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And this is, you know, obviously
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could say, building blocks, 
building blocks of the Christian

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faith. 
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we've been going through with 
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everything else that we talked 
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God is one that is very 
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And as as far as introduction 
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against the world, against the 
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And the Bible says that in in 
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But we must not be surprised at 
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trouble. 
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is their job. 
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statement. 
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Esther were here over the 
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meet them and got them. 
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telling Miss Tawana and, and 
whoever was in there, Brother 

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Ryan, that, you know, I said, 
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station at 5 O clock yesterday 
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was actually this morning. 
It feels like yesterday already 

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was such a long time ago. 
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train up to New York City. 
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they're hitting like every place
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But anyway, we went to, we took 
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because they wanted to see all 
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everything. 
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the Unknown Soldier and watch 
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actually got to see something as
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got to see something that I 
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guess maybe because it was 
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they set it up. 
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schools, actually, they did it 
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but the last one that laid a 
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Unknown Soldier, they actually 
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military guys out there with the
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And then yesterday, I went up to
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know, when you're driving up 95 
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Corps museum right there, And I 
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for a Marine. 
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fought in Korea. 
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Korea, he was eligible to be 
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Cemetery, which looks very much 
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It's right around the corner 
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But we did the, there's a, 
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that's, that's within. 
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And you, as you're looking 
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at the Marine Corps Museum. 
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that we did in there as well. 
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sharp everything is. 
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Marines that were there that, 
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pallbearers. 
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sharp and crisp and, you know, 
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just all of them do it exactly 
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Esther were shocked by two, 
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 
everybody's shoes clicked at the

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same time, you know, and it's 
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stuff like this? 
How do they get their shoes to 

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click? 
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looking and they're doing it at 
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You know, it's just, it's really
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And, and, but I think this is a 
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Soldiers don't like war, but 
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We're not yet in heaven. 
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territory and we must keep 
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But I thought about this, you 
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are, as sharp as our military 
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for all those things to be sharp
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you know, how much more should 
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You know, and, and I, I mean, I 
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have different personalities and
things like that. 

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you know, it doesn't give a good
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everywhere and they, they live 
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just, I mean, I think as a 
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with everything that you do. 
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people asking me all the time. 
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Fredericksburg yesterday, my 
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you, are you in the military? 
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know. 
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in the military. 
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and the way you were dressed and
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I said, I get that a lot. 
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You know, it gives, it gives you
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the, about the Lord, right? 
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way it ought to be with 
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You know, you got to be sharp. 
You ought to do things and you 

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ought to do things to the best 
of your ability. 

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And you can do that without a 
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You don't have to have a lot of 
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sharp and to be on time and to 
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that make you stand out, right? 
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So we're in a battle. 
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I don't like confrontation. 
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don't like to have to call out 
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job. 
That's what we do as Christian 

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soldiers. 
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we're doing here on this earth. 
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we're going to fight battles, 
which by the way, that's another

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reason why, you know, crossing 
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promised land. 
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that's a, not a picture of, of 
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It's a picture of the victorious
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You don't have battles in 
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in the, in the, in the Christian
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And there are times when you 
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AI and some of these other 
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And it's a battle, it's a, it's 
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So #2 we stand in God's power. 
The believers armor is provided 

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by God. 
That's why it's called the armor

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of God. 
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verse 11 calls it that. 
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We don't stand in our own power.
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We don't have to be afraid of 
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against him and be on guard, 
right? 

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You've heard it said many times,
I've read the back of the book. 

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And we win. 
We know that we win the battle, 

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all right, or we know that we 
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We're going to lose the battle 
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available to all of us. 
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we must put it on and learn how 
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And that's what the rest of this
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those pieces of armor are, what 
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and how we should be using them.
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about with truth? 
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verse #10 and we'll read through
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loins good about with truth. 
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brethren, be strong in the Lord 
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Put on the whole armor of God, 
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against the Wiles of the devil. 
For we wrestle not against flesh

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and blood, but against 
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against the rulers of the 
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spiritual wickedness in high 
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If that does not, if that, if 
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help you understand exactly 
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today. 
We wrestle not against flesh and

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blood. 
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wrestling against, although 
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those, you know, to those, to 
these things that and we blame 

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this person or that person or 
this politician or that 

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politician. 
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the ones that are doing it. 
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them. 
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principalities, against powers, 
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darkness of this world, against 
spiritual wickedness in high 

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places. 
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unto you the whole armor of God 
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withstand in the evil day and 
having done all to stand, stand.

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Therefore having your loins girt
about with truth. 

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That's the first one loins girt 
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So the loins must be protected 
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That's your, that's your 
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that's where your power comes 
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But because if you're wounded in
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to fight. 
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God is a God of truth and his 
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Ephesians chapter 6. 
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We'll read that in a second. 
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of the ways that Christians have
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life is in this area of truth. 
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truth of God's Word, but that so
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lying or just, I mean, call it 
stretching the truth, call it 

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whatever you want to call it, 
but they have no problem saying 

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something that's going to make 
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start noticing it in your own 
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even thinking about it. 
It's like a used car salesman. 

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They'll tell you anything you 
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that car, right? 
And, and there's a lot of 

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Christians who do that with 
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everything that happens. 
Oh, yeah, I was just getting 

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ready to do that. 
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right? 
I mean, but, but we don't even 

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think about it and we say those 
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was whatever. 
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true, but nobody can prove it, 
right? 

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But we've gotten so comfortable 
and so smooth at telling lies 

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that we don't even have any 
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But what we don't realize is 
it's whether whether it's easy 

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to prove or not, if it's a lie, 
it's a lie. 

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If it's not the truth, it's not 
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And it's, it's going to harm 
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And that's what I mean, your 
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It's, it's, it's such an 
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It's where your where your power
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But verse #12 one of themselves,
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said the Cretians are always 
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bellies. 
This witness is true. 

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Wherefore rebuke them sharply 
that they may be sound in the 

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faith. 
That's the, as we're saying, in 

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contrast, the Cretians were 
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That was their reputation. 
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reputation of somebody who is a 
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Don't go to him. 
He'll tell a lie straight to 

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your face, right? 
How many Christians have that 

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reputation? 
I can't. 

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I don't know if he's I can't 
tell if he's telling me the 

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truth or not. 
How do I know if he's if he's, 

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if he's lying to me or not, 
right? 

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Because we just lie so easily. 
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John 844 What is that? 
You are of your father the devil

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and the lust of your father. 
You will do It was a murderer 

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from the beginning, and abode 
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When he speaketh a lie, he 
speaketh of his own, for he is a

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liar, and the father of it Lying
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It doesn't matter if you call it
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It doesn't matter if you call it
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It doesn't matter what you call 
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A lie is a lie if it's not the 
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right? 
And it's of the old sinful 

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nature. 
Ephesians chapter 4 in verse 22 

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through 25, it talks about that.
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It's of this world and we must 
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man, which is Christ. 
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Christ, he is a new creature. 
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Behold, all things are become 
new. 

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Look at Zacchaeus, right? 
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of that. 
Zacchaeus was a tax collector. 

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He was a liar, he was a cheat. 
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got saved, everything changed, 
right? 

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He gave all the money back. 
He quit the lies. 

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At least that's that's what 
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God's Word. 
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this turn over to Revelation. 
This is a completely off topic, 

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but it goes right along with 
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I believe it is. 
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Talk about repentance, right? 
And, and this and just, you 

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know, I brought up that verse, 
First Corinthians 517. 

