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And each one of these children, 
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Jesus name we pray, Amen. 
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could come up here and I could 
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into the, the darkness of, of 
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The, the symbolism, the 
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background behind it. 
I could dive into all of that, 

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right? 
So I know this is a topic that's

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kind of been a little bit 
controversial in some people's 

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eyes, you know, should 
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Should Christians dress up? 
Should, you know? 

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And so the biggest thing for me,
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choose not to celebrate 
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about in his word how we're 
supposed to be set apart from 

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the world, right? 
We're not. 

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We're supposed to be lights in 
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And the reason why is because we
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of it, right? 
So we're we're called to be 

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lights. 
We're called to be lights and 

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we're called to be different 
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supposed to love different from 
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We're supposed to talk different
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we're supposed to live 
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And because of that, we're going
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persecution from the world. 
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going to look at today Jesus 
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disciples this very lesson about
hatred from the world and why we

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get hatred from the world, 
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And the reason behind it. 
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everyone in this room, but 
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think you guys can agree with me
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get attacked with so much work. 
So where I'm going to go with is

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I'm going to go to John chapter 
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verses 18 through 25. 
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this section in my Bible is 
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OK, so I'll, I'm just going to 
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So we'll start with verse 18 
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Jesus talking to his disciples 
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says, if the world hates you, 
you know that it hated me before

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it hated you. 
If you were of the world, the 

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world will love its own yet, 
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world. 
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world, therefore the world hates
you. 

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Remember the word that I said to
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A servant is not greater than 
his master. 

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If they persecuted Me, they will
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If they kept My word, they will 
keep yours also. 

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But all these things they will 
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because they do not know Him who
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If I had not come and spoken to 
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He who hates Me hates My Father 
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they would have no sin. 
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hated both me and my father. 
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that the word might be 
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So starting with verse 18, if 
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that hated me before I hated 
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So why does the world hate us? 
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that, you know, and we're 
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perfect Son of God came into the
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never sinned, right? 
Did all these signs, all these 

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wonders and they still hated 
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Not even just the the 
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people hated him. 
Could didn't accept him, right? 

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So if he suffered and he was 
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think that we're not going to be
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And I mean, I could go into a 
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who who ended up losing their 
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different martyrs and, and, and 
people throughout history as his

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own disciples, right? 
Christ himself murdered because 

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of his because of the truth. 
And the world just couldn't 

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accept it. 
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Matthew 5 in the beatitudes, he 
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revile and persecute you and say
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falsely for my sake. 
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when. 
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we're believers and we're truly 
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going to receive persecution 
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It's just it's guaranteed, 
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So we and we know that it's the 
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Christ first, right? 
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coming. 
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of the world, the world will 
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not of the world, but I chose 
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the world hates you. 
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Because He chose us out of the 
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what the world thinks is normal,
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We don't do the same things the 
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For example, tonight everyone 
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dressing up in costumes or going
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They're watching horror movies. 
They're doing all this stuff 

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right. 
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church, fellowshipping with 
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Word, right? 
If we acted just like the world 

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did, the world would love us, 
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There would be no persecution, 
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There'd be none of that, right? 
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what the world does, it's weird 
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It's weird to them. 
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hatred and mockery. 
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So refusing to wear a costume or
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a costume party, like I got 
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I got met with a lot of 
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Choosing to honor God will shine
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what that means is like, if you 
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And the world tries to get you 
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you go against it because of 
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The world sees that and they 
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Because it's almost like you're 
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wrong that they're doing, and 
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So in return, that's where the 
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And Jesus's words here are 
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Because like, if we're being 
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means that we identify with him,
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First, Peter 29 But you are a 
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priesthood, a holy nation, His 
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proclaim the praises of him who 
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his marvelous life, right? 
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therefore do not be ashamed of 
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of me his prisoner. 
This is Paul talking here, but 

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share with me in the sufferings 
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power of God, who has saved us 
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calling, not according to our 
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purpose and grace which was 
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before the world began, right? 
So we're called to be different 

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out of the world. 
He called us to be set apart, 

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right? 
Romans 12/2. 

