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All the way to the last minute. 
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stay fresh. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
Take your Bibles turn to just 

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anywhere. 
We'll be there in a minute. 

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Ecclesiastes 12. 
Ecclesiastes 12. 

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So glad to be back. 
So glad to be back. 

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Love coming down here. 
A lot of lot of new faces. 

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Praise the Lord. 
Churches growing new faces and 

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some old faces. 
And Speaking of faces, October 

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the 10th I woke up with Bell's 
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face completely drooping and 
left eye wouldn't work and my 

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mouth paralyzed. 
And that was October the 10th. 

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And I've always been a 
exceptionally handsome man. 

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That wasn't a joke but y'all 
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I looked in the mirror and my 
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I'm like Lord. 
I look like Andy Almanza. 

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What in the? 
World love you brother no, but I

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I just trying to preach and and 
and and do the work of God with 

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hacker face not working. 
It's a it's been across to bear,

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but I appreciate all the 
prayers. 

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I'm I'm getting there slowly. 
I was getting back to normal but

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no I am. 
Thrilled to be here. 

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And glad to have my wife and 
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about next couple of days see 
what God has for us. 

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Tremendous message preacher. 
Lot's wife. 

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So, so powerful. 
I leaned over to my wife as you 

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were finishing up. 
I said if Lot's wife had been in

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that cave, his two daughters 
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did. 
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to a story. 
So much truth there. 

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Amen. 
Ecclesiastes 12, stand with me 

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please if you would and we will 
try our best to mind the Lord. 

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I preached this this morning as 
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This is a reworking of what I 
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burning on my heart and I feel 
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my wife said. 
Do you remember what you 

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preached last time you were? 
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write it down because it's all 
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worry about preaching something 
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Amen. 
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moreover, because the preacher 
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people knowledge. 
Yeah, he gave good heed and 

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sought out and said an order, 
many proverbs. 

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And the preacher sought to find 
out acceptable words. 

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That which was written was 
upright, even words of truth. 

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The words of the wise are as 
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the masters of assemblies which 
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Lord, I pray that you'd bless 
the Word of God tonight, speak 

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to hearts, minister to our 
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We've already been fed from the 
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and Lord, I pray that we would. 
Lord, tonight the Word of God 

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would continue to do that in 
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Name Amen. 
You can be seated. 

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Thank you for standing. 
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on this evening is that 
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looking for a title, we could 
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Because the preacher was wise. 
Because the preacher was wise. 

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How many even believe this is 
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that you're going to be asked 
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I mean to. 
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Raise your hand. 
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that. 
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Maybe the jury's still out on 
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But God is all wise, Amen. 
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loves this church? 
Raise your hand. 

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How many of you believe God has 
a plan and a purpose for this 

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church? 
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Well, I believe that we know 
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this church, and God has a plan 
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It would stand the reason that 
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this church and pastor this 
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And I'll say this as a pastor, 
None of us are perfect. 

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None of us are perfect. 
The best of men are men at best.

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I told them the day I said I put
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one leg at the time, hopping 
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don't fall and break my neck. 
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The best of men are men at best.
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If I was a church member, I 
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disagree with the man of God 
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three times. 
He'd been studying it for years.

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Amen. 
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just take that statement, 
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Obviously Solomon wrote the book
of Ecclesiastes, wisest man that

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ever lived. 
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things and some statements after
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of why the preacher was wise. 
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meant telling these verses this 
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In fact, Zane and I flew down to
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reach of the men's meeting, and 
that's when God gave me this 

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original outline was we was at 
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of the clouds. 
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We were at 38,000 feet. 
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other planes up there because he
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I know that because he. 
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person and said, what did he 
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He said we were, yeah. 
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We came down to 36,000 feet, but
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We're cancelling service for 
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Please. 
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sit down. 
But while the plane was bouncing

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across the top of those clouds 
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me this thought out of these 
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And I was just typing on my 
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Zane fell asleep beside me, had 
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And man, these verses just came 
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As I began to meditate on these 
verses and read them and look up

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the words on my phone, I was 
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wait to preach this. 
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And then because he was wise, 
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things. 
I'm only going to give you 3 

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points tonight because I want to
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just a moment when we get to it.
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write this down #1 because the 
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He was persistent in his work. 
He was persistent in his work. 

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It says in verse 9. 
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was wise, he still taught the 
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And I just want tonight maybe 
come alongside the man of God 

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here and encourage and help him.
By the way, he's not sitting 

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down with me and said, man, 
while you're here, I really want

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you to deal with this and this 
and this. 

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And I don't want you to tell him
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that he don't have to. 
I'm a pastor and I've been a 

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Baptist. 
I've been a Baptist my whole 

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life, all right? 
I've done about a lot of things.

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Baptist Church members is not 
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All right? 
This year I'll be saved 50 

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years. 
I was born in 1972 and I've been

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Hey, man. 
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can be. 
I know how they think. 