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Therefore, if any man be in 
Christ, he's a new creature. 

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Old things are passed away. 
Behold, all things have become 

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new. 
And you got this, this new idea 

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out there today. 
It's not new, but it's, it's 

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around. 
And, and a lot of people have 

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talked about it. 
You know, repentance is just a 

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change from unbelief to belief. 
No, it is, it is repenting. 

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Repenting of your sin is 
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and wanting to put that sin away
and going in a different 

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direction, right? 
And I've said this 1000 times, 

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we don't stop sinning in order 
to be saved. 

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But when you get saved, you 
should stop sinning. 

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There ought to be a change in 
your life, right? 

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And you have all these people. 
Oh, that's works. 

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You're trying to tell people 
that they have to stop sinning 

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in order to be saved and that 
they have to repent of the of 

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all their evil works and 
everything else. 

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Well, look at this, OK, 
Revelation Chapter 9 and verse 

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#20. 
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were not killed by these 
plagues, yet repented not of the

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works of their hands, that they 
should not worship devils and 

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idols of gold and silver and 
brass and stone, and of wood, 

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which can neither see nor hear 
nor walk, Neither repented they 

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of their murders, nor of their 
sorceries, nor of their 

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fornication, nor of their 
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So I guess everything changes 
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actually have to get saved by 
works, right? 

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No, it's because that's what 
repenting is. 

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Repenting is turning away from 
those things. 

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And he said these men that 
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right? 
That's what repentance is. 

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So anyway, side point, but 
that's a great verse. 

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If if when people try to tell 
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a change from unbelief to belief
and that you're trying to add 

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works to salvation when you're 
bringing repentance into the 

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issue. 
That's, I mean, that's a perfect

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verse for that because it very 
plainly lists things that they 

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did not repent of that needed to
change. 

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But anyway, lying, lying is of 
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reasons why people lie. 
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caused by fear. 
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Abraham to lie about his wife 
not once but twice right when he

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was in Egypt. 
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through 13. 
I think this is a wonderful 

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passage because Abimelech was 
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his wife Sarah, who was his half
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And Abimelech said, oh wow, 
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Is this who is this your wife? 
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my sister. 
Don't kill me and take her, 

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right? 
So Abimelech said, great, if 

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she's not your wife, then bring 
her to me. 

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I'm going to marry her, right. 
But what the Bible says, and 

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this is a wonderful passage that
Abimelech, God came to Abimelech

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in a dream and told him that 
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And he said, I did it in the 
innocence. 

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I, I didn't, I didn't intend to 
lie. 

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I didn't intend to sleep with 
this woman and, and, and sin 

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against God, right? 
And, and the Bible says that God

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kept Abimelech from sinning 
against him because of that, 

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right. 
But it was fear that motivated 

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Abraham to lie about he was 
afraid for his life. 

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He thought that he was going to 
get killed if he didn't lie 

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about it. 
Peter denied Jesus out of fear 

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of man. 
Luke 22 talks about the same 

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thing. 
All right, Proverbs 22 and verse

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2529, verse 25. 
The fear of man bringeth A 

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snare. 
The Bible says there in that 

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passage. 
But lying is often caused by 

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hatred as well. 
In fact, let's turn over to 

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Proverbs 26. 
This is a verse that you'll 

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recognize, hopefully. 
Proverbs 26 and verse 28. 

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A lying tongue hateth those that
are afflicted by it, and a 

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flattering mouth worketh through
it. 

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A lying tongue hateth those that
are afflicted by it. 

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So lying is often caused by 
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People tell lies about other 
people to hurt them. 

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That's why the devil told lies 
to Eve. 

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That's the motive behind 
spreading false rumors. 

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This is a pretty interesting 
thing he says. 

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In the 1980's the head of the 
Bible Society in Nepal sent out 

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a letter to the church is 
claiming that I, David Cloud, 

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had burned Bibles, but it was a 
complete lie. 

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He did that because he wanted to
force me to stop preaching and 

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leave the country. 
This is a really interesting 

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one. 
Hindus tell lies about 

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Christians to hurt the cause of 
Christ. 

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For example, some Hindus in 
Nepal say that Christians must 

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be baptized naked in cows blood.
Well, that's enough to keep me 

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from converting to Christianity,
right? 

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And that's what they're trying 
to do. 

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But it's, it's lies that are 
that are being spread because of

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what? 
Hatred? 

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They hate the Christians and 
they don't want to see people 

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convert. 
So they make up things about 

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them to try to keep people from 
converting. 

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So it's caused by fear. 
It's caused by hatred. 

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Lying is also. 
And if you're still there in 

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Proverbs, turn over to Proverbs 
chapter 20. 

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Lying is caused by covetousness.
And boy, this is a big one. 

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This is a really big one, 
especially for those who are 

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businessmen out there. 
Easy to tell a lie about 

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something. 
Boy, isn't this, isn't this what

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we see happen so often? 
And that's why, again, that's, 

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that's why we have, you know, 
the, the reputation out there of

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a used car salesman. 
They'll tell you anything you 

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want to hear as long as you buy 
the car. 

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And it might, it might barely 
make it off the lot, but it made

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it off the lot. 
You know, they'll put something 

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in it that'll make it so it runs
smooth until the next time you 

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have to change the gas, or I 
mean, put gas in it or, or do 

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something else. 
And the next thing you know, 

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it's sputtering and shaking and 
falling apart, right? 

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They'll tell you whatever they 
have to tell you because of 

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covetousness. 
They want that money, right? 

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Salesman. 
A lot of times the salesman have

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pressure that's being put on 
them by their bosses or by the 

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president of the country or by 
whoever to lie to somebody to 

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get them to buy a product, 
right? 

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And as Christians, a lot of 
Christians fall into that trap. 

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Well, it's just business. 
I just this what I have to do, 

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right? 
If I'm honest, I wouldn't sell 

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anything. 
Well, you don't think God will 

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bless your honesty? 
Absolutely He will. 

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And if there is no other choice 
than to tell a lie, then you're 

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in the wrong profession and you 
need to find something else. 

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It is never right to tell a lie.
But it all comes down to 

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covetousness, right? 
Proverbs chapter 20 and verse 

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#14 it is not. 
It is not, saith the buyer. 

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But when he has gone his way, 
then he boasted, oh, it's 

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nothing, it's nothing. 
Then he starts boasting about 

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it, right? 
Proverbs 21 and verse #6 the 

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getting of treasures by a lying 
tongue is a vanity tossed to and

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fro of them that seek death. 
That's a pretty strong 

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statement. 
The I mean, but that's exactly 

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what he's talking about. 
If you're making money because 

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you're lying to somebody to try 
to get them to buy your product 

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or to buy into whatever it is 
that you're doing, the getting 

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of treasures by a lying tongue 
is a vanity tossed to and fro. 

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So people lie when they want to 
buy or sell. 

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They also lie to gain position 
and power, such as in politics. 

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Boy, if we don't have a perfect 
example of that in the 

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governor's mansion right now, 
somebody who ran as a moderate 

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and, oh, I'm not going to raise 
your taxes and I'm not going to 

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gerrymander the elections, and 
I'm not going to do this and I'm

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not going to do that. 
And before they'd even sworn her

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in, they were already saying all
the things that they were going 

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to do. 
And they did all of them, right?

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I mean, a few of them got struck
down, thankfully. 

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But all of the, the gun laws in 
the, you know, this 

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gerrymandering thing, I mean, 
when you say this is a temporary

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measure to bring fairness to the
elections, I mean, that's about 

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as about as straight of a lie as
you can tell somebody, right? 

