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Episode 103: The Problem Of Evil 4 · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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All right, God bless you, God bless you. We welcome you once
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again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministry. She wus say broadcast
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podcasts, video casts. We are a man continuing in a series that we've
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just begun three sessions ago entitled the Problem of Evil, and that's what we're
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gonna continue with today. So we welcome you once again those of you who
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are listening by way of podcast audio podcasts. It is available through many different
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outlets, and we have for this particular series on the Problem of Evil begun
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There. Now before we begin, of course, we certainly want to
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solicit your prayers and your support for the work of this ministry as again we
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endeavor to a man preach the Word of God in a time and a season
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where Amen, it is much needed, and it's always needed. By the
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way, it's always necessary. But as we see the day approaching, we
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know that the Bible says they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears,
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turning away their ears from the truth. And our endeavor here is to speak
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the truth of God, plainly, boldly and without compromise a man, even
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in the midst of perversity and wickedness and evil, a man that is always
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against a man the will of God and the way that God has prescribed for
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us to walk in. And so Amen again, we thank God for each
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Time Revival Ministers US a podcast. It can be heard again audio on many
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different outlets and our YouTube channel. Again we've begun podcasting here with this series
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The Problem of Evil on YouTube at the simple handle. You can type in
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the number one V as in Victor IW one voice in the wilderness. And
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that's what we are, simply a voice in the wilderness seeking a man to
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proclaim God's truth in such a time as this, all right, the Problem
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of Evil. This is a podcast number four, episode number four in this
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particular series on the Problem of Evil. And before we get before we begin,
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as always, we want to certainly a man give God glory and invoke
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the presence of the law. Lord Father, we thank you for again all
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of your marvelous, splendid, splendid works that you've done and demonstrated towards us,
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the children of men. We thank you for all of your amen goodness
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toward us. In Lord, we pray to today that someone would come to
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see and know that you are the true and the Living God, and Jesus
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Christ, whom thou hast sent to be the savior of all them that believe.
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Open, blinded eyes, deaf ears, unstop, Amen, those take
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out whether those stony hearts, Amen, that are obstinate against your truth.
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God be glorified in your people in this world. Today in Jesus name,
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we pray and give thanks. Amen and amen. All right, and again
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the problem of evil session number four here, and we're going to focus today
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on the topic or the subject of woe to good evil doers. Woe to
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good evil doers. Now, I know that sounds as if it's not possible,
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but certainly that is the reality of the kind of world in which we
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live because of the deception of evil. And again, if you heard in
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our previous session, how that the devil has blinded people to the goodness of
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God, and it is such a hideous thing. But his craftiness, his
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craftiness is unparallel in the wickedness that he has a man been successful at doing.
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And if you think that there would not or could not be such a
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person as a good evildoer, a man I believe the Bible certainly lets us
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know that there are people in their minds, that is, they are good,
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but their works are evil. So therefore they don't see themselves as being
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evil, of course, but they are in reality evil in their doings,
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in their practices, in their deeds. So can there be such a person?
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Of course, can a man be a good person and yet be an
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evil do of course, there's no question. Of course, we certainly know
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this from the scriptures, and know this even of ourselves. Amen, if
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we are honest with ourselves, there's no question that good people do evil things.
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We know this. But no one can practice. And this is what
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the Bible is very I believe clear about. No one can practice being an
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evil doer and at the same time be a good person. If you will,
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Amen, We're talking about good in the sight of God, not good
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in the sight of man or by man's standards. Amen. The good man,
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the Bible lets us know, hates evil. He hates evil, and
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in the fear of the Lord, he seeks to shine evil. A man,
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Job, of course, was a perfect example of this. The Bible
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says, he was a perfect and upright man. This is according to the
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testimony of God Amen himself. Amen. Yet Job acknowledged a man his own
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sins, his own shortcomings. David, of course, also was a man,
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the Bible says, who was called after the heart of God, a
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man after God's own heart. Amen. But yet David, Amen, did
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some very evil things, a man in the sight of the Lord. But
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neither Job here's the difference. Neither Job nor David Amen rebelled against the law
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of God. Amen, in refusing to acknowledge that they were guilty and they
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were in need of God to mercy. That's the difference. Here. In
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lies this difference between the one a man who is good and does evil and
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repents, versus the one who practices evil and refuses to repent a man.