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Therefore not conform into this 
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renewing of your mind, that you 
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acceptable and perfect will of 
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Do not conform to this world, 
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Don't. 
Don't let the pressures of the 

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world, the pressures of your 
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see on TV, what you see in 
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pressure you to change and to 
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be transformed. 
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will of God. 
So we can be that light and show

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Christ in this in this world, 
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So we can be set apart. 
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remember the word that I said to
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than his master. 
If they persecuted me, they will

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also persecute you. 
If they kept my word, they will 

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keep yours also, right? 
So same thing if they persecuted

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Jesus, they're going to 
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So Jesus said that after he 
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kind of give that, to kind of 
give that example of like, you 

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know, you call who said you call
me Lord, Yeah, I just washed 

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your feet. 
And that's the example that that

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he set for us. 
But also shows that like, you 

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know, if he was met with 
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going to be as well as his, you 
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And in contrast, he says, if 
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my word, they will keep yours 
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So those who hear the gospel and
respond, right, and accept it 

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and listen to it, those are the 
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And you know our word because 
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We're out here preaching his 
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Everything in his word is what 
we're out here sharing with 

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people. 
If they accept it, they accept 

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Him, right? 
But those who reject it reject 

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him also, right? 
So like when we're talking about

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sharing the gospel, and we 
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our conversations class last 
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you share the gospel with 
someone and they don't accept 

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it, they're not rejecting you, 
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It's not you they're rejecting, 
it's God that they're rejecting,

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right? 
And that's what he's kind of 

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saying here is if they keep my 
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So if they listen to what I say 
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to them, then they're going to 
respond if they truly accept it,

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right? 
21 it says, but all these things

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they will do to you for my 
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know him who sent me. 
So why does the world persecute 

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followers of Christ? 
They don't know who Christ is. 

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They don't truly know who Christ
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You're going to hear a bunch of 
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Jesus is to the world. 
They have all these different, 

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their own forms of Jesus, the 
affirming Jesus, the one who 

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accepts everyone's lifestyle, no
matter who they are or what 

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they're doing. 
You know, the, the one that says

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love is love no matter who it's 
between, right? 

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Even though the Bible talks 
about how marriage between a man

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and a woman, you're going to 
hear different ideologies with 

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that as you guys get older, 
right? 

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And because we don't go along 
with it to the world, we're 

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strangers, we're outcasts, 
foreigners. 

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I like to use the word aliens, 
right? 

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I, I used to use that word all 
the time when I was talking 

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about just being different, when
I, I talked about I like to be 

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an alien, right? 
So when we don't participate in 

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the things in the world and we 
get persecution, it's because 

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the world doesn't know, they 
don't know the truth. 

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And that's why we're called to 
be the examples, right? 

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We're supposed to sit, we're 
supposed to be light in a Dark 

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World. 
So when they see that light, 

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they gravitate towards it. 
And then and in return they 

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gravitate to the Father, right? 
So first Peter 4/4 says in 

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regards to these. 
So he's talking about those 

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people who are out of the world.
He says they think it's strange 

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that you do not run with them in
the same flood of dissipation, 

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speaking evil, you said, because
we don't go along with what the 

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world does. 
They're going to speak evil on 

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us. 
They're going to hate us. 

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We're going to get hit with 
persecution, mockery, You know, 

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kids, you know, for your guys, 
you know, kids will make fun of 

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you. 
Kids will isolate you. 

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You won't be invited to hang out
with them as much. 

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You'll have a lot of lonely 
nights. 

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Trust me, I've been there. 
I'm still there. 

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I'm still there. 
I have a lot of friends that 

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aren't saved and whenever I 
don't go along with them to do 

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the things that they want to do,
a lot of Friday, Saturday 

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nights, I'm at home by myself or
I'm at home with my mom and dad 

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watching college football or 
watching college basketball, you

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know what I mean? 
But it's because I'm not. 

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I don't want to go along with 
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Do not let the world pressure 
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right? 
Stay in the word, stay in Christ

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verse 22 he says if I'm not come
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have no sin. 
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their sin. 
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earth. 
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signs. 
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people, raising the dead, you 
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making the mute speak. 
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still did not accept them. 
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more proof that he could have 
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said he was. 
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today. 
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gospel. 
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going on in the world, right? 
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it in the Bible coming to life 
right now and they still won't 

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accept it, right? 
And that's what you used to talk

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about. 
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spoken, they ought to know sin. 
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their sin. 
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They know they're choosing to 
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But you guys are choosing to 
walk in the light and if you 

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keep being that example and keep
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people light, eventually no 
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So just keep being that example 
and don't feel like just because

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there were, you know, just 
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right away that you're not doing
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impact. 
That could be that couldn't be 

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further from the truth. 
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feeling it. 
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you don't even know it. 
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alive. 
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me hates my father. 
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to hear a lot of people when you
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faith. 
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Jesus is? 
Jesus was the prophet. 