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They know full well that it's 
not going to be a temporary 

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measure and they know that it's 
not bringing fairness to the 

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elections. 
But that's how they're selling 

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it to everybody because they 
want that position and they want

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that power, right? 
And it's all about covetousness 

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because when you're in that 
position and you have that 

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power, you make a lot of money, 
right? 

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Which is why Ilhan Omar and 
these other ones who are making 

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$170,000 a year in Congress are 
now multi, multi, multi 

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millionaires. 
How long has she been in 

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Congress? 
Like 5 years, Six years, and 

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she's worth $30 million, making 
$170,000 a year. 

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Isn't that an amazing thing? 
I'm in the wrong business. 

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Maybe I need to go to Congress 
and see what they're doing 

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right. 
But that's exactly what it is. 

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It's all it's lying that's 
caused by covetousness. 

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And then I think both of these 
go hand in hand. 

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But lying is caused by 
selfishness and pride. 

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It's often inconvenient in this 
world to speak the truth, all 

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right? 
That's why Ananias and Sapphira 

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lied in Acts chapter 5. 
They had pretended to be more 

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spiritual than they were, and 
they lied in an attempt to hide 

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their selfishness. 
Well, I think that's a lot of 

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people don't necessarily lie 
only with their lips. 

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People lie with their life too, 
right? 

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You show up at church and you're
one way. 

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You act like you're something 
that you're not. 

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You're somebody completely 
different when you're at home. 

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That's telling a lie. 
It's lying about who you are 

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based on who you're around, 
right? 

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And boy, there's a lot of things
that we could say about that, 

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but it's caused by selfishness 
and pride. 

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Why? 
Well, if somebody finds out that

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that's the real me, then I'm 
going to lose my, you know, my 

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reputation at church, and I'm 
going to lose my reputation at 

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work and I'm going to lose my 
reputation at this place. 

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And it's all about selfishness 
and pride. 

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So lies destroy the believer 
spiritual armor and allow the 

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devil to have an inroad into his
life for one big reason. 

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What is Psalm 6618? 
If I regard iniquity in my 

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heart, the Lord will not hear 
me, right? 

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So is a lie a sin? 
Is a lying iniquity, right? 

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And how often do we confess 
those things to God after we 

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just told somebody without even 
thinking about it? 

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, don't 
worry about that. 

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I got that. 
Or or. 

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No, that's not the way that is 
or. 

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No, that's not what happened. 
This is what happened. 

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And it was knowing full well 
that it was a lie, right? 

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It's lying is one of the easiest
sins. 

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I think maybe, maybe throw in 
pride and maybe some 

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unthankfulness and maybe some 
covetousness and things in there

444
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,080
like that. 
But lying is one of the easiest 

445
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:10,880
sins to commit because most of 
it is done so easy that nobody 

446
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,160
knows that that's what you're 
doing many times. 

447
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,120
And it's very easy to get away 
with it. 

448
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,520
Now, obviously you get caught 
and then it's a big problem. 

449
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,680
But most people are not telling 
big lies. 

450
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,720
Most people are just telling 
little lies. 

451
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,320
Little lies here and. 
There and they never confess it,

452
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:27,720
they never ask God's 
forgiveness. 

453
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,880
And then they then they're going
to show up in their prayer 

454
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,000
closet. 
They're going to show up at a 

455
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,760
prayer meeting. 
They expect that God is going to

456
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,520
hear them. 
If I regard iniquity in my 

457
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,120
heart, the Lord will not hear 
me. 

458
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,880
Lying is sin just the same way. 
And so when you lie you, you 

459
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,440
lose the armor that protects you
and you give the devil an inroad

460
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,680
into your life. 
So back in Ephesians chapter 6. 

461
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,480
The Armor of God. 
Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 

462
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,480
#14 we read the first half of 
that verse. 

463
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,640
Stand there for having your 
loins good about with truth, but

464
00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:01,080
then also having on the 
breastplate of righteousness. 

465
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,280
The breastplate covers the heart
and it's a very important part 

466
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,320
of the soldiers armor, right? 
Which is why most of the time 

467
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,600
when, when the the soldiers, 
especially in our military, 

468
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,000
obviously they're not wearing 
armor, but they're wearing a 

469
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,400
version of it. 
And almost always that, that 

470
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,280
body armor that they wear is 
protecting they're midsection, 

471
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,560
right? 
You got a lot of vital organs in

472
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,040
that area. 
And your heart is the most 

473
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,000
important of all of them. 
If you get shot in the heart, 

474
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,360
you don't have much of a chance 
of surviving, right? 

475
00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,840
So the breastplate covers that, 
that very important area. 

476
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,040
So the protection is righteous 
living. 

477
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,920
And again, I, I, I, I try as as 
much as I can to stress the 

478
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,240
importance of that holiness in 
the importance of holy living, 

479
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,440
the importance of righteousness 
in our lives. 

480
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,720
And we go back to Ephesians 
chapter 4 through 6 talks about 

481
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,320
putting away all of those 
things. 

482
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,320
So let's go back to the 
Ephesians chapter 4 and we'll 

483
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,680
just cover these quickly. 
But what is what is righteous 

484
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,160
living? 
Well, it's putting away anger. 

485
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,680
Verse 26, be angry and sin not 
let not the sun go down upon 

486
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,040
your wrath. 
It's not stealing. 

487
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,600
Verse 28 Let him that stole 
steal no more, but rather let 

488
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,880
him labor working with his 
hands, the things, the thing 

489
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,600
which is good, that he may have 
to give to him that needeth 

490
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,800
working and giving to help 
others. 

491
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:22,000
Verse 28 Then he may that that 
he may have to give to him that 

492
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,280
needeth right. 
That's another one pure speech. 

493
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,120
Verse 29 let no corrupt 
communication proceed out of 

494
00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:31,760
your mouth, but that which is 
good to the use of edifying that

495
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,240
it may minister grace unto the 
hearers. 

496
00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:35,880
By the way, turn over to keep 
your finger there. 

497
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,640
Turn over to Matthew chapter 12.
Talk about pure speech. 

498
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,840
I pointed this verse. 
Out before but it's been a 

499
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,040
little while since I pointed 
this out Matthew chapter 12. 

500
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,680
I want you to think about this 
because boy, this is this puts a

501
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,080
whole new perspective on pure 
speech. 

502
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,960
Matthew chapter 12 And this is 
Jesus talking, He's talking to 

503
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,320
the Pharisees, which He was 
constantly on the Pharisees, 

504
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,160
obviously because of who they 
were, and what they were, and 

505
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,600
how they were. 
But verse #36 the Bible says 

506
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:14,320
this, But I say unto you, that 
every idle word that men shall 

507
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,520
speak, they shall give account 
thereof in the day of judgment. 

508
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,240
Every idle. 
Word that men shall speak, they 

509
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,160
shall give account thereof in 
the day of judgment. 

510
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,600
I wonder how many idle? 
Words we have in a day. 

511
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,840
Where we say things. 
And by the way, that would be 

512
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,680
your cuss words. 
That'd be your words that are 

513
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,320
close to your cuss words, right?
Those are idle words. 

514
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,880
They're they're words that just 
don't mean anything that you're 

515
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,480
that you just throw in and add 
to your speech for no reason, 

516
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,480
right. 
But could you imagine what that 

517
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,840
list is going to look like when 
we stand before God and He says 

518
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,120
that every idle word you're 
going to give account thereof in

519
00:24:56,120 --> 00:25:00,760
the day of judgement? 
That means you ought to. 

