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The reason that I've chosen this
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is that I am convinced that in 
spite of the reproach of the 

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world. 
One who is a Christian will 

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continue to set a good example 
and must remain faithful to the 

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almighty God in doing. 
So, and when we live lives like 

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this others in the world, might 
look upon our Behavior as as 

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being holier than thou and take 
it as a condemnation in their 

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life. 
But even if this is true, it 

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must not deter the child of God 
from living a righteous life, 

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regardless of what the world 
might think, Noah is a wonderful

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example of one. 
Who is best remembered for the 

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things that he had done in 
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He was a man that was in the 
minority and Alone, amidst the 

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world and a population of people
who were completely 

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diametrically opposed to all of 
the values that he stood for and

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the things that God would 
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And thus, he stands as one of 
those good examples for those 

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who would learn how it is that 
we must please God, even if we 

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live in the minority, Back in 
our text, in the 11th chapter of

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the book of Hebrews. 
And verse number 7, we find that

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the writer there, said by faith,
Noah being warned of God of 

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things. 
Not seen as yet moved with fear 

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prepared, an ark to the saving 
of his house by which he 

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condemned the world and became 
heir of the righteousness, which

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is by faith. 
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and I understand the concept of 
condemnation by its Definition 

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condemned as defined. 
I understand, is defined like 

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this. 
It is by one's. 

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Good example to render another's
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That's exactly what happened in 
the days of Noah, his righteous 

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life. 
Made the wickedness that was all

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around him. 
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all now for a little while to 
discuss how it truly is. 

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That are Christian a child of 
God today by the life that he or

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she lives. 
Truly condemns the world. 

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First of all, we noticed by way 
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delve a little further into the 
example of Noah. 

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We find that he condemned the 
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So, how did he condemned the 
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life? 
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Noah's stand with God. 
God was cleared. 

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You know, I wonder if that could
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I wonder if people can look at 
my life and be able to say, 

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like, we could say of Noah that 
his stand with God was clear. 

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I will tell you this, by the 
way, that you live by the 

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decisions that you make, which 
will form you mold you and make 

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you and Define you. 
I would say that that determines

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whether or not you're stand with
God, is clear or not. 

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Or as some Christians lives are 
as such the world might look 

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upon their life and be surprised
when they find out that he is a 

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Christian. 
They're surprised when they find

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out that they come down here and
worship with God's people 

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because their lifestyle, their 
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Oh, but no was different. 
Noah in the midst of the world 

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that was filled with wickedness.
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in Genesis chapter 6 and verse 
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The Bible says, and God saw that
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in the earth and that every 
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his heart was only evil 
continually in verse. 

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Number 6, of the very same 
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result of What God had seen in 
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The Bible, says it repented, the
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earth and it grieved him at his 
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Then again, in verse 7, it says,
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destroy man. 
Whom I have created from the 

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face of the Earth, both man and 
Beast and the creeping thing and

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the fowls of the air for it. 
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them. 
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found in Verses 8 and 9, but 
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the Lord. 
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Noah. 
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in his generations and Noah 
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You know, why Noah walked with 
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Because his stand with God, as 
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clear, it was evident, it was 
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And then we find as God looks 
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as he looks upon man, and he 
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Oh, it wasn't man just overtaken
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Much like when he destroyed the 
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Gomorrah, they couldn't find ten
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thoughts of man's heart was evil
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enough. 
He said I'm going to cause it to

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flood. 
I'm going to make it rain and 

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I'm going to destroy all that I 
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The Bible says it repented God, 
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When he looked and saw the 
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when God looked down upon man, 
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He found that man was corrupt 
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with all of those things that 
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contrary to the world, these 
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did not have these Lifestyles 
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God did not create them that 
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the way to the creation, the 
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Everything in Six Days on the 
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But when the time it was that 
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was complete, the Bible says he 
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at all that he had created and 
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So, what happened? 
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Adam and Eve cast out of the 
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But what happened, what happened
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cast out of the garden? 
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fruitful and multiply and 
replenish the Earth, what 

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happened in those few chapters 
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changed everything that went 
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good to one. 
That was so corrupt, that God 

