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So let's move on to another exciting topic.

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We are going to talk about something this morning that, if you could give us that first slide,

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then I can explain that a little bit.

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We're going to talk about some of the things that have been happening online and so forth,

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because I'm not going to address this every time.

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Something happens, because as the further we get into the end times, I mean, even Igor

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talked about it.

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He said people are going to be offended and be attacking and blah, blah, blah.

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But I felt I needed to address it this time, not because of the things online, but because

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we need to know how to handle this correctly.

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There are scriptural attitudes and ways of handling this, and there are wrong ways

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of handling it.

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And if we're not aware of it, the old nature is just going to grab us and take us into

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the wrong ways.

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So I titled it this.

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It's dealing with persecution, but I titled it this, disagreeing without persecuting.

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That title is for us, for this reason.

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We can disagree with people over doctrinal things, over beliefs, over whatever, without

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getting into persecuting them.

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Disagreement is okay.

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It's how it's handled that becomes the problem.

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And a number of you talked to me about what you saw online and about Word of Life and

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TBO, so I'm going to show them to you.

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So we're going to address that a bit.

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Before we go into it, I want to say this.

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I've got two, three, four things I want to say.

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Number one, it is really sad, and this is the story of the church for decades.

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We are the only, you know, we're called the Army of God.

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That's one of the labels that Scripture talks about us.

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We are the only military organization that shoots our own members.

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I mean, there is no other organization where, okay, we're going into Saudi Arabia,

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and the Marines don't like how the Army is doing it.

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So they just open fire on their own people.

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If that would happen, the American people would rise up like this is the

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stupidest thing we have ever heard of.

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Our guys are shooting our own guys, but the church does it all the time.

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I disagree with you.

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So rather than having an adult conversation and come to some form of response to each other,

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that's godly, we go after each other.

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We've lost a lot of children to the church because of this.

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Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has to grow. Everybody needs sanctification.

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Give them the room to do it without killing them.

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Let them grow. We don't have to agree with what they're doing,

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but we don't have to persecute them or shoot at them either.

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But somehow it's like the mentality is if we will divide against ourselves,

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then the truth will surface and God's kingdom will move forward.

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That's a beautiful military tactic.

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Let's divide against ourselves in our own army.

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That way we will be victorious.

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Now what did Jesus say?

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You divide against yourself, you won't stand.

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You can't divide against yourself.

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In fact, he brought that up when he was showing the difference between how God's kingdom works

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and Satan's kingdom worked, and he brought that up as an example,

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because they were accusing him of casting out demons by demons.

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And he said, no, no, no, God's kingdom doesn't work that way.

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Any kingdom doesn't work that way.

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You can't divide against yourself and prosper.

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It's self-defeating.

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And of course, since it is self-defeating,

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I think that's why the demonic realm inspires Christians to do that kind of stuff

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and deceives believers into attacking each other.

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So I'm not so much interested in these people's personal beliefs.

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You know, everybody can believe what they want to believe.

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We're all going to answer to God.

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It's not my job to be the marshal of beliefs in the world.

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It's not your job either.

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But I am interested in talking about handling this stuff correctly.

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That's the point this morning.

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So that we get on the right page and we handle it correctly.

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So we're going to talk about a few things here.

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And I know it's a cultural thing.

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It wasn't in my culture.

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When I was young, Dad would have slapped me sideways

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if I would have tried to get a message to someone

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and I put an article in the newspaper.

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Because social media is basically today's newspaper.

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You know, we had the actual paper version

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and today we got the media version.

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And had I tried to get a message to someone by negatively talking about them

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in an article in the newspaper, Dad would have killed me.

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It's like, what's wrong with you, boy?

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This doesn't work.

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It doesn't produce good fruit.

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Let me just throw some thoughts out.

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Because we're talking about something that was said against us.

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Well, let's take it.

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If truth is actually truth, it should apply across the board and work.

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If God, if Jesus died for whosoever will,

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that means his sacrifice is for every race, culture, and human being on earth.

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I mean, it applies equally across the board.

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So, if helping someone change is to go public and negatively undercut them,

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belittle them, make fun of them, how about you try that with your spouse?

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How about you go on Facebook and put a whole bunch of stuff on there

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about how your spouse is just off the wall?

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Because you're trying to help him or her.

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And this is how you're going to get their attention so you can help them.

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Tell me how that works out for you.

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You already know how that's going to work out.

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Depending on what you said, that marriage might be over.

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Try that with your boss.

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Do you know the larger companies have people specifically hired to check social media,

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to know what their employees are doing, and the potential hires are doing?

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Because people lay themselves bare in social media.

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It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life.

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It's like, really, you said that for the world to see?

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It's like, can't believe that.

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But try it with your boss.

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You know, you're discontent with your company or your boss.

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So, go on social media and just rip them up.

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And then when they approach you, say, well, the only reason I did it

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is I wanted to talk to you about these things.

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Well, you'll get to talk to them.

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Probably for the last time.

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I mean, any place you apply that technique, it destroys relationships.

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It's not of God.

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God is in the building relationships, not destroying them.

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You know, I got dwelling on it a little bit.

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It's called negative advertising.

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And even the world system knows that's not good.

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You know, taking, for example, you've got Hyundai and Kia,

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and they were the first ones to come out with the 100,000-mile warranty.

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Okay?

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Did they slam for GM, Nissan, Dodge, BMW, whatever?

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All their advertisements about their 100,000-mile warranty

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was making fun of or undercutting their competition.

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Did they do that?

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No.

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They just put on there, we got a 100,000-mile warranty, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Because they know people are smart enough to figure it out.

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Number one.

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And number two, people hate negative advertising.

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The average person does not like it.

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And there's studies, marketing studies.

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This is not church.

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This is the business world.

