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I want to invite your attention 
to the 11th chapter of Isaiah. 

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I'm going to read the first six 
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reading Isaiah 11, the first six
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there shall come forth a rod out
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branch shall grow out of his 
roots and the spirit of the Lord

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shall rest upon him, the spirit 
of wisdom and understanding the 

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spirit of counsel and might the 
spirit of knowledge and of the 

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fear of the Lord and shall make 
him of quick, understanding in 

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the fear of the Lord. 
And he shall not judge after the

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sight of his eyes, neither 
reprove after the hearing of his

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ears, but with righteousness, 
shall he judge the poor and 

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reprove with equity for the meek
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And he shall Smite the Earth 
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with the breath of his lips, 
shall he slay, the wicked and 

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righteousness shall be the 
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faithfulness. 
The girdle of his reins the wolf

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also shall dwell with the lamb. 
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with the kid and the calf, and 
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together, and a little child, 
shall lead them, that will be 

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our reading for this morning. 
Before we take up an examination

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of this passage, we're going to 
approach our father in prayer. 

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This. 
Beautiful prophecy was fulfilled

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in the coming of the kingdom of 
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Jesus would Usher in an age of 
peace with the types of the Old 

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Testament. 
Fulfilled no longer would God's 

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people be constituted by a 
physical nation that would take 

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up Swords against other nations,
rather, the spiritual Kingdom, 

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of Israel would carry the 
message of the Prince of Peace 

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to the world today. 
The Church of the Lord does not 

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conquer. 
Its Ettore and claim subjects by

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violent Force, as an Earthly 
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Does rather the kingdom of 
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hearts of men by the diplomacy 
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Is that of the spirit or the 
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Illustrated in Ephesians the 
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not carnal, they're not 
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spiritual, and they are Mighty, 
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and in treaty to the Yawns, who 
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God? 
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When he said in the great Sermon
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peacemakers. 
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to them are not merely a set of 
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that are. 
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some piece of artwork and 
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They are great doctrinal 
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kingdom of Christ constraineth. 
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age of redemption, the age of 
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And when Jesus says, blessed are
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about this process of making 
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thus between God's people. 
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entrance of the Gospel into 
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Now, that's why Isaiah pictures.
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Isaiah 11 as an age of peace and
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between God and men and thus 
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forgiveness of sins is obtained 
by the gospel but the phrase 

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Isaiah used in verse 6 to 
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is the one that I want us to 
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today. 
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lead them. 
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it's one that is packed with 
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And I believe it's a gem of 
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Today desperately needs to hear,
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all were work to train and 
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children, their minds and their 
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within our hands that can be 
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And molded, in fact, a parent 
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responsibility when God places 
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arms, because they're lays at 
Eternal Soul that will be shaped

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and directed by the teaching 
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And the example that we said, in
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parent, And you've never been 
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If you've never allowed that to 
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responsible for an eternal Soul.
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this world and that soul is 
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someplace. 
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large part will be determined by
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The attitudes, the words, the 
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display before them. 
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Reality. 
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for the great and Monumental 
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Solomon, said, train up a child 
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And when he is old, he will not 
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verse 6. 
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our children. 
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lessons in our children can 
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lessons are, some of the most 
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Christian Life. 
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of course, think of innocence 
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It's unfathomable to me how 
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the world and not immediately. 
Love them. 

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Jesus, certainly love children. 
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ministry to teach some of the 
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kingdom. 
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when some people brought a group
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for him to lay hands on them and
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disciples thought of that. 
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something and rebuked, the 
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Jesus looked at it differently, 
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He said, suffer little children,
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unto me for of such is the 
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even bother to say, verily. 
I say unto you whosoever shall 

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not receive the kingdom of God 
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He shall not enter therein and 
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he put his hands upon them and 
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Well, what a wonderful picture 
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And our ridiculous. 
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doctrine of total hereditary 
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You know, I can hardly conceive 
of a Doctrine today that teaches