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said, I'm going to destroy the 
whole Whole business, I'm going 

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to destroy the whole matter, 
except for you Noah, and those 

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eight Souls, you're going to 
build an ark and you're going to

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do exactly what I've said. 
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found Grace in the eyes of the 
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You know, what happened with 
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No, they weren't created that 
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They weren't born that way. 
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The Bible says that all flesh 
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Earth. 
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You know, what happens when a 
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drawn away with his own lust 
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is enticed, you know, we talked 
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temptation is not a sin. 
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sin, but Temptations are not 
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Jesus could not have lived a 
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tempted in all points like you 
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Oh indeed, this was a man, Noah.
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of God. 
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the Earth, you're going to build
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This is how big it's going to be
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What you're going to make it 
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And this is what you're putting 
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100 years or so. 
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22, the Bible says, thus did 
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had commanded him. 
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warning until the time of the 
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As I mentioned, just a moment 
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showed where he stood with what 
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regardless of the thinking of 
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During this time, we find that 
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Not only did he build the ark. 
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preacher of righteousness, a 
preacher of righteousness during

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this time. 
Now then, excuse me. 

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In 2nd Peter chapter 2 and verse
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old world, but saved Noah the 
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righteousness bringing in the 
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ungodly. 
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very first Act of Noah, an act 
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An act of service to God. 
The Bible says, in the eighth 

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chapter of the Book of Genesis, 
and the 20th burst that Noah, 

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builded, an altar. 
Upon to the Lord and took of 

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every clean beast and every fowl
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Earth after their kinds went 
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Okay, so, what's the question 
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The question is not, did he 
condemned the world for the word

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of God tells us? 
He did? 

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So the question is, how did he 
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Did you sit in a position of 
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Like Darrell talked about this 
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Those of us that stand here. 
We're only elevated literally 

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just so that you can see me and 
I can see you and I can project 

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my voice a little better, 
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I don't have a whole lot of 
trouble projecting my voice, but

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that's the whole purpose of 
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that we can be heard and seen 
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speaker. 
But notice it is never the point

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that a person sits in a position
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and points the finger of scorn 
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The world does not mean that and
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He did not build himself a 
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upon and point the finger of 
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knew that God was going to 
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Number one, I submit to you 
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So in four ways number one? 
Noah was right, and because Noah

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was right, then all others were 
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wrong. 
He never had to say one word of 

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condemnation to the world 
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He would speak. 
What? 

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God had instructed him to do 
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What are you doing that for 
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He could speak about what God 
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He could speak of this flood. 
He could speak of this Arc. 

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He could speak of the things 
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do if he's so chewed chose to as
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And just the simple fact that he
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condemned them. 
If Noah was right and all about 

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him, there should have been 
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build the ark but very sadly as 
happens in the world today, they

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didn't believe the preacher. 
Again the word condemned as 

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defined is by one's good example
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more evident secondly though. 
Here's another way that Noah 

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condemned the world, he 
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his respect for God. 
God and His will, when God had 

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great respect or Noah had. 
Great respect for God in his. 

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Will that very act right there? 
Condemned the vein confidence of

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the wicked world? 
That was around him. 

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You know, they might have said 
this, I don't know, but they 

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might have said, what's a flood 
Noah? 

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What are you talking about? 
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Maybe they would say things that
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Maybe they would have said leave
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We're happy. 
Like we are And so his, his 

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obedience and his respect for 
God, and His will condemned the 

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vein confidence of the world 
around him. 

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Thirdly, we find that his faith 
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examples of the things that they
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They might have said, Noah, you 
are saying that we're wrong and 

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you're right, you don't 
understand. 

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We are all honest and sincere. 
Finally, no has obedience 

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condemned their Disobedience and
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You know, I would imagine that 
they would say something along 

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this line. 
You can't tell me what to do. 

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I don't have to listen to that. 
I'm not required to do that on 

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my own man. 
I don't even believe that there 

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is a God. 
Much less one that would destroy

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the world with the flood. 
Oh, by the life, he lived by the

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actions that he did by the 
things that he chose and his 

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decisions that he made. 
He condemned the world because 

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of his acts of obedience. 
Another example of one that was 

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condemning another because of 
the righteousness that he had 

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done in his life. 
We all know No, the story is 

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found in the fourth chapter of 
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have the story of Cain and Abel.
A wonderful example. 

