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At this time, if you want to get
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I know that the mass exodus of 
the different classes have taken

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place and so if you want to move
forward or you know, sit by a 

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friend, sitting by a enemy, as 
far as I care, it don't matter. 

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It would probably be good too. 
It may probably be good too. 

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Good to see each one of you 
today, some of you that have 

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been here before, years ago. 
Whenever my wife and I 

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evangelize in the early 2000s 
for about 7 years, we would go 

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to different churches and places
all across the United States and

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hold revival services, you know,
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Sunday through Wednesday, 
Tuesday through Sunday, you 

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know, preaching every night. 
And there was a pastor that told

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me one time that had evangelized
before, too, He said it's always

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a great honor whenever a man has
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minister, he said. 
But it's even a greater honor 

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whenever he asks you back. 
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being a pastor now, always 
considered a great honor when 

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someone chooses to come to the 
first Apostolic Church. 

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But I counted a greater honor 
whenever you choose to come 

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back. 
And so we are awesome, 

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awesomely, just proud to have 
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Amen, here with us today. 
I'm going to be turning to the 

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book. 
Of Psalms this morning, the book

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of Psalms chapter #1 And just to
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going to read the entire Psalm. 
But it's only 6 verses. 

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Amen. 
It's only 6 verses. 

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And I feel like today just gonna
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bit with this Psalm. 
I, I just feel like this is this

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whole morning would just be my 
introduction, All right? 

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And someone's getting nervous 
about right now, but 

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nonetheless, Psalm chapter #1 
and verse #1 today we're going 

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to go to the Lord here and see 
what the word of the Lord says. 

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We're so glad to have Jacob with
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He says he goes by Jake or 
Jacob, all right, and he's happy

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with either one, but we're glad 
to have him this morning. 

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Amen. 
The House of the Lord, first 

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time being here. 
And the other ones that are 

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back. 
Scott, we're glad to have you 

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again. 
Helen. 

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It's been such a long time, 
Amen, since we've seen you a man

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and Christina, of course, 
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I'm not trying to go through all
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feel compelled to do so, Amen. 
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we're happy to have you. 
The Bible says in verse one of 

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Psalm one blessed is the man 
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of the ungodly, nor standeth in 
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sitteth in the seat of the 
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So first it tells us what a 
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or does not, but his delight is 
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his law doeth he meditate day 
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And it gives us a little bit of 
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Here he shall be like a tree 
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that bringeth forth his fruit in
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His relief also shall not 
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shall prosper. 
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different sort, the ungodly are 
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which the wind driveth away. 
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stand in the judgment, nor 
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the righteous. 
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Knoweth the way or if I say the 
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For the Lord know of. 
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But everybody say the way, the 
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It's quite a little interesting 
setting the Scripture speaking 

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about the blessed righteous man 
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blessed righteous man doesn't 
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compared to a tree planted and 
how the ungodly, those like 

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chaff that's driven by the wind.
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it seems like these two 
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And it really sets the platform 
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look at Psalms and really the 
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life. 
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to simply talk to you about this
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Two ways. 
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different destinies. 
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Alright, let's talk to the Lord 
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He'd help U.S. 
Open our hearts and minds today.

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Father, I come to you today. 
I'm so thankful for you. 

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I pray God, that you're able to 
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and afresh. 
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friends who have come today, 
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service. 
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be ministered to and touched and
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for our life. 
God will not fail to thank you, 

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Lord, for what you accomplished 
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you the glory for it. 
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I pray in the church, say Amen, 
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Look your neighbor and say two 
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No middle ground. 
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Of course, many of you that have
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and experienced more living than
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this fact even better than I 
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And that is in our modern world.
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overtime has gradually come to a
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It's the way that society has 
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brought up in this generation 
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Absolutes, no, no lines in the 
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There is the, the blurring and 
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philosophies and ideas and and 
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today of no absolutes, I reflect
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Testament Scripture and I 
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resolve to draw lines in the 
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many of his talks and messages 
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saved or unsaved were were kind 
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speeches. 
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he tells a story or he relays 
some information about just two 

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gates. 
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That's all that he explains that
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that there was a wide gate, that
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the other one had a Broadway 
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there be the Finder and the 
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would go in there AT and the 
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would lead unto destruction and 
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And so he's just very, you know,
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There, there's no blending, 
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And so not coincidentally 
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chapter #7 as Jesus are 
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these two ways, who it is that's
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in them, and what the destinies 
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definitive dates, He follows it 
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verse #15 in Matthew 7, he 
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beware of false prophets. 
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touched me this week as as I saw
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He's laying out two definite 
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And then he throws in on the 
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false prophets. 
Why in the world, Jesus, would 

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you give these defined ways and 
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then tell us to beware of false 
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least in Scripture, what we find
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habit of telling people what 
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what they need to hear. 
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there being 2 gates and two ways
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beware of those that's going to 
tell you anyway leads all to the

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same destiny. 
Watch out for the voices of 

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falsehood that will try to 
contradict or contrast what I've

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just conveyed to you trying to 
tell you what you want to hear 

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rather than what you need to 
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I'm convinced this morning that 
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where had this generation 
Brother Mason like Peter and 

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John had passed the lane man at 
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of the book of Acts who was 
sitting there had been lame from

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birth asking the Bible says he 
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alms that if this generation had
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They would have given that man 
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Amen rather than what he needed.
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walk by they said this man has a
greater need or maybe something 

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that needs satisfied in his life
more than just alms Amen. 

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He needs a healing. 
He needs a miracle in his life 

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and it's in then the Scripture 
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Inn that this man who had I've 
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He is walking, he is leaping and
he enters a temple that his lane

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feet had never entered in before
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Because Peter and John said 
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and rather than sharing with him
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share with him with what he. 
Needs. 

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Came in and so that is the 
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today because and and and I'm 
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but I'm going to be a little 
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our Society of 50 Shades of 
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grey prophets that are trying to
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generation that's just rotting 
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They say things like this and 
just walk with me here a little 

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bit today. 
These, these false prophets, if 

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you can say they say things like
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They're in your social media, 
they're in your feeds, they're 

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at your job, Amen. 
They're in government, 

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municipalities that things that 
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I'm just be honest with you. 
They say say things like this. 

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Well, it doesn't really matter. 
People get a nice little pink 

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background with bubbles on and 
throw that on their facial or on

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their social, you know, media. 
It really doesn't matter what 

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their meaning is. 
It doesn't matter what you do or

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how you live or where you go or 
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It really doesn't matter. 
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Your, your ways, fine, my ways, 
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How you feel is OK. 
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It really doesn't matter. 
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according to the Word of God, 
and this is just one verse of 

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many, but according to the Word 
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the Bible says for God shall 
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with every secret thing, whether
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evil. 
And so folks, if it really 

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doesn't matter, evidently to God
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everything's going to be brought
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bad, ugly, right, wrong, it's 
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judgment before God. 
Furthermore, the Bible says in 

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the New Testament of Galatians 
6-7. 