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And sadly for the rebel a man in their refuge, in their in their
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refusal a man to repent a man. They often see themselves as being good.
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They see themselves as being good, and their evil deeds as being good
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and acceptable. Also, Amen, this is abominable in the sight of God.
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And this is precisely a man. What is occurring right now in our
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world of perversion? Amen, those who have been deceived, those who have
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been blinded, Amen to what God has said is evil, who has been
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blinded to God's goodness. They're being led by a man, demonic evil forces,
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being led down the path of delusion, a man that will lead to
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despair, destruction, and ultimately death. The Bible says the wages of sin
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is death, and there is a point of no return on this path if
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you get on this path, and man, we're all on this path,
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we're born on this path. Again, we talked about this at Nauseaum.
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I believe a man that evil is innate in the heart of man. Amen.
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And we have to acknowledge that evil is innate within us. And we
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need a man God, a man divine intervention. Amen. If we're going
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to overcome. Amen. If we are too, a man, be regenerated
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and renewed and saved and delivered and set free from the power of evil.
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And that's why Jesus taught his disciples in that prayer, deliver us from evil.
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Deliver us from evil, from the evil one, and from the evil
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that's in us. And that's what we have to acknowledge. There is evil
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inside of us. One of the grave mistakes I've I've already talked about this
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that's egregious in the heart and mind of man, unfortunately, is that we
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think that people are born a man as good people, as good individuals,
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and yet it is the outside influences that cause them to go bad, or
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to become bad people or do evil things. No, no, no,
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no, no no no no. Evil is in the heart of man,
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and as the testimony of God himself. Back in the book Genesis spoke very
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clearly of us, our nature, our fallenness, that we are evil from
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our youth. Amen, from the very time that we come forth into this
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world. We have the knowledge of good and evil embedded within us. And
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yet our fallen nature Amen, has a bent toward doing what is evil.
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And so what happens when a person continues in their rebellion against God, they
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get on this path a man of delusion. Uh. And and on this
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path of delusion is where God gives a person over to a reprobate mind.
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And I don't know when, and and and I don't know the standard that
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God uses. God is judge is judge alone. Amen. But I do
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know this this. I do know that God is long suffering and is forbearance,
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That God is patient, That God gives each and every one of us
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space to repent, time to repent, He gives us opportunity to turn.
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Amen. That's his goodness. Amen. But once you, or any a
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person reaches a state of reprobation, When a man reaches a state of reprobation,
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Amen, in that state, it is that reprobate mind that then call
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that then calls what is good evil and calls what is evil good. That's
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that's the way you see it. Then, because your mind is reprobate,
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Amen, you've you, you've cast God out of your mind. You don't
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want the knowledge of God. You want the presence of God. You don't
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want the conscience. Amen, that God has a man given to you.
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And this is what happens. The conscience becomes seared, as the Bible says,
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with a hot iron, and in their minds they are good, and
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they are doing good. The reprobate is Amen, even as they are being
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carried away, tossed about a man not not. And again they're not aware
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of this because they deny. When you deny evil, you deny, Amen,
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that the devil, Amen, and his demonic forces are working within you.
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And then again this is this is this is again the cleverness, the
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craftiness of the devil. Amen. He wants to operate as if he's not
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there, Amen, stealth, Amen, he's he he loves that kind of
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operation. It is not me. No, his his hands are not there.
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He's not visible, he's not Amen, he's he's not present, he's
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not operating. And we call it all kinds of things. Amen. But
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again, when Jesus came into this world. Amen. And even though some
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of the people that came to Jesus, the man I'm thinking of even now
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in my mind, that came to Jesus had a son, a man who
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was possessed by the devil, and a man knew it, a man,
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he knew that his son was demon possessed. But when you deny the presence
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of evil, when you deny that evil exists, and when you begin to
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call good evil and evil good, a man, you're on a path.