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that babies are born in sin and 
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womb. 
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lot of churches, teach that 
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moment, they're conceived and 
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So in a sinful, a depraved and a
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If that be the case, why did 
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Except you be converted and 
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shall not enter into the kingdom
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turn. 
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to turn again and become like a 
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Well, if a child is depraved and
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in a sinful state. 
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for Jesus to tell a sinful and 
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Man, you've got to turn again to
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Surely Jesus statement refutes, 
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lead us in righteousness, if 
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depraved as John Calvin and his 
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Well, the Bible just doesn't 
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doctorate, the Bible teaches, 
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righteousness as I Say a said, a
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The New Testament scriptures are
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In Christ in the word. 
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mature. 
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Christianity is to become a 
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puts away, childish. 
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According to First Corinthians 
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at the same time, the Bible 
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children in other words to grow 
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Up in Christ, we have to take on
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child. 
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behavior, it doesn't mean 
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but it does mean that we should 
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and possess the righteousness of
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If we were to ever understand 
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of the church. 
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those principles today. 
You know, first of all, a little

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child sets a wonderful example 
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Sample of humility. 
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18, and for whosoever, 
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as this little child, the same 
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of Heaven. 
Now, if you had to select from 

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all of the people of the earth, 
one whom you thought to be the 

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epitome of submission and 
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speaking be a child, you know, a
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child gets to light out of 
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A child is teachable. 
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but those things can't be said 
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Because man, as he grows, older 
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called Pride, he's dominated by 
his pride and there is not a 

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greater Pitfall for the human 
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of Pride, it said that a very 
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Once made the Statesmen, not the
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list of the 12 virtues that he 
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The success in any life and he 
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principles that he thought would
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And when he finished his 
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gentleman glanced over it. 
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he said, why bin you left out 
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and that is humility. 
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And he grabbed it, and he took 
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satisfy the Old Gentleman than 
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He jotted it down at the end of 
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It was an afterthought. 
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Now, you know, unfortunately, 
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afterthought to many of us. 
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someone who possesses humility, 
we all acknowledge that humility

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is a virtue. 
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denied such a fact but then we 
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recognize Pride within our own 
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A lot of us are like Benjamin 
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afterthought. 
A lot of us paid lip service to 

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humility. 
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that? 
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in fact, it should really be the
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end of our list. 
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into a mentality if we're not 
careful and I don't want you to 

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misunderstand what I'm about to 
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not minimizing anything on the 
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But sometimes I think we get 
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That's a long as we're members 
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as we have the table set the 
right way, and so long as we 

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sing the right way and so long 
as we don't do this, and we 

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don't do that and we don't do 
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Well, that's what's really 
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when we get down to all of these
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controlling our tongue, and our 
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Well, all of that's icing on the
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You know those are just signs of
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Once we reach a particular 
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that other down and then we can 
work on that through the course 

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of time. 
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is that humility is a Nation not
an afterthought. 

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It's not something that we arise
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It's the foundation of 
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Bible tells us that pride is 
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resist and rejects and pride 
will hinder a man from ever 

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really accepting and embracing 
the truth as God intends for him

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to Dad David prayed, long ago, 
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accepts are those of a broken 
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Spirit. 
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the Salah is a person goes 
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about everything that it doesn't
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worshipped and so on. 
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But I am saying that a man is 
never going to get everything 

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else right in his life until he 
establishes the foundation and 

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the premise of humility, the 
great Sermon on the Mount begins

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with humility. 
Matthew 5 and 3 records, the 

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beginning of the Lord's. 
Sermon, as he said, blessed are 

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the poor in spirit for theirs is
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And simply put a man cannot 
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so long as he serves himself. 
Jesus said the first requirement

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self, Luke chapter 9 and verse 
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Christianity demands such 
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The Bible tells us that God 
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Grace unto the humble, James, 4,
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to list of six things that God 
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detestable in his sight and the 
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what do you suppose it was? 
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murder? 
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that Solomon could think of when
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say there are seven things that 
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first one is hands that shed 
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adultery or fornication or lying
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enveloped and things that are 
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Most certainly. 
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Solomon says that God hates is a
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Look. 
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as the Proverbs renounce, the 
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again. 
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and his own conceit. 
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than of him. 
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Proverbs 16 and 18 says, Pride 
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haughty spirit. 
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Pride shall bring him low. 
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humble in spirit, Proverbs 29 
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God detest pride. 
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enter his kingdom as long as the
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rules are higher. 
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What does it mean to be proud? 
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God and to a life for him? 
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looking Beyond themselves. 
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a person from seeing God and 
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or what it leads a person to do 
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creature above the Creator. 
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pride, they don't listen to what
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Does. 
They know what's best for their 