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There's marketing studies that says if Hyundai would

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start making fun of GM, because GM only had a 36,000-mile warranty,

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36,000-mile warranty, and Hyundai had a 100,000-mile,

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if Hyundai would start making fun of GM poking at them,

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well, if you buy a GM, there's something wrong with you

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because you're only getting this or we are doing this,

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negative approach, marketing studies,

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you already know the answer to that.

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You know what happens?

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Hyundai sales go down.

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Because people hate that.

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People don't like that.

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You want proof of that?

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Why do we hate the election years so bad?

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Because these politicians can't stay out of the mud.

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They'll drag each other in, and they get so negative

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rather than stating this is who I am,

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this is what I believe, this is what I'll do.

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They're just continually bashing the other person.

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And I have yet to talk to one person

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who once, the Tuesday and November,

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finally comes and it's over.

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They don't go, thank God that's over.

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I have heard so much garbage over the last,

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and we're headed into another one.

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But that's why it's negative advertising.

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People hate politics and the advertising for politics

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because it goes there.

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And by the way, this is just a little bit,

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this is just a nugget,

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because it goes along with being able to

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disagree with someone without persecuting them.

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If someone is willing to talk to you about them,

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they're willing to talk to them about you.

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Don't ever mistake that.

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Well, they're good friends.

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There's no, if they're willing

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to cut someone else down to your face.

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They're willing to cut you down to someone else.

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One, I, you know, Brother Caseman hits this all the time.

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You want to get in a conversation

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with, if Brother Caseman's in the group

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and just start talking negatively

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about some other minister or something,

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he will go totally quiet.

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Now, if he's over you, he'll correct you.

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But I mean, if he's not over you,

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you're not in his organization,

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you're just talking with him.

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He'll go totally quiet.

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And then, if it continues,

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he'll just dismiss himself.

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Well, that's been nice talking to you.

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He'll be cordial. He'll just walk away.

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He said, Brother Hagen did the same thing.

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If you want to shut down a good relationship

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with someone, talk about them negatively.

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Because now, if they have any sense at all,

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they're going to go,

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if I give you any of my personal information,

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you're going to talk to them about me negatively.

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It's just the way it works.

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I've watched successful businessmen do the same thing.

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Very politely, very nicely.

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Well, it's been nice talking to you.

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And they just exit the group

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because the group went negative

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and they're not going into it.

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They're not going to have anything to do with it.

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They'll just back out.

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And it's hard to establish a relationship with them

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because now they know you have a problem.

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And if I share with you,

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you're going to share with who knows who.

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And I'm not going there.

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The scriptural way is if you have a problem with someone

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is you go to that person.

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You don't put it in the newspaper.

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You don't put it online.

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You go to that person.

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And see, that's another problem

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is we're not good of talking to each other anymore.

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Because we do too many conversations here.

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So the culture is,

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well, you just put it on here.

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Yeah, that's not going to work out well.

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If there's a word that needs to be delivered,

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if there's a prophecy,

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there's a correction, whatever,

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we're supposed to go to them and bring it up.

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And not just fill the world in behind their back.

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That's not how God does it.

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You know what?

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I got corrected a couple of times.

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Has God ever,

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outside of using you like a prophet,

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where it's a statement or it's a point,

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has God ever talked to anyone here

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and opened up and developed on how bad someone else's life is?

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He personally showed it to you.

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He has never done that with me.

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And I'll bet you won't find it either.

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Now, there's occasions where he'll tell a prophet something

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like confronting David after David sinned.

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One point, he said,

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you need to go deal with this one point.

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But the whole thing of, well, God will,

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God will share with me why Raleigh's so off.

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Now, we all know Raleigh's not off,

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so I can pick on him.

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Nobody's saying anything there.

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Having fun with you.

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God's not going to share with me.

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He's going to talk to Raleigh.

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He's going to talk to you.

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He's not a gossip.

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He's not going to give me information

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that I can convince Gary to do something different.

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It's got to be the Holy Spirit that talks to him.

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So why would he give me all this stuff?

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And there's been times I've asked,

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I said, what in the world,

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you know, in frustration,

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what in the world is this person's problem?

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And the Holy Spirit has said,

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that's none of your business.

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He just said that fast.

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None of your business.

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It's between me and them.

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So it's good to know a little of these things

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because that's how God works.

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And we're not against anybody's beliefs.

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I don't agree with everybody's beliefs.

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And we have to learn how to disagree

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without persecuting someone.

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I don't agree with everything.

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But people can believe what they want to believe.

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And as long as they're saved and headed for heaven,

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guess what?

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We'll all figure it out when we get there.

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And you know what?

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We're all going to have a little egg

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on our face someplace.

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Because I don't think there's anybody

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who's 100% right in everything they believe.

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Or sanctification would be over.

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We would need no more sanctification

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because we're perfect.

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And it's just like,

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I don't think there's too many of us there.

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So we're going to look at these

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and I'm not going to shoot at anybody's beliefs.

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They can believe what they want to believe.

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But I will state what my beliefs are about them.

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You know, rather than being

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Hyundai undermining GM,

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Hyundai just puts out,

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this is what we offer.

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This is where we stand.

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This is what we do.

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You figure it out.

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So we have the right to say what we believe.

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It's when we start crucifying someone else.

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It becomes a problem.

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So let's look at a couple of these and

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I don't have control.

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I don't think.

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If you can get that to me,

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somehow it would be great.

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So you don't have to switch all the slides.

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So this is one that showed up online.

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You'll recognize one church there

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and it says on the left what your taught church is

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and then what actual church looks like,

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which is a human heart with a cross in it.

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True church, false church.

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Well, they can believe what they want to believe, I guess.

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Obviously, to me, that post is an attack.

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I mean, how can you not look at that and say that's not an attack?

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That's an attack.

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And besides that, it's not scriptural.

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So here's my belief.

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The church building, the church building is not the church.