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And perhaps, and we pray God that it's not there yet, it hasn't
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happened to you a man, that you enter into this state of having a
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reprobate mind. It's very dangerous a man to call God a liar a man,
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It's very dangerous. And it's one thing again. We all sin and
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fall Chorgie of the glory of God. We are sinners by nature, all
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have sin a man, We have all sin and are all worthy of death.
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We understand that. But again, in rebellion, in continuing to rebel
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against God, therein lies the grave danger. God knows our state. He
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knows that we're sinners. He knows that we're in need of a man salvation.
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That's why Jesus came a man to save us, to deliver us,
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to set us free, a man, to open our eyes to a man
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and testify against the evil, a man that is inside of man. Jesus
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said, out of the heart proceeds all of these things. It comes out
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of us, a man. A lot of times we want to blame the
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devil for a man, things that happen, things that we do, but
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we need to also acknowledge that there is evil that comes out of the heart
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of man. Listen what the Bible says. I want to take you to
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the book of Isaiah. Even in the Old Testament, a man God pronounced
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woes on those who would call a man good evil and evil good. Listen
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what he says, Woe to those I'm in Isaiah. I'm sorry chapter number
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five for those whom will follow along in your Bible. I'm reading from the
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English stand up version onto day ESV version Isaiah chapter number five, and I'm
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going to begin reading that version of eighteen. He says, woe to those
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who draw iniquity with chords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,
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who say, let him never referring to God. Of course, let
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him be quick, Let him speed his work that we may see it.
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Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it
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come that we may know it. Oh, whoa, whoa woa. Verse
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twenty, He says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
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who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for
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sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own
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eyes and shrew in their own sight? Whoa, the Bible says, to
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those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
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who acquit, Oh, listen to this who acquit the guilty for a bribe
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and deprive the innocent of his right. Woe, Oh, woe, woe
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to those who pervert justice, who pervert the law of God. Amen,
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drunkards, Amen, wise in their own eyes, shrewd in their own Amen
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sight, the Bible says, they put darkness for light, and light for
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darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Amen, this is
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this, whoa, It's evil, It's wicked. Amen, But again in
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their in their sight, there's nothing wrong with it, this shrewdness. It's
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just shrewd business practices. You know. We kind of again we gloss over,
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redefine what evil is. Amen. And the Bible tells us by the
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way, a false balance is an abomination in the sight of God. Amen.
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But we practiced all kinds of deception and wickedness, and we want to
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call it shrewdness. Amen. But it is wickedness and abomination in the sight
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of God. Gallations, Chapter five. I want to read a few verses
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there also Gallationans. This is chapter five of Gallationans New Testament, verses sixteen
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through twenty one. But I say, Paul, itmonishes the church to people
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of God, walk by the spirit. We'll have to walk in the spirit,
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live in the spirit, be led by the spirit. So he says
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to them, walk by the spirit, and you will not gratify the desires
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of the flesh, For the desire of the flesh are against the spirit a
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man. The desires of the flesh are against the spirit, that is the
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spirit of Living God, the Holy Spirit. And the desires of the Spirit
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are against the flesh. For these are appoles to each other to keep you
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from doing the things you want to do, and Paul talked about this.
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Of course Romans chapter seven. When I would do good, evil is present
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with me. Evil is here. Evil is a force, It's a real
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thing, and it's in the nature, is innate in all of us.
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Evil is present with me. I know, Paul says, I know that
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I ought to do what is good. I know that I ought to do
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what is right. And I consent therein when I know in my conscious,
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when I know in my mind that I ought to be doing what I know
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I ought to be doing, I'm consenting to the law of God that it
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is good. And the law of God is good. It's perfect. Amen.
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And and and and and and and and what we must again recognize,
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it's Paul did. We must understand, and we must a man, Uh
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surrender to is the fact that evil is in us. We have the knowledge
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of both good and evil. But yet our bent, our tendencies in the
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flesh, Amen, will lead us to do evil unless we are under the
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subjection of the spirit of the Living God. Amen. That's why he says,
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walk by the Spirit, Walk in the spirit, live after spirit,
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be lived by the Spirit. Amen. Uh, and you will not gratify.