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life? 
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Bible interfere with what they 
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It takes humility. 
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We want to have or that we want 
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wants us to be and to do what 
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Pride causes a person to put his
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welfare of others. 
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the opposite of that. 
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life of sacrificing for and 
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Jesus of course set the perfect 
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the betterment of others. 
The scripture tells us in that 

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beautiful passage in the book of
Philippians that Jesus, in 

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coming to this earth, he emptied
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privileges of Heaven, to come 
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as a sacrifice for us, he 
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That's one of the greatest 
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made. 
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he thought it not robbery to be 
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the form of man, the form of a 
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He emptied himself. 
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says, when Paul says, he thought
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God. 
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There it is. 
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though, he was equal with God. 
to leave all of that behind and 

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because of your live as a man, 
Jesus, the object of worship and

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adoration. 
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before whom Angels bow. 
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and be thrown amongst the sinful
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who would despise him, who it 
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Who was spit upon him, who 
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through his hands and feet and 
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He emptied himself. 
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became our example that type of 
humility is what mischaracterize

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any person who would be a 
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follow him? 
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follow him to give up their own 
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For the sake of his kingdom 
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doing that pride is what keeps 
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teachings of the Bible. 
Some folks just can't admit that

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they're wrong and they'll 
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That what they believe what 
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But it's sinful is wrong. 
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chapter verses 1 and 2. 
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is my throne and the Earth is my
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that you build on the me and 
where is the place of my rest 

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for all those things have mine 
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And all those things have been 
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But to this man, will I look 
even to him that his poor and of

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a contrite spirit and who 
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If that my word That's the kind 
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God's eyes. 
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admit a mistake, who can confess
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respects, the word of God enough
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pride and simply accept and 
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It was Pride that caused Adam to
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their sin. 
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kill his brother Abel out of 
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After God rejected his 
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cause Saul the first king of 
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Has when God told him to go and 
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Pride that caused him to blame 
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for his own sin. 
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cover his sin by murdering 
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was the, it was Pride that cause
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of Israel. 
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deny Jesus and Judas to betray 
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Jews to crucify him. 
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forsake the Lord for the world, 
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Entertained in the house and the
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and demands. 
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dwell in our hearts, Jesus said 
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shall be abased, but he that 
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exalted, Matthew 23, and verse 
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humility and God, help us to 
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a child when it comes to that. 
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sets, a wonderful example of 
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I don't know how you could find 
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that by looking at a child, Now 
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what you get and any of us who 
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Well, in fact a child is often 
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genuine and open with what he 
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from time to time. 
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probably heard along the way of 
the, of the parents who had 

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invited the preacher over for 
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door, where the preacher was 
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And that little boy looked up at
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sure glad you're coming to our 
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fixing chicken and she looked, 
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Where did you get that idea? 
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Dad I might as well have the old
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Well the fact of the matter is 
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Frank and so honest that they'll
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But you know, the fact of the 
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Is what you get. 
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We learned that trait as we get 
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genuine and sincere than a child
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others. 
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not be the most eloquent but 
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and heartfelt prayer than what 
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child. 
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contents of their little hearts.
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You don't just hear an endless 
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guard, and direct us. 
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He pours out his heart to God. 
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of genuineness that God expects 
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relationship with him. 
The word sincere comes from two 

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Latin words that means without 
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Now, we only use the word to 
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or disposition, but originally 
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I'm told that Woodworkers and 
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term to refer to their craft. 
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something like it to cover up 
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would could no longer be 
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sculptor was creating an image 
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or repair some mistake within 
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Well then again that could not 
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Well today, the word essentially
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moral seats Yeah. 
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something that is without wax or
something in which there is no 

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cover-up, Nothing Is concealed 
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what it really is. 
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the child but how one true it is
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You know most adults are 
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pretense whether we want to 
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I briefly touched on the idea 
last night that we're very 

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careful to project a particular 
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And that's all well and good. 
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But a lot of times we work very 
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those around us perhaps our 
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something that we are something 
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When we're really not that at 
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We may come to church where the 
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We may come. 
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as though we're also devout and 
so Pious and so devoted, and 

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then our lives be something, 
totally different as soon as we 

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need the Church. 
Building adults tend to be 

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surrounded by preteens. 
Well, you know, we never fool 

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God. 
God sees us for what we really 

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are. 
God sees the life. 

