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In chains I was round,

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I was a madman on the run.

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Through the hills I I wandered.

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I was running from the sun.

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But truth found me there.

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It was in my darkest eye.

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I traded my black heart for

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I say truth set

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me free.

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Oh,

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Truth

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set me free.

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6PM

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central time.

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And welcome back this week. We're really glad

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to have everyone that's joining us joining us

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and,

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looking forward to an interesting conversation tonight, I

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do believe. Brother Brian, how has your week

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been?

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Good so far. You know, just,

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another week.

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I don't know if you knew it or

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not, but I I'm a granddaddy now. Are

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you now?

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Wow. That is amazing.

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I never even talk about her. I feel

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ashamed.

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You should. You should. You never mention it

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on here. Never mentioned it to us at

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church.

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Still haven't taken a picture yet or No.

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Facebook totally blank.

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No, I don't hold her every day and

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aggravate my, my son-in-law

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and my daughter anyway.

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Oh, well brother Dennis, how's your week starting

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off? Good so far. Good so far. Fantastic.

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Well, we'll dive in. But, again, I want

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to start out reminding everybody,

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remember who our King is, remember who our

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Lord is, and remember to cut through all

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the noise and all the distraction and all

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the worry and the fear

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We we have nothing to be afraid of.

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But I I do wanna point out this

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week, I've been kinda watching the movements on

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social media and everything, and

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be really careful

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about repeating things until you've checked it out.

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lot of stuff going on now where there's

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a lot of things that are just flat

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out lies that people are throwing out there

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and saying it, I mean, with confidence. Like,

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it is just a fact.

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And all of this is just meant to

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make us, especially as Christians,

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feel isolated.

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They want us to feel as though nobody

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agrees with us. Nobody

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is okay with us being Christian. Nobody is

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okay.

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That is not the majority of people that

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is really and truly the minority here in

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America, at least. Maybe not the rest of

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the world. I can't can't say much for

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them because over there, they don't have free

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speech over there. They don't have the ability

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for the dissenting voices to be heard, but

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here we do.

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not the majority.

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minority

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that is distracting from everything that we should

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be focused on.

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But, you know, I very, very heavily encourage

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people to be careful about crying Wolf. We

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need to be watching for things always.

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as proven

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throughout history, throughout scripture, when you look back

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at the kings and when they when they

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became kings, it never failed

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with very few exceptions

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that things happen. I mean, David, you know,

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man after God's own heart and look what

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happened with him and Bathsheba and Bathsheba's husband.

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I mean, he had a man killed

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because that power just got to his head

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and let you know, we do have to

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watch for those things. And we don't wanna

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be in a situation where when we see

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something like that and we call it out,

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people go, well, you've been saying this for

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the last six months and nothing's happened yet.

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scenario. And I'm not just talking about

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the U S government at the high levels.

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I'm talking about lower level things. Here in

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Alabama, we've had a recently

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kind of an interesting development kind of recently.

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I don't know. It's been a few weeks

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now. Hanceville police department doesn't exist anymore.

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jury. And like six of the officers from

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the department were stealing drugs out of the,

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evidence lockup and selling them on the side.

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the chief and and his family and people

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involved like that. And the grand jury basically

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went to the city council or made a

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recommendation through the court to the city council.

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You need to shut the department down and

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rebuild it. And so now Coleman County Sheriff's

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department's having to step up there and they,

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they agreed, Hey, we'll step in while you're,

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while you're working on this.

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That's a mess. So that's the kind of

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thing, you know, what, when you see it

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going on, that's what we want people watching

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for and saying something about, Hey, there's a

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problem over here. Everybody needs to pay attention

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because we don't want things to get this

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far. It had gone on for like close

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to twenty years and nobody had ever, and

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just nobody said anything. And it's like, there's

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no way in twenty years, somebody didn't go,

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That guy looks like the officer that just

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arrested somebody the other day. He's selling me

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these drugs. Maybe, maybe I should go say

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something. You know, I saw him out here

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doing a drug deal. You know, that's the

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kind of thing. And, and it it's it,

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you know, that's nothing against police. I fully

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support our police and our officers. But when

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you see the misconduct and you see somebody

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stepping over the line,

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don't be afraid to call it out. Don't

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be afraid to bring it up and mention

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it. And you know what, worst, worst case

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scenario, you might start hollering about something and

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everybody look at it and go, Hey, look,

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you're hollering about something. That's a big, nothing.

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go, no, that's actually a big deal and

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we need to deal with it. I would

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much rather hear about things that bother you.

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really wasn't a big deal. It just, you

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know, in the moment it seemed bigger than

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it was. I would much rather people speak

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up in those situations than wait. And then

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we actually develop a problem.

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So be careful, be very careful,

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calm down, crying Wolf about everything.

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Our King is Jesus. We're called to tell

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the truth. We're called to speak the truth

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and we're called to speak it in love.

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supposed to be doing with our elected officials

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and our, our people that, that are responsible

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for,

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policing the community and working with us,

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you know, just, just say things in truth

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and in love, you're not attacking them. It's

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just, look, Hey, this was, this was wrong.

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We don't need to do that. We're going

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to stop.

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will go, man, I never thought about that

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way. Maybe, maybe I did cross the line

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there. Maybe I did do something I shouldn't

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have been. I need to go reevaluate some

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things.

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It never hurts. It never hurts. But if

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you go in screaming and yelling, that is

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the surefire way to make sure nobody wants

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to hear what you have to say.

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So let's all calm down and try to

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have a better week. Cause things are just

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heating up and heating up and they're getting

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more and more heated on social media. I'm

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seeing people actually attacking each other in ways

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that I never,

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you know, I never thought I'd see, but

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on the, on the other hand, I'm also

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seeing the good old internet trolls coming out

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and just messing with people. And it's kind

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of nice to see that again. So, cause

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we, we got away from that for a

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long time and it's pretty funny.

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we are talking about

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what what is our topic this week? We're

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gonna talk about the judgment of Christians.

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Oh. Yeah. Let's get into it. What happens?

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What what does it mean? What is it

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what's it all about?

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And and, you know, we'll get into this

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too in just a little bit, but,

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the the Greek word here here is bema,

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the bema seat. And we can talk a

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little bit about

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what that means in a little bit. But,

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but, yeah,

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when people say,

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when people say we're not supposed to judge,

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you know, they say,

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you know, you can't judge me. You can't

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judge me from what I'm doing.

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They're right in that. You know? They're right

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in that sense,

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that it's not we are not the judge.

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Right? We are not the one who says,

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hey. This is this is your punishment. This

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is what you,

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this is this is what you're doing, so

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this is what we

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we, we nail down for you as judgment.

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But let me say this. When you are

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living completely contrary to the word of God

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and the character of God

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and it's pointed out, that's not judgment. It's

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truth. Right? Yeah. So, you know, we I

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guess we could call it and I've heard

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it called, fruit inspectors. But

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but ultimately,

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ultimately,

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every man, woman, and child will face judgment.

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Right? Every every person who's,

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who's who's breathed the breath of air and

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and had an opportunity to hear the gospel

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and,

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they every one of us will stand before

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the judgment seat of Christ. That is and

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the judgment seat of Christ is for saved

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people. Right? It is for men and women

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of God. The great white throne of judgment

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is the judgment for the sinners of all

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ages or for the lost of all ages,

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I should say, for all sinners.

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And and that's that's another subject, and we've

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talked about that a little bit before. We

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might get back into that next week. Some.

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But, yeah, we're all gonna stand before the

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Lord. And I think a lot of people,

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they they take that verse where Christ says,

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judge not that you be not judged. For

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in what manner that you judge, you will

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be judged.

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And there's a big difference in just being

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judgmental of somebody

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and go into the word and saying, this

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is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong.

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I'm watching what these things are wrong. There's

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a huge difference. One of them, you are

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being judgmental when you're, when you're casting that

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judgment on somebody. But when you're going to

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the word of God, guess what? That's how

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we're going to be judged. Yeah. And, and,

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you know, Christ,

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and that does that, that has the implication

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that, Hey, look, if you're not showing mercy,

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if you're not showing grace, if you're not

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showing these things,

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God said, I'm going to judge you the

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same way you judged others. And especially to

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your brothers. Right? Yeah. Right. Paul, Paul says

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in Romans 14, he's, he's talking about,

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people who eat certain foods and people who

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don't eat certain foods and are, they're judging

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each other over it. And and, he says

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in, in verse 10, but why do you

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judge your brother? Or again

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or you again, why do you regard your

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brother with contempt? For we will all stand

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before the judgment seat of God. And and

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it's important to note too that this judgment

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seat of Christ or this Bema Seat judgment

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is not about sin. No. It's not at

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all. It's it's about rewards. It is. Yeah.

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Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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He goes on and and, I or he

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talks about it again in John five twenty

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two, for the father judgeth no man, but

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hath commanded hath committed all judgment unto the

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son. He give it to Jesus. Right? Yeah.

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And then second Corinthians five ten goes back

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to the judgment seed or the bema seed

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again.

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It says for we must all appear before

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the judgment seat of Christ that everyone may

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receive the things done in his body according

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to that he hath done whether it be

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good or whether it be bad. Right? Yeah.

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So

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so we'll all stand there one day.

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When is this gonna happen? Right after the

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rapture. Yeah. Right after the rapture. I believe

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so too. And I believe the place will

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be actually in heaven. Yeah. In other words,

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yeah. But another

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another key piece of this thing is, first

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Corinthians three. You probably got that one written

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down. You didn't just read that, did you?

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Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. It says, in verse 10,

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according to the grace of God, which was

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given to me like a wise master builder,

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I laid a foundation, and another's building on

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it. But each man must be careful how

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he builds on it. For no man can

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lay a foundation other than the one which

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is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if

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any man builds on the foundation with gold,

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silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

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each man's work will become evident. For the

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day will show it because it is to

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be revealed with fire, and the fire itself

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will test the quality of each man's work.

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If each man's work if any man's work

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which he has built on it remains, he

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will receive a reward.

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If any man's work is burned up, he

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will suffer loss, but he himself will be

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saved, yet so is through fire. Yeah. So

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that's how we know that this is not

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about this is not a judgment to to

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condemnation. That's right. That's right. Amen. It's not.

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So, really, it comes down

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to what will you do with what you've

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been given. Right? Yeah. That that that that's

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that's what we're looking at here. And he

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gives us an example in Luke 19,

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starting in there in verse 11.

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It says, and as they heard these things,

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he added and spake a parable because he

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was nigh to Jerusalem.

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And because they thought that the kingdom of

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God should immediately appear,

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he said, therefore, a certain nobleman

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went into a far country to receive for

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himself a kingdom and to return.

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And he called his 10 servants

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and delivered them 10 and said unto them,

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occupy till I come.

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But his citizens hated him and sent a

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message after him saying, we will not have

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this man to reign over us. And it

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came to pass that when he was returned,

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having received the kingdom, that he commanded he

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commanded his servants to be called unto him,

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to whom he had given the money,

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that he might know how much every man

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had gained by trading.

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Then came the first saying, lord, thy pound

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hath gained 10 pounds. And he said unto

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them, well, thou good servant, because thou hast

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been faithful in a little,

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have thou authority over 10 cities.

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And the second came saying, Lord,

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thy pound hath gained five pounds. And he

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said, likewise to him, be thou also over

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five cities. And another came saying, Lord, behold,

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there is thy pound, which I have kept

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laid up in a napkin,

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for I feared thee,

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because thou art an ostrich man, or, you

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know,

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a a a mean ruler is what they

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were really trying to to say that he

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was. Thou takest up that thou layest down

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and reapest of it that thou didst not

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sow.

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And he said unto him,

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out of thine own mouth will I judge

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thee, thou wicked servant.

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Thou knewest

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that I was an ostrich man,

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taking up and laying it down,

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and reaping, now I did not sow. Wherefore

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then gavest not thou the money into the

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bank, that my coming I might have required

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mine own with usury. And he said unto

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them that stood by, take from him the

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pound that I've given to him that hath

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£10.

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And and that said unto him, Lord, he

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has £10.

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For I say unto thee, that unto every

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one that of which hath shall be given,

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and hath him that that hath not, even

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that he hath shall be taken away from

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him.

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So

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in English,

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he's saying, look, I gave this guy,

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I gave this guy a pound. He turned

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it into 10 pounds. Right? He used it

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wisely. I gave this guy a pound. I

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turned it into five pounds. He used it

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wisely. I gave this guy a pound. He

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kept it because he was afraid he was

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gonna lose it and he was afraid that

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so he didn't do anything with it. Right?

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And and so we look at this and

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we think about this and what it means.

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Look. The

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Lord's saying to us right now, hey. I've

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given you talents. I've given you opportunity.

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I've given you time. I've given you all

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these things that you could go out into

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a lost and a dying world, and you

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could you could reap

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more than what I've given you. Right? You

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could turn what I've given you into so

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much more. I saved you. Now you go

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out and tell somebody else about me that

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they might be saved, and then they go

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out and tell somebody else that they might

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be

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saved. And your reward keeps growing and growing

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and growing and growing. And the problem is

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what we're gonna do is we're gonna stand

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before him one day, and he's gonna look

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at us and he's gonna say, what did

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you do with this opportunity?

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What did you do with this opportunity? Why

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did you do this or why did you

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do that? So it's not about I I

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think I think people think that that it's

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gonna be us. Hey.

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Okay.

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John, why did you say that cuss word

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on this day and this day? Or why

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did you think that bad thought on this

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day or this day? Or why did you

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steal that pen on this day or this

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day? Look.

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Our sins have been covered.

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Amen. They've been covered by the blood of

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Jesus Christ.

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John first John two two said he's the

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propitiation for us or the propitiation for our

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sins and not for ours only, but for

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the sins of the whole world. Romans eight

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one said there's no condemnation in those who

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are in Christ Jesus who walk not after

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the flesh but after the spirit.

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You know, John five twenty four tells us

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basically the same thing that that we shall

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not, be in condemnation.

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It's not about the judgment of your sin.

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Your sins, if you're a believer, have been

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nailed to the cross. Right? Amen. That doesn't

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mean that you're not gonna have earthly consequences

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for your sins and that type of thing,

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but he's not taking this is not whether

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or not you're saved or whether you're going

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into heaven. That's not what the judgment seat

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of Christ is about. It's about your reward.

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That's right. That's right. I think, a lot

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of people suffer loss at this at this

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moment too, and it'll be a lot of

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sorrow. Yeah. A lot of regrets. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah. And I've I've I've wondered too, you

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know, that's that's real similar to the the

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the parables of the, of talents Yeah. In

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in Matthew 25. Yeah. And and I've always

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seen that. And tell me if I'm wrong

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here. But I've seen, these talents as, like,

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god lots each your measure of faith. Yeah.

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Right? Yeah. And and what did you do

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with the the measure of faith you were

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given? Right? Did you grow it? Did it

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deepen? Did you get closer to god in

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this life and become more like Jesus? Yeah.