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Along this very line. 
You remember that after Adam and

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Eve were cast out of the garden,
they had two sons and those sons

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names were Cain and Abel. 
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a keeper of the sheep while Cain
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And the scripture says that in 
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forth fruit from the ground as 
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brought forth of the firstlings 
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thereof. 
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respect unto Abel, and for his 
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King, he had not respect. 
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God's word, not whole story, 
where we find that Abel went and

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rebuked his brother. 
We're able when I told you so 

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shame on you for what you've 
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No. 
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done and because his sacrifice 
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in the eyes of the Lord. 
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wroth and his countenance fell, 
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Why are you angry? 
What are you so angry for? 

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Why is your countenance Fallen, 
if you do right, shouldn't good.

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Things be and so on, shouldn't 
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If you have done that, which is 
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But if you have done that which 
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lieth at the door. 
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talked with Abel his brother, 
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Cain rose up against him and 
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Abel's righteous conduct serve 
as condemnation of Kings, 

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unrighteous faithless conduct. 
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that you and I as Christians are
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say this contradicting. 
Anything Daryl said because I'm 

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saying this along with what 
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true. 
We are in a Soul Saving 

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business. 
That's true. 

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We have to be part of the world 
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don't exist from it. 
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we have to be in it in order 
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So when I met Make this 
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I'm not saying anything 
different than what he said. 

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I'm saying the very same thing, 
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righteous conduct of the 
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You know, sometimes we might get
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whatever, but folks, as long as 
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speak the truth in love and live
the Christian life, there are 

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going to be people that are not 
going to like it. 

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There's going to be people that 
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befriend you there's going to be
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once close to you that work. 
That work. 

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Dear friends of yours, maybe a 
sat down and you you made a 

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commitment to each other. 
That you'd always be friends. 

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Maybe you met early in your 
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best friends forever, regardless
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regardless of anything that 
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We're still going to be friends.
Then you obey the gospel get 

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serious about your Christian 
Life and just maybe they no 

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longer like you today, 
Christians are against the 

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world. 
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wives for example or believing 
husbands their behavior May 

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well, cause an unbelieving 
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her loss, condition, and obey, 
the gospel as a result. 

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And First Peter chapter 3 
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likewise, ye wives be in 
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that. 
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also met without the word be won
by the conversation or the 

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manner of life of the wives 
while they behold your chaste 

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conversation, coupled with fear,
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condemns the ungodly, life of a 
non-Christian here, what the 

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Apostle Paul Said in First 
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Now beginning in verse 12, Paul 
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not the Lord. 
If any brother hath a wife that 

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believeth not and she be pleased
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Let him not put her away and the
woman, which hath an husband 

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that believeth not. 
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with her, let her not leave him 
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Husband is Sanctified by the 
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Leaving wife is Sanctified by 
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children unclean but now are 
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Holy. 
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let him depart a brother or 
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such cases but God hath called 
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Knowest thou, o wife, whether 
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how knowest, thou o man, whether
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Thy wife. 
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to say before we go. 
Any further about that passage 

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of scripture that the Apostle 
Paul did. 

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In fact, write by divine 
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Corinth in First Corinthians 
chapter 7 some people would say 

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you see. 
It says these are the things 

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that he spoke and not the Lord. 
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this was Paul's opinion and 
therefore, because it was Paul's

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Because the Lord never said 
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something we can take or we can 
leave. 

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That is not what Paul was 
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the marriage relationship was 
with a Christian with a 

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non-Christian here. 
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He simply said Jesus never 
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Christian and non-Christian 
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relationship. 
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married to a Christian. 
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Second thing we must take from 
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This is not Paul's authorization
to meet someone and marry them 

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out of the church. 
That is not what he's saying 

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here either. 
He's not saying go ahead and 

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choose a wife or a husband 
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not a Christian because after 
all who's to say that you 

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wouldn't convert them, That's 
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all. 
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These were people that were 
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These were people that were not 
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married. 
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at some point in time, after 
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And Paul said, if they'd be 
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with them and so on because 
who's to say that you might have

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an opportunity to save them too.
but, you know, We need to not 

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forget that the lives of 
faithful Christians are examples

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to the Lost World regardless of 
the opposition that may be 

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before us. 
We must never draw back in this 

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sad tonight, isn't it sad? 
We all know someone I know far 

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too many. 
I know you do, too. 

