 45:57
  remnant according to the election of
• 45:58
  grace. There is a remnant of Israel at
• 46:01
  this point in time. You're
• 46:02
  >> right.
• 46:02
  >> Say, "How is that, preacher?" Well, when
• 46:04
  Jesus comes back, that remnant is going
• 46:05
  to come out.
• 46:07
  >> You're right.
• 46:09
  What do you mean by that, preacher? Kora
• 46:12
  was against Moses and therefore he was
• 46:15
  against the people of God. And these
• 46:18
  people who are against Israel, you know
• 46:19
  what they're doing? They're
• 46:20
  self-exalting themselves.
• 46:23
  Kora exalted himself, tried to make
• 46:26
  himself like Moses. And what did it do?
• 46:28
  It brought about a curse on him. And the
• 46:30
  earth swallowed him up.
• 46:32
  What people who are anti-Semitics are
• 46:34
  doing, they are exalting their position
• 46:36
  above Israel.
• 46:39
  You know what they're doing when they do
• 46:40
  that? They're trying to
• 46:44
  minimize the ministry
• 46:48
  of that book right there.
• 46:50
  >> Amen.
• 46:50
  >> Because if they can say that Israel is
• 46:52
  no longer God's chosen people, they can
• 46:54
  defile anything that's in this book.
• 46:56
  >> Right?
• 46:58
  The line that runs all the way through
• 47:00
  the word of God is God's chosen people.
• 47:03
  >> And who is the seed of that? Christ was
• 47:05
  >> right.
• 47:06
  >> And the Bible says in verse number 11,
• 47:08
  they perished in the gain saying of
• 47:09
  court. Now, people that will do this in
• 47:12
  this day and time, apostates who will
• 47:14
  undermine the authority of the word of
• 47:15
  God. And a closer application would be
• 47:18
  this. Those who would undermine the
• 47:20
  authority of the man of God and the word
• 47:21
  of God, they're not going to be the
• 47:24
  ground's not going to open up and
• 47:25
  swallow them. But what this says is is
• 47:28
  that they are presently administered a
• 47:30
  curse.
• 47:31
  >> Right?
• 47:32
  >> Notice it again in the text. The Bible
• 47:34
  said they have perished in the gains
• 47:35
  saying of core. Now that word perish
• 47:38
  there's the same word perish in John
• 47:40
  3:16. Bible says for God so loved the
• 47:42
  world that he gave his only begotten son
• 47:44
  that whosoever believeth him should not
• 47:45
  perish but have everlasting life. Now,
• 47:48
  let me ask you tonight,
• 47:50
  does that perishing take place at death?
• 47:53
  Or does that perishing take place the
• 47:55
  moment a child is conceived? You know
• 47:57
  what? They're conceived in death.
• 47:59
  >> Right. Amen.
• 48:00
  >> That perishing is not a physical death.
• 48:02
  Salvation ain't got anybody out of a
• 48:04
  physical death.
• 48:05
  >> You're right.
• 48:07
  >> Has it?
• 48:08
  >> So, it's a spiritual death. What does
• 48:10
  that tell us? It means that Kora in our
• 48:13
  text it says he there perished in the
• 48:16
  gang Sam Cor just as immediately as Kora
• 48:20
  went into the earth. That means those
• 48:22
  people that live this way they're dead.
• 48:24
  >> You're right.
• 48:25
  >> Not physically but spiritually. And it
• 48:28
  means that they've gone past the point
• 48:29
  of repentance.
• 48:32
  What did the Bible say about Esau? Look,
• 48:34
  I know this is a lot to process tonight.
• 48:36
  All right, but I want you to hear me,
• 48:37
  okay? What did the Bible say about Esau?
• 48:39
  Hebrews chapter 12, I believe it is,
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  said he found no place of repentance,
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  though he sought it carefully
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  >> with tears.
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  >> These people
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  have no place to repent.
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  >> Right?
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  >> When Moses pronounced the curse, you
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  know what? There was nothing could do.
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  The earth was going to swallow him up.
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  Why? Because he had rejected the word of
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  God and he had rejected the messenger
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  that gave it. You're
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  >> right. an apostate that stands against
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  the word of God. Mark my words. All
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  right? When they stand against the word
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  of God and the messenger that gives it,
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  you know what happens to them? If they
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  stand against it long enough, they'll
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  die standing against it.
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  >> Right?