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I know how they respond. 
I know how they they process 

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information. 
I know how they've received 

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things because I have been where
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I've had a number of tremendous 
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at today, thank God because of 
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men of God in my life. 
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the pastor didn't sit down and I
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problems that don't look like 
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Y'all look perfect. 
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Y'all look absolutely. 
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glowing and everything, but 
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he still taught the people 
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And I want to just for just a 
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pastor's primary responsibility 
is to teach and preach the word 

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of God. 
Well, there's a lot of church 

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members. 
They think the pastor's number 

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one job is to visit them in the 
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If you read James Chapman, 
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under 5 before God the Father 
resists to visit the fathers and

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the widows and their affliction 
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from the world. 
I believe I could say it's 

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everybody's job to visit the 
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It's everybody's job to love one
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burden. 
That's not the pastors primary 

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job. 
Hey man, and and, and, and, and 

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Jeremiah chapter 3 and verse #15
he says, I will give you pastors

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according to mine heart, which 
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you're laying in the hospital. 
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Heard about this preacher 
sitting in a nursing home and he

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was sitting there talking to 
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her bed there was a a little 
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And while he was talking to me, 
just reach over and grab one and

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he was eating peanuts. 
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turns around, he's eat the whole
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I'm so sorry, he said. 
I have eaten this whole bowl of 

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peanuts. 
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That's OK, Fraser. 
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pulled, all I can do is suck the
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I don't eat peanuts at the 
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Ever since I heard that joke, I 
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But it says, and I will give you
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watch this which shall feed you 
with knowledge and 

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understanding. 
God gave the church a pastor to 

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teach and to preach the word of 
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That's the primary concern. 
That's the primary job of the 

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man of God in Acts chapter 20 
verse #28 Take heed therefore 

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unto yourselves, and all the 
flock over which the Holy Ghost 

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hath made you overseers to feed 
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First, Peter 52, feed the flock 
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He's not talking about dinner on
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He's not talking about potlucks.
He's not talking about 

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casseroles. 
He's talking about taking the 

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word of God and opening up the 
scriptures and teaching and 

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preaching the word of God to the
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And I just want to say because 
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He was persistent in his work. 
You say where do you get that 

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from? 
Well, it says in our text he 

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still taught the people 
knowledge that word. 

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Still, I got it circled. 
I've got that word steel circle.

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Why would the preacher still 
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I'm gonna give you 3 little sub 
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believe it has that word steel 
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It's because first of all, 
because there's a little, 

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there's very little interest 
many times in what the preachers

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got to say. 
It's amazing at the people. 

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They believe the preachers job 
is to visit them in the 

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hospital. 
His primary job is to marry 

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their kids and bury their dead 
and and pat them on the shoulder

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when they got an ingrown 
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But the truth of the matter is 
his job is to teach and preach 

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the people. 
And a lot of people are all 

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about the pastor as long as he's
doing all those other things, 

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but they're not at all 
interested. 

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And what goes on behind the 
sacred desk, Thank God for a 

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preacher in this church is going
to preach the truth. 

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Amen. 
I wouldn't be here and I 

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wouldn't rub shoulders with this
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I know what you what kind of 
preacher you got here, But 

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there's a it says he still 
taught the people knowledge. 

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He still taught in spite of 
little interest. 

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He'd still taught in spite of 
the labor involved. 

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The Bible says he gave good heed
and sought out and sent in order

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many proverbs. 
The preacher sought to find out 

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acceptable words, that which was
written was upright, even words 

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of truth. 
So we see the labor that is 

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involved, that organizing and 
the studying and the setting in 

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order and, and, and the studying
and the praying and the seeking 

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the face of God and finding a 
passage of Scripture and 

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understanding that passage of 
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Looking at the context and cross
referencing and and and and 

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breaking down the sentence and 
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word structure and looking at 
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the Greek lexicon and the 
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All of that just so they can get
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in front of you for you to put 
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into your life. 
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knowledge, it's about a little 
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It's about a labor involved in 
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verse #12 Bible says my son be 
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There is no end in much study is
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Reason why a lot of people don't
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not appealing to the flesh. 
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flesh doesn't like study. 
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be the only one in the in the 
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I'm almost positive somewhere in
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thyself approved unto God, a 
Workman that needs not to be 

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ashamed, rightly dividing the 
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If the only Bible you get to 
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death. 
If the only Bible that you that 

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you, that you dissect is a, is 
food that's already been chewed 

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up and processed and fed to you 
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you're in trouble. 
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working at home. 
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I just thought it was 
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people knowledge. 
It's not as fun sometimes as it 

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looks. 
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pastor one day. 
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and eat out all the time. 
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with Brother Joel Haynes and one
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picked us up at the Bible at the
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road. 
He said, would you please tell 

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me if you don't mind, tell me 
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ministry and what's the hardest 
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I said the easiest part of the 
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I said the hardest part of the 
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I think you dropped out of Bible
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I don't know. 
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wise, he was persistent in his 
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perceptive in his wisdom. 
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preacher was wise. 
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his perception. 
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taught the people knowledge. 
A He gave good heed and sought 

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out and set an automated 
proverbs in verse #10 The 