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Uh, the desires of the flesh. They are opposed to each other.
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Amen, they are Uh. Listen that that simply I mean, I
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don't know if we need that spelled out any more clearer than it is.
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It's crystal clear here that falling man desires to live after the flesh. The
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spirit of God desires for us to live after the Law of God. Amen.
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So they're in direct opposition to each other. So in your flesh,
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amen, in your fallingness, Amen, you need I need, we all
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need the Holy Spirit, the spirit of living God, to lead us and
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to guide us into all truth. Amen. Amen, so that we can
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walk in the light, Amen, and live in the light and do what
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is right instead of doing what is evil. This is what he says,
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verse eighteen Gallaician, chapter five. But if you are led by the spirit,
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you're not under the law. Now, the works of the flesh,
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listen what the Bible says. The works of the flesh are evident, They're
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on display, clear to be seen. And he just gives us an example,
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a man of many of these that are certainly as you will certainly hear.
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And I hope you're reading along or can read along or will read along
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in your Bible and see for yourself, a man, all these things that
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are again not just in Paul's day. If they're not clearly on display today,
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I don't know what I mean. I don't know what you're seeing with
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your eyes and seeing what is transpiring in our world today. Listen what he
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says, the works of the flesh. This is evil, by the way,
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this is what the Bible calls evil. This is what God calls evil,
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the works of the flesh. And they are evident, we know them.
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This is what they says. Number one, sexual immorality. That includes
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fornication, adultery, homosexuality, any kind of beastiality, any kind of sexual
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any kind of sexual activity outside of the Uh God or named UH marriage institution
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that he a man established. Anything outside of it is sexual immorality. Anything
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outside of marriage between and now it's a shame we have to even say this
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today. A man and a woman, one man to one woman. No
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polygamy, Amen, none of this. It's adultery. It's sexual immorality.
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Fornication if you're not married, Amen, it's fornication. Amen. Same sex,
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it's wickedness, it's abomination, it's sexual immorality, and that's what God
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calls it. Now you can call it good if you want, if you
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and and and and and you think you can change a man uh of what
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God is said is evil into good. And it's not. It's still not
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going to be good. Amen, you are becoming an abomination, an abominable
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person. You are becoming a reprobate if you continue down that path Amen of
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calling what God has called evil good. So the Bible says, the works
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of the flesh are evident sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery,
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enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions,
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divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and such like things. I warn
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you, Paul says, as I warned you before, that those who do
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such things, who practice these kinds of things, will not inherit the Kingdom
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of God. Now, let me be very crystal clear, because the Bible
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is christal clear. And again I've already given you the example of David who
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did evil things. But here's the difference, ladies and gentlemen, when we
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sin. And I did a series from the Gospel from the teaching brother of
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John the apostle man first, second and third John, when any of us
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sin, who are saints, who are saying, and we do sink,
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people that are saved, people that are in the church do sin. Hello.
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But the Bible says, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
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Christ, the Righteous, who is faithful and just to forgive us. Now,
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when we sin, we are to go boldly to the throne of grace
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that we may obtain mercy. Amen. We are to hate the evil that
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is in us, that will come out of us, that seeks to a
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man take mastery over us. Amen. But again, when you have the
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Holy Spirit, when you are saved, when you have been delivered, listen
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what the bodyle says Romans chapter number six. You have been delivered from the
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power of sin. Sin will no longer have dominion over you. Amen.
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So that's why, and that is the Again, let me make it very
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crystal clear. Again, that's the difference. Amen, someone who is true
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I'm not listen, I'm not talking about pretenders. I'm not talking about people
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who have made a profession who are not truly saved. I'm talking about people
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who are truly saved, who are truly a man delivered a man and feel
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with the Holy goos and power. Listen, it happens in the church,
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Amen, that people who are saved sin and fall short of the glory of
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God. But again we have an advocate, and just like David, you've
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got to hate the sin, you got to hate the evil, and you've
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got to be of a heart that is toward God and running to him in
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repentance. And he's as David in Psalm fifty one, he said, I
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acknowledge it's against thee and the only have I sin and done this evil in
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our sight. You don't seek to cover up the Bible says, he just
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seeks to cover his sin. Will not prosper. We can't prosper a man,
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even as people of God, we cannot prosper in sin, in wickedness.