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Notice the words here, the first
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The the, the the false voices of
those of the false prophets that

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he said beware of be not 
deceived. 

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God is not mocked for whatsoever
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reap. 
So folks to say that it it 

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doesn't really matter. 
That's just, that's just a nice,

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nice little lie that's wrapped 
into something that's deceptive.

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So it'll go down the back of 
your throat, you know, maybe 

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more easily. 
The Bible never teaches that 

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nothing matters. 
It teaches that everything 

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matters. 
Every everything matters. 

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Amen. 
The voices of, of those type of 

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prophets use other language like
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Well, God just wants you to be 
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Oh, Lord, help me today. 
Lord God, God just wants you to 

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be happy. 
He wants you to have the feel 

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good. 
Yeah, he, he just wants to, he 

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doesn't want to ruffle your 
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He doesn't want to make any 
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of you. 
He just wants to make you happy.

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But the Gospel of Matthew says 
in Matthew 1624, and note these 

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are Jesus's words. 
Then said Jesus unto his 

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disciples, if any man will come 
after me, let him deny him 

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himself and take up his cross 
and follow me. 

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I don't know about you, but the 
last time that I considered the 

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symbol of a cross in the view of
a crucifix. 

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It is not something that is 
comfortable and is not something

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fun and games and blowing the 
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It is a symbol of self denial. 
It is a symbol of self death. 

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And so ladies and gentlemen, 
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fruitful life and a good life, 
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sacrifice and self introspection
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there. 
Here's a good Instagram one. 

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Follow your heart, man. 
I just feel like cotton candy 

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when I say that. 
Just follow your heart. 

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You know, I'm, I'm really 
looking forward to you. 

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I'm doing this. 
Someone just miss that? 

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Follow your heart. 
But you know, I'm in a 

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relationship right now this and 
this is going. 

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Just follow your heart. 
Well, you know, I got some 

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things on the table about a new 
house, a new car. 

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Just follow your heart. 
Huh. 

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It's the answer, man. 
It's like, it's like the broad 

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brush answer for everything. 
Just follow your heart, you 

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know? 
I was just in a argument with my

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mom there Dame blah blah blah. 
Just follow your heart. 

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But Jeremiah 17 and 9 says the 
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things, and desperately wicked. 
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I don't know about, but the 
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contradicts this whole concept 
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philosophy. 
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Because your heart can mislead 
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Your heart can betray you. 
Your heart can. 

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Deceive you and your heart has 
ruined many people that's 

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followed their heart and got to 
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Honey you don't need to follow 
your heart you need to follow 

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your master. 
You need to follow God. 

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You need. 
The Bible says in Proverbs 28 

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and 26 look what the scripture 
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He that trusteth in his own 
heart is a fool. 

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He that trusteth in his own 
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But whoso walketh wisely, he 
shall be delivered. 

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Folks, in the Scripture God is 
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us to follow our hearts. 
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follow Him. 
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we are called to surrender our 
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The Bible says in Proverbs 3 and
five, trust in the Lord with all

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thine heart. 
You know what you need to do 

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with that otherwise deceptive 
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heart, that heart that you can't
trust every day of the week you 

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need to take that heart of yours
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depend upon, and you need to lay
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Give it to God. 
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Just follow your heart. 
They propagate things like, well

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God is love, so he just accepts 
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God is love. 
First, John 48 God is love. 

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Here's what I know about God 
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may accept us as we are, but His
love will not affirm our sin and

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allow us to continue as we are. 
God's love delivers us from sin.

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Listen, God's love is not some 
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Meaning that I just do what I do
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it and just let it continue 
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Romans 615 The apostle Paul said
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what then? 
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Because we are not under the 
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the law, you know, is all this 
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so. 
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of Calvary, God's love. 
He says what then You tell me 

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that since we have that now, no,
that means we can live life any 

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old way. 
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response was this. 
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Because if you approach God's 
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as a license to try to endorse 
your life rather than an 

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opportunity for your life to be 
changed. 

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Oh God, someone say, help me 
Jesus. 

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Think of it, if you will, New 
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John. 
The Bible says if you look at 

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it, consider the woman that's 
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right? 
Some familiar with the story. 

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If not, you look at it and John 
chapter #4 caught, caught in the

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act of adultery. 
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the eyes of this all inclusive 
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Today. 
If we're not careful, we will 

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spend this conversation between 
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adultery and God, and we'll turn
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We'll turn it into this type of 
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of turns his head and he 
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If it was just God turning his 
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then there would never been no. 
Purpose for a Calvary. 

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There would never needed to be a
human being take the sins of the

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world upon his flesh and then 
have that flesh nailed to a 

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tree. 
That's right, not necessary. 

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We could just spend our lives 
turning our heads, ignoring. 

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So it's not that he ignored 
anything for the scripture would

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not even told us in Colossians 
214. 

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Speaking of that cross episode, 
blotting out the handwriting of 

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ordinances that was against us, 
things we'd done wrong, which 

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was contrary to us and took it 
out of the way how nailing it to

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his cross. 
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Christ identified the wrong. 
Christ acknowledged the wrong, 

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but he took the wrong with him 
to the tree, and the wrong got 

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the proper judgment at the tree.
You got grace, but you're wrong.

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Got judgment at Calvary. 
That's not Christ overlooking 

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that, that's Christ 
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And that's the purest love He 
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show you grace and still dealing
with your issue and your 

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problem, not ignoring it, 
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payment for it. 
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haven't forgot about her. 
She's there. 

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She's just waiting on me. 
She's there. 

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What'd Jesus say to that 
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8 rather, not 4. 
John Ford is a Samaritan woman 

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John 8. 
She gets up from the ground 

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where she has been brought and 
he asked the woman, where are 

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your your your accusers? 
She says I don't see any Lord. 

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Verse 11 says Jesus's words, 
neither do I condemn thee, go 

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and send no more. 
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Sometimes today's society. 
Cuts the sentence. 

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Off after. 
Neither do I condemn thee. 

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They truncate it or they share 
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we like to cherry pick. 
Is everybody doing all right? 

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We, we, we, we. 
Neither do I condemn thee. 

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Boom. 
Praise God. 

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I just did this horrible thing. 
He's not going to condemn me. 

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Let me seek out my next place. 
Come on. 

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That's not what he says. 
He says neither do I condemn 

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thee. 
Go and sin no more. 