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preacher sought to find out 
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words, words that were fitting 
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applicable to the needs into the
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acceptable and that which was 
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of truth. 
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preacher was wise, he was 
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There's a huge responsibility 
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have his eyes and ears open and 
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church. 
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got their hands over their eyes,
They got blinders only have no 

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idea what's going on in the 
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By listening to them preach, 
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sin in the church, act like 
nobody in the church is 

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struggling with the flesh and 
nobody's fighting carnality and 

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nobody is living in any kind of 
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Listening to them preach, you 
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to run their aisles and shout 
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But the fact the matter is the 
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God is supposed to have his eyes
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He's supposed to be perceptive. 
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says be thou diligent to know 
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well to thy herds and and and 
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but Paul told the Ephesian 
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He said he said feed the flock 
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Watch this over at which the 
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overseers. 
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the observation, we see the 
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the man of God, for him to be 
the man that God would have him 

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to be. 
He's got to know what's going 

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He's got to have his finger on 
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He's got to know what's going 
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He's got to know the spiritual 
state of the youth group. 

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He's got to know the spiritual 
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He's got to know the spiritual 
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I think I'm doing like three 
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We're going to be at Brother 
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And, and I love preaching the 
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Men are the backbone of the 
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And when the men in the church 
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their pastor and they understand
his heart and they understand 

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his vision for that church and 
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Man, a church can explode. 
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I say, if you men will pass to 
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lead your wife, lead your 
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spiritual state of your family 
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goes the church. 
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and families. 
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perception as to give heed. 
Man, there's a lot in the Bible 

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about giving heed. 
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laboring that point, but I'll 
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preacher was wise. 
He's perceptive in his wisdom. 

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He's he knows what's going on. 
And there's a lot of people in a

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church, they'll say, I wonder 
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I wonder why he's talking about 
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knows something you don't know. 
He's heard something you hadn't 

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heard. 
He's seen something you hadn't 

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seen. 
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tremendous youth group at our 
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young people, so they're not 
perfect. 

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We were all young people one 
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people that I believe they love 
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But we also got a group of young
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like they love the Lord. 
Everybody OK, don't get nervous 

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down here. 
Don't bow your heads any time to

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pray. 
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how to look like they're on 
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They know how to give off that 
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And they know how to they know 
how to dress and know how to 

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carry their Bible and know how 
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And they know how to go to the 
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and they know they know all the 
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do. 
But that doesn't mean, like you 

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said just a minute ago, this is 
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singing on the platform doesn't 
mean your heart is where it 

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ought to be. 
Sometimes you hear the preacher 

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preach. 
You're like, man, he sure is 

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hard on the youth group this 
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He might know something about 
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Well, he sure is down on the 
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He sure is. 
Boy, he's beating us over the 

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head about having a godly home 
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He might have spent hours doing 
marriage counseling this week 

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and he might know something you 
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That's part of being that 
watchman on the wall you can see

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a little bit further than 
everybody else. 

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That's a hey, because the 
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heed. 
He'll give good heed. 

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That's a sign of a good wise 
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want to get this message. 
We see not only is he persistent

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in his work, perceptive in his 
wisdom, but because the preacher

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was wise, he was pointed in his 
words. 

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And verse number lives where I 
was wanting to get this is the 

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part of the message right here 
that I was meditating on flying 

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on the plane. 
The words of the wise. 

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There it is again. 
The words of the wise are as 

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goods are as goods and it's I 
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It sure makes me uncomfortable. 
It's supposed to. 

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It's designed to Amen. 
I've seen church members sit 

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there and wear out a perfectly 
good, perfectly good pair of 

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pants on the on the chair, just 
squirming, squirming while the 

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preachers preach. 
They just go, oh, I wish you'd 

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man, I wish you'd get done. 
Goodness gracious. 

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What time is it? 
How long? 

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How long is he? 
Going to preach. 

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He's not preaching long, he's 
just using a lot of pointed 

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words. 
Amen. 

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Words of the wise, come on. 
It's on purpose, by the way. 

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We work really hard at saying 
things to make church members 

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uncomfortable. 
Our job is to comfort the 

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afflicted and afflict the 
comfortable. 

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Those get goad in verse #11 that
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They'd take a long stick and 
they'd just sharpen it on the 

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end, make it real sharp. 
And they'd use that thing to 

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they'd use that thing to prick 
in the Pope with those moving 

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cows or goats or whatever it is 
moving. 

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They'd use that, that, that, 
that, that, that prod that goat.

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And, and that's exactly what the
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They are as goats, by the way, 
the Bible. 

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Was. 
Written to be that way. 

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And it says in Hebrews 412 the 
word of God's quick and powerful

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and sharper than any 2 edged 
sword, even to the piercing, 

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even to the dividing asunder of 
soul and spirit, and of the 

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joints and marrow, and as a 
discerner of the thoughts and 

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intents of the heart. 
A lot of times it's not just 

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what the preacher saying that's 
goading, it's the Word of God 

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that's goading. 
In fact, in Acts chapter 2 and 

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verse #37 while Peter's 
preaching, he's quoting 

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Scripture from all over the Old 
Testament and the Bible says in 

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verse 37 of Acts 2. 
Now when they heard this, they 

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were pricked in their hearts. 
That was the Word of God doing 

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that. 
Peter didn't learn to do that. 