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It's the physical building we need in as the church.

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Now, the person, the individual person, is not the church.

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And I've heard people get this one confused.

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As a single person, I, you, we are not the church.

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We are a member of the body or a member of the church.

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And it's the whole thing that comes together that makes the church.

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We're members of it.

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We're parts of it.

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We're pieces of it.

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The church is, if you know anything about what Scripture says concerning Ecclesia,

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that's the name given to the church.

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What is the Ecclesia?

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Short version, it's a group of people brought together to focus on a purpose or issues,

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whether it's getting people saved or getting people healed or taking a stand

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on the ungodliness in the nation or whatever.

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They bring, God brings a group of like-minded people together

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for the purpose of they're supposed to step up and rule and reign whatever their purpose is.

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Do it, get involved, be salt and light.

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That's the church.

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It's, it's a group of us brought together to accomplish something for God.

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That's what the word Ecclesia means.

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But, let me so that I can get control back.

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Let me restart that and maybe it'll work for me.

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So I don't have to tell her to switch the slides all the time.

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Now I lost it totally.

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Did you do something in that end?

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Or is that me?

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Give me a second to play with technology.

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Yeah, got them on the right Wi-Fi.

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There, there.

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Now I've got control back.

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Okay, so here's the next one.

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That was up.

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There was four of them.

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Here's the next one.

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You don't see faith healers in hospitals for the same reason you don't see psychics win the lottery.

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They got a picture of Mark Anderson.

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By the way, he's coming the end of February.

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He'll be here the last Sunday of February and TVO the night before.

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And they got a picture of Wolf and Sheep's clothes.

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And then they got a wolf sheep thing down here.

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And then they got Brad Breedy and myself over on the other side.

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So the point is, I presume, the point is faith healing is not work or whatever.

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So the thought is you don't see faith healers in hospitals.

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Well, I don't know.

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I go to the hospital, pray for people.

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Brad Breedy goes to the hospitals and prays for people.

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When Mary was in the hospital,

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Mark Anderson came to the hospital, pray for her.

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So I don't think that's actually accurate.

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Well, why don't... if we're faith healers,

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why don't we just go through there and heal everybody?

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Well, here's my belief.

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Because I think that's what the insinuation is.

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It doesn't work because if you went to hospitals,

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you would, you know, if it works,

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why don't you go to hospitals, clean them out?

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Well, here's my belief.

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Why didn't Jesus heal everybody at the pool of Bisedia?

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It was loaded with sick and diseased people and he walked right through them.

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And then the one person he did heal,

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he looked at them and said, do you want to be healed?

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Okay, so now Jesus was revealing a principle there

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that it took me a few years to figure out.

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I figured it out a few years ago and it took me a few years to figure it out.

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Jesus healed no one who did not approach him to be healed.

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They had to, let's just use the word ask.

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There's different ways they did that,

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but they had to approach him and ask for him to do something for him.

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Other than that, he did not.

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Pool of Bisedia is a good example.

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One guy out of all those people, Jesus healed.

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Well, if he's a Messiah, why didn't he just heal everybody there?

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Because that's not how it works.

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There was all kinds of sick and diseased people in the land of Israel.

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Why didn't he heal them all?

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Well, from my understanding, the principle Jesus gave doesn't work that way.

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You actually have to respond to the offer of the promise and ask for it.

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That's how it works.

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So that's my belief.

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This one's a little bit more direct.

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You have the Broadway in the narrow way.

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The Broadway leads to TBO.

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And the narrow way leads to the cross.

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Genius.

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Again, I would call that an attack.

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That's a slandering.

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That's an undermining.

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So in other words, where does it say it?

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Does your pastor read a couple of scriptures from the Bible

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and then spend the entire service spreading their own message?

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See, that's what takes you to hell.

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Jesus is the only way.

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Church can't get you into heaven.

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Well, a building can't.

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I agree with that.

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Building can't do it.

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For Satan himself transforms as an angel of light, blah, blah, blah.

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So here's the insinuations, I think, that we're getting here.

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Is if you go to TBO, you're going to hell.

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And be careful of Mary because she is a satanic angel of light.

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But I think that's what is trying to be said.

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So be careful what she preaches because even Satan will do this kind of stuff.

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I don't know how many people, these people got saved last year,

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but last year over 150 people got saved and most of them at TBO.

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Saved according to what Scripture gives as guidelines.

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So I don't know how, you know, it's just kind of funny.

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Here's the last one.

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This is good too.

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How do you know when your pastor is a false teacher?

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That's me.

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When tongues flow freely, but interpretation is missing in action.

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Of course, Calvin Woods is there too, Calvin and Brian,

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because they do that a lot too.

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So they had to go online and find a picture of all three of us together

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so they could make that statement.

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I think it's kind of funny.

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I was going to address that again, but I'm going to do it differently.

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The thing of speaking in tongues and church,

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because I've addressed it two, three times.

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And last summer, the Lord said write a book specifically on that.

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Just a small one, but write a book specifically on that

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and then actually get it published like through Amazon.

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So it's an official looking book and make that available.

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So rather than us going, first I thought,

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well, I'll go back and readdress that,

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but I ain't going to waste my time on that.

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I've been working on that book along with

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another one of the vision of word of life,

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which we need by next weekend.

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But anyway, so apparently I'm a false teacher.

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I guess, whatever.

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I'm not focused on what these people believe.

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I'm focused on how we respond,

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because I've had people get upset with those kind,

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you know, those four, and they're ready to posse up

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and go get them.

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And it's like, no, that's not the right response.

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I appreciate the concern, but it's not the right response.

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Now, in my understanding,

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this stuff is a form of persecution.

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And I'll explain to you persecution here in a bit

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and that kind of thing,

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but this is a form of persecution.

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The scripture says,

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if you have something against someone,

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go to that person and deal with it.