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So there's two things happening 
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He refuses to condemn her, but 
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Let me say it again for the 
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He refuses to condemn her, but 
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That's right, because there is a
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is taking place here. 
It has to be dealt with by 

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someone. 
And since she can't handle her 

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own offense, he says, I'll step 
in. 

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But the offense still has to be 
handled. 

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Listen to what Paul wrote in 
First Corinthians 6 and verse #9

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look at this now. 
He says no ye not that the 

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unrighteous shall not inherit 
the Kingdom of God be here's 

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these words again, be not 
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Now as we're going through this 
list understand as he's starting

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to hit on these things. 
He's talking about people that 

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are presently practicing 
whatever he is calling neither 

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fornicators nor adulterers nor 
adulterers nor effeminate nor 

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abusers of themselves with 
mankind verse 10 nor thieves nor

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covetous nor drunkards nor 
revilers nor extortioners shall 

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inherit the Kingdom of God. 
Folks, that is pretty lines 

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drawn. 
If you're presently 

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participating in these things, 
ye shall not inherit the Kingdom

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of God. 
Look at verse #11 though and 

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such someone say, such were some
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ye are sanctified, but ye are 
justified in the name of the 

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Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit 
of our God. 

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You say, well God is love and he
accepts everyone as they are. 

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Yes, He is love and he does 
accept people, but he also, 

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according to this verse, he. 
Transforms fornicators and the 

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children of God idolaters and 
the children of God abusers and 

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the children of God effeminate 
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That's who they were past is. 
That's who they once was. 

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The past is they're no longer 
that. 

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They're no longer practicing 
that. 

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They're no longer involved in 
that because God loved them 

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enough to judge their sin and 
save their soul. 

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And they say, I'm going to walk 
in a new path. 

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I'm going to walk in a new Ave. 
Thank God I'm not. 

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Not what I used to be. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
So love doesn't come along and 

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affirm all the wrong that we 
have done in our life doesn't do

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that. 
It's not going to come along and

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affirm all of that wrong that's 
destroying you. 

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What type of sense would that 
make? 

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God's going to just pacify and 
affirm everything that he knows.

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Is destroying your life and 
taking you down the wrong Rd. 

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What type of sense would that 
make? 

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I say that as though it's common
knowledge. 

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But. 
There's a lot of that. 

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I'm trying to be nice today. 
There's a lot of that theory and

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philosophy taking on in our 
world. 

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The. 
Love The Love mission is not 

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making you feel good on your way
to destruction. 

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The Love Mission is helping save
you from destruction. 

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You know, you've heard people 
say before they've been involved

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in something and they didn't 
know they was in danger until 

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they were in danger. 
No indices, nothing going on to 

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tip them off any other way 
until. 

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It was too late. 
Here you have a great gentleman 

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this morning and your God, 
because he's not going to treat 

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you, Amen. 
That just lets you just be 

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oblivious, Amen, about where you
are. 

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And then, oh, there we are at 
the end and it's too late. 

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No, no, no. 
He has given indicators all 

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along the journey. 
And sometimes we think, oh, 

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what? 
What a cruel God. 

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Or why does that preacher say 
that? 

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Or why does that person say 
that? 

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Listen, folks, that's not 
hatred, that's not unkindness. 

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You know what that is? 
That is love. 

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The Bible says he chastises 
those whom he loves. 

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He does it from a place and a 
position of love. 

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He cares for you. 
He wants your destiny to be 

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different than what it was when 
you started in this life. 

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He has hopes of an expected end 
for you. 

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Just in my introduction they're 
saying. 

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Things like do what feels right,
yeah. 

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Just do what feels right. 
It sounds so good. 

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Just 4 little words together. 
Smush together. 

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It makes. 
That's great. 

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I'll write that in the card. 
Put homework on the back. 

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Do what feels right. 
Have it your way, baby. 

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Could you imagine holding that 
philosophy raising your kids? 

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That's OK, honey. 
Do what feels right. 

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I mean, don't mind. 
They're not at a age that their 

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prefrontal cortex is not even 
fully developed, where the 

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reasoning part of their brain is
to make decisions well. 

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Now understand why they need 
parental guidance. 

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Because they don't have the 
biology yet. 

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They don't have the biology to 
support sound reasoning yet. 

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Maybe that's the reason why God 
put parents in their life. 

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Just do what feels like. 
Here's what the proverb says. 

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This is Bible today. 
Proverbs 1412. 

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There is a way which seemeth 
right in the man, but the end 

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thereof are the ways of death. 
This is Pastor Day. 

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It listen, it can seem and it 
can feel right and still be 

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wrong. 
That's right, absolutely. 

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It can seem like it. 
Listen, if that wasn't the case,

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you'd never, ever hear of a 
story of someone being taken 

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advantage by some of these 
pyramid schemes because to them,

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it seemed right, sounded good. 
It wasn't right. 

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And you said, well, Brother 
McGee, my feelings are real. 

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Yes. 
I'm not denying that. 

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The feelings that come in our 
life, they are absolutely real, 

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but they're not always 
realistic. 

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I think they hate me. 
That might be a real feeling, 

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but it might not be. 
It may be unfounded. 

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It may not be true. 
That's right. 

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Yeah, come on, The call that 
Christ called his people to walk

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00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,400
wasn't a call to walk by your 
feelings or walk by what seems 

451
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,000
right, he said. 
Walk by faith. 

452
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:51,680
Where's that put? 
Trust. 

453
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,320
Again, in our decisions and our 
choices, not in me. 

454
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,480
I'm not leaning on my own 
understanding. 

455
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,280
I'm trusting myself to him. 
Here's another one, everybody. 

456
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:05,800
I need to. 
Quit that stuff. 

457
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,560
Here's the the the voice of 
those prophets. 

458
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,680
Your truth. 
Is valid for you. 

459
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,840
Your truth, you know, we got 
your truth and my truth. 

460
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,320
Everybody's got truth. 
Your truth is your truth. 

461
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,840
Is valid for you. 
We we were living in a world 

462
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,720
that has grown. 
Increasingly, listen, I'm 

463
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,680
telling you again, increasingly 
uncomfortable with absolutes. 

464
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:42,240
The air of participation 
trophies if just speak in 

465
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,240
practical terms because we 
wanted to kind of. 

466
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,520
Erase absolutes that there are a
winner. 

467
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:53,600
And there's a loser. 
God help me. 

468
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,280
We're in a culture. 
No, we, we want the options, we 

469
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:04,760
want some alternatives. 
We want to customize it you. 