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Did you seek after me more? Yeah. I

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think that's yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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You know, one of the things that always

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strikes me in both of those two parables

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because,

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you know, they're so similar and they're so

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they're intended to be similar because it's telling

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the same story.

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I mean, to have

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when when the ruler came back and he

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says to the one that kept the one

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talent,

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the fact that he says to him, look,

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all you had to do was give it

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to the bank.

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Just a little bit of interest, a little

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bit of usury.

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Yeah. Because, you know, back then banks actually,

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you know, you would give them, you're loaning

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them your money for them to use. And

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so they would return it to you with

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interest. And just like banks today do with

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savings accounts, although that's basically non existent nowadays.

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But back then it was, you know, it

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was it was not a great amount. It

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wasn't like you were gonna give him one

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talent and get back three, you know, but

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you would give him one and get back,

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you know, some change on top of that.

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And he's like, that would have been enough

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to show show me that you actually cared

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enough to grow what I gave you.

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And I think, man, that, you know, God

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God is looking at us and he's saying

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the same thing. He's like, I'm giving you

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your faith. Just just make use of it.

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You know, I'm not saying go out and

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and make this huge impact. You don't have

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to be the next Billy Graham. You don't

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have to be the next,

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you know, missionary over to China.

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But if you'll just go out and exercise

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your faith a little bit, they'll be it'll

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grow. It'll grow even if it's just a

531
00:19:17,934 --> 00:19:21,454
fairly, a relatively small amount compared to stepping

532
00:19:21,454 --> 00:19:23,615
out on a huge leap of faith. It'll

533
00:19:23,615 --> 00:19:26,255
grow a little bit. And it's like, man,

534
00:19:26,255 --> 00:19:27,774
to to think that that was that was

535
00:19:27,774 --> 00:19:29,534
the ruler's attitude. It's like even that little

536
00:19:29,534 --> 00:19:31,539
would have been enough. I think about these

537
00:19:31,539 --> 00:19:34,019
guys who who can take a dollar and

538
00:19:34,019 --> 00:19:36,019
turn it into a hundred dollars. Yeah. You

539
00:19:36,019 --> 00:19:38,420
know? This guy, he he takes a dollar

540
00:19:38,420 --> 00:19:40,100
and he goes and buys a rusty bucket

541
00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:41,640
and he sells it for $5.

542
00:19:41,859 --> 00:19:43,619
You know? Yeah. And then he goes out

543
00:19:43,619 --> 00:19:45,865
and he takes $5 and he goes and

544
00:19:45,865 --> 00:19:48,025
he buys a a bigger bucket and he

545
00:19:48,025 --> 00:19:50,505
sells it for $10, you know. And and

546
00:19:50,505 --> 00:19:51,085
and then

547
00:19:51,464 --> 00:19:53,304
he goes on and on and on until

548
00:19:53,304 --> 00:19:55,224
he's bought a house, until he's bought cars,

549
00:19:55,224 --> 00:19:57,065
until he's bought this. And he's just all

550
00:19:57,065 --> 00:19:59,704
the time taking what little he's been given

551
00:19:59,704 --> 00:20:02,160
and using it for opportunity to turn it

552
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,880
into more. Yeah. And then it's, the and

553
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,319
it's in a church. Right? It's,

554
00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:08,720
I I I think of somebody that's, you

555
00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,400
know, like, maybe a young guy that that

556
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,160
gets nervous just talking to somebody one on

557
00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:13,839
one, but he's called a preachingist to get

558
00:20:13,839 --> 00:20:15,679
him in a pulpit in front of people

559
00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:17,825
Yeah. And do that. That is growing his

560
00:20:17,825 --> 00:20:19,744
faith Yeah. It is. In a massive kind

561
00:20:19,744 --> 00:20:21,585
of way It is. Or or somebody that's

562
00:20:21,585 --> 00:20:22,065
just

563
00:20:22,544 --> 00:20:25,184
can barely form a chord on a guitar,

564
00:20:25,184 --> 00:20:26,784
getting up and fring it, singing in front

565
00:20:26,784 --> 00:20:28,464
of somebody. You know? I mean, there's all

566
00:20:28,464 --> 00:20:29,984
kinds of different things that we do that

567
00:20:30,157 --> 00:20:32,349
Yeah. Stretch it. Just stretch yourself.

568
00:20:33,210 --> 00:20:33,710
Yeah.

569
00:20:34,009 --> 00:20:35,609
And I and I think we're going we're

570
00:20:35,609 --> 00:20:37,289
gonna see you know, some of our loss

571
00:20:37,289 --> 00:20:38,269
is gonna be

572
00:20:38,970 --> 00:20:39,789
those opportunities,

573
00:20:40,089 --> 00:20:42,169
some of them that we never seen. Yeah.

574
00:20:42,169 --> 00:20:44,409
You know, there there there's opportunities out there

575
00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:45,549
that we see somebody.

576
00:20:47,024 --> 00:20:49,044
Maybe God told you to witness to somebody

577
00:20:49,105 --> 00:20:49,605
and

578
00:20:50,065 --> 00:20:51,825
and they passed away before you ever done

579
00:20:51,825 --> 00:20:53,664
it, you know, before you ever said anything.

580
00:20:53,664 --> 00:20:54,164
Yeah.

581
00:20:54,625 --> 00:20:56,704
You you you probably that may come to

582
00:20:56,704 --> 00:20:58,740
your mind. That may hit you pretty hard,

583
00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,099
but there's tons of those those opportunities and

584
00:21:02,099 --> 00:21:04,679
those times in your life that that he

585
00:21:04,740 --> 00:21:07,460
he places before you people and that you

586
00:21:07,460 --> 00:21:09,299
can make a difference in their life and

587
00:21:09,299 --> 00:21:12,099
we just pass them on by. Mhmm. Maybe

588
00:21:12,099 --> 00:21:13,380
we're in a hurry. Maybe we're

589
00:21:14,404 --> 00:21:16,164
we've got too much going on. We said

590
00:21:16,164 --> 00:21:17,065
I'll do it later.

591
00:21:17,365 --> 00:21:19,684
We put it off and, you know, we

592
00:21:19,684 --> 00:21:22,005
miss those opportunities. And it yes. Like the

593
00:21:22,085 --> 00:21:23,865
It's gonna be our loss. The judgment,

594
00:21:24,484 --> 00:21:26,244
I guess it's the judgment of the Gentiles

595
00:21:26,244 --> 00:21:28,279
in Matthew 25

596
00:21:28,980 --> 00:21:31,940
where it's, the sheep and goats. Yeah. Right?

597
00:21:31,940 --> 00:21:33,619
And what what are what are the things

598
00:21:33,619 --> 00:21:35,779
he said that they did right? Yeah. That's

599
00:21:35,779 --> 00:21:37,940
a little stuff, man. It's a you you

600
00:21:37,940 --> 00:21:39,859
clothed me when I was naked. You visited

601
00:21:39,859 --> 00:21:41,460
me in prison. You you helped me when

602
00:21:41,460 --> 00:21:43,164
I was sick. It's it's the little stuff.

603
00:21:43,164 --> 00:21:46,125
Yeah. It is. It is. And and also

604
00:21:46,125 --> 00:21:48,684
to make make it very clear in this

605
00:21:48,684 --> 00:21:49,184
point,

606
00:21:50,445 --> 00:21:50,945
we

607
00:21:52,125 --> 00:21:53,744
when Christ covered our sins,

608
00:21:54,205 --> 00:21:56,389
the the scripture flat out says, they are

609
00:21:56,389 --> 00:21:58,710
cast into the sea of forgetfulness. They're separated

610
00:21:58,710 --> 00:21:59,990
as far as the East is from the

611
00:21:59,990 --> 00:22:00,490
West.

612
00:22:01,029 --> 00:22:01,849
It is the

613
00:22:02,549 --> 00:22:04,569
glory and honor and

614
00:22:04,869 --> 00:22:07,289
majesty of God that he chooses

615
00:22:07,909 --> 00:22:08,649
to forget

616
00:22:09,174 --> 00:22:11,174
the sins that are covered under the blood.

617
00:22:11,174 --> 00:22:13,674
We Yeah. A lot of people always portray

618
00:22:14,134 --> 00:22:16,134
I've seen portrayals of the judgment of the

619
00:22:16,134 --> 00:22:18,615
the Christians as being kind of reminded of

620
00:22:18,615 --> 00:22:21,095
your sins and then, oh, but even though

621
00:22:21,095 --> 00:22:23,994
that here's Jesus and his blood's covered you,

622
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,559
we're already aware of that. We know that

623
00:22:26,559 --> 00:22:28,319
going into this. It's almost like a final

624
00:22:28,319 --> 00:22:30,720
cleansing in it. Yeah. It's that, it's that

625
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,799
cleansing through fire, but it is, it is

626
00:22:32,799 --> 00:22:35,119
not about our sins before or after we

627
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,140
got saved. It is about our failure

628
00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:39,795
to, to exercise our faith and to do

629
00:22:39,795 --> 00:22:41,554
what we were called to do, which is

630
00:22:41,554 --> 00:22:43,075
a type of sin. I mean, don't get

631
00:22:43,075 --> 00:22:44,515
me wrong. That is, that is a top,

632
00:22:44,515 --> 00:22:46,054
but it's, it's not

633
00:22:46,755 --> 00:22:49,154
the, the normal sins that you're going to

634
00:22:49,154 --> 00:22:49,974
see in,

635
00:22:50,740 --> 00:22:52,019
you know, at the end of the day

636
00:22:52,019 --> 00:22:54,019
that other people were talking about. And even

637
00:22:54,019 --> 00:22:55,000
at even that

638
00:22:55,460 --> 00:22:58,019
they're not so much judged based on at

639
00:22:58,019 --> 00:22:59,480
the time at the separation

640
00:23:00,099 --> 00:23:01,619
based on their sin, I think we'll get

641
00:23:01,619 --> 00:23:03,859
into more, you know, some specifics on where

642
00:23:03,859 --> 00:23:05,159
that does make an impact,

643
00:23:05,539 --> 00:23:07,315
but at the, as far as at the

644
00:23:07,315 --> 00:23:09,154
judgment it's, did you accept or did you

645
00:23:09,154 --> 00:23:09,654
reject?

646
00:23:10,194 --> 00:23:12,914
That's the separation point that people go through.

647
00:23:12,914 --> 00:23:14,994
And then after that is when you have

648
00:23:14,994 --> 00:23:17,315
some judgment there, but our judgment is purely

649
00:23:17,315 --> 00:23:19,200
on what did you do with what I

650
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,039
gave you? Yeah. Our main judgment happened on

651
00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:22,799
the cross. Yeah. That's right. Right. Yeah. And

652
00:23:22,799 --> 00:23:24,799
I I I'll come back to, again, you

653
00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:27,519
know, at Sunday school, Sunday morning, we're we're

654
00:23:27,519 --> 00:23:30,000
going through Hebrews. Yeah. And, we came up

655
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,984
on Hebrews six. Hebrews six and and chapter

656
00:23:32,984 --> 00:23:35,785
10 is, some of the hardest passages in

657
00:23:35,785 --> 00:23:38,924
the Bible Yeah. To understand. And context is

658
00:23:39,144 --> 00:23:41,545
everything in this and and who he's talking

659
00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,025
to and why. What's his audience? Yeah. Yeah.

660
00:23:44,025 --> 00:23:44,505
And and,

661
00:23:45,460 --> 00:23:46,360
people will use,

662
00:23:46,740 --> 00:23:48,340
chapter six and ten to say, oh, you

663
00:23:48,340 --> 00:23:50,180
can lose your salvation. But that's not the

664
00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:51,860
context of of what he's doing. And he's

665
00:23:51,860 --> 00:23:54,019
talking to believers here that that are trying

666
00:23:54,019 --> 00:23:56,100
to drift away. They're drifting away, and they're

667
00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,340
they're wasting their faith. They're out there. They

668
00:23:58,340 --> 00:24:00,875
got that one talent, and and they're burying

669
00:24:00,875 --> 00:24:02,315
it. Yeah. I tell you what you can

670
00:24:02,315 --> 00:24:04,255
lose. You can you can lose your,

671
00:24:05,994 --> 00:24:08,794
your your integrity. You can lose your your

672
00:24:08,794 --> 00:24:11,355
walk. You can lose your, you know, who

673
00:24:11,355 --> 00:24:13,914
who other people see you Yeah. As and

674
00:24:13,914 --> 00:24:15,054
and then in turn

675
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,079
it turns them away. Right? So they don't

676
00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:18,679
wanna listen to you anymore till you lose

677
00:24:18,679 --> 00:24:20,599
your witness. Yeah. And and that's what he's

678
00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:22,599
talking about to these folks in in, in

679
00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:24,440
the letter to the Hebrews. He's he's talking

680
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,519
about you've once tasted the heavenly gift. You've

681
00:24:26,519 --> 00:24:28,759
been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, tasted

682
00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:30,375
the good word of God, all these things,

683
00:24:30,375 --> 00:24:32,295
and you've fallen away. And he he says

684
00:24:32,454 --> 00:24:34,295
he just warns them it's impossible to come

685
00:24:34,295 --> 00:24:36,295
to repentance again because your pride's gonna get

686
00:24:36,295 --> 00:24:37,575
in the way and all kinds of different

687
00:24:37,575 --> 00:24:38,075
things.

688
00:24:38,375 --> 00:24:38,775
But but,

689
00:24:40,214 --> 00:24:41,734
what he's telling them they're gonna lose is

690
00:24:41,734 --> 00:24:43,940
their rewards. Yeah. They're gonna lose rewards. They're

691
00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:45,940
gonna lose the assurance of their salvation. They're

692
00:24:45,940 --> 00:24:47,640
gonna lose the hope that they have.

693
00:24:48,019 --> 00:24:49,700
Yeah. And this is it's a dangerous place

694
00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:51,380
to be. It is. It is. And and

695
00:24:51,380 --> 00:24:53,539
when you get face to face with Jesus

696
00:24:53,539 --> 00:24:56,200
one day and you've fallen away like that,

697
00:24:56,825 --> 00:24:58,505
that's not a good place to be because

698
00:24:58,505 --> 00:24:59,005
we're

699
00:24:59,865 --> 00:25:01,704
it sounds gross, but all of us are

700
00:25:01,704 --> 00:25:03,865
gonna be standing there naked. Yeah. Yeah. Oh,

701
00:25:03,865 --> 00:25:05,865
yeah. He sees everything. I see it. I

702
00:25:05,865 --> 00:25:07,884
see it. Have we already read Matthew 10?

703
00:25:08,184 --> 00:25:10,904
Did we read that? No. So Matthew 10

704
00:25:10,904 --> 00:25:11,724
verse 40.

705
00:25:12,049 --> 00:25:14,529
He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he

706
00:25:14,529 --> 00:25:16,849
that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

707
00:25:16,849 --> 00:25:18,690
He that receiveth a prophet in the same

708
00:25:18,690 --> 00:25:20,849
name of the prophet shall receive a prophet's

709
00:25:20,849 --> 00:25:23,329
reward. And he that receiveth a righteous man

710
00:25:23,329 --> 00:25:24,210
in the name,

711
00:25:24,529 --> 00:25:26,769
of a righteous man shall receive a righteous

712
00:25:26,769 --> 00:25:27,589
man's reward.