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So it's not that, because this isn't going to the person.

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Matthew 18 says,

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if you feel like someone's sinned against you,

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go to that person and talk to them.

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If you have to take witnesses, talk to them,

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and then obviously if it doesn't get resolved,

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go to the church and have the church help you.

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So it's not that.

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And apparently it's not being sent by a message,

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by God with a message, you know.

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Let me restate that to make sure we understand

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what I tried to say there.

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Apparently God did not inspire that to be put online

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about Mary and T.B.O. or this and me.

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Because when God gives someone a word

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or a prophecy or a message,

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everything in scripture, they go to the person.

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They're sent to the person.

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They're not sent to put it online

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or the newspaper or whatever.

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They're not instructed to bring them into question publicly

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in an effort to help them because they're wrong.

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So to me, this is definition of persecution.

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So we'll see that here in a bit.

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Let's look at some scripture.

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Bless are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.

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So I'm going to read Matthew 5, 9 through 12 here

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and then some other verses.

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But let me stop right there on this one.

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Peacemakers are called the sons of God.

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When you're born again, you're called what?

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You're called the children of God.

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Children have to mature.

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So what Jesus is talking about here is to be a peacemaker,

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you're actually going to have to mature some.

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And once you reach that, you'll be called the sons of God,

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not the children of God.

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If you study that through the New Testament,

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sons of God is over and over and over.

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It's talking about a Christian who's grown up some,

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who's matured some.

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You know, any... look at your own kids.

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Any immature person can create trouble.

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It starts at two years old.

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And they get really good at it in junior high

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and early high school.

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I mean, it's just part of the growing up process.

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Once they mature through it, and some people never do,

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you know, there's people 80 years old

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still acting like kids.

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They've never grown up.

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But the average person, once they mature through it,

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and they actually learn how to communicate with the parent

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and not just cause trouble and stir up issues

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and create havoc,

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but they actually start talking to the parent.

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I've heard it say...

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I've heard people say this over and over.

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I was so proud of my son.

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Or I was so proud of my daughter.

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They came to me, we talked it through,

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we're on the same page.

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They never refer to them when that happens as a child.

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Because children are not capable of doing that.

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They're not mature enough yet.

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So right from the get-go Jesus is inferring

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if you're going to be a peacemaker,

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you're going to have to grow a little bit.

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There's some things God hates.

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One of them is to sow discord,

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that word is strife,

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among the brethren.

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I think you know how that applies.

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I probably don't have to dwell there.

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So let's look at three principles here,

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that again I won't take the time to take them apart,

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but we have a series called

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Correct and Incorrect Judging.

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It's only audio.

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We haven't done it with cameras,

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but it's really good.

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We are never to judge a person.

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Declare what a person is or isn't.

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Never.

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But we are commanded to judge everything.

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Not people, but things.

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Well, beliefs and doctrines are things.

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You know, I got no problem questioning a belief,

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questioning a doctrine.

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Again, if you want to use negative advertising,

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let's just have a little fun here.

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If you want to use negative advertising,

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pull me and Calvin and Brian out of the picture,

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and this, that, and the other,

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and just make that statement.

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How do you know when your pastor is a false teacher?

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When tongue flow freely and interpretation is missing in action.

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What did you teach anybody?

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Nothing.

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You didn't teach them anything right.

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You just threw a bomb in the middle,

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and what's going to come out of that is strife.

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So and so says.

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Well, what are your beliefs?

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Give us some meat.

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Give us something to chew on.

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And I have no issue on that.

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You know, a person wants to go online and

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and do some teaching of why they think tongue should not be in church.

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Have at it.

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It's America.

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For now, we still have free speech.

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You know, go for it.

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Judge the thing.

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But be very careful, people,

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that we don't judge another person.

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See, and I'm pointing this whole thing out.

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Not for them.

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I'm pointing this out for us.

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Because we can pick up an offense,

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get a chip on our shoulder,

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and now we're judging some,

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some, some of us know the source on this stuff that was put up.

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And now we're judging them.

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Rather than the thing.

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And that will cause problems with us.

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We're commanded to judge things.

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Everything.

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We're not supposed to be just gullible

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and suck down whatever is given to us.

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We're supposed to judge it.

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We're commanded to do that.

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But we are never allowed to judge a person.

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And peace makers have gotten to the point

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where they realize,

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I don't have to agree with you to live at peace with you.

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Because we can talk about doctrines, beliefs,

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whether you're a Ford or Chevy guy or what,

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John Deere versus Massey, whatever.

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And we can discuss this as adults,

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even disagree and still be great friends.

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Because I'm not saying you're the issue.

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See, once it comes to the person,

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and we're judging the person,

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now we've got a problem.

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So let's go on with what Jesus talked about.

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Blessed are those who are persecuted

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for righteousness sake.

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And I'll give you why I'm calling this persecution

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in a bit here.

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For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Blessed are you when they revile you,

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persecute you and say all kinds of evil

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against you falsely for my sake.

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And we're going to take those three apart.

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Rejoice and be exceedingly glad

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for great is your reward in heaven

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for so persecuted,

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for so they persecuted the prophets

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who were before you.

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Now I want you to notice something

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right out of the gates.

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This is in the Beatitudes.

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This is the blessing part.

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You're blessed if you take certain

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attitude postures in this life.

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Blessed means to be happy,

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to be envied,

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and to be empowered,

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to prosper,

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to have success down the road.

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Now notice something.

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Blessed are you if someone reviles

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and persecutes you and says all kinds

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of stuff about you falsely.

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And it's about Christ.

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It's about who Jesus is.

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It's about that whole realm.

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Notice something.

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Church history bears this out.

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Scripture bears this out.

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I'm going to show you a scripture

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here in a bit that bears it out.

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When someone persecutes you,

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persecutes us, church history,

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every time the church gets persecuted,

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it grows.