520
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,760
Be very careful about the words 
that you use and what you say 

521
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,960
and how you say it and when you 
say it right doesn't doesn't 

522
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,960
really leave a whole lot of room
for for cursing and swearing and

523
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,480
all of those other things right 
something that we have to be 

524
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,400
very careful about. 
But that's what he says. 

525
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,200
If you're going to live 
righteously, then let no corrupt

526
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,720
communication proceed out of 
your mouth, but that which is 

527
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,960
good to the use of edifying that
it may minister grace unto the 

528
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,400
hearers right being kind and 
forgiving. 

529
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,480
Verse 32 Be kind one to another,
tender hearted, forgiving one 

530
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,480
another, even as God for 
Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

531
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,800
Putting away fornication and 
uncleanness. 

532
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,400
Chapter 5 and verse #3 But 
fornication and all uncleanness 

533
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,440
or covetousness, let it not be 
once named among you as become a

534
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,200
Saints. 
Putting away covetousness. 

535
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,120
You just mentioned that one. 
We just read it. 

536
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,720
Having no fellowship with the 
unfruitful works of darkness. 

537
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,680
Verse 11 Have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of 

538
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,360
darkness, works of darkness, but
rather reprove them. 

539
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,640
Redeeming the time. 
Verse 16 because the days are 

540
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,480
evil. 
Being a submissive wife. 

541
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,040
Wives, submit yourselves unto 
your own husband's is unto the 

542
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,200
Lord. 
Being a loving husband. 

543
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,600
Verse 25 Husbands love your 
wives, even as Christ also loved

544
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,080
the church and gave himself for 
it. 

545
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,000
Being an obedient child, 
children. 

546
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,720
Verse 1 of chapter 6, obey your 
parents in the Lord, for this is

547
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,200
right. 
Being engaged, compassionate and

548
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,080
a wise father. 
Fathers, provoke not your 

549
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,720
children to wrath. 
Being a diligent servant. 

550
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,200
Verse 5 through 8, being a just 
master #9 all of those things. 

551
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,880
And that's, that's just a small 
portion of the Bible commands 

552
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,560
that were given. 
But those are, those are ways 

553
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,040
that we protect that righteous 
living and doing things that are

554
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,760
pleasing to the Lord. 
And then and then Ephesians 

555
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,920
chapter 6, you should be right 
there because that's pretty much

556
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,720
where we ended. 
But verse #15 and your feet shot

557
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,480
with the preparation of the 
gospel of peace. 

558
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:51,800
So the believer is to be moving 
forward into the enemy's 

559
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,320
territory or not to be on the 
defense hiding behind the castle

560
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,800
walls. 
And I believe that's that's one 

561
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,200
of the reasons why Christianity 
is in the state that it's in. 

562
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,360
We have allowed the enemies of 
Christ to be on the offensive 

563
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:07,960
for far too long. 
And we've just. 

564
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,080
Sat there and taken it, right? 
They tell you that you have to 

565
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:17,120
accept LGBTQRST Plus and we just
say, OK, well, I guess I won't 

566
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:19,880
say anything about that, right? 
You see what's happening with 

567
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,680
this? 
What's that guy's name? 

568
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,600
Jaden Ivy. 
Basketball player for the 

569
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,640
Chicago Bulls, right there was 
there was a player that was on 

570
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,640
the Chicago Bulls that got that 
got arrested and got convicted 

571
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,800
of assault and battery and all 
kinds of different things and 

572
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,200
ended up spending some time in 
prison. 

573
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:42,560
They gave him a 3030 game 
suspension. 

574
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:48,400
The Chicago Bulls, Jaden Ivy 
spoke out against the NBA's 

575
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,680
Pride Awareness Month and they 
fired him. 

576
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,200
They kicked him off the team. 
They said it was conduct 

577
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,600
unbecoming or conduct 
detrimental to the team. 

578
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,440
The only thing that he did, I 
mean, he, he, he plays hard. 

579
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,520
He gets along with all of his 
teammates. 

580
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,080
He no fights, no arguments, no 
nothing. 

581
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,840
He spoke out against the LGBTQ 
and what the NBA was doing with 

582
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,920
that and the Bulls dismissed him
and said that he was detrimental

583
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,920
to the team. 
That's that. 

584
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,920
We have allowed that to happen. 
Do you know that the of all of 

585
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,640
the the gays, lesbians, 
transgender, all of those people

586
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,680
who identify with all of those 
different alphabet soup 

587
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:39,280
acronyms, 5% of the population? 
Identify as one. 

588
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,120
Of those thousand different 
things, 5%. 

589
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,440
And yet, there's something. 
Like 100 days a year where they 

590
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,520
are celebrated. 
One of them is for an entire 

591
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,440
month. 
There's such a small. 

592
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,720
Portion of the population, you 
know why they went on the 

593
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,400
offense and everybody else, 
Christians included, went on the

594
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,400
defense and said, OK, let's just
hide behind the the walls of the

595
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,120
church. 
Let's hide behind our Bibles. 

596
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,240
And you guys just go do what 
you're going to do because we 

597
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:06,440
don't want to be offensive to 
you. 

598
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,360
So you just, you just continue 
to go on the offense. 

599
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,040
If the 95% of the people that 
don't agree with it would 

600
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,880
actually stand up to it. 
There would be no LGBTQ plus in 

601
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,640
the United States. 
There would be no 

602
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,240
transgenderism. 
There would be no transgender 

603
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,640
issues that we're fighting 
against. 

604
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,680
There would be no lawsuits 
because you're trying to force 

605
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,640
somebody to make a cake for your
gay wedding. 

606
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,280
There wouldn't be any of those 
things. 

607
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,440
But we went on the defensive, 
they went on the offensive and 

608
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,880
we just let it happen. 
Right, we need to get back. 

609
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,160
On the offensive and if and if 
Christians would all stand up 

610
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,040
together. 
You see the reason why people 

611
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,600
like Jaden Ivy don't stand up is
because they most people don't 

612
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,560
want to lose their jobs. 
And so they just don't say 

613
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,640
anything because long as it 
doesn't affect me. 

614
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,640
Long as it doesn't affect. 
Me, I'm not going to say 

615
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,280
anything about it, right? 
If every Christian that agreed 

616
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,320
with him would actually stand up
and agree with him, he'd 

617
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,000
probably get his job back. 
He'd probably get $1,000,000 and

618
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,280
win a lawsuit and everything 
else, and then they would never 

619
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,040
do that again, right? 
But all the other Christians, 

620
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,600
well, at least it wasn't me. 
They got fired from my job, 

621
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:14,840
right? 
I agree with him. 

622
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,600
I wish more people would stand 
up and do that, but not me, 

623
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:19,560
right? 
Because we're living on the 

624
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,200
defensive instead of on the 
offensive. 

625
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,920
We let them live on the 
offensive. 

626
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,800
And there's such a tiny 
percentage of them, and I'm not,

627
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,080
I mean, that's just one issue. 
I mean, think about the 

628
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,960
abortionist. 
I mean, there's not that many 

629
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,640
that agree with abortion, but 
they're loud, they're vocal, 

630
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,400
they're offensive about it. 
And everybody else just. 

631
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,320
Says, OK, well we don't want to 
offend that tiny little portion 

632
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,480
of the of the population. 
So you guys just go ahead and do

633
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,200
what you're going to do, right? 
That's how we live. 