713
00:25:28,184 --> 00:25:30,585
And whosoever shall give a drink unto one

714
00:25:30,585 --> 00:25:32,345
of these little ones a cup of cold

715
00:25:32,345 --> 00:25:32,845
water,

716
00:25:33,625 --> 00:25:36,345
only in the name of a disciple, verily

717
00:25:36,345 --> 00:25:38,184
I say unto you, he shall in no

718
00:25:38,184 --> 00:25:39,644
wise lose his reward.

719
00:25:40,230 --> 00:25:40,970
So, again,

720
00:25:41,269 --> 00:25:43,029
it's like we said, it's the simple things.

721
00:25:43,029 --> 00:25:45,369
Right? It's the simple things that we do

722
00:25:45,509 --> 00:25:47,509
going out among the people and being who

723
00:25:47,509 --> 00:25:49,750
he wants us to be. It's not it's

724
00:25:49,750 --> 00:25:52,630
not checklist. I came to church last week.

725
00:25:52,630 --> 00:25:53,930
Checklist. I prayed.

726
00:25:54,285 --> 00:25:56,365
Checklist. I read my verses, and I've done

727
00:25:56,365 --> 00:25:57,345
my little devotional.

728
00:25:58,045 --> 00:25:59,965
You know, and to be honest, I mean,

729
00:25:59,965 --> 00:26:02,605
devotionals are great. I think everybody, you know,

730
00:26:02,605 --> 00:26:04,285
there's nothing wrong with that getting up in

731
00:26:04,285 --> 00:26:04,865
the morning

732
00:26:05,164 --> 00:26:07,960
and and really, you know, starting out with

733
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,640
some good thoughts and some things like that.

734
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,159
So don't don't get me wrong when I

735
00:26:11,159 --> 00:26:13,339
say this, but a devotional is not enough.

736
00:26:13,399 --> 00:26:15,480
No. We need deep study of the word

737
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,079
of God. You need to get closer to

738
00:26:17,079 --> 00:26:19,079
him, and sometimes you're not gonna do that

739
00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:21,294
through a couple of verses and a point.

740
00:26:21,294 --> 00:26:23,315
Right? No. So No.

741
00:26:23,615 --> 00:26:25,774
No. It's it's I don't know. It's a

742
00:26:25,774 --> 00:26:26,595
dangerous place.

743
00:26:28,974 --> 00:26:30,355
So so we've got

744
00:26:30,974 --> 00:26:33,154
we've got and you've already read first Corinthians

745
00:26:33,375 --> 00:26:33,875
three,

746
00:26:34,494 --> 00:26:35,099
10, but

747
00:26:36,059 --> 00:26:37,119
the the judgment

748
00:26:37,980 --> 00:26:39,759
seat, again, it's not a place,

749
00:26:40,299 --> 00:26:40,960
of sin,

750
00:26:41,419 --> 00:26:43,500
but rather it's a place where our our

751
00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:44,640
rewards are tested.

752
00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:48,220
The seat that's talked about in Romans 14

753
00:26:48,220 --> 00:26:48,720
and

754
00:26:49,285 --> 00:26:51,305
sec second Corinthians five ten,

755
00:26:51,684 --> 00:26:52,825
that we read earlier,

756
00:26:53,684 --> 00:26:55,464
it is that Greek word, bema.

757
00:26:56,005 --> 00:26:57,865
And and and we see this

758
00:26:58,164 --> 00:27:00,164
we see this related to a race in

759
00:27:00,164 --> 00:27:01,545
first Corinthians nine,

760
00:27:01,924 --> 00:27:03,704
24 through 27.

761
00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,460
He Paul says, know you not that they

762
00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:09,940
which run-in a race run off, and the

763
00:27:09,940 --> 00:27:12,099
one receiveth the prize, and run, that they

764
00:27:12,099 --> 00:27:14,180
may obtain, and every man that strives for

765
00:27:14,180 --> 00:27:16,740
the mastery is temperate in all things. Now

766
00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:19,000
they do it to obtain a corruptible crown,

767
00:27:19,220 --> 00:27:21,934
but we an incorruptible crown, and therefore

768
00:27:22,394 --> 00:27:24,174
so run. Not as uncertainty,

769
00:27:24,555 --> 00:27:25,375
so fight

770
00:27:25,994 --> 00:27:26,815
so fight

771
00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:29,275
I, not as one that that beateth the

772
00:27:29,275 --> 00:27:31,755
air, but I keep under I keep under

773
00:27:31,755 --> 00:27:33,910
my body and bring it under subjection,

774
00:27:34,369 --> 00:27:36,690
lest that by any means when I have

775
00:27:36,690 --> 00:27:39,089
preached to others, I myself should be a

776
00:27:39,089 --> 00:27:39,589
castaway.

777
00:27:41,650 --> 00:27:43,650
The the Bema and and this was a

778
00:27:43,650 --> 00:27:45,750
quote that I that I had read earlier,

779
00:27:45,890 --> 00:27:48,150
but the Bema was never a place

780
00:27:48,684 --> 00:27:49,505
to reprimand

781
00:27:49,805 --> 00:27:50,545
the athletes

782
00:27:51,724 --> 00:27:54,125
or to punish them in any way. It

783
00:27:54,125 --> 00:27:56,144
was a place of testing and reward.

784
00:27:56,445 --> 00:27:58,945
In the same way, the Bema seat

785
00:27:59,565 --> 00:28:01,565
will be a place of, not a place

786
00:28:01,565 --> 00:28:02,305
of condemnation,

787
00:28:02,980 --> 00:28:05,539
but a place of of reward. Right? Not

788
00:28:05,859 --> 00:28:07,799
are you gonna stand there? And and,

789
00:28:08,419 --> 00:28:10,359
you know, are you gonna be empty handed?

790
00:28:11,059 --> 00:28:12,200
Yeah. Yeah.

791
00:28:12,819 --> 00:28:14,579
And so many people will be. Right? And

792
00:28:14,579 --> 00:28:16,099
and that that's a place where they they,

793
00:28:16,339 --> 00:28:18,019
I guess, at the time, they called it

794
00:28:18,019 --> 00:28:19,515
a a crown or something. A bit like

795
00:28:19,515 --> 00:28:21,595
a garland. Yeah. They put over around your

796
00:28:21,595 --> 00:28:22,875
neck and stuff. And it was said and

797
00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:23,595
really the Bema Seat,

798
00:28:24,315 --> 00:28:26,394
I saw some they've done some archaeology in

799
00:28:26,394 --> 00:28:28,955
Corinth, of all places, where he says uses

800
00:28:28,955 --> 00:28:31,275
that term a few different times. Yeah. It

801
00:28:31,275 --> 00:28:33,595
was just a raised place. Yeah. Just a

802
00:28:33,595 --> 00:28:35,570
raised place. And you and every believer, from

803
00:28:35,570 --> 00:28:37,250
what I understand, will climb up on that

804
00:28:37,250 --> 00:28:39,730
raised place at some point and receive that

805
00:28:39,730 --> 00:28:42,049
garland. Yeah. How did you do? What place

806
00:28:42,049 --> 00:28:44,049
did you come in in this race? Yeah.

807
00:28:44,049 --> 00:28:45,730
And and that's that's yeah. That's what he's

808
00:28:45,730 --> 00:28:48,154
that's what he's talking about there. Yeah. So

809
00:28:48,315 --> 00:28:50,414
Yeah. We've got to use our time wisely,

810
00:28:50,474 --> 00:28:52,075
don't we? We do. We we gotta grow

811
00:28:52,075 --> 00:28:54,154
our faith, man. And and every everything that's

812
00:28:54,154 --> 00:28:55,674
that's listed out, you know, in that sheep

813
00:28:55,674 --> 00:28:57,595
and goats judgment is all about loving other

814
00:28:57,595 --> 00:28:59,674
people. Yeah. Yeah. That's all it is. And

815
00:28:59,674 --> 00:29:01,139
it's, like you said, it's not a Billy

816
00:29:01,139 --> 00:29:03,779
Graham evangelistic thing. You know? It's you're not

817
00:29:03,779 --> 00:29:05,779
speaking to a hundred thousand people. You're speaking

818
00:29:05,779 --> 00:29:08,019
to one person in Walmart. Yeah. Right? Or

819
00:29:08,019 --> 00:29:09,779
holding a door for somebody or smiling at

820
00:29:09,779 --> 00:29:12,339
somebody or making just making their day somehow.

821
00:29:12,339 --> 00:29:14,659
Right? Yeah. Right. Or paying for somebody's gas

822
00:29:14,659 --> 00:29:16,955
or I see. Whatever. It's the simple things.

823
00:29:16,955 --> 00:29:19,275
It's the little things that we are called

824
00:29:19,275 --> 00:29:21,055
to do, that we are we are commanded

825
00:29:21,115 --> 00:29:21,775
to do.

826
00:29:22,075 --> 00:29:24,015
And again, that's not about being

827
00:29:24,555 --> 00:29:25,055
so

828
00:29:25,515 --> 00:29:27,755
so caught up in being kind that we

829
00:29:27,755 --> 00:29:28,255
ignore

830
00:29:28,789 --> 00:29:30,950
things that we can't ignore. You you're not

831
00:29:30,950 --> 00:29:32,409
supposed to do that. But,

832
00:29:32,950 --> 00:29:35,589
you know, it's not about chasing everybody down

833
00:29:35,589 --> 00:29:37,269
to scream at them about their sin. It's

834
00:29:37,349 --> 00:29:38,569
sometimes it's just,

835
00:29:39,029 --> 00:29:40,710
hey, man. I hope you're having a good

836
00:29:40,710 --> 00:29:42,630
day. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, man. Did you did

837
00:29:42,630 --> 00:29:44,465
you know I love you? Yeah. Yeah. Hadn't

838
00:29:44,625 --> 00:29:45,904
I I hadn't told you that in a

839
00:29:45,904 --> 00:29:48,065
while. I mean, sometimes that's all it takes,

840
00:29:48,065 --> 00:29:50,465
and that's all it is. Cares. Yeah. Yeah.

841
00:29:50,465 --> 00:29:53,424
I actually care. And Yeah. And takes the

842
00:29:53,424 --> 00:29:55,904
time. Right? I mean, because that's we we

843
00:29:55,904 --> 00:29:57,525
live in a fast paced world

844
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,919
where we want everything now. Mhmm. Now we

845
00:30:00,919 --> 00:30:01,900
have went from

846
00:30:02,919 --> 00:30:05,880
from drive thrus that that hurry us up,

847
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,460
get us through, grab our lunch, and go,

848
00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:11,815
to now having our lunch our drive thru

849
00:30:11,815 --> 00:30:13,335
delivered. We won't even go through the drive

850
00:30:13,335 --> 00:30:13,994
thru anymore.

851
00:30:14,375 --> 00:30:16,054
Right? I mean we want it delivered to

852
00:30:16,054 --> 00:30:18,134
the house and and and and it we

853
00:30:18,134 --> 00:30:19,894
get lazier and lazier and lazier in a

854
00:30:19,894 --> 00:30:21,255
lot of these things. I was I've been

855
00:30:21,255 --> 00:30:23,275
guilty of that. I was stunned

856
00:30:23,815 --> 00:30:24,315
when,

857
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,480
I don't know, back it was before it

858
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:28,859
was back last year sometime.

859
00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:30,759
I'd taken a day and I just you

860
00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:31,819
know, I I was

861
00:30:32,519 --> 00:30:34,279
working and I was like, okay. I'm gonna

862
00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:36,039
go out, run Taco Bell real quick, sit

863
00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:37,159
down just to get out of the you

864
00:30:37,159 --> 00:30:39,019
know, get away from the desk and

865
00:30:39,384 --> 00:30:40,664
get away from everything for a little while.

866
00:30:40,664 --> 00:30:42,664
And I go sit down and dog on

867
00:30:42,664 --> 00:30:45,244
it, if a DoorDash driver doesn't come up,

868
00:30:45,304 --> 00:30:47,865
run-in there, pick up somebody's meal, and head

869
00:30:47,865 --> 00:30:49,884
back out to their car to take somebody

870
00:30:50,265 --> 00:30:51,884
Taco Bell. Yeah.

871
00:30:52,410 --> 00:30:53,309
I'm like,

872
00:30:53,690 --> 00:30:54,910
you're paying somebody

873
00:30:55,690 --> 00:30:56,590
extra money

874
00:30:58,330 --> 00:31:01,450
to bring you a thirty second drive through.

875
00:31:01,450 --> 00:31:04,250
Oh, no wonder why I'm broke. Right? Where's

876
00:31:04,250 --> 00:31:06,704
all my money going? Right? That's like Jesus

877
00:31:06,704 --> 00:31:08,384
said in Matthew six. Don't store up for

878
00:31:08,384 --> 00:31:10,545
yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust

879
00:31:10,545 --> 00:31:12,884
destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

880
00:31:13,105 --> 00:31:15,265
but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven

881
00:31:15,265 --> 00:31:17,424
where neither moth nor rust destroys and where

882
00:31:17,424 --> 00:31:19,105
thieves do not break in or steal. For

883
00:31:19,105 --> 00:31:21,299
where your treasure is, there your heart will

884
00:31:21,299 --> 00:31:23,539
be also. And that that those treasures are

885
00:31:23,539 --> 00:31:24,679
our rewards. Amen.

886
00:31:25,140 --> 00:31:27,460
Amen. But now we'll say that Walmart delivery

887
00:31:27,460 --> 00:31:28,200
is heavenly.

888
00:31:29,140 --> 00:31:32,019
Yeah. Because going in Walmart is hell. Going

889
00:31:32,019 --> 00:31:34,440
in Walmart is bad. There's like mini Hades.

890
00:31:34,659 --> 00:31:37,335
But but I but again, okay, Brian, but

891
00:31:37,335 --> 00:31:39,115
maybe you need to be in there. Right?

892
00:31:39,255 --> 00:31:41,174
You have an opportunity to witness to somebody

893
00:31:41,174 --> 00:31:42,535
in Walmart, but you don't want to be

894
00:31:42,535 --> 00:31:44,795
like Kenneth Copeland with your own private jet.

895
00:31:48,470 --> 00:31:50,789
Well, you know, it's funny. It's really funny.

896
00:31:50,789 --> 00:31:52,869
You say that, Saturday I went down to

897
00:31:52,869 --> 00:31:53,369
Walmart

898
00:31:53,990 --> 00:31:54,309
and,

899
00:31:54,789 --> 00:31:56,470
stop in there and I'm thinking, okay, I'm

900
00:31:56,470 --> 00:31:58,230
going to take like thirty seconds running here.