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It expands.

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It enlarges.

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The more governments try to shut down

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Christianity,

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the more out of their control it gets.

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It's a spiritual principle.

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I don't know exactly how or why

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it works that way,

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but it works that way.

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And this is not talking about the church.

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This is talking about us.

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When someone is persecuting us,

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they are setting you up for prosperity.

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It's a spiritual principle.

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The more they talk you down,

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the more the empowerment to prosper

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and bless you down the road gets on you.

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It may not show up the first day,

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but it shows up.

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So from God's perspective,

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by posting this stuff,

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they're actually doing us a favor

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or a number of them.

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Number one, we'll promise the kingdom.

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When you get persecuted,

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when you get reviled,

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you'll promise the kingdom.

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Number one, it's in verse number 10 there.

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It will increase our reward in heaven,

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verse number 12.

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And the word blessing states,

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it spiritually empowers us to prosper.

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So if you and I, let's apply to us,

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if you and I have an issue with someone,

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we have problems with someone

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and you wish, you know,

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you haven't fully gotten sanctified yet

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and your attitude's not right,

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and you wish things would quit going well for them,

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don't you dare persecute them.

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Don't talk about them negatively,

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evilly.

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Well, you know how they are.

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You are feeding the spiritual fervor,

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they're going to do better and better and better.

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You're actually helping them.

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That's what it says right there.

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And people say,

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I'm just going to rip them up behind their back

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and just destroy them.

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And how has that been working for you?

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Well, I don't know.

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It seems like it always works out for them.

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That's because God is now supporting them

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because you opened your negative big mouth.

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So, if you don't like somebody,

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at least be smart enough to keep your mouth shut

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because if you open it negatively about them,

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God's going to say,

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whoa, let's just help you along.

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They got a problem with you.

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So now this spiritual principle kicks in gear.

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That's what it's saying.

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Therefore, verse 12.

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Rejoice.

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This is exciting.

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Why?

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Because they're helping us.

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There is Jesus' attitude on it.

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Don't posse up and go get them

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because you're going to shut down your own blessing.

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And now you'll get into an attitude

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that there's problems with us too.

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Don't posse up.

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Keep the attitude right

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because what they're doing long-term

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when the dust settles,

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they're just empowering us

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as people, as individuals,

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if somebody's speaking against you, whatever.

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So here is the definition of persecute.

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Here's why I call it persecute.

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The word persecute,

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this is the Greek definitions.

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The word persecute actually means pursue.

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They're interchangeable.

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They're the same word.

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You've got that right there at the top of the slide.

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There's four definitions there.

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To persecute, it's a verb in this case

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is to cause someone to suffer

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whether physically or emotionally.

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So if we take verse 12 attitude,

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it's not going to cause us to suffer.

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But in the case of this situation,

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do you know who does suffer?

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Because persecution is going on.

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It's the people who are either unsaved,

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newly saved, or still young in the Lord

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and they get all confused

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and can't figure out what's going on.

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It hurts them.

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It damages them.

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That's why God doesn't use that approach.

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The second one is to pursue.

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To actively activity or actively pursue.

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It's a verb that means to carry out.

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So you're initiating it and doing it.

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And or someone else initiated

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and you're just participating

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in the activity of pursuing someone.

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Number three, to be persecuted.

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Again, a verb to be or become subject

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of systematic harassment and attack

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due to one's religious beliefs.

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Well, that one's kind of obvious.

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That's why I call it persecution.

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Well, I believe we can speak in tongues in a service.

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No, you can't!

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Well, they're pursuing me on that.

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And they did it online.

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So I call it persecution.

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And the last one is to chase.

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To go after with the intent to catch

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involving great effort

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or striving toward the object.

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So in other words,

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I'm going to catch you in something

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and show the world how off you really are.

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That's persecution.

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You're pursuing them to catch them at something.

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Politicians do it all the time.

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I mean, they say one word wrong.

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Boom!

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Hired what you said.

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And they try to use it against them

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and everything else.

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That's persecution.

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So if you go back to the scripture

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and talked about reviling

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and in the definition of reviling

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it has reproach.

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It talks about evil.

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It talks about falsely.

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So let's look at those.

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To revile means to defame

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or to rail at.

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To chide.

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To taunt.

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We never want to try to defame anybody.

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Please feel free to question beliefs.

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But you don't want to go after the person.

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Because that's called reviling.

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And it's going to end up bad for us

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if we do that.

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And it'll end up actually good

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for the people we're going after.

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It's funny.

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I've seen this, but it's funny.

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It's in the definition.

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To taunt.

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To cast in teeth.

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Reproach, revile, up braid.

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Have you ever seen a child who gets so angry with someone

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and they can't change what's going on

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that they actually go?

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And they chop their teeth?

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That's what it's talking about right there.

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To rail is just to get on them

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and get on them and get on them.

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To defame, you know what that means.

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Taunt them.

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Try to bring them out into the argument.

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Taunt them.

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And if it doesn't work, you get so frustrated.

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Just chop your teeth.

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Well, that's in the definition.

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I think it's funny.

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But that's part of reviling.

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Use the word reproach.

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Reproach is an expression of rebuke or disapproval,

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the act or action of reproaching or disapproving.

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It's a cause or occasion

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to blame someone, discredit someone, disgrace them.

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And they say it's an obsolete definition.

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It doesn't get used much anymore,

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but I can see where it still applies.

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Reproach is when you subject someone to censure or scorn.

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You make fun of them for their beliefs

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or what they're standing for.

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I can think of a couple of pictures

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I've seen recently that probably could fit that definition.

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Hint, hint.

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Evil.

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Speak evil against you falsely.

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Evil is hurtful.

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Evil.

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It's going to hurt somebody.

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It may not hurt the person that you're speaking it about,

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but it's going to hurt somebody.