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I know far too many people who 
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have drawn back. 
At the sad thing, I don't care 

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what's thrown your way. 
Don't ever draw back. 

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The Hebrew writer said this and 
Hebrews chapter 10, beginning in

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verse 35 cast, not away, 
therefore your confidence, which

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has great recompense of reward 
for ye have need of patience 

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that after you have done the 
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the promise for yet a little 
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will come and will not. 
Terry. 

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Now, the just shall live by 
faith but notice if any man draw

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back, my soul shall have no 
pleasure in him but we are not 

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of them who draw back unto 
Perdition, but of them that 

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believe to the saving of the 
Soul. 

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We find that the Apostle Paul, I
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Hebrew letter, you know, that is
trying to give encouragement to 

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the Saints to never draw back. 
The reward comes. 

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When you make it through and you
get to the other side and you've

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made it through, you know, what 
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those that don't make it 
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But I have a whole lot more 
confidence about you, you Hebrew

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Brethren. 
I have confidence that you are 

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not going to draw back that you 
are not going to follow the ways

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of perdition. 
And so the encouragement is 

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there to never draw back. 
He shows that God has no 

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pleasure at all, in those who 
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And then draw back to the old 
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How awful it is? 
Where loved ones are dying in 

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sin. 
On this night, you know, I don't

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know if you stopped to consider.
I know you probably have. 

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The Words, which say it is 
better to have never known, then

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to have known, have obeyed. 
The gospel have become a 

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Christian and have drawn back. 
Imagine what that's like in the 

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eyes of God. 
Oh, there are those that may 

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never hear the gospel and shame 
on us. 

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Because of that, there are 
people that will be lost because

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of ignorance and shame on us for
not taking the gospel to the 

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world and all that. 
But I'm going to tell you 

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something, folks. 
There's going to be a lot of 

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folks that are going to be lost 
in that in a devil's. 

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Hell, because they began to 
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Well, that's sad. 
That's sad tonight. 

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Don't draw back. 
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interesting verses of scripture 
that Jesus said in Luke chapter 

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9 about the concept of drawing 
back. 

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The Bible says and it came to 
pass that as they went in the 

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way, a certain man said unto 
him, Lord, I will follow thee 

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whithersoever thou goest. 
And Jesus said, unto him, foxes 

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have holes. 
And birds of the air have nests,

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but the son of man, hath, not 
where to lay his head. 

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And he said unto another follow 
me, but he said, Lord suffer me 

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first to go and bury. 
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let the dead bury their dead, 
but go thou and preach the 

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kingdom of God. 
And another also said, Lord, I 

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will follow thee, but let me 
first go. 

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Bid them farewell, which are at 
home at my house and Jesus said 

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unto him. 
No, man having put his hand to 

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the plow and looking back is fit
for the kingdom of God. 

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Let's break these down a little 
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That Jesus said, he said that 
there was an individual who had 

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decided to follow Jesus. 
He speaks of two people. 

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Jesus speaks of two men. 
They actually decided to follow 

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Jesus. 
The first one says, what seems 

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to be a reasonable request? 
He says Lord, I will follow thee

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but just let me go and bury my 
father first You know, I will 

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say this maybe you have always 
had a complete understanding of 

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that phrase. 
I have to admit I have not 

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always had a complete 
understanding of that phrase and

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I did not always have a complete
understanding of the phrase that

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Jesus says next. 
Now I believe that I do. 

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You see this man said let me go 
and bury my father that's all I 

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ask and when I'm done with that 
I'm going to come back and I'm 

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going to follow you. 
But Jesus responded and said Let

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the dead bury the dead. 
I understand that it was a 

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Jewish custom. 
That when an individual living 

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under the Old Law under that old
law, if he had a responsibility 

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toward the dead, he was freed 
temporarily from all other acts 

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of service and all other things 
that would be required of him. 