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We live every day and every 
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that God is able to peel back 
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heart, and he knows what we're 
thinking, he knows how we really

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feel. 
He knows what type of attitudes 

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we have about things and about 
other people, and he judges us 

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according to that, God expects 
us to be sincere in everything 

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we do and everything. 
We say, for example, our love 

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for the Lord and for one another
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and verse 9. 
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hypocrisy, you know what that 
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That means loving my brother 
doesn't just mean that I hug his

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neck at the back. 
Door of the church building once

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in a while and tell him. 
I love you brother. 

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It goes much farther than that. 
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I behaved like I love my 
brother. 

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I conduct myself in a way that 
shows I love my brother. 

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I genuinely love my brother to 
the point that I would do 

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anything for him and lay my life
down for him, sacrifice for Him.

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I love my brother. 
I have a genuine concern for him

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and for his soul and I act out 
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That's what love is love, is 
action, not just words And Paul 

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says our love is to be sincere. 
We're not just supposed to say. 

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We love God you tell God. 
You love him all day long. 

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God wants you to show that you 
love him. 

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God wants to see a life that's 
live for him. 

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Joshua told the children of 
Israel, long ago to choose once 

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and for all whom they would 
serve as the either the idol 

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gods of their past or the god, 
Jehovah. 

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And he told them to serve the 
Lord in sincerity and Truth. 

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According to Joshua, 24, and 
verse 14. 

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In other words, stop paying lip 
service to God, and give him 

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your heart, but that's exactly 
what they had been doing. 

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They've been paying lip service 
to the god of Heaven. 

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They were fickle. 
They were so easily distracted. 

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They were even given to idolatry
and Joshua says listen in his 

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time now to be what you claim to
me, it is time to either step up

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and be what you claim to be or 
give it up, altogether, serve 

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the Lord, he says in sincerity 
and in truth God demands the 

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same thing of us today that was 
why Jesus soda tested. 

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The religion of the Pharisees. 
It was not and don't let anybody

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ever tell you or bullying. 
Into believing that Jesus 

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condemned the Pharisees because 
of their claim to adhere to the 

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law of God. 
That was not the Lord's 

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complaint. 
The Lord never encouraged 

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anybody to disobey or violate 
the law of God. 

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Jesus kept the law of God. 
Jesus problem with the varices 

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was, they were living under this
pretense, but they were keeping 

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the law of God and urging others
to do. 

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So, when they really weren't 
keeping the law of God, they 

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were keeping the traditions of 
their elders. 

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They were keeping the Traditions
that had evolved in Modern Times

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And they were imposing those 
upon others as they were the law

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of God. 
And Jesus, he didn't look upon 

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these men's Hearts saw people 
who tried to project themselves 

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as being Pious devoted, and 
close to God. 

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But yet, he saw that their 
hearts were Rockin. 

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He saw that, they were not 
sincere, they love the 

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attention. 
They loved all of the trappings 

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that went along with religion 
and their position within the 

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religious system of That day, 
but their hearts were not 

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devoted to God. 
They didn't really love God, and

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they really didn't love the law.
God, they were ignorant of the 

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law of God. 
They were Hypocrites and Jesus 

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had no greater enemies. 
Jesus, to tested that, more than

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need to tested anything else and
he detest it today when he sees 

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it in religious people's lives, 
you see people today who try to 

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put on a good face when it comes
to religion, they show up to 

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church maybe on Easter Sunday or
when it's convenient. 

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They make an appearance once in 
a while, they dress dress up in 

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their best, they put on a big 
show for others to see how much 

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they love the Lord. 
Question is, where are they? 

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The rest of the time? 
What are they doing? 

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The rest of the year? 
That kind of shallow and worldly

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religion, doesn't impress, the 
Lord, it turns his stomach. 

