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Help me to preach this message 
smoothly and help people to 

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hopefully gain something from it
and choose his name. 

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Amen. 
OK if y'all would please turn to

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First Peter 315 for me, I'd like
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Have you ever been in this 
situation or where a 

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conversation came up about your 
faith to a non believer and were

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you able to defend and 
communicate what you believe? 

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Because some people in this 
situation are are unable to do 

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these two things or try to avoid
the topic, which we shouldn't do

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and in some instances have no 
idea what they're talking about.

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Today we're going to dive deeper
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So since you all have turned to 
it, let's read first Peter 315 

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But sanctify the Lord God in 
your hearts and be ready always 

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to give an answer to every man 
that asketh you for a reason of 

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the hope that is in you with 
meekness and fear. 

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The title of my message today is
always Be ready. 

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Here's a quick story. 
When I myself had a situation 

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where I was able to share my 
faith with someone, I was at my 

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work. 
Not not with Johnny but at my 

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second job at Chick-fil-A. 
I heard my Co workers talking 

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about what they were going to do
that Sunday and one of the more 

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interesting of the few said he 
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So I asked asked him what church
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I don't really remember the 
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It was some sort of Community 
Church, but it was one of those 

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I could tell it was one of those
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churches that support abortion, 
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pastor. 
So then he started explaining to

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me what he believed at this 
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that they didn't believe that 
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believed that God was all around
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So pretty much each one of us is
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weird. 
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tell him, and he called himself 
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So I used that opportunity to 
tell him what real Christianity 

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was and why I believed what I 
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Which leads me to my first 
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We need to always be ready to 
share the gospel. 

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So in order to share the gospel,
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gospel and what is in the Bible.
Being able to share that we are 

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all sinners in need of a Savior 
and by accepting God's gift, 

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salvation through faith and 
repentance, we are able to avoid

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an eternity and hell and be be 
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heaven with our Lord and Savior.
If you turn with me to Matthew 

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724 through 27, we'll read that 
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this. 
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strong foundation, as mentioned 
in Matthew 724 through 25, that 

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is rooted in God's Word, and 
we'll go ahead and read that. 

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Therefore, whosoever heareth 
these sayings of mine and doeth 

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them will liken him unto a wise 
man, which built his house upon 

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a rock. 
The rain descended, and the 

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winds blew and beat that house, 
and it fell not, for it was 

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founded on a rock. 
And everyone that here with 

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these sayings of mine, and do 
with them not, shall be likened 

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unto a foolish man which built 
his house upon the sand. 

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The rain descended, and the 
floods came, and the winds blew 

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and beat on that house, and it 
fell, and great was the fault of

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it. 
There is no way we can expect to

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be able to share the gospel and 
the wisdom of the Bible if we 

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don't even know what is in the 
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Which one of the reasons that 
which is one of the main reasons

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we need to be spending time in 
God's Word constantly so that we

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can be ready to answer questions
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Also, if you think your faith 
comes from your parents which is

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going to church every Sunday, 
following the steps, walking the

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walk but not actually believing 
it, you have a weak foundation 

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and it will crumble and fall. 
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have. 
Thirdly, you must always live 

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out and exercise your faith. 
You can't live 1 life for God 

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and a whole nother life for 
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I have two verses that back up 
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Matthew 624 No man can serve 2 
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1 and love the other, or else he
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other. 
You cannot serve God and mammon.

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And then the second one, one 
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Galatians 110 For do I not now 
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Or do I see Or do I seek to 
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For if I yet pleased men, I 
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Christ. 
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somehow someway tried to live a 
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would go and try to serve, do 
whatever that pleased his flesh 

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and did nothing in his life for 
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Sunday and acted like he was a 
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Not not many people around him 
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look at him. 
I can really see a difference in

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him and what he has because in 
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what he has, living for sin and 
self and they aren't happy with 

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it. 
We need to try our hardest to 

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live our lives the way God wants
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So people do see a difference in
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Also off that point, we also 
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to come up to us, say, hey, I 
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want to try to make a try to put
Christ in our conversations 

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around us, trying to create 
those conversations, not just 

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wait for them to pop up. 
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today, my first one was always 
be ready to share the gospel. 

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My second one is going to be 
always be ready to defend your 

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faith. 
There's always going to be 

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people who you try to share the 
gospel to them, but they end up 

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rejecting it completely and 
trying to pushing their own 

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beliefs. 
So my verse for that is going to

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be Jude 13. 
Beloved, when I gave all 

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diligence to write unto you of 
the common salvation, it was 

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needful for me to write unto you
and exhort you that you should 

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earnestly content for the faith 
which was once delivered unto 

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the Saints. 
When defending your faith, we 

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need to understand that doctrine
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Being able to explain that you 
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life however you want and expect
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time you sin and take advantage 
of His grace that He's given 

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you. 
Knowing that once saved we 

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should try not to sin and 
understanding that we don't stop

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sinning in order to be saved, 
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we are saved. 
And then my verse for that First

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Timothy 416 to keyed Take heed 
unto thyself, and unto the 

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doctrine. 
Continue in them for enduring 

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this Thou shalt both save 
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better be here. 
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know our enemy. 
We see in the military that it's

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important to know your enemy and
know how they think, so we can 