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Fishing and drawing Nets. 
The Word of God was what was 

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doing that. 
In Acts chapter 5 and verse 33, 

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it says when they heard that 
they were cut to the heart and 

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took counsel to slay them. 
In Acts Chapter 7 and verse 54, 

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Stephen's preaching and the 
Bible says when they heard these

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things, they were cut to the 
heart. 

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The Word of God was designed to 
poke and prick 4 subpoints. 

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I want to give you quickly and 
we'll be done. 

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I want you to write this down. 
This, this pointed in his words.

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You look at verse #11 and he 
gives us three different 

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occupations. 
You got some kind of herdsmen of

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some kind of herder of animals 
of some kind. 

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And then you got a Carpenter, 
and then you got a shepherd. 

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All three of these occupations 
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And all of them are compared to 
a preacher that is wise. 

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So let's, let's see what the 
Holy Spirit of God put this in 

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there for, because he's painting
a picture. 

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And it fascinates me because 
it's a, it's a picture. 

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And the verse is about words and
he's using words to to make a 

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point. 
So the first, first thing I want

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you to notice about the the he's
pointed in his words is they are

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goading words. 
They're goading words. 

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That literally is a shark stick.
Now today they have cattle 

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prods. 
They put batteries in them and 

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they can run between 3006 
thousand volts. 

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And you, you, you, you use that.
That's the modern way of doing 

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it. 
I think maybe you know, your 

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parents stick their head in the 
door and say hey, it's time to 

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get up, time to go to church. 
You just keep laying to bed, 

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keep laying to bed and he won't 
get up. 

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I think that cattle prod will 
probably get the job done, don't

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you think? 
Imagine if they snuck in there 

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and popped you on the behind 
with that cattle prod. 

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If it you wouldn't leap to your 
feet, leaping and praising God 

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into. 
The House of God, boy, it's good

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to be in charge. 
The the words of the wise are 

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goading words. 
It's that's, that's designed to 

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do that. 
It's designed to to shock you. 

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It is designed to stir you. 
It is designed to spur you. 

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That's what the word of God 
does. 

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And the man of God that is wise,
the preacher that is wise, will 

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study and prepare messages and 
figure out how to say it in the 

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most effective way to optimize 
what God is trying to do in your

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heart. 
They are goading words. 

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Secondly, they are guiding 
words. 

450
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Write that down. 
They're guiding words. 

451
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,560
The words of the wise are as 
goats and you don't, you don't 

452
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,200
go to a cow or a sheep or 
whatever. 

453
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,280
You're trying to goat. 
You're trying to, you're trying 

454
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,240
to, you don't just go to them 
for the fun of it. 

455
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,920
That'd be sadistic. 
I know there are some people 

456
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,440
that think, well, our preacher 
just loves making me 

457
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,480
uncomfortable. 
Actually we don't love making 

458
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,640
you uncomfortable. 
But what we do love is we love 

459
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,680
to see you moving in the right 
direction. 

460
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,200
And if we have to use sharp 
words and, and, and freaking 

461
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,480
words and prodding words to do 
that, then so be it. 

462
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,840
Nobody knows how to get 
comfortable more than Christians

463
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,440
and Baptists sitting in 
churches. 

464
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,880
I got to where I just quit 
telling people in my church. 

465
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,760
I quit tell them not to sleep. 
I just said please don't snore 

466
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,120
and drool all over everybody. 
I can't believe there are people

467
00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:55,000
that would sleep in church 
comfortable. 

468
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,280
Heard about 1 Deacon died. 
He asked his wife. 

469
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,480
He said just bury me in my view.
He says I've never slept and 

470
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,040
rested so well as I did in my 
church. 

471
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,160
Guiding words. 
Guiding words. 

472
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,320
I looked it up on I looked it up
on the Internet and I just asked

473
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,000
a real dumb question. 
Why do people use cattle prods? 

474
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,400
I just wanted to see the answer.
And the answer cracked me up. 

475
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,080
It gave me 3 three reasons. 
Number one, people use cattle 

476
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,360
prods. 
They're designed to cause an 

477
00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,600
animal to go in a desired 
direction. 

478
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,320
Yeah, we're going that way. 
The cow or the goat or the sheep

479
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,280
or whatever wants to go over 
here and drift over here and 

480
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,480
gets distracted and gets all 
gets all turned around and, and 

481
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,680
and the shepherd says hey, hey, 
this way, this way. 

482
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,880
Finally, he just hates that 
little pointed stick over there 

483
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,240
and pokes them. 
Hey, that way. 