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Jesus was, you know, he was a 
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No. 
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Son, how can they accept God the
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All right, That's what you're 
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He who hates me hates my Father.
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God and not love his Son. 
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right? 
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a lot of people trying to tell 
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Jesus is, right? 
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Jesus is. 
There are numerous scriptures I 

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could go to that talk about how 
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Jesus came to earth, died on the
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This tells you everything you 
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All right, first, John four, one
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test the spirits to see whether 
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false prophets have gone out 
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happening today. 
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of pastors that are not 
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into their own different 
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A lot of Christian influencers 
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know a lot of you guys are on 
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influencers on TikTok going 
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So stay in the word. 
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something, you'll get some point
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That's the Holy Spirit. 
That's that spirit of the sermon

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inside of you telling you this 
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people reject Jesus, they are 
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among them the worst, which no 
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had no sin. 
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hated both me and my father. 
So again, like I said, you know,

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the world saw Jesus do the 
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still rejected him, right. 
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that, about this earlier, like 
whenever, and he has examples 

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and he went out and preached the
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know, to, to sharing the gospel.
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when they go to different events
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share the gospel, people are 
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They're trying to RIP the 
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They're trying to do all this 
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Why? 
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truth. 
They know it's true. 

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If it wasn't true, it wouldn't 
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They wouldn't, they wouldn't 
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You know what that is? 
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That's that's Satan inside of 
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them from hearing the truth, 
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And you're going to see that 
you're going to have times where

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you're trying to share the 
gospel with people and they just

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don't want to hear it or they 
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friendships. 
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That's that light that's inside 
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that's inside of them and they 
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And that just shows you how 
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powerful the gospel is, where it
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just this, this, this, this 
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of like rejection of it, right? 
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But because it is true, you're 
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different responses. 
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you know that the truth is that 
that God is bringing the truth 

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through you. 
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So again, when that happens, 
stay strong, stay strong because

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you're making more of an impact 
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promise you. 
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They hated me without a cause. 
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69 for to show the spiritual 
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fulfillment. 
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his whole ministry fulfilling 
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prophecies of the Old Testament.
He went through the whole his 

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whole ministry and this, this 
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they had no 'cause they hate 
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they hated him. 
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wrong because he didn't do 
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And that's the same reason why 
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hatred too whenever we try to be
lights is because they don't, 

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they don't accept Jesus. 
They're not. 

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Again, I'm going to say it 
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They're not rejecting you. 
They are rejecting God, right 

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when they're when you're sharing
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it, they are rejecting God, not 
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OK, so and again, and we are 
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of the gospel. 
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the sake of the gospel, OK, not 
just hated because of stuff that

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we did wrong, OK, Because Peter 
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there's, you know, if you're 
suffering because of what of, of

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your wrongdoing, that's an 
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But what we're talking about is 
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of the gospel, for the sake of 
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That's where we're that's where 
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Because we know that we're truly
set apart and like Jesus and the

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beatitudes, great is your 
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Rejoice and be glad. 
I'm gonna read one more 

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scripture from first Peter and 
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this up. 
I want you guys, I want you guys

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to hear this. 
OK, so this is first Peter 412 

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through 14. 
It says, beloved, do not think 

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it's strange concerning the 
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as though some strange thing, 
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So what he's saying is like, 
don't, don't be confused or 

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don't be caught off guard when 
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periods of persecution, these 
periods of, of, of people 

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mocking you and the world hating
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Don't be, don't be surprised, 
but rejoice in verse 13, rejoice

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to the extent that you partake 
of Christ's sufferings, that 

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when his glory is revealed, you 
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joy. 
So when we receive this 

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persecution, right, it may not 
feel great, but we should 

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rejoice because we're partaking 
in the same thing that Christ 

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went through that all the 
prophets went through, that guys

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like Paul and Peter, Stephen, 
you know, Stephen, all those 

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guys in the Bible that that 
caught persecution for the 

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gospel, we're going through the 
same things they went through, 

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right? 
Verse 14 if you are reproached, 

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which basically means 
persecuted, hated, mocked for 

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the name of Christ, blessed are 
you for the spirit of glory and 

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of God rests upon you. 
On their part, He is blasphemed,

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but on your part, he is 
glorified. 