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That's all part of persecution.

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And falsely means an utter truth

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or attempt to deceive by falsehood.

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Falsely.

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A lie.

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Well, I'm willing to stand before God and ask

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if my wife is actually an angel of Satan.

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I'm pretty sure I'm on solid ground

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to say, no, she's not.

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I think God will agree with me.

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Which means what's being said is a lie.

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It's a false accusation.

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And I also am pretty solid that not everyone

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who goes to TBO is going to hell.

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I feel pretty good about that stance.

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You know, so that again fits that top definition.

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So I just throw it in persecution.

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So here is what we need to pay attention to.

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What is our response supposed to be to this?

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You got to be bright enough to see through it.

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Ask God for wisdom so you can see through this kind of stuff.

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And you don't just read it and go, oh my goodness,

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that's what's going on.

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You've been trained by the school system too long.

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You're not thinking for yourself anymore.

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You got to think through some of this stuff.

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So number one, what is our response supposed to be?

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I'm specifically talking about our attitudes.

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Well, we're not supposed to posse up.

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Get angry.

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Get revenge.

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Well, they can put stuff online.

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We can put stuff online.

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You engage them online.

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It just turns into fiasco.

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Don't attack back.

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No retaliation.

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No snide marks.

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No quietly discrediting.

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That's not what we're supposed to do.

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I'll show you here in a bit what we are supposed to do.

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Because if we do it correctly,

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they're actually helping us.

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So apparently this is a trap for us.

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Because God wants to do some things

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so we lay the trap or the snare out to get us off track

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so we miss what God wants to do.

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So we don't want to take the wrong approach

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because that's not the approach God takes.

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Number one, rejoice and be glad.

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They just increased your reward in heaven.

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So I'm expecting a bigger reward.

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That's cool.

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And you know the rewards are eternal over there.

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They just go on and go on and go on and go on.

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So our attitude, our response,

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the first thing we do is don't get angry.

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Don't get mouthy.

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Don't start striking back.

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Sit back and have a chuckle.

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This is great. Be glad.

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Now we're going to find out how sanctified we are, won't we?

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I don't know if I can do that.

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Well, yeah, because your flesh is still too much in control.

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But that's the command.

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That's what Jesus said.

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Rejoice.

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And then a little further in the chapter, he says this.

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You've heard it was said,

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You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

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See that's good earthly wisdom there.

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But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you.

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I think that applies in some of those slides.

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Do good to those who hate you.

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I can't say that anybody hates me there.

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Maybe they do, I don't know.

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And pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.

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So again, what's our attitude supposed to be?

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We're supposed to bless them

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not curse them, bless them, and pray for them.

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That you may be the sons of your Father in heaven.

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There we are again, that you may be mature.

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That's how mature people deal with this.

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So let's look at some principles.

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How are believers supposed to relate with other believers we disagree with?

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Romans 12, 10, prefer each other in love.

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Love wants the best for the other person.

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To prefer them means to give precedence to them.

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So if you disagree with them or you don't agree with something they believe or whatever,

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prefer them in love.

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Read the chapter, that's in the heart of that chapter that Paul's talking about.

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Stay loving and concede.

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Just let them believe what they want to believe.

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We don't have to shoot our own, I mean, especially if they're saved.

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We don't have to go around hunting our own soldiers.

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Prefer them in love.

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Handle disagreements privately, not publicly.

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If there's no agreement found, then you take a witness and then the third part is the church.

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Matthew 18 talks about that.

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Matthew 5, 23, and 24 says,

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if you find out someone has...

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The King James uses the word ought.

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It's literally translated something that that...

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I don't know why they translated it ought.

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It must have made sense in the 1600s.

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It doesn't make sense today.

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It's literally translated something or an issue.

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Matthew 5, 23, and 24 says,

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if you find out someone has something against you,

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go to them and work this out.

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Number five is the word ought again in the King James in Mark 11, 25.

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And there it's the reverse.

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If you have something against someone, forgive them.

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In other words, send it away, let it go.

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It's not your issue, not the problem.

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Let it go.

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Well, so in other words,

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something could include a belief or a doctrine.

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Well, I'm against you because

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of your belief in doctrine.

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Forgive them, let it go.

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They're going to talk to God about it

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and God's going to talk to them about it,

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hopefully on this side, not the other.

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Go better if we deal with it here, not there.

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It's not our job to be everybody's Holy Spirit.

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Well, I got to correct them.

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Why? Who put you in charge?

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Well, I got something against what they're saying.

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Then forgive them.

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Forgive means to release it,

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let it go, no punishment, nothing.

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It's between them and God.

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It's out of my hands, not my issue.

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Yeah.

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But, you know how the church is.

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We like to stick our big nose into other people's business

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and become their Holy Spirit.

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I'll tell you what you're doing wrong.

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Don't do that.

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Far as I know, God didn't die and put you in charge.

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And number four, if we need to deliver a message,

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go to the person and talk to him.

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Everything in the scripture when angels were sent to deliver messages,

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when prophets were sent to deliver messages,

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when Samuel was sent to deliver the message to Saul,

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he didn't go to the nation of Israel first.

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And then, after he got everybody's attention, he went to Saul.

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He went to Saul.

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Well, we got to go tell everybody, and this is for us now.

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I'm not talking about, I'm talking about us, not them.

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Well, we got to go tell people,

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because we got to help people make sure they don't get in trouble.

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That's not our job.

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That's God's job.

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Well, if they believe that, they're going to get in trouble.

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That's not your job to convince them of what is right or wrong.

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That's God's job by his word.

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That's the Holy Spirit's job.

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He's the supreme teacher.

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Now, if you want to share your beliefs and what you stand for and what, why,

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and it's opportune, go for it.

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You got the right to share your beliefs,

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but you don't have the right to diminish them, discredit them,

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undermine them if they don't agree with your beliefs.