901
00:31:58,230 --> 00:31:59,750
And this was Saturday evening. I'd been up

902
00:31:59,750 --> 00:32:01,269
here working. I was getting the new computer

903
00:32:01,269 --> 00:32:03,575
set up and I needed a a longer

904
00:32:03,795 --> 00:32:05,795
cable to hook the monitor up. And so

905
00:32:05,795 --> 00:32:07,555
I go, I'll just run to Walmart. Take

906
00:32:07,555 --> 00:32:08,375
me five minutes.

907
00:32:08,914 --> 00:32:11,555
I was in there for an hour and

908
00:32:11,555 --> 00:32:13,875
a half. Oh, yeah. Because on my way

909
00:32:13,875 --> 00:32:14,375
in,

910
00:32:14,755 --> 00:32:16,595
I I see a guy, he's in one

911
00:32:16,595 --> 00:32:18,720
of those little scooters and he comments about

912
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,019
how he liked my hat.

913
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,320
And I've not seen this guy. I used

914
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:23,200
to see him all the time when I

915
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,480
worked there. He used to work for the

916
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:25,299
sheriff's department.

917
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,240
He was like a an assistant deputy or

918
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,680
something like that. Like, not a full time,

919
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:30,720
but he was one of the people that

920
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,559
would come in when they needed him for

921
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:33,825
stuff. And,

922
00:32:34,605 --> 00:32:36,684
I I didn't realize he had he he's

923
00:32:36,765 --> 00:32:38,525
like, his one of his legs is missing

924
00:32:38,525 --> 00:32:39,884
now. I don't know what had happened to

925
00:32:39,884 --> 00:32:42,285
him or anything. He was just as cheery

926
00:32:42,285 --> 00:32:44,125
as he'd ever been, just as fun to

927
00:32:44,125 --> 00:32:45,725
stand there and chat with. And I I

928
00:32:45,725 --> 00:32:47,244
stood there chatting with him for, I don't

929
00:32:47,244 --> 00:32:49,139
know, probably forty five minutes to almost an

930
00:32:49,139 --> 00:32:50,740
hour. And then a family member comes walking

931
00:32:50,740 --> 00:32:52,339
in, and we stand there and chat for

932
00:32:52,339 --> 00:32:53,859
another, you know, forty five minutes. And I'm

933
00:32:53,859 --> 00:32:55,779
like, I just wasted almost two hours in

934
00:32:55,779 --> 00:32:57,059
here. But I was like, you know what?

935
00:32:57,059 --> 00:32:58,819
It it was nice. It was really nice

936
00:32:58,819 --> 00:33:00,740
getting to carry on this conversation with somebody

937
00:33:00,740 --> 00:33:02,500
that I hadn't seen in years. And to

938
00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,494
know that he's still doing fairly well, that

939
00:33:04,494 --> 00:33:06,255
he's still you know, and I helped him

940
00:33:06,255 --> 00:33:08,015
that he had his little coo scooter had

941
00:33:08,015 --> 00:33:09,214
run out of power. So I helped him

942
00:33:09,214 --> 00:33:10,894
move some stuff over because when he commented

943
00:33:10,894 --> 00:33:12,414
and I was like, oh, wait. He's trying

944
00:33:12,414 --> 00:33:13,615
to get in that. And I stopped and

945
00:33:13,615 --> 00:33:15,054
pulled my headphones out. And I was like,

946
00:33:15,054 --> 00:33:16,255
hey, man. How's it going here? Let me

947
00:33:16,255 --> 00:33:17,295
help you with that. And he's like, well,

948
00:33:17,295 --> 00:33:18,880
you don't have to. And I said, it's

949
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:19,380
nothing.

950
00:33:20,159 --> 00:33:22,500
And it was, it was so nice, but

951
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:23,539
good Lord,

952
00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:25,679
I'm used to being able to run-in there.

953
00:33:25,679 --> 00:33:27,519
And if I time it right, nobody's in

954
00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:28,640
there that I know and I'm out in

955
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:29,380
five minutes.

956
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:31,764
Well, that is

957
00:33:32,224 --> 00:33:34,345
if if they have a register open. That's

958
00:33:34,345 --> 00:33:36,464
true. Because I mean, you're going sometimes you

959
00:33:36,464 --> 00:33:38,384
come in there and they've got they've got

960
00:33:38,384 --> 00:33:39,284
25

961
00:33:39,345 --> 00:33:40,164
self checkouts

962
00:33:40,704 --> 00:33:42,404
and and two or three,

963
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:47,019
person checkouts and then they've got only one

964
00:33:47,019 --> 00:33:49,180
or two of the self checkouts open. For

965
00:33:49,180 --> 00:33:50,619
some reason, the rest of them are shut

966
00:33:50,619 --> 00:33:52,779
down. Oh, yeah. They're open. They're blocked by

967
00:33:52,779 --> 00:33:54,940
four carts, you know. Yeah. It's like, oh

968
00:33:54,940 --> 00:33:55,599
my gosh.

969
00:33:57,154 --> 00:33:59,075
Why did I come in here? I see

970
00:33:59,075 --> 00:34:01,315
that the trick is to go in about

971
00:34:01,315 --> 00:34:03,554
an hour before closing. If you time it

972
00:34:03,554 --> 00:34:05,554
thirty minutes before that it gets real bad.

973
00:34:05,554 --> 00:34:07,315
They're all rushing up. Yeah. If you do

974
00:34:07,315 --> 00:34:09,315
it about an hour before and time you're

975
00:34:09,315 --> 00:34:11,655
leaving as at an hour before they close

976
00:34:11,715 --> 00:34:13,210
you can just slide right on out. I

977
00:34:13,210 --> 00:34:14,650
just go in there just to test my

978
00:34:14,650 --> 00:34:16,730
faith. I mean, that's what I do. Yeah.

979
00:34:16,730 --> 00:34:17,230
Yeah.

980
00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:19,849
Every time I come out of there and

981
00:34:19,849 --> 00:34:21,690
I hadn't lost it, I'm like, I've done

982
00:34:21,690 --> 00:34:24,010
pretty good in there. I'm stronger. There's another

983
00:34:24,010 --> 00:34:25,150
jewel on my crown.

984
00:34:25,849 --> 00:34:27,550
When I'm weak, he's strong.

985
00:34:28,775 --> 00:34:29,594
Oh, man.

986
00:34:30,535 --> 00:34:31,815
I keep staying going in there. We used

987
00:34:31,815 --> 00:34:33,575
to go in there every every Friday night

988
00:34:33,575 --> 00:34:35,175
to grocery shop, and that was, like, the

989
00:34:35,175 --> 00:34:36,775
worst night of the week to possibly go

990
00:34:36,775 --> 00:34:38,775
in there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And and if

991
00:34:38,775 --> 00:34:40,934
you wanna earn some rewards in heaven, just

992
00:34:40,934 --> 00:34:42,155
try being courteous

993
00:34:42,750 --> 00:34:43,409
in Walmart. Yeah.

994
00:34:46,110 --> 00:34:47,789
Yeah. No. Don't put your buggy in the

995
00:34:47,789 --> 00:34:49,550
middle of the aisle or, you know, say

996
00:34:49,550 --> 00:34:52,110
excuse me or, you know Yeah. That's that

997
00:34:52,110 --> 00:34:54,510
that's a huge ask for people these days.

998
00:34:54,510 --> 00:34:57,710
Yeah. Excuse me? No. No. Because it never

999
00:34:57,710 --> 00:34:59,605
comes out as, oh, excuse me. It comes

1000
00:34:59,605 --> 00:35:01,864
out as, excuse me? Yeah.

1001
00:35:02,724 --> 00:35:04,805
Yeah. Yeah. I've wanted to have a have

1002
00:35:04,805 --> 00:35:06,565
a rocket launcher on the front of my

1003
00:35:06,565 --> 00:35:07,625
buggy before.

1004
00:35:09,605 --> 00:35:10,105
Yeah.

1005
00:35:11,039 --> 00:35:12,880
They need red they need red lights and

1006
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,320
green lights at the end of those aisles

1007
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,000
too, you know, because I'm I'm fixing to

1008
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,920
slam into somebody every time I come out.

1009
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,280
Yeah. I will hit them. Like, I don't

1010
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:19,780
stop.

1011
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,019
I'm just like, whatever.

1012
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:23,940
Well, I laughed for years

1013
00:35:24,844 --> 00:35:27,005
and told them if, if they really wanted

1014
00:35:27,005 --> 00:35:28,764
to make the place more efficient, all they

1015
00:35:28,764 --> 00:35:30,204
have to do is put arrows on the

1016
00:35:30,204 --> 00:35:31,724
floor. Hey. If you're on this side of

1017
00:35:31,724 --> 00:35:33,324
the aisle, you're walking that way or you're

1018
00:35:33,324 --> 00:35:35,005
going in here. If you're on the other

1019
00:35:35,005 --> 00:35:36,284
side of the aisle, you're coming the other

1020
00:35:36,284 --> 00:35:37,565
way. And I said, you you get so

1021
00:35:37,565 --> 00:35:39,929
much more efficiency and then just just pay

1022
00:35:39,929 --> 00:35:43,130
somebody. Just literally pay somebody minimum wage to

1023
00:35:43,130 --> 00:35:44,889
stand here and enforce it. Yeah. And they

1024
00:35:44,889 --> 00:35:46,730
were like, well, that that that's insane. And

1025
00:35:46,730 --> 00:35:48,489
I'm like, I'm telling you. I'm telling you.

1026
00:35:48,650 --> 00:35:50,650
Does Barney Fife, you know, and get his

1027
00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:51,710
ticket. That's right.

1028
00:35:52,025 --> 00:35:53,864
Those tickets are meaningless, but I'm gonna hand

1029
00:35:53,864 --> 00:35:55,385
them out like they're candy. What are you

1030
00:35:55,385 --> 00:35:57,704
doing? You're you're walking the wrong way. Yeah.

1031
00:35:57,704 --> 00:35:59,945
Yeah. I'm telling you. I'm I am I'm

1032
00:35:59,945 --> 00:36:01,465
I'm on a mission when I go in

1033
00:36:01,465 --> 00:36:03,224
there and I do get called up and

1034
00:36:03,224 --> 00:36:04,664
I do talk to people. Most time I'm

1035
00:36:04,664 --> 00:36:05,864
trying to get in there and try to

1036
00:36:05,864 --> 00:36:07,579
get out, you know. And coach like you

1037
00:36:07,579 --> 00:36:09,099
just hit an 83 year old woman. I

1038
00:36:09,099 --> 00:36:10,559
thought, well, she shook out of the way.

1039
00:36:11,820 --> 00:36:13,840
She's in the game too. That's right.

1040
00:36:14,219 --> 00:36:14,719
Now

1041
00:36:15,019 --> 00:36:17,599
I will say the one place that absolutely

1042
00:36:17,820 --> 00:36:21,034
tests tests my faith every time I stop

1043
00:36:21,335 --> 00:36:23,094
there, every time I go out and it

1044
00:36:23,094 --> 00:36:25,494
is a test. Have you ever been to

1045
00:36:25,494 --> 00:36:27,914
Lookout Valley to the Walmart there?

1046
00:36:28,295 --> 00:36:30,074
Oh, yeah. That entrance

1047
00:36:30,775 --> 00:36:31,275
now

1048
00:36:32,159 --> 00:36:34,000
when they built that gas station, you have

1049
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000
the entrance. You come in and it runs

1050
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000
up to an aisle. That is not an

1051
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,480
entrance going the same. It's coming the opposite

1052
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,960
direction. Yeah. And there's a stop sign there.

1053
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,880
So you pull in there and you're supposed

1054
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:45,940
to stop and turn

1055
00:36:46,295 --> 00:36:48,775
and it it's this, like, really short turn

1056
00:36:48,775 --> 00:36:51,035
and turn again to get down the aisles.

1057
00:36:52,055 --> 00:36:54,775
Every time I go there, invariably, I will

1058
00:36:54,775 --> 00:36:57,015
get in just fine. And on my way

1059
00:36:57,015 --> 00:36:59,070
out, there is somebody that just ignores that

1060
00:36:59,070 --> 00:37:00,590
stop sign and drives straight on down that

1061
00:37:00,590 --> 00:37:02,430
aisle that is not wide enough for two

1062
00:37:02,430 --> 00:37:04,930
vehicles to meet. And I'm going Yeah.

1063
00:37:05,309 --> 00:37:05,809
Lord?

1064
00:37:07,550 --> 00:37:09,949
And I've determined that God puts people in

1065
00:37:09,949 --> 00:37:11,949
my path that way just to see, okay,

1066
00:37:11,949 --> 00:37:13,469
Tyler. Let's see how bad you lose your

1067
00:37:13,469 --> 00:37:15,525
temper this time. Yeah. He'll he'll test you.

1068
00:37:15,525 --> 00:37:17,764
He'll test you. Yeah. One week the Cheerios

1069
00:37:17,764 --> 00:37:18,964
are over here on the end of this

1070
00:37:18,964 --> 00:37:21,144
aisle. The next week they're over there and

1071
00:37:21,844 --> 00:37:24,005
and HomeGoods somewhere. They want you to go

1072
00:37:24,005 --> 00:37:25,525
all over that place to find they do

1073
00:37:25,525 --> 00:37:27,445
that on purpose. I have never figured out

1074
00:37:27,445 --> 00:37:29,010
how the cereal ends up in the toy

1075
00:37:29,250 --> 00:37:31,730
toy section sometimes. I I've yet to even

1076
00:37:31,730 --> 00:37:33,090
when I worked there, I couldn't figure that

1077
00:37:33,090 --> 00:37:33,909
one out. I'm like,

1078
00:37:34,369 --> 00:37:36,369
why why are we starting the toys? That's

1079
00:37:36,369 --> 00:37:38,289
when your kids are going along grabbing stuff.

1080
00:37:38,289 --> 00:37:39,489
And before you know it, you look back,

1081
00:37:39,489 --> 00:37:41,010
your buggies fall, and you're like, what are

1082
00:37:41,010 --> 00:37:42,389
you doing? Put that up.

1083
00:37:43,170 --> 00:37:44,449
Where am I gonna put it? Put it

1084
00:37:44,449 --> 00:37:45,644
on there by that basketball.

1085
00:37:47,144 --> 00:37:49,405
I don't care. Somebody will put it up.

1086
00:37:49,945 --> 00:37:50,684
I'm sorry.

1087
00:37:52,585 --> 00:37:53,945
That's how it gets there, babe. We're not

1088
00:37:53,945 --> 00:37:56,025
we're not losing rewards right now, are we?

1089
00:37:56,025 --> 00:37:58,125
No. No. Not at all.

1090
00:38:00,260 --> 00:38:01,880
You're allowed to be funny,

1091
00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:05,079
but, but seriously though, the, the, the,

1092
00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:07,380
it is, it's those little things like that.

1093
00:38:07,380 --> 00:38:09,219
Just, just being a little bit more courteous,

1094
00:38:09,219 --> 00:38:10,579
being a little bit kinder, being a little

1095
00:38:10,579 --> 00:38:12,344
bit more polite, Stop at the door when

1096
00:38:12,344 --> 00:38:13,864
you go in somewhere and hold it open

1097
00:38:13,864 --> 00:38:14,525
for somebody.