634
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,360
We move into the devil's 
territory by proclaiming the 

635
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,960
gospel. 
This is the great light that 

636
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,280
moves back to darkness and 
that's what Jesus commanded. 

637
00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,880
Mark 1615 Go ye into all the 
world and preach the gospel to 

638
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,800
every creature, right? 
Five times. 

639
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,240
The commandment to preach the 
gospel throughout the world is 

640
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,600
repeated in the New Testament. 
Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, 

641
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,400
John 20, Acts 1, all of those 
right? 

642
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,400
That's one of the reasons why we
we give out the cards and why we

643
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,560
make it a competition to to get 
you excited about it, right? 

644
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,200
Because how else are we going to
win this world for Christ if we 

645
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,120
don't go tell them? 
How else are we going to go on 

646
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,200
the offensive if we're not out 
there putting the gospel into 

647
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,360
places where people can see it 
and getting it into their hands 

648
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,960
and, and not trying to be, but 
being in your face about it, 

649
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,640
right? 
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of

650
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,640
Christ. 
Why should I have to be sorry 

651
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,360
that I'm trying to hand you a 
track to tell you how to go to 

652
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,320
heaven, to tell you how to get 
your sins forgiven? 

653
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,680
Why should I be the one that's 
that's shamed into not doing it 

654
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:50,880
right? 
You should be ashamed of not 

655
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,680
taking a gospel track. 
But but but we're the ones who 

656
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,520
are like, I'm sorry Sir, but I 
would like to give you this. 

657
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,640
Would you, would you please take
this from me and and read it 

658
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,720
when you get a chance? 
Oh, thank you so much for taking

659
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,080
that right. 
Why do I have to be the one 

660
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,200
that's ashamed? 
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of

661
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,960
Christ. 
It's the power of God unto 

662
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,520
salvation to everyone that 
believeth. 

663
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:13,680
Right. 
But we, we are. 

664
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,400
So used to living on the 
defensive that we're afraid to 

665
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,320
do anything for the cause of 
Christ, right? 

666
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,840
And a lot of people get charged 
politically and they want to go 

667
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,040
do something in politics or a 
lot of people get charged in in 

668
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,000
business and they want to go use
their money to to affect good 

669
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,200
and do all these other things. 
What people need more than 

670
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,680
anything is Christ. 
And if we would put our efforts 

671
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,200
into winning people to Christ, 
we'd probably see a lot more 

672
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,160
people one and we would see 
people's minds being changed and

673
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,200
we would be on the offensive, 
right? 

674
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,520
And they would be the ones that 
were be on the defensive, not 

675
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,440
us. 
Putting on gospel shoes #3 

676
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,720
refers to something you do every
day and all the long life's way.

677
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,720
So when we're talking about feet
shod with the preparation of the

678
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,560
gospel of peace that is putting 
on your gospel shoes every time 

679
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,840
you wake up. 
I am ready to go give the gospel

680
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,360
out. 
I've got gospel cards with me. 

681
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,960
I've got, I've got a I'm looking
for opportunities. 

682
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,200
I'm praying and asking God to 
give me opportunity to share the

683
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,400
gospel. 
And then what he does, I'm using

684
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,440
that opportunity to share the 
gospel. 

685
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,360
There you'd be. 
When you're actually looking for

686
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,240
ways to share the gospel, you'd 
be surprised at how many ways 

687
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,800
God actually gives you to do it.
The people who always say, well,

688
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,960
I don't, I don't see that many 
people are. 

689
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,720
I don't really get that many 
opportunities. 

690
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,200
You know why? 
Because you're not looking for 

691
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,880
opportunities. 
If your feet were shod with the 

692
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,720
preparation of the gospel of 
peace, you would find a lot more

693
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,880
opportunities out there. 
You're not looking for them, so 

694
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,800
you let them pass you all the 
time. 

695
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,040
Right. 
You let them. 

696
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,120
You let. 
Those opportunities go by and 

697
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,160
you let them go by so much that 
you don't think that you get 

698
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,440
opportunities, but you do if you
look for them. 

699
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,640
And and you know what? 
Most people are not rude. 

700
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,920
There are some people who are 
rude about it, right? 

701
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,640
There are some people are going 
to say no, I don't want that, 

702
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,840
blah, blah, blah. 
Riley gave a track to somebody 

703
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,400
in Sam's the other day. 
We were walking around. 

704
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,560
Of course, they were still 
trying to get their numbers up 

705
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:15,400
for Sunday, but she gave a guy 
in Sam's a card and he said he 

706
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,639
started, you know, he took it. 
But he said, I mean, he was, he 

707
00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,760
was asking her all kinds of 
questions about, well, do you 

708
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,080
know this? 
And do you know this and do you 

709
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,120
know this weird ideas? 
I have no idea what he was 

710
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,520
talking about, you know, but 
most people are not going to be 

711
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,480
rude about it. 
They're going to take a card, 

712
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:30,600
right? 
And you just never know how 

713
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,840
God's going to use it. 
I think we'll be surprised to 

714
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,120
find out how many people are in 
heaven that, that, that scanned 

715
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,120
that video and watch that 15 
minute video and accept the 

716
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,480
Christ as their savior or people
that you talked to that you lost

717
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,520
touch with because you moved 
away. 

718
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,360
But you worked with them and you
shared the gospel with them and 

719
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,239
they got saved later on. 
And you just, you'd have no idea

720
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,159
where you went or how to get in 
touch with you. 

721
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:57,160
You're going to be surprised, I 
believe, and you're going to 

722
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,160
wish that you had done so much 
more in the area of witnessing 

723
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,200
for Christ. 
I think I've told you this 

724
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,440
illustration before, but I 
remember that there was a there 

725
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:14,840
was a, it's an old like Arab, 
you know, not wives tale, but 

726
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,040
mythical story. 
I guess these guys were walking 

727
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,240
along the road with their camels
and, and this heavenly being 

728
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:24,160
showed up right in front of them
and said, I want you to pick up 

729
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,480
these rocks in front of you and 
put them in your bag. 

730
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,360
And when you get to the when you
get to where you're going 

731
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,120
tonight, you're going to be both
excited and disappointed. 

732
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,440
And they were like, what in the?
World this thing. 

733
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,080
Disappeared and there rocks 
litter pick up rocks and put 

734
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,480
them in our bags. 
OK, fine, whatever, we'll pick 

735
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,000
up some rocks. 
So they grabbed a little handful

736
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,920
of rocks and they stuffed them 
in their bag and they got to 

737
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,800
where they were going. 
And as they were unpacking that 

738
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,320
night, they opened up their bags
and realized that those rocks 

739
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,400
had turned into diamonds. 
And of course they were excited.

740
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:54,920
Oh, look at these rocks or 
diamonds. 

741
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,160
And then they were disappointed 
because they said, oh, imagine 

742
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,320
if we had picked up a ton of 
more of them, you know, and 

743
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,360
that's, and that's exactly the 
way it is when we're going to 

744
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,160
stand before God, You know, 
we'll be excited for the ones 

745
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,800
that did get saved and we'll be 
happy that they that we led them

746
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,120
to Christ. 
But I think we're going to be so

747
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,920
disappointed that we didn't 
share the gospel more, that we 

748
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:17,720
focused on humanitarian things 
and focused on politics and 

749
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:20,280
focused on this and focused on 
that and all of these other 

750
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,280
different things, conspiracy 
theories and all these other 

751
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,800
things that we tried to do to 
change the world. 