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Amen, if we will not acknowledge that we have sin and done evil
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in the sight of God, and that's what we need. We need repentance.
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Even now, this is one of the biggest problems we have in the
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church today. People will not acknowledge that they have sin and fall in short
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of the glory of God and will not repent. A man will not turn
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from their wickedness, and these are works of the flesh. I'm talking at
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all of these things. Again, Paul said, if we practice such things,
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anybody who practices these kinds of things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Amen. All right, that's why. Again, let me, before
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I killed, read one more from Matthew chapter twenty three. So if you're
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followed alone, you can go with me there in just a few minutes.
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But let me just say this again. This is one of the things that
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Jesus warned about. I believe it's in the Matthew chapter number seven. He
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said, many are gonna come to me in that day, saying, Lord
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Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? Have we not done all
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these good things and marvelous things in your name? Jesus gonna say, depart
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from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. And again
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I've talked about this exhaustively in the past. A man, these are people
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who are professors. We got a lot of professors. They professed pause it.
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This is not my words. They profess that they know God, but
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in works they deny Him, being abominable and this obedient and to every good
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work reprobate, reprobate. Amen. And so again it's in common upon us.
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If we are truly saved, if we are truly the people of God,
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we've got to love that. And I've said this before. Love the
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things that God loves, and you hate the things that God hates. And
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God hates sin. God hates evil, God hates wickedness, God hates injustice,
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God hates perversion, God hates the sins of the flesh. And we
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have to again, through the power of the Holy Ghost, through the presence
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of Amen, the spirit of a living God working and moving in us.
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With the word of God, with the word of Truth, we can be
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purged. We can have a heart, we can have a conscience that's toward
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God. Amen. Matthew, Chapter twenty three. I'm gonna close with this,
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Amen, Jesus pronounce these woes on some religious folks. Y'all, religious
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folks, listen to this, Matthew twenty three, And to begin reading at
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verse number thirteen. Again, I'm reading from the ESV on today. But
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woe to you, Jesus says, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Now,
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Jesus, he's speaking to religious folks. These folks to it. I mean
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these people were reviled, these people were respected, These people were seeing.
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They were seen as amen. The upper they were in the upper Echelona,
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they were seen as uh, the pious leaders, and and and and and
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and shoe ends as it were to the kingdom. Amen. And and if
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there were any there were anybody, uh, any people that were gonna make
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it amen and be saved, these were they amen in the eyes of the
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people. A man but listening to again to what Jesus had to say,
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woe to use, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, For you shut the Kingdom
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of Heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those
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who would enter to go in wal to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites,
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for you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte. And when
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he becomes a proselyte, a follower, that is of them, of their
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teachings, of their doctrine. And by the way Jesus warned his disciples to
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beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Heymen, you make him, Jesus
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says, twice as much a child of Hell as yourselves, wal to you
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Verse sixteen, blind guides, who say, if anyone swears by the temple,
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it is nothing. But if anyone swears by the gold of the temple,
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he is bound by his oath, you blind fools, Jesus said,
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for which is greater the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
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And you say, if anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing.
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But if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he
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is bound by his oath, you blind men. For which is greater the
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gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? So whoever swears by the
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altar, swears by it and by everything on it, Jesus says. And
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whoever swears by the temple temple swears by it and by him who dwells in
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it. And whoever swears by Heaven swears by the throne of God and by
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him who sits upon it. Whoa Verse twenty three to you scribes and pharisees,
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hypocrites, For you tithe, mint and deal and cooman, and have
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neglected the weightier matters of the law and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought
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to have done without neglecting the others, you blind guides, straining out a
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net and swallowing a camel. Woe to you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites,
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for you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside
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inside, that's ladies and gentlemen. It starts on me, always starts on
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the inside. Oh, God looks on the inside, Man looks on the
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outside. See God works from the inside out the inside of the cup and
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the plate. Amen, Jesus says, full of greed and self indulgence,
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you blind pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and the plate,
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that the outside also may be clean. WHOA to you, scribes and Pharisees,
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hypocrites, For you are like by the way, that's the fourth time
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it's recorded here Matthew twenty three. Whoa, if my count is correct verse
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twenty seven. Whoa to you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, For you are
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like white washed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within on the inside
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there it is that inside again, full of dead people's bones and all on
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cleanness. So you also look what Jesus says. Outwardly appear righteous to others,
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see, that's how people are seeing them people. And it's always so
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sad. Oh, it's so sad. Oh, it is so sad.