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  >> And they'll be in hell, still standing
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  against it. What did the Bible say about
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  the rich man? He was in hell. What did
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  he say? Send Lazarus. He still thought
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  that Lazarus was his little
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  do what I want.
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  Don't work that way though, does it?
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  >> Right?
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  >> When you get there, it's over with.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> These men go that way and they're headed
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  that way willfully.
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  You say, "Preacher, what does that have
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  to do with me tonight?" Well, I hope
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  that you're none of those things.
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  >> Number one. Number two, I say this. I
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  hope that you're not being influenced
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  >> by this.
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  >> What do you mean? I'm saying that I
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  don't want you to be influenced by
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  somebody who self-righteous says, "Well,
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  you can just do whatever you want to and
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  you'll be okay."
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  >> I hope you're not influenced by somebody
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  who self-indulgent like Balum. Hey, come
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  along with me and our ministry will get
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  blessed. You can get a big name, put
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  your name on the side of a bus, have all
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  the money and all the all the blessings
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  that you want.
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  Ain't got much use for somebody puts
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  their name on a website or on the side
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  of a bus. That's right. Such and such
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  ministries.
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  >> Amen.
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  those who are self-righteous, those who
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  are self-indulgent, but those who are
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  self-exalting.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> One preacher said this. He told told a
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  bunch of young preachers this, and I
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  think he's right. He said, uh, he said,
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  "If you ever have to put yourself out
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  there as a preacher, he said, "You know
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  what you'll have to do? You'll have to
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  keep yourself out there."
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  >> You're right.
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  >> But if God raises you up, nobody can
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  take you away.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> I've seen it down through the years. Men
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  will spend money and do all kinds of
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  things to push their platform.
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  >> You know what? The minute that they
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  stop, it just goes away.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> What happened to Kora? His platform
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  didn't last too long, did it?
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  >> It's serious tonight.
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  >> I know it's different. You say,
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  "Preacher, how can I approach the
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  invitation this time?" Well, I'll tell
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  you this. One of two things. If you're
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  if you're here tonight and this if
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  you're if you're dealing with this, all
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  right, you you're questioning
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  everything. Questioning what we believe,
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  questioning why we believe it,
• 51:27
  questioning why I preach how I preach,
• 51:29
  why why this church operates the way it
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  does. The best thing that you can do is
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  take your Bible and get on this altar
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  and open it and say, "God, show me."
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Lord, help me. What that man say to
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  Jesus? He said, "I believe. Lord, help
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  my unbelief." Yeah.
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  >> If you know you're saved and you know
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  you're you're you're tinkering with that
• 51:48
  line, maybe you found somebody on TV and
• 51:50
  you like to listen to him because he
• 51:52
  tickles your ears, makes you feel good,
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  you ought to question that,
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  >> right?
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  >> You may be here tonight and and you're
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  in danger of being influenced by this,
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  by somebody that's around you. I'll say
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  this, you need to pray God will protect
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  you.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> This stuff will take you out.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Modernism is destroying our good
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  churches, right?
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  Because the very second, this is the way
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  it is, brother Matt. The very second
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  somebody decides they don't want to
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  abide by what the Bible says about our
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  standards,
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  >> right?
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  >> They can go right down the road
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> to the next place they don't have it.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> And continue on like nothing ever
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  happened.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And this is what they'll say. Well, it
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  feels the same.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> It feels exactly the same. I feel the
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  same spirit.
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  >> Come on.
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  >> Let me say this. You can have the same
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  feeling
• 52:44
  on a country song.
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  >> Yes.
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  >> That you can have on a hymn.
• 52:50
  >> Come on.
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  >> Oh, man. I'm telling you, I just really
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  have turned the tater patch over now.
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  >> We don't go off feelings.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> But you don't never hear no people say,
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  "Well, he preaches the same Bible." No,
• 53:03
  he don't. Because if he did, you'd be
• 53:04
  living the same way.
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  >> Amen.
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  Look, I know it's not pretty, but I'm
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  telling you, if we going to keep this
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  thing straight. You say, "Preacher, you
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  going to make our church so small, there
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  ain't going to be no life here.
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  >> I'm not worried about size." That's
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  >> right.
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  >> You know what I'm worried about? I'm
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  going to give an account to God one of
• 53:23
  these days for what I tell you in this
• 53:24
  bullpit.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And if I can prevent somebody from
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  dying, somebody falling out in this
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  world, I'll do it every time.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Say, "Preacher, but it brings
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  casualties." No, not casualties.