484
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,120
We're going that way. 
Sometimes a pastor has to use 

485
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,920
pointed words to get the people 
in the church to go in the right

486
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,640
direction. 
You ever seen those synchronized

487
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,280
rollers and all those those? 
The Moors are going at the same 

488
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,560
time, and what that boat is just
skimming right across the top of

489
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,440
the water. 
And is that how they do it? 

490
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,320
You can tell by looking at me. 
I don't do a lot of rowing, but 

491
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,080
it's synchronized. 
It's together. 

492
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,120
That's what the church is 
supposed to look like. 

493
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,440
But there's always that one 
idiot in the back of the boat 

494
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,640
that's got their paddle in the 
water and they're just dragging 

495
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,960
it. 
And everybody's busting the gut.

496
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,040
I mean, everybody's trying to 
move forward. 

497
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,640
Board of pastors presented the 
vision for the year. 

498
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,000
And then and we're trying to, 
we're trying to get people to 

499
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,600
church and we're trying to be 
faithful and we're giving and 

500
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,760
we're tithing and we're 
supporting missionaries and 

501
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,920
we're going soul winning and 
we're, we're fasting and we're 

502
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,520
praying. 
It's like, man, what is the 

503
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,320
problem? 
It's that one guy in the back. 

504
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,440
I don't like what we're doing. 
I don't like the direction we're

505
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,560
going in. 
And the and the preacher has to 

506
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,680
get up, take the cattle prod 
back there and say, hey, we're 

507
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,240
going that way, we ain't going 
that way. 

508
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,400
We're not going that way, we're 
going that way. 

509
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,840
Get with the program. 
We're trying to establish a 

510
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,880
direction. 
It's amazing how many people in 

511
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:09,080
the church so out of step with 
what God's trying to do Amazing 

512
00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:12,040
Have a business meeting at our 
church. 

513
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,120
If it's depend on what it is. 
We have a secret ballot. 

514
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,640
We don't vote on everything. 
We don't vote on whether or not 

515
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,480
we use one ply or two ply toilet
paper. 

516
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,280
We don't vote on that. 
We just, but if we're going to 

517
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,080
spend a lot of money, do 
something big, we'll have a 

518
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:29,000
business meeting and we'll, 
we'll have a secret ballot. 

519
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:36,600
And it'd be amazing. 
It'd be like almost 100% 

520
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,400
unanimous. 
And it'd be like one person was 

521
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,000
against it. 
And I wanted to just stand up 

522
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:46,600
and say I don't know which one 
of you cats voted no, but just 

523
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,520
so you can go home and not and 
know that you're completely out 

524
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,480
of step with the entire church. 
You're out of step with the 

525
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,080
church, you're out of step with 
everybody in the church. 

526
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,720
You're out of step with the man 
of God. 

527
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:00,320
You're out of escape. 
You're going in the. 

528
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,360
Opposite direction. 
Just want you to do that. 

529
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,480
I've always wanted to do that. 
Praise God. 

530
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,360
The last 4567 meetings we've had
has been unanimous because I 

531
00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:13,720
told the church, I said if I 
could ever say this what God 

532
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,760
wants us to do. 
And we prayed about it and we've

533
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,120
got some counsel. 
I said everybody's to get on. 

534
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,000
Board, what we're doing. 
But sometimes there's always 

535
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,440
that one that's all that one. 
And you got a poke and you got a

536
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,600
prod. 
We're trying. 

537
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,680
We're trying to get people to 
follow Jesus. 

538
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,400
We're trying to get people to 
follow God. 

539
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,280
And boy, sometimes, as a 
songwriter says, prone to 

540
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,360
wonder. 
Lord, I feel it prone to leave 

541
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,760
the God I love and you start 
dabbling around in carnality and

542
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,920
the world and you're over here 
like the preacher just preached 

543
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,280
about pitching your tent towards
Sodom and you read that verse 

544
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,320
where it talked about him 
pitching his tent towards Sodom.

545
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,640
He said he looked over the 
plane, said it looked it looked 

546
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,000
like Egypt. 
Satan verse says it looked like 

547
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,640
the garden of God. 
You know, if you look at Egypt 

548
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,880
long enough, it looks like it's 
from God, but nothing of Egypt 

549
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,240
ever looks like anything of God.
Egypt. 

550
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,880
And God's in opposite 
directions. 

551
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,240
Sometimes we get distracted and 
we get, we get involved in 

552
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,520
things and the preacher has to 
get up here and he has to take 

553
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,320
the word of God. 
That's quick and powerful and 

554
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,680
sharp, and he has to use pointed
words to get us back in the 

555
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,200
right direction. 
And I would not be where I'm at 

556
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,560
right now, Brother Boots, if God
hadn't put me in my life all the

557
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,800
years ago that got him preaching
pointed messages to me. 

558
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,600
I'm glad they didn't tiptoe 
through the tulips when I was a 

559
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,160
little kid. 
They got up and told me what 

560
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,200
thus saith the Lord. 
And this is what you need to do.

561
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,160
This is what you want to do. 
And they didn't, they didn't, 

562
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,000
they didn't make any sound like 
it was optional. 