1098
00:38:14,985 --> 00:38:16,125
The number of times

1099
00:38:16,824 --> 00:38:19,244
recently that I've noticed people doing that

1100
00:38:19,625 --> 00:38:22,184
has actually gone up. Like and I know

1101
00:38:22,344 --> 00:38:24,505
I actually notice it if somebody stops and

1102
00:38:24,505 --> 00:38:26,550
holds the door open for me. Yeah. I'd

1103
00:38:26,550 --> 00:38:28,150
be going in a gas station or into

1104
00:38:28,150 --> 00:38:29,269
a store or something and somebody's like, oh,

1105
00:38:29,269 --> 00:38:30,469
here, let me get that. And I'm like,

1106
00:38:30,469 --> 00:38:32,550
oh, well, thank thank you very much. I

1107
00:38:32,550 --> 00:38:33,989
I really appreciate it. Usually, it's it's always

1108
00:38:33,989 --> 00:38:35,590
been like walking behind your buddy in the

1109
00:38:35,590 --> 00:38:37,829
woods and he's pulling limbs and smacking you

1110
00:38:37,829 --> 00:38:39,430
in the face with him. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

1111
00:38:39,430 --> 00:38:41,930
It's a door at the Walmart. Yeah. And

1112
00:38:41,985 --> 00:38:43,905
and it is. It's everywhere I go. And

1113
00:38:43,905 --> 00:38:45,744
I I do. I take notice of it

1114
00:38:45,744 --> 00:38:47,905
now because people do that and it it

1115
00:38:47,905 --> 00:38:49,925
shocks me for a second. Yeah.

1116
00:38:51,425 --> 00:38:52,864
And why why can't we do that? It

1117
00:38:52,864 --> 00:38:54,704
take it takes you an extra five seconds.

1118
00:38:54,704 --> 00:38:55,985
It does. Just to hold that door and

1119
00:38:55,985 --> 00:38:57,105
say, here, let me get that for you.

1120
00:38:57,105 --> 00:38:58,699
Yeah. Yeah. Here here, let me help you

1121
00:38:58,699 --> 00:39:00,079
put that in your I

1122
00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:02,079
I helped a lady one day come out

1123
00:39:02,139 --> 00:39:04,059
of the Lookout Valley Walmart. She goes to

1124
00:39:04,059 --> 00:39:05,659
load she was about to load a bag

1125
00:39:05,659 --> 00:39:07,659
up and I look and she had a,

1126
00:39:07,659 --> 00:39:09,980
like, 40 or 50 pound bag of dog

1127
00:39:09,980 --> 00:39:11,914
food that this little 70 year old woman

1128
00:39:11,914 --> 00:39:13,114
was trying to load in the back of

1129
00:39:13,114 --> 00:39:13,594
her,

1130
00:39:14,074 --> 00:39:14,574
SUV.

1131
00:39:15,275 --> 00:39:17,275
And I thought, good lord. And then I

1132
00:39:17,275 --> 00:39:19,355
look and her husband who's with her is

1133
00:39:19,355 --> 00:39:20,175
in a wheelchair.

1134
00:39:20,474 --> 00:39:23,355
Yeah. And literally, somebody pushed that buggy out

1135
00:39:23,355 --> 00:39:25,855
there for them and just walked off. Yeah.

1136
00:39:26,390 --> 00:39:28,390
So what'd you do? Say, help your wife,

1137
00:39:28,390 --> 00:39:28,890
man.

1138
00:39:29,269 --> 00:39:30,949
Exactly. I was like, man, what are you

1139
00:39:30,949 --> 00:39:32,550
doing? No. I walked over there and I

1140
00:39:32,550 --> 00:39:34,230
said, man, can I can I give you

1141
00:39:34,309 --> 00:39:35,930
can I give you a hand with that?

1142
00:39:36,390 --> 00:39:38,550
And and turned out it was a couple

1143
00:39:38,550 --> 00:39:39,344
from Valley Head.

1144
00:39:39,905 --> 00:39:41,264
Like we stood there and chatted for a

1145
00:39:41,264 --> 00:39:42,385
little bit and turned out it was it

1146
00:39:42,385 --> 00:39:44,304
was people that were actually like, I I

1147
00:39:44,304 --> 00:39:46,784
know the family. But, you know, but those

1148
00:39:46,784 --> 00:39:49,764
are the things again, everywhere we are,

1149
00:39:50,065 --> 00:39:52,304
we're it it's it's a test. Right? I

1150
00:39:52,304 --> 00:39:54,065
mean, it's it's a test of our faith.

1151
00:39:54,065 --> 00:39:55,320
It's what are you gonna do?

1152
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,079
And Matthew twelve thirty six, but I say

1153
00:39:59,079 --> 00:40:02,380
unto you that every, listen to this, every

1154
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,480
idle word that men shall speak, they shall

1155
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,320
give an account thereof in the day of

1156
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:07,820
judgment.

1157
00:40:08,199 --> 00:40:10,619
That's what I worry about, right? I mean,

1158
00:40:10,805 --> 00:40:12,005
you know, we just had a twenty minute

1159
00:40:12,005 --> 00:40:13,925
rant about Walmart. That might be one of

1160
00:40:13,925 --> 00:40:15,065
them. But

1161
00:40:15,605 --> 00:40:17,144
but I mean, you know,

1162
00:40:17,525 --> 00:40:19,845
listen, you gotta build relationships and don't don't

1163
00:40:19,845 --> 00:40:21,385
get me wrong. I mean, sometimes

1164
00:40:21,684 --> 00:40:23,204
you just don't walk right up to them

1165
00:40:23,204 --> 00:40:25,050
and say, hey. Are you going to hell?

1166
00:40:25,050 --> 00:40:26,329
Are you going to heaven? You know? I

1167
00:40:26,329 --> 00:40:28,329
mean, maybe you got maybe sometimes you have

1168
00:40:28,329 --> 00:40:30,110
to do that. Maybe it's a quick conversation.

1169
00:40:30,570 --> 00:40:32,250
But it's good if you can build a

1170
00:40:32,250 --> 00:40:34,650
relationship, you know, find some common ground. And

1171
00:40:34,650 --> 00:40:36,170
it may be sports, and it may be

1172
00:40:36,170 --> 00:40:37,125
hunting. It may be

1173
00:40:38,005 --> 00:40:40,405
video games, whatever. I don't know. But whatever

1174
00:40:40,405 --> 00:40:42,664
it is, you know, let's be careful

1175
00:40:43,204 --> 00:40:46,824
not to have two hours of that in

1176
00:40:47,125 --> 00:40:49,204
one second of the gospel. You know, I

1177
00:40:49,204 --> 00:40:50,804
think we don't we we don't weigh it

1178
00:40:50,804 --> 00:40:53,400
out right. And so our idle words are

1179
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,719
those that every time we get together enough

1180
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,639
to I've said this before in messages. We

1181
00:40:57,639 --> 00:40:59,639
get together at Thanksgiving. We get together at

1182
00:40:59,639 --> 00:41:01,480
Christmas, and you got that one uncle or

1183
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,359
that aunt or that person, you know, that

1184
00:41:04,359 --> 00:41:07,079
cousin that that comes every year. And and

1185
00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:08,144
as far as you know,

1186
00:41:08,704 --> 00:41:11,045
they have never been saved. You know, maybe,

1187
00:41:11,344 --> 00:41:12,945
you know, maybe they have, but as far

1188
00:41:12,945 --> 00:41:14,625
as you know, you don't see any fruits

1189
00:41:14,625 --> 00:41:16,304
and and they don't go to church and

1190
00:41:16,385 --> 00:41:18,625
Or they actively say or they actively say

1191
00:41:18,625 --> 00:41:20,545
that they were Yeah. That they're lost. And

1192
00:41:20,545 --> 00:41:23,505
and you sit there knowing that that person

1193
00:41:23,505 --> 00:41:25,799
is is lost and you say, hey. What

1194
00:41:25,799 --> 00:41:28,199
about that Alabama Georgia game? You know? I

1195
00:41:28,199 --> 00:41:30,679
mean, you you you you'll talk about that.

1196
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:32,839
And I love sports. I'm not saying anything's

1197
00:41:32,839 --> 00:41:35,159
wrong with those things. But when we take

1198
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:37,559
those when we take up our time, our

1199
00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:40,565
precious precious time with those who are lost

1200
00:41:40,704 --> 00:41:43,105
and dying going to hell, and we spend

1201
00:41:43,105 --> 00:41:45,824
that time by saying, hey. You know, what

1202
00:41:45,824 --> 00:41:47,585
about this ball game? Or what about this

1203
00:41:47,585 --> 00:41:49,344
place that I go hunting? Or what I

1204
00:41:49,344 --> 00:41:51,984
mean, you know, we waste so much time,

1205
00:41:51,984 --> 00:41:54,109
and I think those are the idle words

1206
00:41:54,250 --> 00:41:55,929
that he's talking about when you're when you're

1207
00:41:55,929 --> 00:41:58,009
over here talking about nothing. And that'll be

1208
00:41:58,009 --> 00:42:00,089
that stuff that burns up. Right? He's gonna

1209
00:42:00,089 --> 00:42:02,489
test it with his judgment. He's gonna look

1210
00:42:02,489 --> 00:42:04,569
and he's gonna say, you know, does this

1211
00:42:04,730 --> 00:42:05,630
is this eternal

1212
00:42:06,329 --> 00:42:07,364
or is this temporary?

1213
00:42:07,925 --> 00:42:09,925
You know? And and here's here goes the

1214
00:42:09,925 --> 00:42:12,164
temporary. Here goes the eternal. Yeah. And what

1215
00:42:12,405 --> 00:42:14,244
what's gonna weigh the most in your life?

1216
00:42:14,244 --> 00:42:15,925
And it it it is one of those

1217
00:42:15,925 --> 00:42:16,824
things that

1218
00:42:18,244 --> 00:42:20,405
the number of times I know I've I've

1219
00:42:20,405 --> 00:42:22,469
been guilty of it. Go to those family

1220
00:42:22,469 --> 00:42:24,969
gatherings, you know, somebody's lost, you know, they've

1221
00:42:25,110 --> 00:42:27,349
maybe or in some instances, they're not lost,

1222
00:42:27,349 --> 00:42:28,949
but they're certainly not doing what they should

1223
00:42:28,949 --> 00:42:30,570
be doing. Yeah. And

1224
00:42:31,590 --> 00:42:35,190
never ever once mentioned the gospel. Yeah. See

1225
00:42:35,190 --> 00:42:36,890
them for six or eight hours

1226
00:42:37,344 --> 00:42:39,265
and never bring it up. I think for

1227
00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:41,425
most believers that that we're that's just where

1228
00:42:41,425 --> 00:42:43,425
we are in our minds. Yeah. You know,

1229
00:42:43,425 --> 00:42:45,744
we don't have God's front and center. You

1230
00:42:45,744 --> 00:42:48,085
know? I have I've known people

1231
00:42:49,105 --> 00:42:51,905
that I I've done funerals for for people

1232
00:42:51,905 --> 00:42:53,909
that that I I didn't really know that

1233
00:42:53,909 --> 00:42:54,409
well

1234
00:42:54,710 --> 00:42:56,489
or, you know, they didn't go to church

1235
00:42:56,630 --> 00:42:58,070
as far as I knew and and the

1236
00:42:58,070 --> 00:43:00,070
family asked me to do it. And maybe

1237
00:43:00,070 --> 00:43:01,589
I was close to the family in some

1238
00:43:01,589 --> 00:43:03,130
cases. In some cases, I wouldn't.

1239
00:43:03,829 --> 00:43:05,909
But I have actually went up to to

1240
00:43:05,909 --> 00:43:08,175
sons and daughters and said, you know, hey.

1241
00:43:08,175 --> 00:43:09,535
What about your dad? You know? Do you

1242
00:43:09,535 --> 00:43:09,974
know

1243
00:43:10,414 --> 00:43:11,855
was there a time does he talk about

1244
00:43:11,855 --> 00:43:14,414
being saved? Has he ever accepted Christ? And,

1245
00:43:14,414 --> 00:43:16,015
I mean, these are church going people. And

1246
00:43:16,015 --> 00:43:17,375
I said, you know, I I just never

1247
00:43:17,454 --> 00:43:19,215
we never just we never he wouldn't talk

1248
00:43:19,215 --> 00:43:19,949
about it.

1249
00:43:20,429 --> 00:43:21,170
I'm like

1250
00:43:21,469 --> 00:43:23,309
I've been grabbing my dad and I'd be

1251
00:43:23,309 --> 00:43:25,469
saying dad you gotta tell me something you

1252
00:43:25,469 --> 00:43:27,230
know either you are or you ain't. I

1253
00:43:27,230 --> 00:43:29,150
mean come on I respect you and I

1254
00:43:29,150 --> 00:43:31,150
love you enough to keep you out of

1255
00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:34,349
hell and and and and or or husbands

1256
00:43:34,349 --> 00:43:36,695
and wives that don't discuss it. How can

1257
00:43:36,695 --> 00:43:37,914
you live with someone

1258
00:43:38,295 --> 00:43:40,934
and marry someone and and and know them

1259
00:43:40,934 --> 00:43:43,894
intimately and and never even say, hey. Do

1260
00:43:43,894 --> 00:43:46,074
you know Jesus? Is he your personal savior?

1261
00:43:46,215 --> 00:43:47,815
Yeah. Yeah. And what kind of life were

1262
00:43:47,815 --> 00:43:49,494
you leaving it living at home too that

1263
00:43:49,494 --> 00:43:51,539
that you just ignored it that much? Yeah.

1264
00:43:51,539 --> 00:43:53,860
You know? The the man needs to be

1265
00:43:53,860 --> 00:43:56,199
leading the wife in in studies and and

1266
00:43:56,340 --> 00:43:56,840
conversations

1267
00:43:57,140 --> 00:43:59,079
about this stuff. Absolutely. Yeah.

1268
00:43:59,780 --> 00:44:00,840
You know, I'm

1269
00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:01,800
I'm

1270
00:44:02,099 --> 00:44:04,019
I'm in a career right now where if

1271
00:44:04,019 --> 00:44:04,519
if

1272
00:44:05,585 --> 00:44:07,184
you're on a time frame, you know, and

1273
00:44:07,184 --> 00:44:08,784
and you gotta bring the gospel up pretty

1274
00:44:08,784 --> 00:44:10,804
quick because you might not have a chance

1275
00:44:10,864 --> 00:44:12,404
the next visit. So Yeah.

1276
00:44:12,704 --> 00:44:14,385
You know? And I can get fired. But

1277
00:44:14,385 --> 00:44:15,744
anyway. Yeah. But

1278
00:44:16,385 --> 00:44:19,650
Yeah. Yeah. Anymore. Anymore. You're the you're there

1279
00:44:19,650 --> 00:44:21,010
to be a chaplain. You're there to pray

1280
00:44:21,010 --> 00:44:22,849
with them. You're there to minister to them.