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How we want to amen, appear to others, look to others, have
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the others see us, and so that we can, I don't know,
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feel good about ourselves and get the praises of men and and and the accolades
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that come from looking the part and dressing the part. I mean, we
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spend so much of our probably waking moments, sometimes worrying about how we're going
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to appear in the eyes of other folk, and give scant attention to how
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God sees us. Because God is looking. Lord, hepis, Jesus,
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hepas, Jesus, hepis. Jesus will to you, scribes and pharisees,
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hypocrites, you you, you, you build the tombs of the prophets and
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decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, if we had lived in the
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days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding
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the blood of the prophets. Thus you witness against yourselves. Jesus says that
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you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then the
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measure of your father's verse thirty three, you serpents, you brood of vipers.
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How are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Now that's a question.
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How can you escape being sentenced to hell? Ladies and gentlemen. The
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spirits of these good evildoers, And that's the way they were in the eyes
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of men. Men saw them as being good, but they were evil doers.
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According to Jesus, these evil doers. The spirits, the same spirits
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that were operating in these good evil doers, very much alive and thriving today
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in our world. These pious religious leaders, again, they were admired by
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the people. They were held in hiring God by the common people a man,
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as as those who were to be emulated a man. They were viewed
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from the outward appearance by other fallen men. And I mean we're talking about
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people who are empower people who had prestige, people who were rich. Remember
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what Jesus said, how hard is it for a rich man to enter into
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the kingdom? And the disciples, the disciples of Jesus, they were astonished,
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and what Jesus said about this, because again these kinds of people were
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thought to be shoe INDs. Amen. They did the good deeds. They
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gave good gifts to their children, they paid their tithes. If Jesus acknowledged
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that they did. I mean, on one occasion when Jesus was watching them
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put their gifts and stuff into the treasury, they were putting in good sums
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of money. This is not people that were I mean again out robbing banks
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and and uh uh carjacking folk and selling drugs and and and child trafficking and
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and uh you know, strung out on drugs or whatever. No, no,
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no, no, no no, these these these these were, these
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were these were, These are people again who were to be emulated. They
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were much like many religious folks today and politicians even uh who seemed to be
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who looked the part, who professed to be Christians, some of them ay
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man. And these people in Jesus day, they even prayed publicly. Amen.
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They prayed publicly, and they made braad Jesus of their philaxries. They
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wore the out outward garments and the outward appearance. They dressed the part,
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they looked the part in their every day amen appearances, good evil duels.
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It's what Jesus saw them as being Amen, because again they became blinded in
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the pursuit of their own self righteousness. And Paul, by the way,
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the apostle Paul in his formal formal days before he was Amen converted. Amen,
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he was one of them. He acknowledged it. A man, he
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sought Amen, his own righteousness, Amen, his own goodness. Amen.
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And and but this is the epitome of the good evil duel who is blinded
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to the goodness of God while in pursuit of their own standard of goodness.
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Woe to those good evil doers who call good evil and evil good. Woe,
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woe woe, Lord Jesus Christ, Hold God, help someone, help
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us, help us all today. Lord, there's so much deception, so
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much delusion that is in our world today, and people are being carried away.
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Amen. Children even are being deceived and led down a path of destruction
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by people who are calling good evil and evil. Good. God, we
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pray that you open blinded eyes, Lord, help someone to see and know
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the truth of your word, so that they can be saved and delivered from
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the power of the darkness of this evil world. God be glorified everywhere places,
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in all spaces. In Jesus' name, we pray give thanks Amen.
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And Amen hm h m hm