470
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,720
Know you, you can't even have 
proper rules in, in, in like a, 

471
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,960
a job, a work environment from 
from human resources or even 

472
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,320
department stores, anything 
nowadays without somebody trying

473
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:27,120
to come and find a loophole to 
make negotiations come on all 

474
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,080
the time for Fred. 
They probably come to your 

475
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,040
business with insurance. 
So they don't want can you do 

476
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,160
this? 
And you're like, no, I can't. 

477
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,960
But they still go on and talk 
about can you? 

478
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,800
They want to customize it. 
They don't want to contend with 

479
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,880
the hard fast that's already 
laid out. 

480
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,040
They want exceptions #1 because 
they believe they deserve it. 

481
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,880
I didn't. 
I didn't put gunpowder on the 

482
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,080
Wheaties this morning. 
I'm just telling you today, this

483
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,200
is where we are AT. 
And so truth is no longer. 

484
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,960
Truth is no longer seen as 
something fixed. 

485
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,520
Truth is seen as something that 
is negotiable. 

486
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,800
Truth is seen as something that 
is flexible. 

487
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,640
Truth is seen as something that 
is flexible. 

488
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,000
That it will sell at the right 
price. 

489
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,760
Truth. 
So now we live in a society. 

490
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,000
We, we There is no definition, 
true definition anymore. 

491
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,440
Morality. 
Morality is subjective to what 

492
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,560
everybody wants morality to be 
for their life, their club, 

493
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,680
their community. 
It's negotiated at whatever 

494
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,920
terms that we can all seem to 
come to somewhat agree on. 

495
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,160
And since that's the case, your,
your idea of morality is 

496
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,520
different than his idea of 
morality and different her idea 

497
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,160
of morality. 
And when it's all said and done,

498
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,600
we have all these different 
cards on the table that's 

499
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,120
defining morality. 
And when you have that many 

500
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,120
definitions, you don't have a 
definition. 

501
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,160
And so we've been taught that 
that every belief, every idea, 

502
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,520
everything deserves equal 
validation. 

503
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:07,920
Every path deserves equal 
dignity, every destination equal

504
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,600
celebration. 
So many. 

505
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,880
Ways to live. 
So many ways to live. 

506
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,520
So many ways to believe. 
So many ways to believe. 

507
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,040
So many ways to reach God. 
So many, so many, so many. 

508
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:20,960
And here's the fact of the 
matter. 

509
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,680
That's not something that's 
beyond the church walls. 

510
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,880
Can you hear me right now? 
That's something that's even 

511
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:32,360
crept inside of the church walls
quietly into the hearts. 

512
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,960
Even the believers, quote UN 
quote, Saints, it's crept in. 

513
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,720
I just recently looked at just 
this week, there's a survey that

514
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,720
happens every year. 
It's called the State of 

515
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,960
theology survey, happens every 
year. 

516
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,560
This one just took place in the 
month of October of last year, 

517
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,080
2025. 
And so the state of theology 

518
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,200
survey, it's a nationwide survey
that reveals how people of today

519
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,880
are viewing key doctrines in the
Scriptures. 

520
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,280
All right. 
And according to the 2025 

521
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,280
October State of Theology 
survey, it revealed this, that 

522
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,120
nearly half of those who 
identified themselves as 

523
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,480
evangelical Christians believe 
that God accepts the worship of 

524
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,280
multiple religions, multiple 
venues, multiple ways equally. 

525
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:24,280
It doesn't matter the exact 
percentage was about 47%. 

526
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,040
If you can and you just turn 
your Bibles there, I'm not 

527
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,840
really going well. 
I am going to read a few verses 

528
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:36,200
from there, but it brought to my
mind a story or Advent in 

529
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,320
scripture. 
First Kings chapter 17. 

530
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,080
This is during the time when 
Israel has been displaced from 

531
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,560
Samaria and Judah and the region
of Israel, and they've been 

532
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,000
taken into an Assyrian 
captivity. 

533
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,680
A lot of times. 
We talk a lot about the 

534
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,760
Babylonian captivity. 
That happens primarily to the 

535
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,280
southern part of Israel, which 
was known as Judah, but there 

536
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,160
was also an Assyrian. 
Captivity that took. 1st for the

537
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,760
northern part of of Israel known
as Israel, the 10 tribes. 

538
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,280
And so they displaced them from 
Samaria. 

539
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,480
And the Bible says that the king
of Assyria, then he began to 

540
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,679
populate the land that that the 
Israelites had been in. 

541
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,880
He began to populate it with a 
lot of foreign peoples from 

542
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,920
different nations and countries.
He brought some of the Babylon 

543
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,080
you read in Scripture. 
Brought. 

544
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,800
Babylon and put them in Samaria.
Qatar brought them into Samaria,

545
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:28,520
ABBA brought them, Hamath 
brought them, Shevar Shevar 

546
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,880
Vaim, Amen, brought them. 
And he brought all these people 

547
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,120
to live in the city of Samaria, 
Israel's exile. 

548
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,679
They're away from there. 
So he brought all these 

549
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:38,880
different nations and peoples 
and brought them to Samaria, 

550
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,280
where, where Israel, the 
Israelites lived, and put them 

551
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,159
right there. 
And the Bible says when they 

552
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:44,960
were first there, there are 
different places, different 

553
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,719
countries. 
They did not honor or know even 

554
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,679
how to honor the Lord God of 
Israel. 

555
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,360
And so they come there and the 
Bible says after there for a 

556
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,520
while, since they did not fear 
the Lord or have any author God,

557
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,040
the Bible says that the Lord 
sent lions among them, and those

558
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,040
lions consumed some of them. 
And so then the king of Assyria 

559
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,960
got this bright idea. 
I tell you what we need to do. 

560
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,680
We need to take some old 
Israelite priest and bring just 

561
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,840
one of them back from exile and 
put him in Samaria so he can 

562
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,480
teach those Pagan people with a 
multiplicity of gods, the manner

563
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,400
of God of the God of the land 
that they're living in right 

564
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,440
now. 
And it teach them about the God 

565
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,360
of Samaria. 
And so he went and got the 

566
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,720
priest and they taught them 
everything concerning the God of

567
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,600
the land of Samaria. 
And the Bible tells us then now 

568
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,840
these people, they're they're 
worshipping God in the right 

569
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,920
place, Samaria of all things, 
right in the land of Israel, but

570
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,520
they're still doing it in the 
wrong way because they've kept 

571
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:49,200
on serving all the other gods 
that they had. 

572
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,360
Look at the Bible first Kings 
chapter 17 and verse 29. 

573
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,640
Here's the story. 
After the priest has come in, 

574
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,360
try to teach him about the 
manner of the God of the land. 

575
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,720
It says, how be it? 
Every nation made gods. 