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Another words, the other 
precepts. 

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And so on would take a backseat 
to his responsibility to go on 

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and care for the dead. 
But Jesus responds like this. 

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Jesus says, Let the dead bury 
the dead. 

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Well, first of all, the context 
here, this man's father. 

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As understood was probably still
alive. 

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But very sick, maybe very feeble
and very old. 

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And what this man was asking is,
I'll come, but I want to put it 

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off just a little while, and I'm
going to put it off so that I 

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can be there to take care of the
responsibilities that I have as 

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a Jewish young man. 
For my dead father, when it 

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happens. 
Jesus said, let the dead bury 

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the dead. 
Here's what I didn't understand.

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I didn't understand how all that
fit, but you see, there are two 

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types and we all know this of 
death, their spiritual dead, and

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there's physical dead, and 
Jesus, and one little sentence 

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touches on both, you know, what 
he says. 

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You let the spiritually dead go 
bury the physically dead. 

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On the flip side of that. 
You are not spiritually dead. 

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Dead. 
You are spiritually alive and 

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because you are you have a 
responsibility of going out and 

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preaching about the kingdom 
Another words Jesus is saying to

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this man. 
Don't let anything in the flesh.

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Physically come in the way of 
your service spiritually. 

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You know, I look at that and I 
think, wow, that was kind of a 

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reasonable request. 
He was asking, wasn't it? 

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What about the next fella? 
The next fellow says, I'll 

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Follow You. 
Lord. 

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I surely will He was willing to 
do it. 

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He doesn't even ask for a long 
period of time that he wants to 

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himself before he comes. 
He just says this. 

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Let me go home and bid them 
farewell and that reasonable In 

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the Flesh. 
It seems like it would be it in 

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the flesh. 
It would seem like Jesus would 

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say, that's okay. 
Go, say your good-byes. 

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And then, come on. 
This man was not saying I'm not 

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going to do it for a long period
of time. 

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I'm he wasn't uncertain about 
his service. 

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00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000
He just said this, I will do it.
I will follow. 

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I will obey. 
I will preach it. 

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I will do all of that. 
I just want to go to say goodbye

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to my family. 
First reasonable Jesus said any 

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man. 
That puts his hand to the plow. 

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And looks back is not fit for 
the kingdom of God. 

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00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:04,700
That's what Jesus thought about 
that. 

463
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,400
You know why? 
Because if you look back, you 

464
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will draw back. 
And if you draw back and you 

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00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:18,200
quit, you will be lost. 
I know we spend a lot of time 

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talking about our commitments. 
Darryl did this morning, I 

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appreciate that. 
Why do we keep doing that? 

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Aren't these words glaring to 
you? 

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It tells me that if anything 
gets in the way of my service, I

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am not fit for the kingdom of 
God. 

471
00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:42,500
That's what it says. 
What lesson is Jesus teaching 

472
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,300
you? 
And I from those words Express 

473
00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:48,300
so long ago, here it is. 
You grab onto that plow. 

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00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,800
You put your head down. 
If you have to you, don't look 

475
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,700
side to side. 
You don't look behind you and 

476
00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,900
you move on, you press on to the
mark and you do it all the days 

477
00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:58,700
of your life. 
You are spiritually alive, you 

478
00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:02,000
are not spiritually dead, and 
don't you dare look back. 

479
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:08,000
That's what he's saying. 
I know that sometimes things 

480
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:13,000
happen that cause folks to draw 
back, I know that sometimes 

481
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various forms of persecution. 
You know, how many times have 

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00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,700
you heard, either me, say, or 
somebody that were not 

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00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:21,400
persecuted, like those of old 
that's true. 

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00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,400
But, you know, something there 
are persecutions of some 

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00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,600
magnitude or else. 
What did, what did the Bible 

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mean in 2nd, Timothy chapter 3 
and verse 12? 