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That's not our job.

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And folks, the further we get into the end times,

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the more opportunities we're going to have to be offended

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because people are going to persecute the true church.

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And like Igor said, it's more than likely those who call themselves Christians

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who are going to persecute the true church the most.

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And then unbelievers will follow suit.

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So if we don't learn some of these principles,

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we're going to get ourselves in trouble as we go deeper and deeper

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into the end time stuff here.

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So we have to understand there are certain ways of handling this.

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Now, can you draw a boundary for yourself?

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Absolutely.

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Agree on what you can agree on with the person.

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Otherwise, agree to disagree and just move on.

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If necessary, establish some boundaries for yourself.

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And we'll just briefly touch this again.

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You can't draw a boundary on someone else and make them conform.

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It does not work.

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It just turns into a big fight.

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You can't do it.

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But I can draw a boundary for me and that's exactly what they did in Acts 15

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because they had this huge issue with the Old Testament law

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trying to mingle and mix in with the New Testament and grace and that whole thing.

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And the one point that was specifically brought in Acts 15 was circumcision.

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Do you have to be circumcised to be saved?

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And this was a huge fight in the church.

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Church of Jesus Christ.

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Not a local body but overall there was because there was people being converted

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out of the Jewish faith believing Jesus was the Messiah

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and they were dragging Old Testament covenant stuff with them

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in their beliefs because they had been taught that all their lives.

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That to be a child of Abraham you had to have physical circumcision.

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And if you didn't have that well then apparently you're not saved

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and they tried to mingle those two together.

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And you'll know Paul God I rate over that whole thing.

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I mean in Galatians he went so far as to say

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if we're going to demand circumcision for salvation

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then maybe we should just cut the whole thing off to make sure we're really saved.

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That's what he said.

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You go read it.

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He was kind of frustrated with that whole argument.

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So it came to the church and Paul was there in Acts 15 when they dealt with this

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and they drew a boundary for themselves.

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This is how we are going to operate in this.

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And they labeled four things that they wanted the church to do.

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And circumcision wasn't one of them.

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So take that and apply it to someone's attacking you for something you believe

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or how you live or whatever.

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You'll never be able to draw a boundary on them and make them stop.

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It just gets worse if you try.

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But you can agree to disagree.

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Can we just, you know, you believe what you want to believe.

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I'll believe what I want to believe.

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And let's just stay unified in what we do agree on.

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And let's go on.

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And if we can't do that then I'm just going to move on.

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Because I don't want the strife.

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I don't want the conflict.

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I'm not going to do that in my life.

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And here's the phrase I always throw in right here.

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And now you will find out how important you actually are to that person.

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Because if they really value their relationship with you,

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they'll back up and say, okay, well, let's just agree on what we can agree.

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And you believe what you want and I'll believe what I want.

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Let's go on and be friends.

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Now you're valuable to them.

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If they go, well, if that's what you believe, I want nothing to do with you either.

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You never were very valuable to them.

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They might have acted like your best friend, but apparently they're not.

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Say, how do you know that for a fact?

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Do you think God agrees with everything we believe?

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I mean, if you do, you're really fully yourself.

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He does not agree with everything we believe.

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But he is still a friend who stays closer than a brother

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in the middle of it.

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There's our example.

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It can be done because he treasures us and the relationship with us

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more than he treasures what we believe or he believes.

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That's love.

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That's how love works.

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Agree on the basics of salvation.

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And both parties work to fulfill the Great Commission.

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I mean, the greatest thing we can do on this earth

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is not speak in tongues or get people healed.

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The greatest thing we can do is get them saved.

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Everything else takes care of itself then in eternity.

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Let's both just serve God to the best of our ability,

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according to what we believe.

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And we don't have to bash each other or undermine each other to do that.

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And realize we're all going to answer to God for what we do.

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2 Corinthians 5, 10, just one of the scriptures says

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we will answer to God for the things done in the flesh.

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So there's numerous reasons to keep the right attitude.

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We may have to draw some boundaries for ourselves.

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And to approach this thing where we stay in right standing with God.

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Because if we get out of that, now we're in trouble spiritually.

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Now our family, now our business.

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Now we're losing the blessing of God.

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But if we'll approach it right,

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it flat out says the blessing will increase.

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There's a spiritual law.

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It's just going to increase if we approach this right.

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So that's my whole point this morning.

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It's not so much to say, oh my, look what's online.

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Whatever.

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This isn't new.

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I mean, we were still in the modular when we were declared to be the demonic church

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in the area because we spoke in tongues.

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I mean, for whatever reason, that really grinds on people.

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And I think I know the reason why.

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I'll throw this in for free.

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It's not my notes.

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The end times has to do with the antichrist spirit.

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And then what I think is going to be a man who's going to be

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antichrist or Jesus, against Jesus.

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But John said the antichrist spirit was alive and well with him already.

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And it's just gaining momentum right out to the culmination.

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Okay, notice it doesn't say the anti healing spirit.

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It doesn't say the anti salvation spirit or call the man the anti salvation man.

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The anti God man.

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Do you know what it's called?

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The anti Christ spirit.

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Christ means what?

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The messiah and his anointing, the anointed one and his anointing.

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Here is the principle.

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Remember this.

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If the enemy can get the anointing to stop, he's got everything else.

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He's got it all.

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He's got people won't get saved.

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People won't get healed.

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People won't get delivered.

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People, people won't be blessed.

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People won't find peace.

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People will find nothing if he can stop the anointing.

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That is what the spirit of the age is after.

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That's what the man's going to be after.

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He's against Christ and his anointing.

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So, since Jesus said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has...

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Where does the anointing come from?

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Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit anoints us.

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We'll now put two and two together.

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Think below the surface.

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Put two and two together.

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Why would the demonic be so insistent on bashing?