576
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:04,160
All these people that came in, 
they didn't just come in, they 

577
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,240
brought their gods with him. 
They they every nation made gods

578
00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:11,160
of their own and put them in the
houses of the high places which 

579
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,880
the Samaritans had made a man, 
and every nation and their 

580
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,040
cities wherein they dwell. 
Look at verse 33. 

581
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,440
They feared the Lord. 
So they have some type of 

582
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,320
acknowledgement or consciousness
about God, but serve their own 

583
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:28,120
gods after the manner of the 
nations whom they carried away 

584
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,960
from thence. 
And so if you read from verse 29

585
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,520
down to verse 33, the other 
verses that are in between, 

586
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,440
there you're going to find the 
various gods that they brought 

587
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,920
to Samaria, to Israel, the place
where the Lord God Amen was 

588
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,840
served in worship. 
And so there as they brought 

589
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,320
them, they bought, they brought 
creator gods. 

590
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,400
They brought what was known as 
storm and wisdom and writing 

591
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,480
gods. 
They brought love and war gods. 

592
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,520
Some of them even viewed their 
God as a universal ruler. 

593
00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:57,880
They brought their plague and 
fire gods. 

594
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,720
The names of them are in between
those verses, and these are the 

595
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,520
what they were considered the 
gods of. 

596
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,840
Even some of them. 
No, I studied it. 

597
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,760
Even some of them were revered. 
Some of their gods were revered 

598
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,000
as the Lord and ruler of the 
great underworld. 

599
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:22,360
So you had this melting pot, if 
I could say, of religions have 

600
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:27,160
this melting pot of religions in
this one place of Samaria. 

601
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,720
Many of these minds you even had
in the religious practices were 

602
00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,880
linked to child sacrifice and 
burning the children. 

603
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,160
They have all this and they 
bring it together, Samaria. 

604
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,720
And they're like, we're going 
to, we're going to learn the 

605
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:46,080
ways of the Lord, but not for 
the purpose of forsaking the way

606
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,920
that they did, but just for the 
purpose of just adding that on 

607
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,680
the table. 
Of being all inclusive, no. 

608
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,720
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 
It's not that I'm going to lay 

609
00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:03,240
down my God of War and love now 
and submit to this God. 

610
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:10,920
No, he's just another God that 
we all, that we all can serve, 

611
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:17,000
I'm getting. 
In trouble today that we can 

612
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,840
just all serve. 
Oh, the grand umbrella that I've

613
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,520
walked with for my years of life
on earth, of let's just all come

614
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:30,120
together under his name. 
But you don't know when you're 

615
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,680
coming together under that name.
What other names they? 

616
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:33,160
Brought. 
Yes, come. 

617
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:41,310
On that's right, let's let's 
just let's just oh, folks, 

618
00:38:41,310 --> 00:38:44,030
listen, I am not willing. 
Listen to me as pastor. 

619
00:38:44,430 --> 00:38:49,190
I am not willing to subject 
anybody in this church to 

620
00:38:49,190 --> 00:38:53,040
worship the Lord Jesus Christ, 
your true Lord and Savior, and 

621
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,040
then to rub shoulders with the 
acceptance of also having a God 

622
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:02,960
of the underworld. 
He told us in the book of 

623
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,040
Corinthians, light and darkness 
don't mix. 

624
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:11,280
That's right, That's right. 
Christ is very, very, it's very 

625
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,160
delineated. 
There is not the meshing 

626
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:19,640
together this, you know, there's
some things any, any bakers or 

627
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,120
cookers out there? 
I do a lot of cooking in my 

628
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,680
house. 
You can cook some things, put 

629
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,720
all ingredients together and the
melting down of them and the 

630
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,640
changing of the chemistry that 
they melt together, that it is 

631
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,320
nearly impossible to separate 
them. 

632
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,360
But then there are other things 
like a, a, a salad that you put 

633
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,320
the carrots in there and you put
the cucumbers and you put this 

634
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,080
in there. 
You mix that all up, but you can

635
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,320
still take the pieces out and 
that's still lettuce and that's 

636
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,680
still carrots, right? 
Somebody hear me right now, I am

637
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,560
not willing. 
I'm not willing to mix in such a

638
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,720
way that we change the 
composition of who we're 

639
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:54,360
supposed to be and we take on 
them and they take up on us. 

640
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,360
Our fellowship, our speak, I'll 
have conversation that at the 

641
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,440
end of the day, there's still 
going to be carrots, there's 

642
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,280
still going to be lettuce, 
there's still going to be 

643
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,600
cucumbers. 
There's still because my God is 

644
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:17,280
my God, and he alone. 
See what they wanted? 

645
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,560
They wanted to attempt to 
worship God plus their idols, 

646
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:25,120
God plus their child sacrifice, 
God plus all of their impure 

647
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,920
rights. 
They wanted to paint with that 

648
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,240
very broad brush. 
They didn't want to find tip 

649
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,080
brush that would narrow the 
focus. 

650
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,760
You know what Isaiah said? 
The Lord said through the 

651
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,960
prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 42 and he
said, I am the Lord. 

652
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:49,080
That is my name and my glory. 
I will not give to another, 

653
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,440
neither my praise to graven 
images. 

654
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:59,800
We could dredge up some more. 
But even just that one. 

655
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,320
'S pretty sufficient for me. 
He don't share. 

656
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,040
His glory with another. 
You tell me you're going to 

657
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,080
praise your word God over here 
and praise that God. 

658
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,400
No, he says. 
I want. 

659
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:13,080
All of it. 
I don't have me a little God on 

660
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,400
the side. 
I don't have God I shack up with

661
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:22,480
for certain needs. 
Listen when I need deliver. 

662
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,640
I go to him whenever I need 
heal. 

663
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,120
I go to him when my finances 
need help. 

664
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:29,920
I go to him. 
When I need salvation, I go to 

665
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,720
him. 
I'm not trying to find out which

666
00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:34,360
God I need to go to. 
He's all sufficient. 

667
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,680
He says it over and over, the 
Old Testament. 

668
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,200
I'm the all sufficient God. 
I don't need a panorama of God. 

669
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,080
I got God and heaven is thrown 
and the earth is. 

670
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,680
Didn't look excited here. 
Look excited. 

671
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,920
I ate a bowl of cereal called 
Life this morning. 

672
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,680
I just got it abundantly today, 
Christina. 

673
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:13,160
I have eaten with a big spoon. 
I guess modern society, they 

674
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,680
recoil when you start talking 
about things being exclusive, 

675
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,880
you start talking about the idea
of there might be something 

676
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,800
definitively right and 
definitively wrong. 

677
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,800
Blur that a little bit. 
Don't mark off clear boundaries.