1281
00:44:22,849 --> 00:44:24,449
But if you actually bring it up, well,

1282
00:44:24,449 --> 00:44:26,130
now you're not supposed to do that. They're

1283
00:44:26,130 --> 00:44:27,670
good. They're good. They're good

1284
00:44:28,210 --> 00:44:29,889
about that. But it's you know? But you

1285
00:44:29,889 --> 00:44:31,409
gotta be you do have to be careful

1286
00:44:31,409 --> 00:44:32,849
in the way you approach them and and

1287
00:44:32,849 --> 00:44:34,795
those things. But but if you pray about

1288
00:44:34,795 --> 00:44:36,315
it, the lord will open the door. Yeah.

1289
00:44:36,315 --> 00:44:38,235
Yeah. Yeah. He'll give you what you need.

1290
00:44:38,235 --> 00:44:39,914
And, you know, I was gonna say, though,

1291
00:44:39,914 --> 00:44:41,275
you know, one of the things is we,

1292
00:44:41,275 --> 00:44:41,855
you know,

1293
00:44:42,315 --> 00:44:44,074
we say that, hey. You're not just walking

1294
00:44:44,074 --> 00:44:45,515
up to people on the street and grabbing

1295
00:44:45,515 --> 00:44:47,375
them or whatever. You know, sometimes

1296
00:44:48,315 --> 00:44:49,860
that is what you're called to do. I

1297
00:44:49,860 --> 00:44:51,300
I mean, I one of my one of

1298
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:52,980
my favorite people to watch on YouTube is

1299
00:44:52,980 --> 00:44:55,619
this Australian guy that he gets out there

1300
00:44:55,619 --> 00:44:57,860
and will just start asking questions. All he

1301
00:44:57,860 --> 00:44:59,239
has, he just has a sign and

1302
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:02,340
and he has people that come up to

1303
00:45:02,340 --> 00:45:02,715
it.

1304
00:45:03,275 --> 00:45:03,775
And

1305
00:45:05,355 --> 00:45:07,114
and, you know, he starts to ask and

1306
00:45:07,114 --> 00:45:09,114
they start like, hey, what's the sign about?

1307
00:45:09,114 --> 00:45:10,954
And he's like, well, tell me, are are

1308
00:45:10,954 --> 00:45:12,555
you saved? Do you know you're going to

1309
00:45:12,555 --> 00:45:13,914
heaven? Do you know do you know where

1310
00:45:13,914 --> 00:45:15,135
you're going when you die?

1311
00:45:15,675 --> 00:45:16,175
And,

1312
00:45:16,474 --> 00:45:17,215
you know,

1313
00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:20,789
they it is amazing to watch people. They

1314
00:45:20,789 --> 00:45:22,969
start out with either I don't think about

1315
00:45:23,349 --> 00:45:25,029
it. That's a very common response he gets.

1316
00:45:25,029 --> 00:45:27,029
I've never thought about it. And try not

1317
00:45:27,029 --> 00:45:28,469
to. Or try not to think about it.

1318
00:45:28,469 --> 00:45:31,065
And I'm like, oh, good lord. That is

1319
00:45:31,065 --> 00:45:33,065
terrifying. Yeah. And then the other response we

1320
00:45:33,065 --> 00:45:33,724
get is

1321
00:45:34,025 --> 00:45:37,224
and and far the most common response is

1322
00:45:37,224 --> 00:45:39,144
I'm a good person. Mhmm. Well, I'm a

1323
00:45:39,144 --> 00:45:40,664
good person. I try to be good to

1324
00:45:40,664 --> 00:45:42,344
everybody. I try to be nice. I try

1325
00:45:42,344 --> 00:45:43,960
to help people. You know, I I give

1326
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:45,719
to the poor, I give to the, you

1327
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,320
know, I give money to this and I

1328
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,000
volunteer at this and I do all these

1329
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,380
things. And he says,

1330
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,380
well, but have you been saved?

1331
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,300
And invariably

1332
00:45:54,599 --> 00:45:56,360
when he gets to that point, he says,

1333
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,724
do you know Jesus as your personal savior?

1334
00:46:00,184 --> 00:46:01,965
The answer comes back. Wow.

1335
00:46:02,265 --> 00:46:04,585
I've really just never considered it. And he

1336
00:46:04,585 --> 00:46:05,704
starts in and he goes, okay, well tell

1337
00:46:05,704 --> 00:46:07,405
me something. Have you ever lied?

1338
00:46:07,704 --> 00:46:09,065
Well, yeah, I've lied. He goes, well, have

1339
00:46:09,065 --> 00:46:09,885
you ever cheated?

1340
00:46:10,184 --> 00:46:12,265
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you ever stole

1341
00:46:12,265 --> 00:46:12,765
anything?

1342
00:46:13,139 --> 00:46:14,739
Yeah. Yeah. So you're a liar and a

1343
00:46:14,739 --> 00:46:16,579
thief. Yeah. Should we go down the rest

1344
00:46:16,579 --> 00:46:17,859
of the 10 commandments? See how many of

1345
00:46:17,859 --> 00:46:19,319
those you've, you've broken?

1346
00:46:19,699 --> 00:46:21,460
And, and they, they go, well, what does

1347
00:46:21,460 --> 00:46:23,219
that mean? He said, sin separates us from

1348
00:46:23,219 --> 00:46:25,059
God. And if you've never received forgiveness for

1349
00:46:25,059 --> 00:46:26,819
it, where do you think you're going? Right.

1350
00:46:26,819 --> 00:46:27,319
Comfort's

1351
00:46:28,304 --> 00:46:30,065
And yeah, that's, that's him. And I love

1352
00:46:30,065 --> 00:46:32,465
it because he says that. And, and every

1353
00:46:32,465 --> 00:46:34,704
time the number of people I've watched him

1354
00:46:34,704 --> 00:46:36,625
say stuff like that too. And I've seen,

1355
00:46:36,625 --> 00:46:38,065
he's put a few videos out there where

1356
00:46:38,065 --> 00:46:40,164
people get mad and just walk away.

1357
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,880
But more often than not, they stand there

1358
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,119
and they go, well, what does being saved

1359
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:45,619
mean?

1360
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,199
He says, well, you just asked Jesus to

1361
00:46:47,199 --> 00:46:48,719
be your personal savior. You just talked to

1362
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:49,619
him and

1363
00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:52,420
he doesn't give him this big, long,

1364
00:46:53,119 --> 00:46:56,515
complicated prayer. Yeah. And the number of people

1365
00:46:56,515 --> 00:46:58,755
that right there on these street corners break

1366
00:46:58,755 --> 00:47:00,434
down and say, you know, they'll either say,

1367
00:47:00,434 --> 00:47:02,275
I'll think about it, and they they just

1368
00:47:02,275 --> 00:47:03,394
wanna get out of there because you can

1369
00:47:03,394 --> 00:47:05,235
tell it's convicting them so bad they can't

1370
00:47:05,235 --> 00:47:06,835
stand it. And they're just like, well, I'll

1371
00:47:06,835 --> 00:47:08,675
think about it. Can I pray with you

1372
00:47:08,675 --> 00:47:11,360
before you leave? And he always asks them

1373
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,920
that. And I've watched the number of times

1374
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,680
that people have right there just broken down

1375
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,219
and said, I want that.

1376
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,739
I want that. And I'm like, yes, Lord.

1377
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,739
Amen. You know? Yeah. Maybe

1378
00:47:23,039 --> 00:47:23,539
maybe

1379
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,114
that's not the best way to go about

1380
00:47:27,114 --> 00:47:29,355
it every single time, but the number of

1381
00:47:29,355 --> 00:47:31,755
times that it works will absolutely astound you.

1382
00:47:31,755 --> 00:47:32,494
Oh, yeah.

1383
00:47:32,795 --> 00:47:34,714
People are hungry and they don't know what

1384
00:47:34,714 --> 00:47:37,114
they're hungry for. You know, they're hungry for

1385
00:47:37,114 --> 00:47:38,315
the things of the world and they're trying

1386
00:47:38,315 --> 00:47:39,775
to fill in that void. Right.

1387
00:47:40,089 --> 00:47:41,529
And it don't work. It might work for

1388
00:47:41,529 --> 00:47:44,510
a little while. Right? People are chasing happy.

1389
00:47:44,650 --> 00:47:46,730
And so many Christians are out there chasing

1390
00:47:46,730 --> 00:47:49,769
chasing happy when, man, they've already found what

1391
00:47:49,769 --> 00:47:51,690
everybody in the world's looking for, and they're

1392
00:47:51,690 --> 00:47:53,369
going out and looking for it again. And

1393
00:47:53,609 --> 00:47:54,109
Yeah.

1394
00:47:54,489 --> 00:47:54,889
And it was

1395
00:47:56,144 --> 00:47:56,644
Why?

1396
00:47:57,025 --> 00:47:57,525
Why?

1397
00:47:58,545 --> 00:48:00,644
Just makes me think of friends.

1398
00:48:01,344 --> 00:48:01,844
Why?

1399
00:48:02,625 --> 00:48:03,284
I had

1400
00:48:03,824 --> 00:48:05,425
a I had a young man send me

1401
00:48:05,425 --> 00:48:06,784
a friend request the other day, and I

1402
00:48:06,784 --> 00:48:08,625
had to I had to always have to

1403
00:48:08,625 --> 00:48:10,299
make sure, like, how many people is he

1404
00:48:10,299 --> 00:48:11,980
friends with, you know, just so you know

1405
00:48:11,980 --> 00:48:13,980
that it's real or whatever. Yeah. But I

1406
00:48:13,980 --> 00:48:14,719
could tell,

1407
00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:17,359
he had on the traditional Mormon,

1408
00:48:19,179 --> 00:48:20,960
or maybe known as Jehovah's Witness,

1409
00:48:21,819 --> 00:48:23,500
the attire. They both kinda dress a lot

1410
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:24,934
sometimes, you know, with the white shirt, and

1411
00:48:24,934 --> 00:48:25,994
they're going out, and

1412
00:48:26,295 --> 00:48:27,675
they're they're proselyzing

1413
00:48:28,054 --> 00:48:30,695
and, and really working harder than we are

1414
00:48:30,695 --> 00:48:33,175
as Christians to to, to spread the truth.

1415
00:48:33,175 --> 00:48:34,855
And that's one of the things I ended

1416
00:48:34,855 --> 00:48:36,215
up telling him. But, anyway, I've seen him

1417
00:48:36,215 --> 00:48:37,494
and sent me a friend request, and he

1418
00:48:37,494 --> 00:48:39,014
was friendly with a bunch of people that

1419
00:48:39,014 --> 00:48:41,420
I knew. And, he's out on his little

1420
00:48:41,420 --> 00:48:42,159
faith journey

1421
00:48:42,619 --> 00:48:44,719
to to work his way into heaven.

1422
00:48:46,059 --> 00:48:48,539
And, I would pull up the conversation and

1423
00:48:48,539 --> 00:48:50,239
read it, but I won't tonight. But,

1424
00:48:51,099 --> 00:48:53,420
I thought, you know, I could just, not

1425
00:48:53,420 --> 00:48:55,985
accept this friend request and go on. But

1426
00:48:55,985 --> 00:48:57,425
I was like Nicole's like, but you're not

1427
00:48:57,425 --> 00:48:58,385
gonna do that, are you? And I said

1428
00:48:58,385 --> 00:48:59,824
no. And I said, I'm gonna accept it.

1429
00:48:59,824 --> 00:49:00,485
And then,

1430
00:49:00,864 --> 00:49:03,105
I waited, and I gave him well, the

1431
00:49:03,105 --> 00:49:04,545
next day, he's like,

1432
00:49:04,864 --> 00:49:07,525
well, for no. That night, he said,

1433
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,599
there's a little icebreaker. He said, so how

1434
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:11,500
was your day?

1435
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,039
He sent me a a private message. You

1436
00:49:14,039 --> 00:49:15,239
know? I said, oh, it was good. How

1437
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:15,900
was yours?

1438
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:17,960
And the next morning, I've seen it, and

1439
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,280
he said, you know, just just pretty good

1440
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:21,099
day or whatever.

1441
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,340
But then he said, are you

1442
00:49:25,385 --> 00:49:26,605
he said, are you religious?

1443
00:49:26,985 --> 00:49:28,925
That was his that was his way in.

1444
00:49:29,144 --> 00:49:30,284
And I said,

1445
00:49:30,824 --> 00:49:32,824
very much so, I said, I'm a believer

1446
00:49:32,824 --> 00:49:35,304
of Jesus Christ. And anyway, I went into

1447
00:49:35,304 --> 00:49:36,025
a big thing,

1448
00:49:36,505 --> 00:49:38,844
several paragraphs there. I said, how about you?

1449
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,400
Yeah. Yeah. I love answering that question. Are

1450
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,819
you religious? Yes. Yes. I am.

1451
00:49:45,759 --> 00:49:46,739
But he has

1452
00:49:47,199 --> 00:49:49,039
he has I I sent him several things

1453
00:49:49,039 --> 00:49:51,644
there and and and invite him to really

1454
00:49:51,644 --> 00:49:53,485
to sit down with me sometime and have

1455
00:49:53,485 --> 00:49:55,344
a conversation, and, he hasn't

1456
00:49:55,804 --> 00:49:59,105
accepted my request for that yet, anyway. Yeah.

1457
00:49:59,644 --> 00:50:01,885
Yeah. I know they tell him, look. If

1458
00:50:01,885 --> 00:50:03,425
if they hit you with truth,

1459
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:05,760
it's not what they call truth. But if

1460
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,039
they hit you and they tell you this,

1461
00:50:07,039 --> 00:50:08,239
this, this, and this, just go on to

1462
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,980
the next person. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1463
00:50:11,119 --> 00:50:12,800
And and they do. They list out the

1464
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,559
truth. Yeah. They they list out the things

1465
00:50:14,559 --> 00:50:15,680
that are true and say if you if

1466
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,565
they bring these things up, run away. I'll

1467
00:50:17,565 --> 00:50:19,405
tell you, I got I got approached one

1468
00:50:19,405 --> 00:50:21,324
night in the Lowe's parking lot. It's just

1469
00:50:21,324 --> 00:50:22,684
been a few weeks ago, and I was

1470
00:50:22,684 --> 00:50:24,684
loading some stuff in my car, and it

1471
00:50:24,684 --> 00:50:26,045
was dark. And,

1472
00:50:26,525 --> 00:50:28,364
I I looked up, and, I was putting

1473
00:50:28,364 --> 00:50:29,644
stuff in the back of the truck, and

1474
00:50:29,644 --> 00:50:31,565
and these two little young girls were standing

1475
00:50:31,565 --> 00:50:33,769
in front of me and, had name tags.

1476
00:50:33,769 --> 00:50:35,769
So I thought, oh, there's the Mormons. Yeah.

1477
00:50:35,769 --> 00:50:37,849
The Mormons are in town. Yeah. And,

1478
00:50:38,650 --> 00:50:40,409
just sweet as they could be. While they

1479
00:50:40,409 --> 00:50:42,090
were out in the middle of the dark,

1480
00:50:42,090 --> 00:50:43,530
in the middle of the lowest parking lot,

1481
00:50:43,530 --> 00:50:44,429
it's beyond me.