563
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,960
This is what God wants you to do
and where I'm at because I'm 

564
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,320
pointed. 
Preaching, Amen. 

565
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:50,160
Not only is it goading words and
guiding words, but thirdly, it's

566
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,080
growing words. 
Growing words. 

567
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,240
Or we could say it. 
We could, we could say it like 

568
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,240
this, we could say it like this.
We could say it was graduating 

569
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,480
words. 
And that's the statement in the 

570
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,080
phrase in the middle, verse 11, 
the words of the wise are as 

571
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,640
goads. 
He's continuing this thought and

572
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:13,040
the words of the wise are as 
nails fastened by the masters of

573
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,600
assemblies. 
It's graduating words. 

574
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,600
There's there's an assembly 
being done. 

575
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,640
There's a building, there's a 
growing, there is a putting 

576
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,440
together piece by piece by piece
by piece until you get a 

577
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,040
finished product. 
Now, I'm a Carpenter. 

578
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,360
I'm not the best, but I make the
best. 

579
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:38,000
Very nervous. 
This pulpit right here used to 

580
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,800
be in a lumberyard. 
This, all the stuff that makes 

581
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,360
this up. 
This used to be in a lumberyard.

582
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,120
Somebody took lumber and they 
made a pulpit out of it. 

583
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,120
That piano, Can you believe 
that? 

584
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,360
This piano, there was a bunch of
boards at one time laying on a 

585
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,240
rack at a lumberyard, but 
somebody that knew what they 

586
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,120
were doing. 
And that's why it says Masters 

587
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,200
of assembly, not everybody can 
do it. 

588
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,960
Not everybody can do it because 
there's a trick to it. 

589
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,640
You got to learn. 
You got to learn how to do it 

590
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,120
from somebody that knows how to 
do it. 

591
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,280
And you got to sit under them 
and watch them and they teach 

592
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,600
you and you learn how to do it. 
OK, are you all getting this? 

593
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,920
The words of the wise are as 
nails fastened by the masters of

594
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,960
assembly. 
It's very, very strategic. 

595
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,920
You don't just grab a nail gun 
and start slapping nails. 

596
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,360
I learned to frame. 
I started framing houses when I 

597
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,280
was 19. 
You 16 pinion nails. 

598
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,400
You used to go down that there's
a big old 50 LB box of nails. 

599
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,560
Grab a big old double handful, 
roll them up, stick them in your

600
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,280
in your tool pouch, line up on 
top of the house and start hand 

601
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,920
driving nails. 
We built everything hand drive 

602
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,360
back in that before they had 
nail guns. 

603
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,520
You've done it framing walls, 
raise them up, put your ceiling 

604
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,400
joy stone, put your rafters on 
all of them by hand, every bit 

605
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,960
of them by hand. 
But you don't use 16 penny nails

606
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,520
in a framing hammer. 
When you're putting together 

607
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,400
this thing right here. 
There's a different tools, 

608
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:19,680
different nails, very strategic.
It's very precise. 

609
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,360
It's very systematic. 
We're trying to build something.

610
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,720
The man of God gets him in the 
pulpit and he begins to preach 

611
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,320
and he might be sitting back 
going, what are we doing? 

612
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,720
He's building. 
Paul said. 

613
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,720
He says I'm a wise master 
builder. 

614
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,200
That's what Paul said. 
Is that not what he's saying? 

615
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,360
I believe it's what he said. 
I think it's Chapter 3. 

616
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,640
He says I'm a wise master 
builder. 

617
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,360
He was talking about himself by 
the way. 

618
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,360
Well, I I beat with having a 
construction background and and 

619
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,880
being fascinated by intrigued by
the whole idea. 

620
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,840
Yeah, that's what he said. 
I knew that's what it is what he

621
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,520
said. 
First Corinthians 3 and verse 

622
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,120
number and 10 according to the 
grace of God, which is given to 

623
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,040
me as a wise master builder. 
I've laid the foundation another

624
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,000
buildeth their own. 
Let every man take heed how he 

625
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000
buildeth their own and God laid 
it on Pastor Boots heart. 

626
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,440
Take this church and move it in 
a direction. 

627
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,680
It's got to be done 
strategically and systematically

628
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,480
and it's very intentional. 
I wonder why he's preaching on 

629
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,520
this. 
I wonder why he's preaching on 

630
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,160
this series. 
I wonder why he's preaching 

631
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,360
through this book. 
It's it's on purpose. 

632
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:29,720
It's all on purpose. 
And the whole idea, the whole 

633
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:35,360
idea is to try to build you as a
Christian, put things in your 

634
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,520
hands that you can go forward 
and, and you think about a nail,

635
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,120
You think about a nail. 
That nail, when you drive that 

636
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:47,400
nail, it stays the same. 
Pulpit was here last year, I 

637
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,880
believe. 
It's amazing. 

638
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,960
Through all the preaching, it 
didn't come apart. 