487
00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:36,500
What did Paul mean then if we 
don't have persecutions, Today 

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00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,900
he said ye and all that will 
live Godly in Christ Jesus shall

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00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:46,200
suffer persecution. 
That tells me that that asked to

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00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:52,300
include me too. 
But persecutions may be mild or 

491
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:56,000
they might be very strong. 
How about one, how about 

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00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,600
ridicule, how about being 
ostracized? 

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00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,100
How about being threatened with 
bodily harm? 

494
00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:06,400
We've never fought faced that 
that I know of. 

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00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:10,100
But what about that? 
What about those? 

496
00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:13,500
That would be arrested and 
imprisoned cast into prison 

497
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:17,500
because of their faith. 
Some of these things are reasons

498
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:23,300
why people give for giving up 
and drawing back some even use 

499
00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:27,800
family problems as reasons for 
drawing back. 

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00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,300
I'm going to tell you this. 
One thing I've come to realize 

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00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:41,400
in my short lifetime. 
Is it's never never any good. 

502
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,000
No, good ever comes on the other
side. 

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00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,900
When you quit? 
You heard me say this? 

504
00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:51,800
I got it from somebody else. 
I had a brother tell me these 

505
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,800
very words. 
Quoted me to me the other day, 

506
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,700
but I had to say, well, you 
know, I didn't come up with 

507
00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:59,600
that, I got it from somebody 
else, he thought it was my dad, 

508
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,700
I did and I got it from another 
preacher from a sermon he 

509
00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:07,000
preached in 1966. 
But the fire that melts, the wax

510
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,900
will harden the clay. 
It depends on what you subjects,

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00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:15,000
the Flames to the trials in our 
life. 

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00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,900
I don't care if they're in our 
family, in the world in our jobs

513
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:24,000
or wherever they are designed to
make us better and stronger when

514
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,699
we make it through to the other 
side. 

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00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:30,100
But no. 
Good ever comes from giving up. 

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00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:34,500
You can look at it from a very 
common way in sports a man. 

517
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,900
Gives up on his workout is not 
going to be strong enough when 

518
00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:40,500
the race comes. 
A man that quits when the pain 

519
00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:44,400
comes on him, when it builds up 
in him and he's got nothing left

520
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:49,400
and he gives up Oh, that fellow 
being a coward dies? 

521
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,199
A thousand deaths? 
Because he simply didn't do his 

522
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,000
best. 
He drew back. 

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00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:00,400
We need the family unit to be 
strong. 

524
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:07,500
We need to lean on one another 
and all of us in our families, 

525
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:12,800
lean on God. 
Sometimes people say, well, I'm 

526
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,700
going to, I'm not going to stand
for what's, right? 

527
00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:17,800
I just don't want to rock the 
boat. 

528
00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:20,500
I'm going to tell you something 
tonight, folks. 

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Jesus Christ was a boat rocker. 
Absolutely, he never had the 

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00:35:26,707 --> 00:35:28,400
Mind. 
Well, let's just not rock the 

531
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:29,900
boat. 
I'm going to tell you something.

532
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:33,400
Jesus taught love, Jesus was the
epitome of love Jesus was 

533
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,000
perfect in every way that I'm 
going to tell you, right now, he

534
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,200
wasn't some milk toast, man. 
He's the strongest man that ever

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00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,800
lived. 
And you know what he said? 

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00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:45,200
This is a man of love. 
Now, this is what he said. 

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00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,400
Matthew chapter 10, beginning in
verse 32 whosoever, therefore 

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00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,600
shall confess me before men him 
will? 

539
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:57,100
I confess also before my Father 
which is in heaven but whosoever

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00:35:57,100 --> 00:36:01,100
shall deny me before men him. 
Will I also deny before my 

541
00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:05,200
Father, which is in heaven. 
Think not that I am come to send

542
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,700
peace on Earth. 
I came not to send peace, but a 

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00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:12,700
sword for I am. 
Come to set a man at variance 

544
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:16,700
against his father and the 
daughter against her mother and 

545
00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:20,700
the daughter in law against her 
mother-in-law and a man's foes 

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00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:23,100
shall be, they of his own 
household. 

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00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:26,300
He that loveth father or mother 
more than me is. 