678
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,680
Here's the thing, Doctor Mason, 
we didn't just arrive here last 

679
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:46,880
year. 
We've been plotting our way here

680
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,760
for years. 
This is just a For instance, 

681
00:42:54,240 --> 00:43:00,040
back in March of 1998, there was
a issue, the March 1998 issue of

682
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,560
Q magazine. 
There's a woman there. 

683
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:05,080
Her name is Madonna. 
Some may know, may not know. 

684
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,480
I know it's a old, old time, but
I'm just telling you about this 

685
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:12,040
been going on for years, Madonna
was interviewed as saying. 

686
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,160
I do believe that all paths lead
to God. 

687
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,400
It's a shame that we end up 
having religious wars because so

688
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:24,120
many of the messages are the 
same in the same year, the dear 

689
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,920
Oprah Winfrey asked her 
televised audience. 

690
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,600
How can there be only one way to
heaven or to God? 

691
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:33,400
Someone in the audience asked 
her. 

692
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,600
Well, what about Jesus? 
Oprah replied. 

693
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,280
What about Jesus? 
There couldn't possibly be one 

694
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:43,600
way, folks, We didn't just get 
here yesterday. 

695
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:47,600
We didn't just get here 
yesterday. 

696
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,160
We've been on a journey. 
But whenever I read that one of 

697
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,280
the disciples called Thomas, 
whenever he was having dialogue 

698
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:58,480
with Jesus and John chapter #14 
and he's asking the Lord, the 

699
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,600
Lord's talking about there's a 
way that he's going to take. 

700
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,880
And and Thomas is kind of 
saying, Lord, how can we know 

701
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,720
the way? 
This is what Jesus said of 

702
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:10,240
himself in John 14 and 6. 
Jesus saith unto him, I am the 

703
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:16,640
way. 
The truth and the life no man 

704
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:21,680
come unto the Father, but by me 
that word the. 

705
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:26,320
What's known in English as the 
definitive article, that word, 

706
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,920
the that's before the way, the 
truth and the life is an 

707
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,120
important word because that 
word's not just here in our 

708
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,080
English translations of our 
Bible. 

709
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,880
That word is also in the Greek 
from which these English 

710
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,880
translations of the New 
Testament came. 

711
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,720
From that same definitive 
article, Article D precedes each

712
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:51,880
one of those words of way, truth
and life, and what that means 

713
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,800
for us as readers and listeners 
and people that's going to 

714
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,040
understand means. 
This is that Jesus is declaring 

715
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:04,480
that he is the unique way, the 
unique truth, the unique life. 

716
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:09,960
He is the way, not a way. 
He is the life, not a life. 

717
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,400
He is the truth, not. 
Hate truth. 

718
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,160
In other words, he's not one 
option among many. 

719
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,840
He's not a spiritual preference.
He's not a cultural 

720
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,720
Christianity. 
He is. 

721
00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:28,240
He's making an exclusive claim 
to a inclusive world that he's 

722
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,120
the only one. 
Yes. 

723
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,880
Oh, Jesus. 
Amen. 

724
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:48,160
And since Jesus is the word that
was manifest in the flesh 

725
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:56,720
according to John 114, then that
word even is true that Jesus 

726
00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:59,880
said in John 1717. 
And you hear it on the radio. 

727
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,880
Sanctify them through thy Word. 
Thy word is truth. 

728
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:07,000
What's that mean? 
Truth is not subjective. 

729
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,600
Truth is not personal. 
Truth is absolute. 

730
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,920
And it doesn't matter if you 
agree with it or if you don't 

731
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,480
agree with it, it's still true. 
It doesn't need your vote to be 

732
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,240
truth. 
It'll be truth all by itself and

733
00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:26,760
it'll my God, we're not getting 
together a committee about 

734
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,440
whether or not we want to accept
it. 

735
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,960
Whether we accept it or not, it 
stands on its own 2 feet all by 

736
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,280
itself. 
Truth is truth. 

737
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:52,160
Amen. 
And that same word that was made

738
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:57,200
flesh as Christ, which is truth,
is one of the writer of Hebrews 

739
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:03,680
says Jesus Christ the same 
yesterday, today and forever. 

740
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:09,720
That tells me truth is fixed. 
Because the God that was 

741
00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:11,560
manifested in the flesh has 
Christ. 

742
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:15,840
Jesus tells me also that he is 
the immutable. 

743
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:17,640
God. 
What's that mean? 

744
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:26,600
He changes not so truth does not
change from yesterday, today or 

745
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,400
for tomorrow. 
It is what it is. 

746
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,880
It is what it was and it will be
what it is. 

747
00:47:39,070 --> 00:47:41,150
For the more Acts 4 and 12 says 
neither. 

748
00:47:42,910 --> 00:47:44,550
You're not going there, I'm 
going there. 

749
00:47:45,110 --> 00:47:53,000
Neither is there salvation in 
any other, in any other, for 

750
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,160
there is none other. 
For there is none other name 

751
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:03,080
under heaven where given among 
men, whereby we must be saved 

752
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,680
neither in any other there is 
none other. 

753
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,440
You. 
Know what that word other, the 

754
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,400
second other defined In the 
Greek, there is not even another

755
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:22,560
word, other, former person, 
former thing. 

756
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:28,320
For our context, former name. 
It's defined as not one of the 

757
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:33,400
same nature, not one of the same
form, not one of the same class,

758
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,120
not one of the same kind, not 
one even of a different name 

759
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:41,440
that can compare. 
You know what the apostle say 

760
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,720
and he's saying, listen, there 
is a name that's given to you 

761
00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,560
for salvation and there's not 
another, not even another one 

762
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,720
that has a similar class, a 
similar form, a similar kind. 

763
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,040
There's not even a different 
name that can supply the 

764
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,320
deliverance that you name. 
There is none. 

765
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:03,160
I don't. 
Know about you? 

766
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,240
But that sounds pretty exclusive
to me. 

767
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:15,800
That sounds pretty absolute, 
brother Reese, to me. 

768
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,240
I'm getting there. 
I'm still my introduction. 

769
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,880
I still got some preaching to do
here for next for Don joking. 

770
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,360
So when we open the book of 
Psalms, this is where the text 

771
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:36,880
comes in, the very first Psalm. 
It confronts us, then with the 

772
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:42,800
truth that stands in stark 
contradiction to the spirit of 

773
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:48,320
our age, because Psalm 1 does 
not present in many ways. 

774
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:54,440
It presents two ways. 
It doesn't present several 

775
00:49:54,440 --> 00:50:00,560
paths, not a spectrum of 
gradiation of paths and the 

776
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,840
options. 
No, just two. 