639
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,400
Whoever put it together, they 
did it right because it's still 

640
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,200
here. 
Do you realize that when the 

641
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,480
preacher gets up and preaches 
the Word of God, he's trying to 

642
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,840
drive home a biblical principle 
or truth or concept, and he 

643
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,960
wants you to get it nailed down 
in your mind, nailed down in 

644
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,320
your heart, so that you're not 
still battling with that, 

645
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,280
struggling with that. 
Three years from now, five 

646
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,520
years, 10 years from now, The 
hope and prayer, you young 

647
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,800
people, listen to me. 
The hope and prayer is that at 

648
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,880
an early age, you get some 
things nailed down in your life 

649
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,000
now and you won't ever have to 
deal with it again. 

650
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,000
Been to the Biltmore House in 
Asheville, NC Any of you has 

651
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,240
ever been to Biltmore House? 
Absolutely fascinating from a 

652
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,360
builder's perspective because 
you won't see a single nail. 

653
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,080
I don't know how in the world 
they did it. 

654
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,200
I don't know how they did it. 
This is before this is before 

655
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,160
modern tools. 
I don't know how they it's 

656
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,640
unbelievable that that that 
stained grade wood, the way it's

657
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,360
cut and it's assembled. 
You don't see nail holes, You 

658
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,040
don't see putty, you don't see 
Bondo, you don't see called. 

659
00:33:55,040 --> 00:34:01,200
But it's, it's unreal. 
Master Craftsman 100 and 5200 

660
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,520
years ago, that house was built 
whenever it was by the 

661
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,520
Vanderbilt. 
Still there, still there. 

662
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,400
Can I tell you something? 
The pastor's job and pastor's 

663
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,639
responsibility is to give you 
the truth, teach you the word of

664
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:16,000
God. 
You get it nailed down in your 

665
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,320
life. 
And listen to me. 

666
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,080
Sometimes it hurts. 
You can't nail two boards 

667
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,560
together without putting a hole 
in it. 

668
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,960
There's going to be some 
piercing, there's going to be 

669
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,920
some penetration, but that's got
to happen. 

670
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:36,320
That thing to stay there, you 
got to die to sell, you got to 

671
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,159
surrender. 
You got to yield to the voice of

672
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:41,639
God, Say Lord, that's your word,
that's your Bible, that's your 

673
00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,440
truth. 
I'm going to submit to it. 

674
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,840
Let God just go ahead and get it
nailed down in your life. 

675
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,120
Get it nailed down in your life.
Just go ahead and nail it down 

676
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,920
that you're going to be at 
church every time, Doors wrote. 

677
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,360
If you ever have the option, if 
the option's ever on the table 

678
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,400
to miss church, you will miss 
church. 

679
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,560
Go ahead and get it nailed down 
that you're going to be faithful

680
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,760
to soul winning. 
If it ever becomes optional, 

681
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,720
they'll come a day you'll quit 
going tithing. 

682
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,480
Given the missions, supporting 
the work of God, getting 

683
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,880
involved in the ministry, all 
those things ought to be nailed 

684
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:15,160
down in your life. 
Some people, I don't think they 

685
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,080
nailed it. 
I think they, I think they, I 

686
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,400
think they just duct taped it 
and it's getting loose. 

687
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,560
But not only do we see the 
goading words and the guiding 

688
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,920
words and the graduating words, 
but we see lastly the guarding 

689
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,200
words. 
They're guarding words. 

690
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:34,040
He's pointed in his words and he
closed out verse 11 words of the

691
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,040
wise words goads and his nails 
fastened by the masses of 

692
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:41,280
assembly which are given from 1 
Shepherd Shepherd. 

693
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,360
Those pointed messages, those 
messages that make you 

694
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,040
uncomfortable, those messages 
that convict you that make your 

695
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,920
hand sweaty. 
Those, those messages and those 

696
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,440
statements from the pulpit that 
that goes against your flesh. 

697
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,800
That is a that is a under 
shepherd up here in this pulpit 

698
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,840
that's trying to protect you 
from the wolves. 

699
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,400
You know what thinking about 
just thinking about the whole 

700
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,960
uncomfortable aspect of the of 
the goading. 

701
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,960
Do you know what the ancient 
shepherd used to use for sheep? 

702
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:20,400
Voles, branches and thorns. 
They would pile them up in a big

703
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,240
old They can make them. 
They can make one temporary. 

704
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:24,320
If they wanted to. 
They'd cut down those thorn 

705
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,640
trees and make a big circle. 
I'd keep those sheep in there, 

706
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,680
keep them away from the fence, 
trying to get climb under to try

707
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,040
to knock it over. 
It was very uncomfortable for 

708
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,160
them to try to get out of where 
they were supposed to be. 

709
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,120
And then the shepherd himself 
would lay down in the door. 

710
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,520
He used to sit down in the door.
He'd lay down in that door, keep

711
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,880
the sheep in, keep the wolves 
out, being vigilant. 

712
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,600
He went to hire and he was a 
real shepherd. 

713
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,560
But all that's the guard. 
I wouldn't go to a church where 

714
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,200
the preaching never made me 
uncomfortable. 

715
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,760
Amen. 
There's something wrong. 