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Let's just go with the thought.

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Speaking in tongues.

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Ultimately, the demonic's after the anointing.

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And the anointing comes from the Holy Spirit

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and so does speaking in tongues.

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Oh, yeah.

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There's guidelines for when and where and how to do it, etc.

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And we may not agree on the guidelines.

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That's okay.

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You flow in the Holy Spirit how you do.

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I'll flow how I do.

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But let's not invite the anti-anointing spirit in and shut everything down

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to where all we have is death and deadness in the house.

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Yeah, so there's three articles.

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They're online.

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You can download them.

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Conflict in the church is not a new thing.

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It's been around since the beginning.

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The Sons of Thunder were the first ones who really kicked that into gear.

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James and John.

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So there's wonderful articles online of people trying to help

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Christians to know how to get along.

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Because we're hurting our own cause when we don't.

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So there's wonderful articles there and there's three of them.

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Just look those up.

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They make some excellent points.

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And like I said, they're online with today's message.

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Could you look up Acts 5, 38 in the New King James?

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We'll start at verse 38.

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There's four or five verses here I want to read and then we're going to conclude.

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This is Gamaliel.

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And they had a problem.

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The Jews, the Sanhedrin, the scribes, the Pharisees were being threatened by the

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Christians and they wanted to shut them down and kill the whole works in the name of God.

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See, the disagreement in the church hasn't been... it's not a new thing.

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So Gamaliel, who was very wise in the Sanhedrin, got up and said something.

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He said,

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I say unto you, refrain from these men and let them alone.

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Don't go after to kill them.

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For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to not.

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You got the King James.

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You want... can you flip to the New King James?

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Since we don't talk about not anymore.

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Verse 38.

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And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone.

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For if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing.

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Verse 39.

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But if it's of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest you even be found to fight against God.

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Verse 40.

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So the religious leaders, that's who he's talking to here, Sanhedrin and so forth,

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they agreed with him, but they still couldn't get it out of their system

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without giving them a good beating.

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They didn't kill them, but they had to get... they just had to do it.

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So they agreed with them, okay, we're not going to kill them.

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And they called the apostles back in and they beat them

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and commanded them that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and they let them go.

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Okay, next verse.

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So they departed from the presence of the council, just ticked off, angry, wanting revenge

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because they had been persecuted.

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I mean, we're dealing with some American-style persecution.

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They were beaten.

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That don't happen in America, at least not yet.

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And they left rejoicing.

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You gotta deal with it correctly or it'll harm you.

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Rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

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In other words, their attitude was, boy, we must be doing something right because we're really

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making them angry.

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This is awesome.

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That was their attitude.

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And daily in the temple and in every house.

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Now remember they commanded them, don't you speak in the name of Jesus?

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That was in verse 30.

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That was in verse 40.

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So daily in the temple and every house they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the

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Christ, because they had obeyed God, not man.

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That's in that chapter too.

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Now the next chapter, chapter six, verse one, here's the principle I wanted you to see.

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Now in those days, this is the next verse, when the number of the disciples was multiplying.

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What did the persecution of the Jewish leaders do to the church?

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The spiritual principle kicked in and this thing started growing with such ferocity,

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they couldn't keep up and they started having internal problems and they had a, you know,

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that's where the seven people were chosen to oversee what's going on and try to control this.

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They grew so fast they couldn't keep up.

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Why?

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Because they got persecuted.

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That's a principle.

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It's in Scripture all over.

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Right there it is.

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It's in church history all over.

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You want to stop the church of Jesus Christ?

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Do what Camilleo said, leave it alone.

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If it's not of God, it'll die out on its own.

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If it is of God, you can't stop it anyway because you go in there and try to shut it down,

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you're just going to spread it like mad.

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It's a spiritual principle.

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So as we end this, I want us to do what we're commanded to do.

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We're to rejoice, bless them and pray for them.

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So as we close, let's do what we're commanded to do.

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Lord, thank you for counting us worthy to be spoken against.

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And Lord, we understand there's probably stuff we're believing and doing that's wrong.

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We're not saying we're perfect.

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But we have been counted worthy to be pointed out and attacked, persecuted.

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And according to you, Lord, that's a good thing and we should feel good about that.

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So Lord, whoever these people are, we bless them with who you are.

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We bless them with who you are, Jesus.

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You be Lord and master in their life.

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You work what you want to do.

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We pray that according to your heart and your desire, Lord, you prosper them.

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You bless them.

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You work in their life because this will only produce good results for them in the end.

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And Lord, so we do that.

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We take the attitude of we're not going to get angry.

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We're not going to get mean.

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We're not going to go get revenge.

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We bless them.

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I hope they prosper and what Jesus wants them to prosper in.

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We bless them and we pray for them.

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We pray that God leads them and guides them and helps them.

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We pray God helps mature them and grow them.

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We pray for them.

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We bless them.

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And we pray for us that we keep the right attitude and that we mature and we grow

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so that we handle these kind of things, whether it comes against us corporately or

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or it's spoken against us individually or against one of our children by relatives or

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whatever.

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Somebody's pursuing somebody to make them look bad, to make them guilty, to shame them,

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to show how dumb they really are.

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Whatever the situation is,

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Lord, help us to be mature and to grow so we can have the right response.

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So that spiritual principle of blessing gets on us.

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And the only thing they're doing, if they're attacking our children,

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the only thing they're doing is they're prospering our kids.

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And we can set the example and explain it to them and say,

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guys, just hang on.

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Let them be what they want to be.

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Let them do what they want to do.

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Let them believe what they want to believe.

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When this thing is over, God will have blessed you beyond your wildest dreams

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and moved you forward.

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So keep your attitude right.

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And Lord, for us to be able to give that advice,

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we need to keep our attitude right.

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So help us to grow and mature in this also.

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In Jesus' name.

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Amen.