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have the best and most accurate 
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We need to prepare for the most 
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like one that science has 
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Apparently there is no way that 
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The earth did not come from 
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Bang. 
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evolution is wrong, I don't know
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Pastor said this morning 
actually that the evolution, the

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science that people have made-up
is more myth making than science

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lately #2 for that we need to be
prepared for the attacked that 

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there is apps, that there is no 
app, that there is no absolute 

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truth. 
The theory for this is 

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completely wrong. 
We know this because we can find

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all of our truth in the Bible, 
which kind of goes back to my 

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last point. 
We need to make sure we're 

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reading the Bible and make sure 
we know the truth that's in the 

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Bible so that we can back up, so
that we can compel the wrong 

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truths or the twisted truths of 
the world of people trying to 

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push their false doctrines or 
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And then John 1717 is a good one
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Sanctify them through thy truth.
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You should want to know the 
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areas, the devil and the people 
around you try to trip you up, 

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is by twisting the truth, making
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the real truth that you could 
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For we know that Satan is the 
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John 844 Ye are of your father, 
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of your father, ye will do. 
He was a murderer from the 

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beginning, and abode not in the 
truth, because there is no truth

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in him. 
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speaketh his own, for he is a 
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So in closing today, I would 
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spend enough time in our Bibles 
to be able to share and defend 

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our faith in everyday instances,
whether at work or wherever else

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you could be? 
And Are you ready to do that 

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today? 
And I will close this in prayer.

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Dear Lord, thank you for 
bringing us all out here 

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tonight. 
I pray that hopefully I was able

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to put my point across and I was
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something from this message and 
use it in their everyday lives 

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in Jesus name, Amen. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
I think the future of our church

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is strong and got a lot of 
potential in here for these 

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young men. 
And I appreciate the message. 

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I appreciate them stepping 
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That's difficult, you know. 
I mean, I remember how it was 

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for me when I first started 
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And now I'm just as comfortable 
here as I am sitting there, you 

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know, In fact, I'd, I'd rather 
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know, but it's not that way for 
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time and leading songs and 
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I think we ought to have a men's
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come up here and do that right? 
Make the men preach, make the 

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men lead the songs, make the men
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A lot of you are doing it 
already, but pull you out of 

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your comfort zone, make you do 
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But it's, it's good. 
It's a good experience for them 

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and I'm excited for them. 
And listen, I, I hope God calls 

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every one of them into the 
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I don't know if he will or not, 
but even if he doesn't, he can, 

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He can do the same thing with 
them that he's doing with a lot 

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of you. 
Just be here, be faithful, serve

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in the ministries of a local 
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And as of tonight, I am making a
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allowed to leave and go anywhere
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So they have to stay here and 
raise their families here and 

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they're not allowed to leave. 
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going to do, but we'll see what 
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So now I know it's, it's it's, 
it's not possible to keep 

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everybody here because God calls
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Johnny's going out to California
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Johnny Junior and he's getting 
stationed out there and he'll be

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out there probably for a few 
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But you know, you just never 
know where, where God's going to

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call somebody, where they're 
going to end up. 

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But I hope that wherever they do
end up, they'll be a huge 

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addition to that church and be a
huge help because they got some 

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experience doing it here. 
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the ministry and a heart to do 
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And I'm, I'm thankful for them 
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I'm thankful for all of you who 
are raising your young people to

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to love the Lord it and I don't 
want to preach a message, but 

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you know it. 
It starts at home. 

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We can preach all we want to. 
I can I can preach so I'm blue 

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in the face and you can hear 
every message exactly perfect 

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the way that it needs to be 
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If you're not doing it at home, 
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It doesn't matter. 
It helps it helps, but at home 

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is where it counts. 
And so I appreciate what you're 

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doing there and I want to do. 
I want to encourage you to just 

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keep, keep doing it and it's 
worth it. 

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It's worth it. 
And boy, I can imagine if every 

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one of our young people grow up 
and live for the Lord, I don't 

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know why we have to pretend like
we have to lose some of them to 

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the world. 
We don't have to lose any of 

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them. 
They can all grow up and live 

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for the Lord and do something 
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So we'll go ahead and stand, 
we'll close in prayer, and then 

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we'll sing our song and be 
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I think the weather's probably 
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But if you feel like you're need
to drive safe, it's still a 

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little bit light outside. 
So maybe you get out of here 

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right away and get home and 
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But thanks for being here 
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Let's pray. 
Father, again, we thank you so 

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much for your goodness. 
Thank you for an opportunity we 

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have to be here together. 
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for their willingness to step 
into these roles that are 

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uncomfortable for them, but that
are going to help them for later

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on and, and, or even help to us 
tonight. 

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Thank you for the message. 
Thank you for the, the singing 

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and the, and the special music 
and all the things that the 

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young people did this evening. 
God and, and I do thank you that

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we have families in in our 
church that are serious about 

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raising their kids for you and 
about having them grow up and 

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serve you with their lives. 
And I pray that I pray for every

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one of our kids. 
I pray that every one of them 

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would grow up and make a 
decision that they're going to 

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live for you, that they're going
to follow their your will for 

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their lives and that they'll do 
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ability, that they'll be even 
stronger than we are here today.

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And I pray that you would just 
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they'll do for you. 
Thank you again for all you do 

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for us in Jesus name, Amen.