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Jesus said, blessed are the pure
in heart for they shall see God.

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Matthew Chapter 5 and verse 8. 
He's not talking about moral 

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Purity there. 
He's talking about sincerity and

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genuineness and only the person 
with a heart that wants God and 

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His truth above. 
Everything else is eligible for 

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the kingdom of heaven and our 
children lead us into the 

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kingdom of heaven. 
By their example of sincerity 

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thirdly a child can lead us in 
the paths of forgiveness. 

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Paul said in First Corinthians 
chapter, 14 and 20 Brethren, be 

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not children in understanding 
how be it in Malice, be ye 

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children, listen to that again. 
Be not children and 

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understanding Howbeit in Malice,
be ye children. 

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That's Paul's way of telling us 
that we need to imitate the 

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spirit of a small child in 
dealing with one another. 

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That just observe notice how 
forgiving and long-suffering of 

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child is Kids don't normally 
hold grudges and if they do it 

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won't last for long. 
Children can be playing 

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somewhere and they get into a 
fight of some sort and then they

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argue and they may call one 
another names. 

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They may get mad and they may 
wrestle one another they may 

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stomp away they may stop 
speaking to one another for a 

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little while but it usually 
doesn't take more than a few 

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hours or days at best. 
Usually it's just a few minutes 

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and the whole thing is blown 
over and things are back like 

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they used to be There are times 
when we parents have to 

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discipline our kids, that's not 
a pleasant thing. 

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Your child May resent the 
spanking, they get or the 

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scolding, they received the 
punishment that you meet out, 

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that's natural for them to do 
so. 

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But, you know, good and well, it
doesn't take very long and it's 

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all over, and they're all smiles
again. and they want you to know

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that everything is right now 
contrast that with the average 

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person in the church, You just 
see how far that goes in the 

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church today. 
You let some older person be 

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rebuked for some wrongdoing. 
You let someone be wronged in 

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some way by somebody have their 
feelings hurt by someone over 

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something and they'll hold a 
grudge sometimes for years. 

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I know people that will all the 
sudden, stop speaking to people 

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in the church because somebody 
said something or somebody look 

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at them the wrong way and 
they'll go for months and 

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hardly, utter a word to somebody
in the congregation and you 

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don't even know what it's all 
about. 

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You don't even know what you did
to upset them or offend them. 

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Listen, I don't care how 
goody-two-shoes you are and how 

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righteous you think you are, if 
that's your attitude and your 

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conduct toward other people, you
don't have the heart of a child 

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and you don't have the kind of 
heart that God expects of you. 

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As his follower sometimes people
Harbor resentment and Malice for

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the rest of their lives. 
I've seen that over and over 

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again. 
Some people when they're rebuke,

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all they can think to do is pull
out their microscope and go 

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looking for the faults of 
everyone else, to turn the 

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attention away from them. 
Well, that's where a child sets,

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a wonderful and much-needed 
example. 

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Jesus, not only forgave, he 
taught us to forgive also. 

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In fact, he went so far as to 
say in Matthew 6 and verse 14, 

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for if you forgive not men their
trespasses, Neither, will your 

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father, forgive your trespasses?
Let me tell you something, 

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folks. 
That's serious and Jesus meant 

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00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,800
that every bit as much as he 
meant, he that believeth and is 

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baptized shall be saved. 
Jesus said, if you don't forgive

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others, their trespasses, you 
can forget about being forgiven 

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by your father in Heaven. 
That's deadly, serious. 

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If we fail to forgive, we won't 
be forgiven. 

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Heaven has a mercy bank and how 
much we withdraw depends on how 

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much we deposited. 
And by the way, forgiveness is 

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not just saying that we forgive 
someone and then talk about it. 

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To everyone, we meet or holding 
their past offense, over their 

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00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:58,200
head for years to come or 
treating them like a 

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second-class. 
Citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven

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for the rest of their life. 
Forgiveness is instant and it is

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complete or it is not 
forgiveness. 

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And if you want to see what kind
of heart God wants us to have in

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that regard toward others. 
As watch how children forgive. 

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And lastly, a child leads the 
righteous in a confiding faith 

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and trust in our children, teach
us some very important lessons 

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in faith. 
Kids, don't really worry much. 