777
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,160
And this Psalm is really like an
introduction to all of the 

778
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,360
psalms that will follow. 
But it opens with establishing 

779
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:14,560
this, this fundamental principle
that should and ought to govern 

780
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,920
humanity since the very 
beginning of time, for that 

781
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,560
matter. 
But there are two ways that you 

782
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:26,720
can live in this life, and those
two ways lead to two different 

783
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:31,600
destinies. 
I know that's just as simple as 

784
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:38,480
elementary coloring in the lines
at kindergarten, but we have we 

785
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:44,320
have confused and we have made 
complex something that God has 

786
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:51,640
had simple from the beginning. 
There's only two ways and they 

787
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:53,680
both have vast different 
destinies. 

788
00:50:54,280 --> 00:51:01,800
Not always lead to him. 
We'll get into. 

789
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:04,320
It perhaps in weeks to come 
somewhere whenever I feel 

790
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:05,560
compelled by the Holy. 
Ghost. 

791
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:12,760
But Psalm 1 describes that there
is a way that leaves us 

792
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,640
prospering. 
We're not talking about 

793
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,440
prosperity gospel. 
We don't preach that around 

794
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:21,080
here. 
Praise God. 

795
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:22,760
Well, that's for another day, 
right? 

796
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,400
But one leaves you prospering 
and the other one leaves you 

797
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:33,040
perishing. 
Oh, Brother McGee, that's I'm 

798
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,120
not sure about. 
It folks, it's in your Bible, 

799
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,840
Judas, the Revelation. 
You start reading the things 

800
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,600
that Jesus describes and shares 
a New Testament scripture. 

801
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,240
Think for a moment. 
There's two men. 

802
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,240
One builds his house on the 
rock, 1 builds his house on the 

803
00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:56,120
sand. 
The storm and the waves in the 

804
00:51:56,120 --> 00:52:03,680
wind come to both. 
Both here only one obeys. 

805
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,960
The outcome is different for 
each. 

806
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:13,560
There's five wise virgins, 5 
foolish versions. 

807
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:17,400
What's the difference between 
these two By the end of the day 

808
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,720
and story and the Bible says 
they all slumbered and slept. 

809
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,840
But the end result is there were
the five wise who had made 

810
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:31,400
preparation, who had garnered 
some oil that was ready even for

811
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:39,680
their moment of failure just to 
just to Bishop. 

812
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:42,200
We read in Scripture. 
Jesus is telling his own what 

813
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:47,320
are you doing Jesus? 
Jesus isn't letting us know that

814
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:52,440
He did not redefine foolishness.
As another valid lifestyle 

815
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:59,160
choice, he showed that wisdom 
was obedience and that 

816
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:00,960
foolishness carried 
consequences. 

817
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:08,760
I got to close, don't I? 
This one says, yeah, I'm glad 

818
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,520
Brother Ryan Marshall's going to
be here tonight. 

819
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,680
Now, years ago, Preacher told 
me, he said, hey, don't preach 

820
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,000
him to the gates of hell if you 
don't put up an exit sign for 

821
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,600
him. 
So here's my exit sign. 

822
00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:27,160
Considering everything I've told
you about, all the gates, all 

823
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:31,040
the warnings, all the contrasts,
all the exposure of the, the 

824
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,880
wording and the phrases of the 
false prophets that we should be

825
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,800
aware of, the cultural rebuke, 
whatever you want to call it, 

826
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,800
and the presentation of these 
two ways that we just peer into 

827
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,120
in Psalms chapter #1 again, you 
might be, here's one man. 

828
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:44,960
I'm feeling the weight of all 
this, pastor. 

829
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,760
And I think you're probably 
thinking, is there hope? 

830
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,160
I mean, you told me the bad 
news, but is there any good 

831
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,560
news? 
And the answer is yes. 

832
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,280
Here's your hope. 
Because when Psalm one begins, 

833
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,840
it does not begin with 
condemnation. 

834
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,120
It begins with blessed is the 
man. 

835
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,800
God didn't just write Psalm 1 
merely to warn us of the way 

836
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:15,400
that perishes. 
He rode to show us the way that 

837
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:21,440
prospers. 
Furthermore, if you go back to 

838
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:25,920
John's or Matthew 7 where I 
started the narrow way, and 

839
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:30,200
please understand this today, 
this isn't this is, it's my 

840
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,160
heart, yes, but this is the 
heart of God. 

841
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,280
The narrow way is not narrow 
because God is trying to keep 

842
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:40,880
people out. 
It's narrow because truth is 

843
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:47,000
precise. 
Yes, that's good. 

844
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,400
Let me go a step further. 
It is precise, but it is open 

845
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:54,000
because the scripture says. 
The scripture does not say 

846
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,760
Brother Fred McGee. 
It does not say Jesus said there

847
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,480
is a narrow grate gate. 
Good luck finding it. 

848
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:03,760
That's not what the scripture 
says. 

849
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:05,920
The scripture says there in 
Matthew 713. 

850
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:11,000
This is Jesus's words. 
Enter in at the straight gate. 

851
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:18,000
You can only give a mandate like
that if the gate exists and the 

852
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,720
gate is open for entrance. 
What is that? 

853
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:26,680
That's an invitation. 
Staying with me. 

854
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:32,120
That's an invitation. 
Jesus and John 10/10 He said I 

855
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,520
and come. 
What did he say? 

856
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:39,360
Let's look what he said first. 
The thief cometh not but two, 

857
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:49,080
and, and, but I am come that you
might have life. 

858
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:53,200
What do we got here? 
Two ways. 2 past that you might 

859
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,960
have life, and that they might 
have it more abundantly. 

860
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:05,400
Listen, Peter tells us in first.
Peter says the Lord #1 is not 

861
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:10,480
slack concerning his promises as
some men count slackness, and he

862
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:14,880
is not willing that any should 
perish. 

863
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:22,520
It's not God's will. 
It's not God's will for you to 

864
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:27,760
choose the path or the way of a 
Sinner and then someday embrace 

865
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:34,560
the destiny of perishing. 
He's not willing because he's 

866
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,800
provided a choice. 
He's. 

867
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:42,800
Provided an invitation and I say
this today, he's a minister. 

868
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,440
Of the word of the Lord here. 
Today that if you're not with 

869
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,600
him, Matthew, this is what it 
said in Matthew Jesus, even 

870
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,720
though he said, Lord, there's 
some people over here that's 

871
00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:55,160
doing some things and you know, 
and we think that maybe we 

872
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,680
should give him the what for the
kind of teaching and doing for. 

873
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:01,960
And he says, listen, if they're 
not with me. 

874
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,080
Then they're against me. 
All right? 

875
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:06,680
That's pretty black and white, 
Brother Reese. 

876
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:13,120
It's like they're either for me 
or they're not, Brother Fred. 