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  spiritually. Yeah, people leave. But let
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  me let me say this to you. When they
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  leave, let me ask you, how does it feel
• 53:43
  here?
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  >> You're right. COME ON.
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  >> WHAT'S CHANGED HERE?
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  >> We're still preaching the same Bible. I
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  still believe the SAME THING. I'M STILL
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  OPERATING THE SAME WAY. I DON'T KNOW
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  ABOUT YOU, BUT SOMETIMES THE HINDRANCES
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  HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY.
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  >> RIGHT.
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  I would rather this thing be holy
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  >> with five people
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  >> then it be worldly
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  >> and have it
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  >> you're right
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  >> father I pray in Jesus name.
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  Lord, you know my heart tonight.
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  And God, I don't have a desire
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  to hinder anything or anybody.
• 55:08
  But Lord, if we don't start drawing this
• 55:10
  thing back to the Bible,
• 55:13
  Lord, we're going to get to a place one
• 55:15
  of these days when we look back at the
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  scriptures and like the people of God,
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  they read it and they wept because they
• 55:20
  didn't even know what it meant.
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  And Lord, I pray there'd be some people
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  right now that make up their mind
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  that regardless of their own fancy,
• 55:30
  their own desire,
• 55:32
  the world's feds around them, Lord, that
• 55:34
  they're going to decide to go with the
• 55:36
  word of God.
• 55:45
  Lord, I wouldn't want anybody to be like
• 55:47
  Kora,
• 55:50
  be perished, lost
• 55:55
  because they decided to go against the
• 55:57
  word of God.
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  I wouldn't want anybody to be like Balum
• 56:02
  and love the wages of unrighteousness
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  more
• 56:08
  than the people of God.
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  Lord, I wouldn't ever want to sell out
• 56:12
  any of these church members.
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  And Lord, you know my heart tonight.
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  Lord, I don't want anybody to leave this
• 56:22
  church. And Lord, I'm thankful that not
• 56:25
  everybody that's left this church has
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  left out of the will of God.
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  But Lord, I pray for those that have.
• 56:38
  God, you know where they are and you
• 56:39
  know what they need.
• 56:42
  And Lord, for those that left, Father,
• 56:44
  and God, they were never going to truly
• 56:46
  trust you, never going to involve
• 56:48
  themselves in the work of God, and they
• 56:50
  were never going to be saved. Lord, I
• 56:52
  pray please,
• 56:55
  please, God, that you wouldn't let it be
• 56:57
  the last time for them to have a chance
• 56:59
  to be saved.
• 57:01
  But God, I'm mindful of the fact that
• 57:03
  there are people that'll come in here
• 57:05
  and then they'll leave and they'll never
• 57:06
  get another opportunity.
• 57:10
  But Lord, what would that make me if I
• 57:12
  didn't tell them the truth while they're
• 57:13
  here?
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  Lord, I pray you'd help us to be
• 57:18
  obedient to you always,
• 57:21
  submit to you.
• 57:24
  And Lord, I pray for whatever needs
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  you're on this altar tonight, you'd meet
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  them. that I pray for our young people
• 57:29
  you'd protect their mind from apostasy.
• 57:34
  Lord, don't let them thank God that they
• 57:36
  can just live and do however they want
• 57:38
  to. Lord, those friends that want to
• 57:40
  tell them to come along and it'll be all
• 57:42
  right and the Lord will forgive you
• 57:43
  later on. Lord, please don't let them
• 57:45
  follow that crowd. Yeah. Amen.
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  >> And Lord, for these others, God, many I
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  think of, Lord, even my own family,
• 57:53
  Lord, not in a good church or not in a
• 57:55
  place where the Bible's being preached.
• 57:58
  Lord, I pray please you deal with their
• 57:59
  heart,
• 58:02
  Lord. Cuz I know when you get closer
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  to you and closer to the scripture, you
• 58:08
  can't stay in them places because it
• 58:09
  just don't satisfy.
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  And Lord, I pray that you would help us
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  all to be thankful for what we have we
• 58:16
  have here at Meadows. God, you've been
• 58:19
  so good. And I bless your name for it.
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  Meet every need tonight in Jesus name.
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  Amen.
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  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
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  We'd love it if you'd join us in person
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  the next time you are able at Meadows
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  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
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  2988 Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
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  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
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  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
• 58:53
  evening Bible study at 7:00 p.m. For
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  more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.