1482
00:50:44,744 --> 00:50:46,824
But she starts asking me questions about, what,

1483
00:50:46,824 --> 00:50:48,025
do you go to church? And I go,

1484
00:50:48,025 --> 00:50:49,464
yeah. How many times a week do you

1485
00:50:49,464 --> 00:50:51,304
go? And I said, three times a week,

1486
00:50:51,304 --> 00:50:51,804
usually.

1487
00:50:52,105 --> 00:50:54,184
Oh, well, that's good. And I said, yeah.

1488
00:50:54,184 --> 00:50:56,744
I'm I'm also a preacher. Yeah. Oh, you're

1489
00:50:56,744 --> 00:50:57,404
a preacher?

1490
00:50:57,784 --> 00:50:58,284
Okay.

1491
00:50:58,610 --> 00:51:00,769
Well, we we go back and forth with

1492
00:51:00,769 --> 00:51:02,530
some stuff like that, you know. And she's

1493
00:51:02,530 --> 00:51:04,449
she said finally, she's, one of the girls

1494
00:51:04,449 --> 00:51:04,949
said,

1495
00:51:05,409 --> 00:51:08,210
could I introduce you to some some later

1496
00:51:08,210 --> 00:51:09,030
day prophets?

1497
00:51:10,050 --> 00:51:11,724
And I said, no, thank you. You. I'm

1498
00:51:11,724 --> 00:51:13,804
gonna stick with scripture because that's where we

1499
00:51:13,804 --> 00:51:15,885
all ought to be. Yeah. Amen. The the

1500
00:51:15,885 --> 00:51:17,885
word of God is sealed. Yeah. It's done.

1501
00:51:17,885 --> 00:51:19,565
And that's what I told that young man

1502
00:51:19,565 --> 00:51:21,804
too. I said I said, I don't believe

1503
00:51:21,804 --> 00:51:22,284
that there

1504
00:51:23,164 --> 00:51:24,605
that it can be added to or taken

1505
00:51:24,605 --> 00:51:26,204
away from, and I don't believe that there

1506
00:51:26,204 --> 00:51:27,025
was a prophet,

1507
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,280
that was told by,

1508
00:51:29,599 --> 00:51:30,340
an angel

1509
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,119
Yeah. That, that there's another testament of Jesus

1510
00:51:33,119 --> 00:51:34,500
Christ. Right. So

1511
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,920
Right. But this thing, this this judgment seat

1512
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,440
of Christ, you know, we said it's not

1513
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,385
about it's not about your salvation. No.

1514
00:51:41,864 --> 00:51:44,264
That that's sealed. It's it's secure. But it

1515
00:51:44,264 --> 00:51:47,224
is it is about your works. Absolutely. It's

1516
00:51:47,224 --> 00:51:49,224
about your works. And Ephesians two tells us

1517
00:51:49,224 --> 00:51:51,144
that. It says, for for by grace you've

1518
00:51:51,144 --> 00:51:53,144
been saved through faith, and that not of

1519
00:51:53,144 --> 00:51:55,359
yourselves, it is the gift of God, not

1520
00:51:55,359 --> 00:51:56,800
as a result of works, so that no

1521
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:58,239
one may boast. And here it is. For

1522
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,980
we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus

1523
00:52:01,039 --> 00:52:04,320
for good works, which God prepared beforehand so

1524
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,260
that we would walk in them. Yeah. Amen.

1525
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,400
That's what this is about. Amen. I think

1526
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:08,900
the

1527
00:52:09,554 --> 00:52:12,114
the problem is, especially every good Baptist, we

1528
00:52:12,114 --> 00:52:14,114
wanna we wanna get so far away from

1529
00:52:14,114 --> 00:52:15,954
work so that we know that our salvation

1530
00:52:15,954 --> 00:52:18,194
is not Yeah. About works. Yeah. That would

1531
00:52:18,194 --> 00:52:20,514
just don't do anything. Right. Yeah. We just

1532
00:52:20,514 --> 00:52:22,434
stop. Like, no. I'm gonna prove to you.

1533
00:52:22,434 --> 00:52:24,839
I'm gonna sit right here, and I'm gonna

1534
00:52:24,839 --> 00:52:26,460
turn 95 years old,

1535
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:28,839
and Jesus will have to knock a dust

1536
00:52:28,839 --> 00:52:30,199
off of me when he comes back to

1537
00:52:30,199 --> 00:52:30,699
50.

1538
00:52:31,159 --> 00:52:33,319
Because I ain't gonna do nothing. Right? Because

1539
00:52:33,319 --> 00:52:35,960
I'm I'm saved by grace through faith, not

1540
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,880
by works, lest any man should boast. Well,

1541
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:38,619
that's true.

1542
00:52:39,085 --> 00:52:40,065
But you also

1543
00:52:40,925 --> 00:52:43,885
are called to work. You also also are

1544
00:52:43,885 --> 00:52:46,045
are known by your works. Right? That's part

1545
00:52:46,045 --> 00:52:48,445
of your fruit is your works. Yeah. That's

1546
00:52:48,445 --> 00:52:50,525
James. You know, he says in, chapter two,

1547
00:52:50,525 --> 00:52:52,364
but someone may well say you have faith

1548
00:52:52,364 --> 00:52:53,980
and I have works. Show me your faith

1549
00:52:53,980 --> 00:52:55,340
without the works, and I will show you

1550
00:52:55,340 --> 00:52:57,980
my faith by my works. Amen. Yeah. The

1551
00:52:57,980 --> 00:53:00,220
work faith always works itself out. Because I

1552
00:53:00,220 --> 00:53:01,980
mean, you think about this. Why in the

1553
00:53:01,980 --> 00:53:04,000
world would anybody go to China

1554
00:53:04,300 --> 00:53:06,619
and put their selves in danger of being,

1555
00:53:06,619 --> 00:53:09,085
you know, killed or or The Middle East

1556
00:53:09,085 --> 00:53:10,305
somewhere in some,

1557
00:53:10,844 --> 00:53:13,344
hot country, you know, that that hates Christianity,

1558
00:53:13,724 --> 00:53:14,204
that,

1559
00:53:14,525 --> 00:53:17,005
that that things are revving up and and

1560
00:53:17,005 --> 00:53:18,625
try to spread the gospel.

1561
00:53:19,164 --> 00:53:20,925
Why wouldn't the world would you do that

1562
00:53:20,925 --> 00:53:22,765
unless you had faith in the thing that

1563
00:53:22,765 --> 00:53:24,420
you were bringing to them? Right? I mean,

1564
00:53:24,420 --> 00:53:26,659
you got to really trust Jesus to do

1565
00:53:26,659 --> 00:53:29,380
those things. And that's that's that faith. Right?

1566
00:53:29,380 --> 00:53:32,039
That's faith by my works. I'll show you

1567
00:53:32,179 --> 00:53:34,339
that I believe in this by what I

1568
00:53:34,339 --> 00:53:35,748
do. And it doesn't have to be it

1569
00:53:35,748 --> 00:53:36,494
doesn't have to be

1570
00:53:37,454 --> 00:53:40,035
Africa or or China or The Middle East.

1571
00:53:40,655 --> 00:53:42,655
It's just going across the street. Could be

1572
00:53:42,655 --> 00:53:46,494
Hanover. Right. Yeah. Just taking taking the time

1573
00:53:46,494 --> 00:53:49,295
to spread the gospel and to to to

1574
00:53:49,295 --> 00:53:51,215
to speak the name of Jesus and That's

1575
00:53:51,215 --> 00:53:53,659
right. And and those opportunities that come our

1576
00:53:53,659 --> 00:53:56,139
way, man, that is that's what's so important

1577
00:53:56,139 --> 00:53:57,359
and that's that's showing

1578
00:53:57,739 --> 00:53:59,659
our faith by the things that we do.

1579
00:53:59,659 --> 00:54:00,159
Okay.

1580
00:54:00,460 --> 00:54:02,400
He must be a Christian because

1581
00:54:03,179 --> 00:54:05,579
I see him doing this. I see him

1582
00:54:05,579 --> 00:54:07,514
doing that. I see him loading that,

1583
00:54:08,474 --> 00:54:10,875
that that trunk with with that dog food.

1584
00:54:10,875 --> 00:54:12,474
You know? Where I see him taking that

1585
00:54:12,474 --> 00:54:12,974
buggy

1586
00:54:13,275 --> 00:54:15,355
and not throwing it or not letting it

1587
00:54:15,355 --> 00:54:17,194
go down the parking lot hill there, but

1588
00:54:17,194 --> 00:54:18,795
but putting it up in the little buggy

1589
00:54:18,795 --> 00:54:20,880
carrier, carrying it back in there. You know,

1590
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,400
just the little things we do, the way

1591
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,659
we carry ourselves, the things that we say.

1592
00:54:25,119 --> 00:54:27,519
You know, are we always complaining? Are we

1593
00:54:27,519 --> 00:54:30,239
always griping? Are we always Yeah. You know,

1594
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,480
that person there with Debbie Downer? Or are

1595
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,775
we saying, hey, man. Look, no matter what

1596
00:54:34,775 --> 00:54:37,175
comes our way, we got Jesus. Or comes

1597
00:54:37,175 --> 00:54:39,335
chief dark cloud. Yeah. Yeah. I tell you,

1598
00:54:39,335 --> 00:54:41,515
I've been swamp long. Yeah.

1599
00:54:42,135 --> 00:54:44,215
I've been concerned for years that my,

1600
00:54:44,855 --> 00:54:45,994
overall attitude

1601
00:54:46,510 --> 00:54:47,250
is probably

1602
00:54:47,550 --> 00:54:49,230
a little less than it should be, I

1603
00:54:49,230 --> 00:54:50,690
guess, is a good way to put it.

1604
00:54:51,070 --> 00:54:51,570
And,

1605
00:54:52,030 --> 00:54:54,190
and especially at work and at places where

1606
00:54:54,190 --> 00:54:56,030
I'm stressed and I have a tendency to

1607
00:54:56,030 --> 00:54:56,530
kinda,

1608
00:54:56,829 --> 00:54:58,210
all right, I'm done with this.

1609
00:54:58,989 --> 00:55:00,644
You know, I've I've been very concerned about

1610
00:55:00,644 --> 00:55:02,585
that for several years. And today,

1611
00:55:03,684 --> 00:55:05,125
it was in a meeting and one of

1612
00:55:05,125 --> 00:55:06,965
the ladies in the meeting just, she was

1613
00:55:06,965 --> 00:55:08,324
sitting there and I don't remember what was

1614
00:55:08,324 --> 00:55:09,525
going on. And I was just like, well,

1615
00:55:09,525 --> 00:55:11,125
that's not gonna work. And I, you know,

1616
00:55:11,125 --> 00:55:13,445
went to try something else to get my

1617
00:55:13,445 --> 00:55:16,070
screen to display and everything. And she goes,

1618
00:55:16,369 --> 00:55:17,670
do you ever get upset?

1619
00:55:18,530 --> 00:55:20,530
And I thought, man, what is she talking

1620
00:55:20,530 --> 00:55:22,630
about? I have gone on some absolute tears

1621
00:55:22,690 --> 00:55:25,030
around here at time or two, but apparently

1622
00:55:25,809 --> 00:55:27,704
never it had never been in front of.

1623
00:55:27,785 --> 00:55:29,385
I did not realize that she was literally

1624
00:55:29,385 --> 00:55:31,144
just like, you just seem so unflappable. I

1625
00:55:31,144 --> 00:55:33,144
mean, it's just like anything that happens, it

1626
00:55:33,144 --> 00:55:34,265
just rolls off your back. And I was

1627
00:55:34,265 --> 00:55:36,184
like, well, thanks. Like lady, my fuse is

1628
00:55:36,184 --> 00:55:38,265
lit and it's short. Yeah. I mean, that's,

1629
00:55:38,265 --> 00:55:40,025
that's what's going through my head. I'm like,

1630
00:55:40,025 --> 00:55:41,849
good Lord, what is she talking about? Like

1631
00:55:41,849 --> 00:55:44,329
my, my fuse burn out, like, you know,

1632
00:55:44,329 --> 00:55:45,309
five years ago,

1633
00:55:45,690 --> 00:55:47,449
ten years into this place and five years

1634
00:55:47,449 --> 00:55:48,989
ago, my fuse was gone.

1635
00:55:49,449 --> 00:55:49,949
But

1636
00:55:50,329 --> 00:55:52,809
I mean, it just completely took me off

1637
00:55:52,809 --> 00:55:55,385
guard and I thought, man, how if I

1638
00:55:55,385 --> 00:55:57,885
really wasn't at least making an attempt,

1639
00:55:58,425 --> 00:56:00,744
how much, you know, would there be anybody

1640
00:56:00,744 --> 00:56:02,425
to say, hey, you know, you just seem

1641
00:56:02,425 --> 00:56:04,264
like every nothing ever really bothers you. You

1642
00:56:04,264 --> 00:56:04,925
just seem

1643
00:56:05,224 --> 00:56:06,684
like you're at peace with everything.

1644
00:56:07,019 --> 00:56:09,340
Well, that's because I am really and truly,

1645
00:56:09,340 --> 00:56:11,099
even when I am upset, even when I

1646
00:56:11,099 --> 00:56:11,840
am bothered,

1647
00:56:12,460 --> 00:56:13,820
there's still a certain amount of peace. I

1648
00:56:13,820 --> 00:56:15,099
don't get so bent out of shape that

1649
00:56:15,099 --> 00:56:16,539
I think the world's coming to an end.

1650
00:56:16,539 --> 00:56:17,659
I think this is where a lot of

1651
00:56:17,659 --> 00:56:19,900
Christians get it sideways, you know, between grace

1652
00:56:19,900 --> 00:56:21,980
and works. It's like, like you say, you

1653
00:56:21,980 --> 00:56:23,911
know, it's like, I ain't gonna do no

1654
00:56:23,911 --> 00:56:26,012
works because it's all grace. Right? You know?