877
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,240
I mean, they didn't. 
Have to spend 2 hours figuring 

878
00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:17,360
that and out, he said they're 
either with me, they're not. 

879
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:23,880
There's a choice. 
There's two choices. 

880
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,200
They have definitive different 
endings. 

881
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:33,120
Listen, listen to Pastor this 
morning. 

882
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,480
In this instance, for instance, 
if he's with me, not with me. 

883
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,720
In this instance, not choosing 
and still choosing. 

884
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:49,840
If they're not with. 
Me. 

885
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,240
If they're not choosing that, 
then they've made a choice. 

886
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,880
If they're not with me, they're 
against me. 

887
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:02,080
So in this instance, not 
choosing is still choosing. 

888
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:04,960
What do you implore as pastor? 
I implore this. 

889
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:16,920
Choose the way, choose the life,
choose. 

890
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:26,040
I know it's rigid, the truth. 
I feel a witness of His spirit 

891
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:29,160
here today. 
We bow our heads all across this

892
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:32,800
place, sore ma'am, whoever you 
may be. 

893
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:38,080
And please understand me today. 
I'm not some angry preacher up 

894
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,720
here, but I am a convinced 
preacher. 

895
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:46,520
I'm a convinced preacher 
concerning God's word and I'm 

896
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:50,120
convinced today that He is laid 
before us. 2 paths in this life,

897
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:57,320
2 paths, not a multiplicity. 
And please help me, just let me 

898
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,560
explain like this folks, I 
understand. 

899
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,040
I understand that we all come 
from different walks of life and

900
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:08,920
I'm not saying your walk in life
from birth to the Lord has to 

901
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,880
look exactly like mine. 
But what I am saying is this, 

902
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:16,400
that I believe it's in that same
John 10 that Jesus said I am the

903
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:21,640
the door. 
Someone hear me, I am the door 

904
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:26,960
to the sheepfold. 
So all of our lives might be 

905
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,160
looking like a roots of a tree. 
Then they're scattered from 

906
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:35,640
every place, but they all got to
find their passage to the main 

907
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:41,360
trunk. 
So you, you, you could start it 

908
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,080
over here in the dysfunctional 
family. 

909
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,200
You could have started over. 
Here as an alcoholic and you 

910
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,440
could have started over here, 
good moral individual. 

911
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,240
You just know Lord. 
But if we're going to get in the

912
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:57,080
sheepfold, the way we going to 
have to pass through the door, 

913
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:02,880
and Jesus Christ is that door 
and in that ye the part of that 

914
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,200
tree, part of that sheepfold. 
Or you're not. 

915
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,800
We have a choice today. 
You have a choice today. 

916
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,480
I urge you this morning, if you 
think, well, I just don't know. 

917
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,960
Please, please, please, please 
do not delay. 

918
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,840
Please do not delay. 
Please do not. 

919
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,720
Please do not be standing at the
fork in the road, so to speak, 

920
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:25,760
flipping the coin. 
Folks, I've tried. 

921
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,320
I've tried to give you some, 
some, some, some, some 

922
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:29,680
information. 
I've tried to give you some 

923
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,560
scripture today. 
Don't listen in this moment. 

924
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,320
It's not the time to start to 
try to trust your feelings or 

925
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,600
follow your heart or all that 
other stuff. 

926
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,640
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 
You need to go based upon what 

927
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:44,920
has been delivered unto us as 
the unadulterated Word of God, 

928
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:48,600
this word that was made flesh, 
this word that was made, blessed

929
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,720
is Christ, that change is not 
same, same, same, same. 

930
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,440
There's no variance. 
There's no shadow of turning. 

931
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,440
You can put your faith in that. 
You don't have to be putting 

932
01:00:58,440 --> 01:00:59,840
your faith in me as an 
individual. 

933
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,120
I'd rather you not put your 
faith in Me because I'm prone to

934
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:04,920
failure. 
But if you'll put your faith in 

935
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,280
the Lord, He's never failed. 
He's never lost a battle. 

936
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,800
He's never quit on anybody. 
Put your faith in Him today. 

937
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:15,800
Put your trust in Him today and 
trust your deceitful heart to 

938
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,040
Him today. 
Bring your feelings, your 

939
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,160
misunderstandings, your chaos to
him today. 

940
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,640
Hallelujah. 
Would someone just go? 

941
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:27,480
There is a straight gate and it 
is open today. 

942
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,160
The plea is enter the straight 
gate. 

943
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,680
That means it exists and it's 
open. 

944
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,000
It's an invitation, it's an 
opportunity. 

945
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:37,480
Can we come any individual here 
today? 

946
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,240
It doesn't matter. 
If this is your first. 

947
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,520
Time or your 50th time if you're
St. of God today it would be 

948
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:46,680
good measure for us Amen to to 
exude an example right now and 

949
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,960
coming and saying you know what 
I chose many years ago to pass 

950
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:51,880
through this door. 
I'm just coming today. 

951
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:55,840
I'm rededicating I'm affirming 
that I made the right choice. 

952
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,200
I'm affirming Hallelujah that he
has been that. 

953
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:04,080
Unique, solitary way. 
Hey man, it seems like a trip 

954
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,760
and a path of exclusivity. 
But with that comes an 

955
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:10,040
attention. 
With that comes clarity. 

956
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:14,560
With that comes definition. 
With that, come on, Sir. 

957
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,040
Come on, ma'am. 
You don't have to be afraid. 

958
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:18,760
Oh, but Brother McGee. 
But Brother McGee. 

959
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,480
No, no, no, no, no. 
Please don't let society, please

960
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:25,680
don't let the societal voices 
come and and water down and 

961
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,880
dilute, if you will, truth. 
Don't let all that hogwash to 

962
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,640
come and somehow undercut. 
Amen. 

963
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:33,720
Truth. 
Folks, we've been on a plotting 

964
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:37,200
journey of pushing the envelope 
of truth for years. 

965
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,720
They've diluted it. 
They've washed it out. 

966
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:41,720
They've expunged it. 
Amen. 

967
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:48,000
Let's just just give me Jesus. 
Just give me Jesus. 

968
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,960
Just give me Jesus. 
Talk to him right now. 

969
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,040
He's not. 
Far from every one of us. 

970
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,800
He's not far. 
We'll get in it later sometime. 

971
01:02:56,960 --> 01:03:00,400
But the Bible says that the 
Lord, he knows the path. 

972
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:02,640
He knows the path of the 
righteous. 

973
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,920
He takes knowledge of it. 
It's exponential to him. 

974
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,000
He understands it. 
He watches over. 

975
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,880
He knows the path of the 
righteous. 

976
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:13,400
Come on, Sir. 
Come on, ma'am.