752
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,600
When in reality, if we had just 
LED more people to Christ, we 

753
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,240
would have a lot bigger impact. 
That's what Feat shod with the 

754
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:36,960
preparation of the Gospel of 
peace is talking about. 

755
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,320
Shoes are something that you 
walk in all day long. 

756
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,240
It refers to something you're 
continually busy doing, not 

757
00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:44,520
something that's done for a 
special situation. 

758
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,320
A Christmas choir program. 
VBS program Just once in a 

759
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:51,040
while. #4 putting on. 
Gospel shoes as part of a 

760
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,760
spiritual revival because 
spreading the gospel is so close

761
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,680
to the heart of God and so 
necessary for His best blessing 

762
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,560
and for spiritual fruit. 
Those who do not. 

763
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,200
Witness do not have protection 
from the devil because they're 

764
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,440
living in disobedience to God. 
We can't effectually resist the 

765
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,800
devil until we submit to God. 
James 47. 

766
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:14,760
Submit yourselves, therefore, to
God, Resist the devil, and he 

767
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,680
will flee from you. 
You're dead tonight. 

768
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,520
Nobody's awake but putting on 
gospel shoes as part of a 

769
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,560
spiritual revival. 
Because when you lead people to 

770
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:27,600
Christ, what's the last thing 
that Jesus told people to do 

771
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,360
before he went into heaven? 
Go tell. 

772
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,120
Right, Matthew 2819 and 20, the 
last couple verses in that in 

773
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,680
the entire book of Matthew, 
right Acts chapter 1. 

774
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,480
You shall receive power after 
that. 

775
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,800
The Holy Ghost has come upon 
you, and ye shall be witnesses 

776
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,600
unto me, right? 
That's what His whole focus was 

777
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,760
on. 
The Son of Man has come to what 

778
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,240
seek and to save that which was 
lost. 

779
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:53,840
That's why He came. 
So when you do what He came to 

780
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,000
do and when you do what He told 
us to do before He went back 

781
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,560
into heaven, you were doing 
something that was very close to

782
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,240
the heart of God. 
So you will experience your own 

783
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:07,360
personal revival when you get 
busy winning souls to Christ. 

784
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,320
I want you to think about this. 
How many people have you shared 

785
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,760
the gospel with? 
Giving out tracts is great. 

786
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,320
You should. 
But how many people have you 

787
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,360
shared the gospel with in the 
last six months? 

788
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,400
How many times have you sat down
with somebody and gone through 

789
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,040
the entire plan of salvation 
with them? 

790
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,960
Now how many people? 
Have you won to Christ in the 

791
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:35,760
last, let's just say two years? 
Have you won anybody? 

792
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,760
To Christ, well, I just don't 
get opportunities. 

793
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,720
No, you do get opportunities. 
You're just not looking for them

794
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,680
or you're not looking hard 
enough because I tell you this, 

795
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,160
I get opportunities all the 
time. 

796
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:51,480
And I know that I'm. 
I'm in a little bit more of a 

797
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:56,320
position to be able to talk to 
people, but God gave me the 

798
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,480
opportunities and I took those 
opportunities. 

799
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,040
And that's why I go to breakfast
with people all the time. 

800
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,200
So I go to lunch with people all
the time. 

801
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,040
And you know what I do when I go
to lunch with them? 

802
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,560
I know what your problem is. 
You need Christ, you're building

803
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,480
on a foundation that is going to
crumble. 

804
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,240
You need to have a solid 
foundation. 

805
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:14,360
That's why your life is in the 
condition that it's in. 

806
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,040
You cannot build something 
that's going to last on a soft 

807
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,840
foundation made out of sand. 
It's going to keep crumbling. 

808
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,160
What you need is Christ. 
You need to build on a solid 

809
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,240
foundation. 
You know how easy that is to 

810
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,680
tell somebody that they're 
looking for answers. 

811
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,520
They don't know what to do. 
They don't know where to turn. 

812
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,800
They don't know what what the 
answers are. 

813
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,600
And you have them. 
But you're not looking for the. 

814
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,320
Opportunity to tell people that.
It's not hard to. 

815
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,760
Meet somebody or to, to get 
involved in some kind of 

816
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,560
organization or something like 
that and go sit down for lunch 

817
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:55,240
and give them the gospel. 
And, and I'm thankful God's 

818
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:58,080
given me some, some 
opportunities to, to witness to 

819
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:03,160
people in very high positions in
this area, supervisors and, and 

820
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,280
police officers and, you know, 
all kinds of different people. 

821
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,320
But you've got to take the. 
Opportunities. 

822
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,160
That's why God keeps giving you 
the opportunities, because He 

823
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,240
knows you're going to take it. 
You wonder why you don't ever 

824
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,120
get to give the gospel out to 
somebody because you're not 

825
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,280
looking for ways to do it. 
Feet shod with. 

826
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,440
The preparation of the gospel of
peace means you are looking for 

827
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,120
the opportunities to do that. 
And when you start sharing the 

828
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,920
gospel and you start seeing 
people get saved, you'll be 

829
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,080
surprised at how that makes you 
get your life right with God 

830
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:33,960
because you want to be effective
in doing that. 

831
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:37,520
Right. 
That's why. 

832
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:43,520
That's why my focus is so much 
on witnessing and holiness. 

833
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:49,000
They go together so closely. 
When you witness, when you share

834
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,160
the gospel, you're going to want
to live a life that's right with

835
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,600
God. 
Because why do all that if you 

836
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,160
don't have any power to share 
the gospel? 

837
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,520
If you don't have any power to 
answer the questions that they 

838
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,280
have, you don't have any wisdom 
that comes from God. 

839
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,520
But then when you're. 
Holy and when you are right with

840
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,880
God, you cannot help but 
witness, you cannot help but 

841
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,680
look for opportunities to share 
the gospel and when that's why 

842
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,680
those things go together so 
closely. 

843
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,000
And it's exactly what he's 
saying is that when you when you

844
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,800
put on the gospel shoes, it'll, 
it'll give you a personal 

845
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:28,200
revival in your own life. 
Because you start seeing. 

846
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,840
That happen. 
You can't help but. 

847
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,600
Tell somebody else and tell 
somebody else and tell somebody 

848
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,640
else and look for more 
opportunities and you get 

849
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,560
excited about it. 
That's why the reason that's 

850
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,560
that's. 
The reason why most most most 

851
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,560
Christians in most good 
independent Baptist churches. 

852
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,000
Are just. 
There. 

853
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,360
They're not doing. 
Very much at all for Christ. 

854
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,200
And they have no desire for 
witnessing. 

855
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,760
They have no real desire to be 
right with God. 

856
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,000
They have no real desire to do 
anything else. 

857
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,640
Because God gives you. 
These opportunities and your 

858
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,720
feet are not shod with the 
preparation of the gospel of 

859
00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:07,080
peace. 
You are not ready to share the 

860
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,560
gospel at at a moment's notice. 
And you see an. 

861
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,160
Opportunity and oh man, I 
probably should have give that 

862
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:14,600
one. 
I should have given him a track 

863
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:16,320
man. 
I should have. 

864
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,560
Given him a track when you say 
that 100 times. 

865
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,000
Don't you think you're kind? 
Of in a position where you need 

866
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,360
to make some changes, start 
sharing the gospel a little bit 

867
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,040
more, start listening to the 
Holy Spirit when He tells you to

868
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,520
give somebody a track and 
instead of living with regret, 

869
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,440
you live on the offensive and go
give that person a track. 