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They don't worry much because 
they leave the things that bring

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worry to us their parents. 
Children, don't typically worry 

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about where their next meal is 
coming from. 

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Kids don't typically worry about
whether they'll have something 

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to wear tomorrow. 
Small children, don't worry 

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about having a place to sleep. 
They're not worried about making

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the mortgage payment. 
They understand that Mom and Dad

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are going to make that paper. 
And they don't understand 

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sometimes. 
When money runs tight, the 

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budget is thin, they don't 
understand when someone loses a 

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job or when some other 
catastrophe comes along, they 

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just have faith in mom and dad 
that their needs are going to be

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mad. 
And in fact, they think that Mom

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and Dad are an endless supply of
resources. 

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You go to the store and walk 
them through the Toya Toya, all 

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if you dare do so and they want 
everything that they see that 

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they desire and they don't 
understand the value. 

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Fact that you first of all, 
don't have the money to pay for 

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that expensive toy and that you 
don't need it. 

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On top of that, they think that 
money grows on trees. 

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They think that you got all the 
money in the world, they think 

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that Mom and Dad can do 
anything. 

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And, you know, Jesus said that 
that's the way we should be. 

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Jesus told his disciples to take
note of the limits of the field 

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and how God takes care of them. 
He then reminded them. 

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Doesn't God care even more about
you. 

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Well, that's the kind of faith. 
We need to have in our heavenly 

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father, a child thinks his or 
her Daddy has the street and the

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power to do anything. 
They think their mother can heal

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00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,800
all of their hurts. 
When they fall off the swing, 

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00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,600
when they fall out of the tree 
house or they fall off their 

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00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,000
bike and they scrape their knee 
and blood is running everywhere.

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They don't come running in the 
house and say call 911. 

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They run in the house and say 
where's mom? 

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Because they know if they can 
get to Mama that? 

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She'll patch it all up. 
She'll make it right. 

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All will be well, well, do you 
know God wants to be that kind 

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of parent to us. 
Paul said, let us therefore come

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00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:33,000
boldly unto. 
The throne of grace that we may 

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obtain mercy and find Grace to 
help in time of need, Hebrews 4 

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and verse 16. 
Do you have that type of 

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confidence in God? 
Do you have that kind of faith 

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00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:48,000
in him? 
Do you trust him in all of life 

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00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,699
circumstances? 
Do you trust his word enough to 

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00:34:51,699 --> 00:34:55,000
unbeli obey it regardless of 
what it costs or where it leads 

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00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,500
you to follow? 
Do you have Supreme confidence 

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00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:00,300
in the promises of God that he 
will do what he said he would 

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00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:03,700
do? 
So that you completely healed 

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00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:07,000
your life and you're all to him.
No wonder. 

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Jesus said of such, is the 
Kingdom of Heaven. 

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You know? 
Children often try to be like 

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their parents They try to talk 
like them, they try to walk like

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them. 
They go raid the closet and try 

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to dress like them. 
And in many ways, they imitate 

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us. 
But the question for us today is

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are we trying to be like our 
child and that reminds me of two

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00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:34,900
prayers that were prayed Once 
Upon a Time. 

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The child had gotten into some 
sort of mischief and the father 

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had to punish the child. 
And he said last night, my 

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00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:48,000
little boy confessed to me some 
Childish wrong and kneeling at 

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my knee, he prayed with tears. 
Dear God. 

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Make me a man like, Daddy, wise 
and strong. 

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Then while he slept I note 
beside his bed confessed my sins

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00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:06,700
and prayed with low bow. 
The head oh God make me a child 

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00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,500
like my child here pure 
guileless trusting thee with 

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00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:17,400
faith sincere. and while your 
little boy, or a little girl is 

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00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:22,100
trying to be just like you May 
God help you to be just like him

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00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,600
or her. 
In the Heavenly qualities, that 

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God gave your child. 
Can you imagine what a wonderful

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thing the kingdom of God will be
at every place that is planted 

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if we had the heart of children?
That's what Isaiah said, long 

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ago, this wonderful age were, 
the gospel would be bring peace 

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00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,800
between men and peace between 
God and men would be an age 

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where even a little child would 
lead them. 

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