548
00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:29,800
Not worthy of me, and he, that 
loveth son, or daughter more 

549
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,600
than me is not worthy of me. 
And he, that taketh not his 

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00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,500
cross. 
And follow after me is not 

551
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:40,100
worthy of me. 
He that findeth his life shall 

552
00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:42,900
lose it. 
It and he, that loses his life 

553
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:46,200
for my sake. 
Shall find it. 

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00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:52,800
You know, if the world is too 
comfortable around us get this. 

555
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:59,100
Now, if the world is too 
comfortable around us, it's time

556
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:05,700
to check our Behavior. 
It's time to take stock on our 

557
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:08,900
Behavior. 
If I live my life tomorrow and 

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00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:12,000
everybody I come in contact with
and I realize when people don't 

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00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
know you and they just see you 
and so on you're not going to 

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00:37:14,008 --> 00:37:16,700
have that kind of impression. 
I'll tell you this though. 

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00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,100
People that know us and are 
around us all the time. 

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00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:24,000
Do they get comfortable around 
us with their dirty stories? 

563
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,000
Do they get comfortable around 
us when they use foul language 

564
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,500
or do they slip and say it and 
apologize to you? 

565
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:37,100
Is the world to comfortable 
around us? 

566
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:42,500
If it is, we need to check our 
Behavior because the truly 

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00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:46,600
righteous behavior of a 
Christian will automatically 

568
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,800
condemned the unrighteous 
behavior of The Sinner in the 

569
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,900
world just like this. 
You don't drink. 

570
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,700
They drink. 
You don't lie, they lie. 

571
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,200
You don't look use filthy 
language, but they do, you are 

572
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,300
honest. 
But they are not. 

573
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:13,300
You are morally, pure but they 
are immoral you worship 

574
00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:16,100
regularly. 
They don't you have an 

575
00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:20,900
uncompromising Faith. 
They compromised, you give as 

576
00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:24,200
you've been prospered, they 
don't give it all you give, 

577
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:29,600
unflinching obedience to God. 
And they obey When it's 

578
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:34,200
convenient, they are 
uncomfortable around us folks 

579
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,700
because you are what they ought 
to be and are not. 

580
00:38:40,300 --> 00:38:44,500
You see your obedience is a 
condemnation of their 

581
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,700
Disobedience. 
We often say this, we often say,

582
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:52,000
let's not get too comfortable 
with the world. 

583
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:56,700
That's true. 
But let us also say this. 

584
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,200
Let's not let the world get too 
comfortable. 

585
00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:05,200
Around us. 
Our purpose is to live in such a

586
00:39:05,207 --> 00:39:09,300
way that others may. 
See our good works and glorify 

587
00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:14,400
Our Father, which is in heaven 
for this reason, So that they 

588
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,900
would be ashamed in the 
condition that they're in. 

589
00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:22,900
So that they will decide to obey
right alongside you. 

590
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,500
That's what it's about. 
It isn't a holier-than-thou 

591
00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:32,500
attitude, like the world says 
you live the Christian Life. 

592
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:35,800
You stand for what's right? 
You check your behavior of 

593
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,800
others are too comfortable. 
In a worldly, sense around you. 

594
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,500
And realize we have a 
responsibility. 

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00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,500
Greatest sermon ever. 
Preached is the life of a 

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00:39:47,508 --> 00:39:50,000
Christian. 
I'm going to say something, I 

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00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,400
know some sisters that have 
lived their life, all their 

598
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,300
life, some older sisters, If 
they're sermon without them 

599
00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:59,800
saying a word is as loud as any 
preacher has ever stood, as 

600
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,700
eloquent as any man has ever 
stood before a body of people 

601
00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:06,400
and proclaimed and preached for 
any given amount of time. 

602
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,800
That's the greatest sermon. 
Ever the life. 

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00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,500
Of a Christian in Closing, one 
man, wrote this. 

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00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:23,900
He said my life shall touch a 
dozen lives before the day is 

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00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:27,300
done. 
Leave countless marks for good 

606
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:33,100
or ill are sets the Evening Sun.
This is the wish I always wish 

607
00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:38,500
the prayer, I always pray, Lord 
made my life help other lives, 

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00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:44,800
it touches along the way. 
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