870
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,800
When you start doing it, you. 
Find out that it's really not 

871
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,440
that hard. 
It's really not. 

872
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,520
Sharing the gospel is not really
that hard. 

873
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,760
You just got to do it right. 
It's like making a presentation 

874
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,600
at work. 
First time you ever made that 

875
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,520
presentation, you're probably 
really nervous. 

876
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,880
But once you do the job and once
you've done that presentation 50

877
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,400
times, you can get up there and 
do it in your sleep almost 

878
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,280
right, Given the gospel is the 
same way, right? 

879
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,920
When you see somebody and God 
puts it on your heart to go talk

880
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,440
to them, or when you have an 
opportunity and you say, hey, 

881
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,280
how about if we get together for
lunch, let's let's talk about 

882
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,600
this, whatever it happens to be,
I know what direction I'm going 

883
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,760
to steer that conversation. 
And they're not leaving there 

884
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,200
without me sharing the gospel 
with them. 

885
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,600
They may not know that. 
Yeah. 

886
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,240
All right, that's great. 
Let's sit down for lunch. 

887
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,280
Yeah, I'd love to do that. 
Right. 

888
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,480
Who's going to who's going to 
turn that down? 

889
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:30,960
Very few people will turn that 
down. 

890
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,960
But then you always steer the 
conversation back toward giving 

891
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,760
them the gospel, and you find 
out it's really not that 

892
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,200
difficult. 
God gives you the wisdom, and 

893
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,440
God gives you the the courage 
and the boldness to do it. 

894
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,720
So those don't, those who don't 
witness, don't have the 

895
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:45,640
protection from the devil 
because they're living in 

896
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,360
disobedience to God. 
We can't effectively, 

897
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,080
effectually resist the devil 
until we submit to God #5 

898
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,960
preaching the gospel requires 
preparation. 

899
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,840
The believer must learn how to 
preach the gospel to different 

900
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,720
types of people. 
You have to learn how to deal 

901
00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:01,880
with sinners arguments. 
That reminds us that each church

902
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,680
is to be a training center to 
exhort and prepare soldiers for 

903
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,320
the warfare, right? 
I mean, I've, I've been through 

904
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,880
a whole series, I call it Wolves
in Sheep's Clothing, and talked 

905
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,680
about all the different 
religions and what they're going

906
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,840
to say to you and, and what 
their arguments are going to be 

907
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,360
against the Gospel. 
And, and I can't preach it every

908
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,280
week or every month or even 
every year. 

909
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,360
But you can go back and you can 
watch those series and you can, 

910
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,400
you can go back and look at 
those things and remind yourself

911
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,040
about how to talk to the 
Mormons, about how to talk to 

912
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,280
the Jehovah's Witnesses, about 
how to talk to the Catholics 

913
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,600
and, and you can share the 
gospel with them. 

914
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,160
And when they come to you and 
they say, well, what about this?

915
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,240
Well, yeah, you might have a 
point there. 

916
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,760
No, you don't. 
It's not in the Bible, right? 

917
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,960
But if you have no idea how to 
lead somebody to Christ, you 

918
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,800
need to get saved. 
You're on your way to hell. 

919
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,240
Well, how do I get saved? 
Well, well, you need to ask 

920
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,040
Jesus in your heart. 
What does that mean? 

921
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:54,480
If you don't have any idea what 
it. 

922
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,880
Means then how are you going to 
lead somebody to Christ, right? 

923
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,920
I've told you this before. 
Start with first John 513 in 

924
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,640
your Bible, right down next to 
it, Romans 323 and next to 

925
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,360
Romans 323, right? 
Romans 623 and next to Romans 

926
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,400
623, right? 
John 316. 

927
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,880
I mean, you can, you can, you 
can walk yourself through the 

928
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,080
Bible. 
You got to do something to 

929
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,240
prepare yourself to be able to 
share the Gospel, right? 

930
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,720
And, and if you have no idea 
what these other people believe,

931
00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:23,840
then how are you going to share 
the gospel with them, right? 

932
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:28,360
I always, when I'm, when I'm 
talking to somebody, I always 

933
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,480
try to figure out what their 
background is 1st. 

934
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:33,840
And if they tell me that, oh, I 
was raised Catholic, but you 

935
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,200
know, we didn't really stay in 
the Catholic, well, then I know 

936
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:40,120
that their mindset is everything
that they're doing is based on 

937
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,920
works more than likely, right. 
So I don't want to say all the 

938
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,760
Catholics are wrong on all of 
that stuff. 

939
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,440
Now, sometimes if they're asking
and they're, they're kind of, 

940
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,000
you know, down on the Catholic 
Church themselves, then I'll 

941
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,200
tell them all the reasons why 
everything that the Catholic 

942
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,920
Church does is wrong. 
God, God gives you the wisdom 

943
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,160
and how to, how to do those 
things right, how to talk to 

944
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,320
somebody about those things. 
But I can, I can steer that 

945
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,960
conversation in a direction away
from works and toward grace and 

946
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,520
toward a gift of God and all of 
those things. 

947
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,120
If I know their background, they
tell me they grew up Jehovah's 

948
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,160
Witness. 
You're going to. 

949
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,840
You're going to take. 
The conversation in a different 

950
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,880
direction. 
You know, most people that 

951
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:19,280
you're talking to are not ex 
Mormons because they don't 

952
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,000
usually come out of Mormonism 
unless they get saved, right? 

953
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,040
But sometimes they come out of 
that background too. 

954
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,680
And now I know how to talk to 
them because I know a lot of 

955
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,280
what they believe, right? 
That's where studying comes in. 

956
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,560
That's why it's why it's so 
important to study God's word, 

957
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:36,200
to read God's word, to memorize 
God's word. 

958
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,240
You know what happens when you 
memorize God's Word? 

959
00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:40,240
He. 
Brings those verses. 

960
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:43,200
To mind when you're sitting 
there talking to somebody, if 

961
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,360
you've never memorized it, you 
don't have an idea of what to 

962
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,440
say to these people when they 
ask you this question or when 

963
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,760
they bring up this argument or 
when they talk about this. 

964
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,080
I could say, well, the Bible 
actually says, right. 

965
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,640
That's why it's important that 
you memorize the references to, 

966
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,040
right? 
Memorize the reference with the 

967
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,800
verse. 
Somewhere in the Bible it says 

968
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,840
something about. 
It's not very helpful either. 

969
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,400
Right, But you memorize the 
verse and the reference together

970
00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:09,720
and you can take them to that 
passage or you can say, well, 

971
00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:12,720
the Bible says in John 8, ye are
of your father the devil and 

972
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,200
lust, your father. 
You will do, I mean, whatever, 

973
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:15,600
whatever it happens to be, 
right? 

974
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,320
That's why it's important that 
you memorize. 

975
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,840
That's why it's important that 
you study. 

976
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,240
That's why it's important that 
you know what you're talking 

977
00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:24,920
about when it comes to those 
things, right? 

978
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,600
That's why it's necessary. 
So you you have to understand 

979
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,120
those things, and preaching the 
gospel requires that 

980
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,000
preparation. 
So you learn. 

981
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,240
How to preach the gospel to 
those different types of people.

982
00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:40,520
And as you learn it, it gets 
easier and easier and easier and

983
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,400
easier to share the gospel. 
And then you're not hoping that 

984
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,960
God doesn't put somebody in your
past. 

985
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,040
So you don't have to talk to 
somebody. 

986
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,000
You're looking for ways to talk 
to them. 