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So when when we share the gospel
and we and we are met with 

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persecution, we are glorifying 
God by staying strong in that 

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persecution and not letting that
hate conform us or change us or 

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try to get us to go along with 
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Excuse me, Thank you. 
And that's a big thing I 

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struggle with. 
I was, I was telling this one 

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example that I'm done. 
I struggle with acceptance from 

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the world for the longest period
of my life. 

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I. 
Hated being by myself. 

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I hated feeling isolated. 
So I'd appeared in my life where

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I was trying to just make 
friends, trying to be popular. 

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I wanted everyone to know who I 
was until I finally reached that

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point where I said, you know 
what? 

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Like I'm not actually set apart.
I'm not, I'm not being the 

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example that I'm called to be. 
I'm, I'm going along with the 

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world for what I'm going to 
think about it. 

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We're we try to seek validation 
from a world that crucified the 

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perfect son of God. 
If the perfect son of God cannot

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get acceptance from the world, 
why are we trying to why, why 

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should we care about what the 
world thinks about us, right? 

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Remember, Jesus said don't worry
about those who can kill the 

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body or those that have killed 
the body, but those that affect 

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the soul, right? 
So where, when you know, the 

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world may hate us on the 
outside, right? 

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And, and you know, they can do 
whatever, but should we worry 

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about more about eternity, about
where we go when we leave this 

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earth? 
I don't know about you, but I 

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want to be an eternity with my 
with my Heavenly Father. 

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I get careless about what the 
world thinks. 

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And that's where I want you guys
to get to. 

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All right. 
So I want you guys to remember 

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this. 
Do not let the world, the, the 

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persecution, the hatred, do not 
let that make you sweat. 

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Stay strong. 
Stay grounded in the truth of 

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the word of God, and I promise 
you it'll be worth it in the 

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long run. 
All right, that's all I got. 

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All right, so I'm going to pray 
us out real quick and then we'll

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let you guys get on with your 
evening. 

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I'm glad you guys were here. 
I'm I'm praying that you guys 

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were touched by everything that 
happened today. 

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And I mean it as stay in Christ.
Do not, do not chase after this 

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world. 
All right? 

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OK, Lord, I just thank you 
again, Lord, just for this 

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night. 
Lord, we just thank you, Lord, 

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that he gave us this opportunity
to, to meet with each other 

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tonight, Lord, and just to, to 
be a positive light, Lord, and 

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in our neighborhood, Lord, in 
our community. 

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God and Lord, I just pray that 
everyone here, Lord, parents and

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kids included, Lord was touched,
Lord, at some point. 

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Lord God, I just pray that you 
would just always remind us, 

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Lord, to just chase after you 
to, to seek first the Kingdom of

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God in his righteousness. 
God above everything, and I pray

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that we wouldn't be concerned 
with what the world thinks of 

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us. 
We wouldn't be concerned with 

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acceptance from the world, that 
we wouldn't be concerned with 

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things of this world, that we 
would chase after you, God, 

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chase after your righteousness. 
Lord, strive to be more like you

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every single day. 
And I pray, God, that you would 

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just keep us strong in the midst
of the persecution that's going 

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on in this world. 
Well, I pray for kids across the

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nation, Lord, that are being 
attacked, Lord, spiritually, 

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Lord, by the things of by the 
things of the devil, Lord, I 

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pray that you would just put a 
special protection around them, 

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God. 
And I pray that they would all 

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cling to you, God. 
And I pray that you would just 

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continue just to, to show your 
power, show your glory, Lord. 

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And I pray that we would that 
this generation coming up, Lord,

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that they would be the ones, 
Lord, to have this world turn to

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you. 
I pray that you just be with us 

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for the rest of the night. 
I pray that you just keep 

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everyone safe as they head home 
and I pray that you would just 

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continue just to keep us strong 
Lord, and just keep us 

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persevering, Lord, in the faith,
in Jesus name I pray, Amen, 

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Amen.