1655
00:56:26,012 --> 00:56:28,112
And and other people are just all about

1656
00:56:28,112 --> 00:56:30,739
the works. And and Yeah. It's one leads

1657
00:56:30,739 --> 00:56:33,103
to the other. That's right. They they it

1658
00:56:33,365 --> 00:56:35,466
again, just like we were talking about last

1659
00:56:35,466 --> 00:56:37,579
week, those are two truths that stand side

1660
00:56:37,579 --> 00:56:39,820
by side. Yes. Right? Yeah. You can't have

1661
00:56:39,820 --> 00:56:41,900
one without the other. And so And, hey,

1662
00:56:41,900 --> 00:56:42,640
we live

1663
00:56:43,099 --> 00:56:45,500
where we live in in this country, in

1664
00:56:45,500 --> 00:56:47,440
this day today,

1665
00:56:48,300 --> 00:56:50,860
there's nothing stopping any Christian that wants to

1666
00:56:50,860 --> 00:56:53,005
go out and spread from going out and

1667
00:56:53,005 --> 00:56:55,244
then spreading. Right here in America, you're you're

1668
00:56:55,244 --> 00:56:56,684
not gonna get arrested for it. You're not

1669
00:56:56,684 --> 00:56:58,525
gonna get thrown in prison for it. Now

1670
00:56:58,525 --> 00:57:00,204
I'm not saying some you might not go

1671
00:57:00,204 --> 00:57:02,045
into some little town somewhere with your sign

1672
00:57:02,045 --> 00:57:03,885
and stand there saying Jesus is coming and

1673
00:57:03,885 --> 00:57:05,405
not have somebody come up and be like,

1674
00:57:06,199 --> 00:57:08,539
get out. You know, it happens, but

1675
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,199
we have a recourse for that. You know,

1676
00:57:12,199 --> 00:57:14,119
it's not gonna fly. It's not gonna they're

1677
00:57:14,119 --> 00:57:15,400
not gonna be able to do it without

1678
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:15,900
repercussions.

1679
00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:18,039
Maybe not always though. I mean, like, they

1680
00:57:18,039 --> 00:57:19,835
could said the same thing in England till

1681
00:57:19,835 --> 00:57:21,534
recently. Right? Oh, yeah. Man's,

1682
00:57:21,994 --> 00:57:24,795
arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic.

1683
00:57:24,795 --> 00:57:28,175
Just standing there. Standing there. Yep. Well and

1684
00:57:28,394 --> 00:57:30,554
and, you know, the same same police that

1685
00:57:30,554 --> 00:57:31,809
arrested that guy over there said, said, hey,

1686
00:57:31,809 --> 00:57:33,730
we're gonna start going after everybody. We don't

1687
00:57:33,730 --> 00:57:35,089
care what country you're in for what you

1688
00:57:35,089 --> 00:57:35,750
say online.

1689
00:57:36,289 --> 00:57:38,929
And and We've already seen in America where

1690
00:57:38,929 --> 00:57:39,989
they're going after,

1691
00:57:40,769 --> 00:57:41,269
messages

1692
00:57:41,969 --> 00:57:44,049
that preachers have wrote in in in the

1693
00:57:44,049 --> 00:57:45,650
pulpit. Right? They're trying to get a sermon

1694
00:57:45,650 --> 00:57:46,869
note. Did that in Houston

1695
00:57:47,324 --> 00:57:47,824
during

1696
00:57:48,204 --> 00:57:48,704
COVID.

1697
00:57:49,164 --> 00:57:51,585
Yeah. I mean, come on. And I mean,

1698
00:57:51,644 --> 00:57:53,244
but for the most part, and, and this

1699
00:57:53,244 --> 00:57:55,164
is something that, oh, a lot of times

1700
00:57:55,164 --> 00:57:57,085
people get so frustrated. If you ever see

1701
00:57:57,085 --> 00:57:58,684
any of the people that do the first

1702
00:57:58,684 --> 00:58:01,005
amendment auditing and stuff online, people get frustrated

1703
00:58:01,005 --> 00:58:01,824
with them because

1704
00:58:02,710 --> 00:58:04,230
nine times out of 10, they want to

1705
00:58:04,230 --> 00:58:05,750
push things as far as they can push

1706
00:58:05,750 --> 00:58:07,829
it to see where do I get the

1707
00:58:07,829 --> 00:58:10,230
reaction and and it that serves a legitimate

1708
00:58:10,230 --> 00:58:11,829
purpose. Push back and then they know how

1709
00:58:11,829 --> 00:58:13,269
far they can go next time or a

1710
00:58:13,269 --> 00:58:15,375
little further. Right? And they push it until

1711
00:58:15,375 --> 00:58:16,355
they get a lawsuit.

1712
00:58:16,815 --> 00:58:18,335
And sometimes they walk with some of these

1713
00:58:18,335 --> 00:58:20,735
people walk away big, big wins, but I

1714
00:58:20,735 --> 00:58:22,894
love the ones that their, their lawsuits are

1715
00:58:22,894 --> 00:58:23,394
typically,

1716
00:58:23,855 --> 00:58:25,534
I want a dollar. Yeah. And then I

1717
00:58:25,534 --> 00:58:27,054
want you to learn how this is supposed

1718
00:58:27,054 --> 00:58:29,069
to work. And I'm like, hey. Go guys.

1719
00:58:29,069 --> 00:58:31,089
That's what you should be doing. But,

1720
00:58:31,549 --> 00:58:33,630
you know, one of my favorite comments from

1721
00:58:33,630 --> 00:58:34,989
one of the guys that I that I

1722
00:58:34,989 --> 00:58:37,409
follow pretty good bit, he's a former

1723
00:58:37,710 --> 00:58:39,869
me who, was in the army and and

1724
00:58:39,869 --> 00:58:41,295
did a lot of work. And and every

1725
00:58:41,295 --> 00:58:42,855
time he goes anywhere, he has a sign

1726
00:58:42,855 --> 00:58:44,715
that just says, God bless the homeless vets.

1727
00:58:45,015 --> 00:58:47,574
And he always dresses in a ratty pair

1728
00:58:47,574 --> 00:58:49,515
of shorts and a, kinda

1729
00:58:49,894 --> 00:58:52,535
not so great t shirt. And the sign's

1730
00:58:52,535 --> 00:58:55,389
a cardboard sign that's handwritten, and and and

1731
00:58:55,389 --> 00:58:57,309
it's kinda hard to tell what it says.

1732
00:58:57,309 --> 00:58:59,150
And he just stands there on the he

1733
00:58:59,150 --> 00:59:00,909
refuses to take money from anybody. Like he

1734
00:59:00,909 --> 00:59:02,429
said, people that know who he is and

1735
00:59:02,429 --> 00:59:03,949
they're like, well, please let us help. And

1736
00:59:03,949 --> 00:59:05,070
he's like, no, go give that to a

1737
00:59:05,070 --> 00:59:07,070
homeless shelter. You know? And I'm like, man,

1738
00:59:07,070 --> 00:59:09,184
that's awesome. And he said one day, somebody

1739
00:59:09,184 --> 00:59:10,625
asked him, said, why do you do this?

1740
00:59:10,625 --> 00:59:11,525
And he said, because

1741
00:59:12,065 --> 00:59:13,204
right our freedoms

1742
00:59:13,985 --> 00:59:15,905
and rights are like a muscle. If we

1743
00:59:15,905 --> 00:59:18,625
don't exercise them, we lose them. And you

1744
00:59:18,625 --> 00:59:20,545
wanna know how England got so bad? Nobody

1745
00:59:20,545 --> 00:59:23,320
was exercising it. Yeah. Like people for years,

1746
00:59:23,380 --> 00:59:24,820
because we talk about that guy that went

1747
00:59:24,820 --> 00:59:26,820
out and stood silently in front of the

1748
00:59:26,820 --> 00:59:29,059
clinic and didn't say anything to him. He

1749
00:59:29,059 --> 00:59:31,239
didn't bother anybody. He just stood there praying

1750
00:59:31,780 --> 00:59:32,280
silently

1751
00:59:32,820 --> 00:59:33,880
in his head.

1752
00:59:35,224 --> 00:59:37,704
But they had not had anybody do anything

1753
00:59:37,704 --> 00:59:38,364
like that

1754
00:59:38,664 --> 00:59:39,565
for years.

1755
00:59:40,985 --> 00:59:42,664
And I'm like, man, if we, you know

1756
00:59:42,824 --> 00:59:44,824
so Christians don't be afraid. Go out. Hold

1757
00:59:44,824 --> 00:59:46,265
a sign. Jesus is coming back. Do you

1758
00:59:46,265 --> 00:59:47,820
know him? That's all you have to do.

1759
00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:49,420
We went to we went on a mission

1760
00:59:49,420 --> 00:59:50,239
trip to,

1761
00:59:50,780 --> 00:59:53,099
Nashville, actually, and there's I may have mentioned

1762
00:59:53,099 --> 00:59:54,559
this on here before, but there's

1763
00:59:54,860 --> 00:59:56,640
there's a a place in Nashville.

1764
00:59:57,260 --> 00:59:59,420
One of the apartments is called Audubon Apartments,

1765
00:59:59,420 --> 01:00:00,800
but they it's a place where

1766
01:00:01,734 --> 01:00:03,755
this Christian group has brought in

1767
01:00:04,135 --> 01:00:04,954
tons of

1768
01:00:05,255 --> 01:00:05,755
refugees,

1769
01:00:06,534 --> 01:00:08,234
people who are running from political,

1770
01:00:09,175 --> 01:00:11,815
oppression and and all kind of different things,

1771
01:00:11,815 --> 01:00:14,054
but, for one reason or another. But, anyway,

1772
01:00:14,054 --> 01:00:14,534
they they

1773
01:00:15,110 --> 01:00:17,190
they're these these apartment buildings are full. I

1774
01:00:17,190 --> 01:00:18,309
mean, you can go there, and there's a

1775
01:00:18,309 --> 01:00:20,309
lot going on a far admission field. And

1776
01:00:20,309 --> 01:00:21,289
they've got this

1777
01:00:21,750 --> 01:00:23,449
they've got this little market there,

1778
01:00:23,829 --> 01:00:25,510
where you can go in and

1779
01:00:26,070 --> 01:00:28,730
I mean, anything from Chinese to

1780
01:00:29,424 --> 01:00:29,924
whatever

1781
01:00:30,224 --> 01:00:30,545
kind of,

1782
01:00:32,224 --> 01:00:34,144
country you can think of, their food is

1783
01:00:34,144 --> 01:00:36,464
in this one big old market there. And

1784
01:00:36,464 --> 01:00:38,224
you see all these people from all walks

1785
01:00:38,224 --> 01:00:40,065
of life in there. And so we were

1786
01:00:40,065 --> 01:00:41,744
standing on a hill in a parking lot

1787
01:00:41,744 --> 01:00:43,930
outside of that. And before we got started,

1788
01:00:43,930 --> 01:00:46,570
we these this this group, this Christian group

1789
01:00:46,570 --> 01:00:47,949
that that brought us there,

1790
01:00:48,809 --> 01:00:51,130
they said, we we wanna pray. We wanna

1791
01:00:51,130 --> 01:00:52,730
pray over this mission trip. We wanna pray

1792
01:00:52,730 --> 01:00:54,510
over what we're gonna do while you're here,

1793
01:00:55,545 --> 01:00:56,025
But,

1794
01:00:56,344 --> 01:00:58,025
you gotta be careful how you pray. Now

1795
01:00:58,025 --> 01:01:00,184
this is in Nashville. You gotta be careful

1796
01:01:00,184 --> 01:01:01,625
how you pray or what you're doing. They

1797
01:01:01,625 --> 01:01:03,385
said, what we're gonna do is we're gonna

1798
01:01:03,385 --> 01:01:05,085
stand here in a circle, basically,

1799
01:01:05,385 --> 01:01:07,385
and we're gonna just act like we're talking.

1800
01:01:07,385 --> 01:01:09,569
And we're just looking at each other and

1801
01:01:09,569 --> 01:01:11,889
we're talking to the Lord and we're praying

1802
01:01:11,889 --> 01:01:14,049
and we're saying, Lord, thank you for this

1803
01:01:14,049 --> 01:01:14,549
opportunity

1804
01:01:14,929 --> 01:01:16,609
for us to be here. Thank you and

1805
01:01:16,609 --> 01:01:18,049
we pray that you put people in front

1806
01:01:18,049 --> 01:01:19,429
of us and we pray that

1807
01:01:19,985 --> 01:01:21,905
your holy spirit goes before us, and we

1808
01:01:21,905 --> 01:01:23,744
pray that you'll open doors, and we pray

1809
01:01:23,744 --> 01:01:25,505
that people will be saved. And all the

1810
01:01:25,505 --> 01:01:26,945
while, I mean, we're just standing there. It's

1811
01:01:26,945 --> 01:01:29,025
just like we're in a conversation, you know?

1812
01:01:29,025 --> 01:01:30,625
And that's what it is. Right? It's a

1813
01:01:30,625 --> 01:01:33,184
conversation to the Lord. But, man, what what

1814
01:01:33,184 --> 01:01:35,105
a good what a good opportunity it is

1815
01:01:35,105 --> 01:01:36,890
to to be able to do that, to

1816
01:01:36,890 --> 01:01:38,490
be able to reach people. Can we can

1817
01:01:38,490 --> 01:01:40,010
can I read one more verse before we

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get out of here? Oh, yeah.

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Revelations twenty two twelve, and behold I come

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quickly Yeah. And my reward is with me.

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I give every man according

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to his

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work

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shall be. So think about that. Think about

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that. And who's given it? He is. Jesus

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is. Amen.

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The Father has given all power in heaven

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and earth

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to his son, Jesus Christ. He is the

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judge. He is the jury. He is the

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rewarder

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of men who diligently seek him. And, man,

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I can't wait to see him face to

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face with me. Amen. Amen. It's gonna be

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an awesome thing. And and that that brings

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us, I guess, maybe next time we could

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talk about the the happy part of the

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judge's judgment judgment seat. Right? Yeah. Yes, man.

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Because it's gonna be a thrilling time too.

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Yeah. It is. Not just tears, but joy,

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buddy. That's right. Amen. Yeah. Amen. And so

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as we go out this week, let's get

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out there and work. If you haven't been,

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start.

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If you have been, keep it going. We're

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praying for you.

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We're praying for you. We are with you.

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You're not alone.

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Brother Brian, why don't you dismiss us today?

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Sure.

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Lord, we love you. And, God, we are

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so thankful for this opportunity

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to come into this place and sit down

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and just talk,

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but most of all to talk about you,

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how good you are, how faithful you are,

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how holy, most of all, that you are.

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And, lord, we love you for that.

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We love you that when we're not good

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enough, when we weren't good enough,

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God, that you took our place and you

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took our punishment on Calvary's Cross. And that,

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Lord, because I accepted that,

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I'll never pay the price for that. I'll

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never pay the price,

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in heaven for

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I will not lose my reward as far

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as my salvation goes.

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But Lord, I wanna work. I wanna I

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wanna do things that make a difference. I

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wanna do things that are eternal. I wanna

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say things that are eternal. I want to

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I want to, Lord be about the Father's

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business. And and so Lord, I pray that,

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as we go about out this week, Lord,

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I pray that you would just,

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just open up doors of opportunity.

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God, for all of us that we might,

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that we might speak the name of Jesus

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to someone on a daily basis and not

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only to someone, but to our families.

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God, that we would be faithful to our

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families to pour the word over them

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and to always always have a conversation about

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how good and how faithful,

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that you are to us. And Lord, we

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just ask you to to go with us

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the rest of this week

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and it is these things we ask in

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Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

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Special thank you to Carter Pridmore,

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01:04:17,675 --> 01:04:19,855
Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson,

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Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our

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theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

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I've been Tyler Goes on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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Monday at 6PM central.

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Thank you for listening.