987
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,520
You're looking for ways to get 
the gospel in there. 

988
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,120
And, and I try to give you a lot
of illustrations and I try to 

989
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,520
give you a lot of verses and I 
try to give you a lot of things 

990
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,080
that you can use when you talk 
to somebody about the gospel, 

991
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,640
right? 
It's a great, it's such an easy 

992
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,000
illustration that people can 
understand, right? 

993
00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:09,960
And so I'll end with this 
because I could, I could go on 

994
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,720
all night about it because it's,
it's, it really is, it's 

995
00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:14,840
something that's so important 
that, that we understand and 

996
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,600
that we know. 
But one of the easiest things 

997
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,080
for people to understand when it
comes to why is my life falling 

998
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,160
apart? 
Why is nothing seemed to go 

999
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:24,120
right? 
What I mean? 

1000
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:25,440
I just, I don't have the 
answers. 

1001
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,920
I don't know what to do. 
The easiest thing in the world? 

1002
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,160
Is to give them an illustration 
about building your house on a 

1003
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,160
rock or building your house on 
sand, Right. 

1004
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,720
Everybody understands that. 
So you say, well, look, would 

1005
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:39,600
you ever go build your house 
without building it on the 

1006
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,000
foundation? 
Well, no. 

1007
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,600
Why? 
Well, because it's going to 

1008
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:44,920
eventually it's going to fall 
down. 

1009
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,400
It's exactly right, Right. 
You might make it all the way 

1010
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,880
through the entire process of 
building that house and it looks

1011
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,360
beautiful, but as soon as you 
get a big storm that comes 

1012
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,120
through, everything is going to 
collapse. 

1013
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,920
Right now, just because you 
built on a solid foundation 

1014
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:02,240
doesn't mean that everything's 
going to be perfect, right? 

1015
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,800
You could build on a solid 
foundation and a storm could 

1016
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,120
come through and you could lose 
a shutter, you could lose some 

1017
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,720
siding, you could lose a few 
shingles, but those aren't that 

1018
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,000
hard to fix, right? 
You built it solid and it's 

1019
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,800
built on the right foundation. 
Doesn't mean that everything's 

1020
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:18,240
going to be perfect. 
Doesn't mean that there's not 

1021
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:21,080
going to be any storms. 
Life is still it has some bumps 

1022
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,200
and some bruises and some 
difficulties and everything 

1023
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:24,760
else. 
But when you're built on the 

1024
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,320
solid foundation, you can go fix
those things. 

1025
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,840
You're not starting over every 
time you hit a rough spot, 

1026
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,320
right? 
But most people are building on 

1027
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,680
sand and they're, they have not 
built on the foundation of Jesus

1028
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,360
Christ. 
And so when you go through a 

1029
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,440
rough patch in your marriage or 
you know, when I'm talking to 

1030
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,040
these first responders and 
things, you, you, you go on a 

1031
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,920
rough call, You see something 
that was really difficult to 

1032
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,040
handle and everything collapses.
Everything falls apart because 

1033
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,840
that's a storm. 
But your entire house fell down.

1034
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,240
And now you're now you're ready 
to kill yourself because 

1035
00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:58,360
everything that I've built my 
whole life on is just gone now, 

1036
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:00,800
right? 
And if I'm going to, if I'm 

1037
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,960
going to have something that I 
can live in, I got to start all 

1038
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,880
the way over and build it all 
the way back up again. 

1039
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,120
And I said, and what most people
do is they build it back again 

1040
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,800
on sand. 
You can if you you. 

1041
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,200
Can lose your house all the way 
down to the foundation, but if 

1042
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,800
you still have the foundation 
you can always build it back up.

1043
00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:20,240
It might be difficult, but you 
can build it back up. 

1044
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,200
If you have no foundation, you 
have to start completely over 

1045
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:27,760
every single time. 
And it just falls apart. 

1046
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,240
Right. 
And most people can understand 

1047
00:50:30,240 --> 00:50:32,920
that. 
They say now the foundation that

1048
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:37,560
that I'm built on is Christ. 
And so doesn't. 

1049
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,560
Mean that my life is perfect. 
It doesn't mean that I don't 

1050
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,360
ever have any struggles. 
Doesn't mean that I never have 

1051
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,400
any issues. 
But it's a whole lot easier to. 

1052
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,760
Replace a few shingles and a 
couple pieces of siding than it 

1053
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,200
is to rebuild the house every 
time something happens, right? 

1054
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,160
Because it's built on the solid 
foundation. 

1055
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,880
And then you go back and tell 
them what that solid foundation 

1056
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,800
is, and you start them all the 
way through and you give them 

1057
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,320
the message of the gospel. 
It's an easy illustration for 

1058
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,480
people to understand and it may 
not work for everybody. 

1059
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,880
Right, but especially. 
Somebody who's a builder or 

1060
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,440
who's a contractor or who does 
anything in that kind of 

1061
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,440
community, it's an easy one for 
them to understand. 

1062
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,960
It's an easy one for the first 
responders to understand. 

1063
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,960
It's an easy one for a lot of 
people to understand, right? 

1064
00:51:15,240 --> 00:51:17,080
But you have to be looking for 
opportunities. 

1065
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,240
You have to be looking for ways 
to share the gospel. 

1066
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,640
And if you're looking for it, 
you'll find it. 

1067
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,840
You will find it. 
If you're not, you'll never have

1068
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,760
opportunities. 
And I don't know why, but God 

1069
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,720
never puts anybody in my path. 
No, He does. 

1070
00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:30,200
You just don't. 
You just don't see them because 

1071
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,400
they walked right past you. 
Feet shod with the. 

1072
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,280
Preparation of the gospel of 
peace is people who are looking 

1073
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:37,760
for opportunities to share the 
gospel. 

1074
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,600
And when you start doing it, it 
gets easier and easier and 

1075
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,040
easier. 
And when you start doing it, 

1076
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,520
you'll find a personal revival 
in your own heart because you'll

1077
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,520
want to be right with God so 
that you can share the gospel in

1078
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,920
a way that is pleasing to Him. 
So a lot of things here that we 

1079
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,080
could talk about and, and, and 
we'll, we'll just, we'll briefly

1080
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:58,800
review this next week and then 
we'll jump into the rest of 

1081
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,960
these things and finish it up. 
But let's pray we'll be done. 

1082
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,800
Father, again, we thank you so 
much for your goodness to us. 

1083
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,600
Thank you for the opportunity to
be here tonight. 

1084
00:52:07,240 --> 00:52:09,040
Pray that you'd help us to take 
these things to heart. 

1085
00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:13,320
God, those whose hearts are the 
hardest and have such a hard 

1086
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,760
time sharing the message of the 
gospel, may you soften their 

1087
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,040
hearts. 
May you help them to have a 

1088
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:19,760
desire to please you in this 
area. 

1089
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,080
May you help us all, may you 
help us all to be witnesses for 

1090
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,920
you and not just say that we 
that we are witnesses, not just 

1091
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,200
give out a card here and there, 
but to really share the message 

1092
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,960
of the gospel and to really try 
to look for opportunities to 

1093
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,080
share the gospel. 
God, may you help us to be 

1094
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,480
soldiers in the army of the Lord
that are living on the offensive

1095
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,160
and sharing the message of the 
gospel with as many people as we

1096
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,120
can. 
God, may you help us to do that 

1097
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,240
until you come. 
Thank you again for all that you

1098
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:50,000
do for us. 
In Jesus name, Amen.