716
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,560
There's something wrong. 
One of my young preacher boys in

717
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,000
our Bible college, he came to me
this morning. 

718
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,320
He just started. 
The next year. 

719
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,000
We're going to get into the 
preaching class, but he just 

720
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,680
started. 
So he's catching the end of the 

721
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,760
third year and now we're going 
to start our first year in the 

722
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,240
fall. 
So we're wrapping up our first 

723
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:15,640
three years of our Bible 
college. 

724
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,280
He came to me, he said, 
preacher, I taught Sunday school

725
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,920
this morning, but I really got, 
I believe God wants me to take 

726
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,520
that same passage and preach it 
tonight in the rescue mission 

727
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,600
after the service. 
And then he says to me, what 

728
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:33,240
love he said, He said, how do I 
take something that I taught and

729
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:35,440
how do I preach it? 
How do I, what's the difference 

730
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,560
in teaching and preaching? 
I said we're going to do a whole

731
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,760
semester class on that. 
There is a difference. 

732
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,040
That's right. 
Teaching is information. 

733
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,280
Teaching is educational. 
Teaching is challenging. 

734
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,520
Preaching forces you to make a 
decision about the message. 

735
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,160
That's right. 
Preaching by nature is very 

736
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,280
confrontational. 
The difference, if you want, in 

737
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,240
a nutshell, preaching forces it 
backs you up in the corner to 

738
00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:02,960
where you're forced to make a 
decision. 

739
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,320
What am I gonna do with this 
message? 

740
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:08,320
That's why people are leaving. 
They're leaving churches with 

741
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,200
sound doctrine and heaping to 
themselves teachers. 

742
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:14,760
Having itching ears because it's
not confrontational, it's not 

743
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,160
pushing them out of their 
comfort zone. 

744
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:17,680
They're not having to change 
anything. 

745
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,360
They're not having to adapt 
anything. 

746
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,760
They're not having to stop doing
anything or start doing 

747
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,760
anything. 
But the fact of the matter is, 

748
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,600
hey, hey, hey, the words of the 
wise race goats. 

749
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,640
And it sounds painful and it 
sounds uncomfortable and 

750
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,320
they're, but they're they're 
they're like nails fastened by 

751
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,720
the masters of assembly, which 
you're given from 1 shepherd. 

752
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,000
I love you. 
I want you to stay in the fold. 

753
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,720
I don't want you. 
I don't want you to become a 

754
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:41,760
casualty. 
I don't want the wolves to get 

755
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:42,920
you. 
I don't want the bears and the 

756
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,920
lions to get you. 
I want you to stay right up in 

757
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,400
here where you're supposed to 
be, where God can work and move 

758
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,360
in your life. 
There's a whole lot more in 

759
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,880
these verses, but I feel like 
God want me to finish here 

760
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,400
because the preacher was wise. 
He was persistent in his work. 

761
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,600
Thank God for a preacher that 
don't get discouraged and quit 

762
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,760
and change his message because 
he's worried about somebody 

763
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:08,520
saying I don't like that. 
I told my people, I said I'll, I

764
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,320
will sit at your table. 
I will hunt and your deer stand 

765
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,120
and I will fish out of your bass
boat. 

766
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,400
But when I get up in this 
pulpit, I'm not your friend. 

767
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,600
I'm the man of God with a 
message from God and I don't 

768
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,400
care who likes it and who don't 
like it. 

769
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,600
I ain't changing it for nobody. 
And that's what a preacher is 

770
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:25,840
supposed to say. 
Amen. 

771
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,840
Persistent in his work, 
perceptive in his wisdom. 

772
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,680
Thirdly, pointed in his words, 
the words of the wise are as 

773
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,440
goads. 
They will prick you, they will 

774
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,000
prod you, they will be sharp, 
they'll be unsettling. 

775
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,560
They will cause you to. 2nd. 
Guess where you're at and what 

776
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,000
you're doing and the decisions 
that you're about to make. 

777
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,240
That's what they're designed to 
do, to cause you and I to go in 

778
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:52,640
the right direction because God 
loves you. 

779
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,200
Hey, man, and God loves you and 
you know how much He loves you. 

780
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,920
He gave you a wise preacher. 
And listen to me. 

781
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:00,800
I can't, brother-in-law. 
I can't preach this everywhere. 

782
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,800
I could, I couldn't preach this 
message in just any church, but 

783
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,120
I'll be like, I say that about 
this one. 

784
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,200
You're a blessed group of 
people. 

785
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,400
You've got a preacher that's 
going to tell you the truth. 

786
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,040
Listen, this church, he could 
have been running five times 

787
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:21,400
this, you know it and I know it.
He could have been running five 

788
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,240
times as many people if he just 
quit preaching pointed messages,

789
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,840
leave out some of those goading 
words, and praise the Lord. 

790
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,080
It's got to be right if it's got
to be. 

791
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,720
If it's if God's going to bless 
it, it's got to be done God's 

792
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:38,960
way. 
Amen, Preacher, you come.