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You know, one of the favorite 
words that we hear today used by

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certain people is the word 
tolerance. 

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We hear it so much, people say, 
well you need, or we need to be 

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more tolerant of this or that or
whatever it may be, and 

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tolerance, Ness isn't 
necessarily a bad word. 

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It's a good word, many things we
learned to tolerate. 

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When I was at home, and mom 
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And I tolerated spinach, I 
didn't like it, but now I tend 

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to like it. 
I tolerated it Mom would cook 

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liver and onions for dad every 
once in a while. 

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Couldn't tolerate liver and 
onions and still don't like it. 

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Some people just have an 
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didn't. 
But we have tried to stretch 

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tolerance and the world is tried
to stretch tolerance today over 

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too large an area in life. 
We've applied it too often, 

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where it doesn't even belong. 
The word tolerant simply means 

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liberal. 
Broad-minded. 

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Willing to put up with beliefs 
that are opposed to one's 

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conviction. 
And the allowance of something 

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not wholly or completely 
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Tolerance, in one sense, implies
the compromise of your 

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convictions. 
That you will yield our ground 

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on important things on important
issues that we Face everyday. 

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So, being over tolerant on moral
issues, makes a person, soft and

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lacking conviction. 
The world has become tolerant 

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about many things. 
Tolerance about divorce 

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tolerance about the use of 
alcohol tolerance about breaking

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the law. 
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tolerance about immorality, 
tolerance, about laziness 

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tolerance about murder of 
babies. 

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Unholiness godlessness, the 
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of unbelief. 
There's a clear tolerance 

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towards bad character and bad 
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These days broad-mindedness 
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immoral? 
These are characteristics of the

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world we live in today, the 
world has been drained of 

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conviction, beliefs and faith. 
Let me give you an example. 

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This morning, I heard this 
story. 

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Maybe some of you may have heard
it before I did. 

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But a couple of months ago I 
heard this story. 

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There's a man by the name of 
John sculley, knows. 

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He was the head coach for the 
baseball team at Cal Poly. 

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Pomona and he gave a speech at 
an annual Convention of coaches 

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in the baseball industry, all 
the way from Little League 

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Baseball all the way up to the 
big leagues. 

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It was invention of all these 
baseball coaches and he broke 

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down the problem that we have 
today on our country. 

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And what he considered, also the
world with all the coaches that 

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were present all the way up to 
the big leagues. 

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He asked the question and you 
may know this answer, I didn't 

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know this answer. 
He asked the question. 

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How wide is home plate? 
You may know that. 

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How wide is home plate. 
So, he asked the Little League 

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coaches. 
He said how wide is home plate? 

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And one of them said, 17 inches.
So we asked the Babe Ruth 

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coaches. 
He said how wide is home plate 

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in the Babe, Ruth league? 
What I'm spoke up and said, 17 

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inches He says You High School 
coaches. 

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How wide is home plate? 
One of them spoke up and said 17

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inches. 
To the college coaches. 

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He asked how wide is home plate.
A mansard 17 inches. 

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He said in the big leagues. 
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Said 17 inches. 
He says, what does that tell 

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you? 
He says when you have a big 

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league picture that comes in and
he can't keep the ball over 

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home. 
Plate says, what do you do with 

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you said you sent him back to 
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Because he can't control the 
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home plate. 
But what he asked us question 

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also, He says is that okay? 
Is it okay that we just maybe 

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then widen home plate because 
this big league pitcher can't 

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get it over home plate. 
We make it 18, 19, 20, maybe 25 

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inches wide so that this big 
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over home plate says no, 
absolutely. 

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Not, because there's a standard.
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No, because there's a standard. 
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baseball that home plate is 17 
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And and this is the problem with
society today and it's a problem

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in the home in the marriages in 
raising children. 

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It's a problem in the schools 
where we taken away, all the 

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tools that teachers need to be 
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students and discipline their 
students we've taken it and 

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we've changed the standard. 
To wear. 

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Now, we just broaden the 
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and everybody makes it over home
plate. and he said, this is also

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a problem in the churches today 
the religious world has widened 

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home plate. 
What was once sin is no longer 

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sin? 
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accountability because there's 
no more sin sin, is tolerated 

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than the world. 
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community, everyone's going to 
heaven and the plate has become 

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widened, but there is a standard
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changed. 
Jesus said, the way is narrow. 

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I meant to hit that my didn't in
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We've heard so much about, you 
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Well, science is something that 
we can trust. 

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Sarah science is very 
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212 degrees, it doesn't boil it 
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It boils at 212 degrees at 
elevation at. 

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Go ahead at sea level The sun 
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the west every single day that 
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That, that's science, objects, 
have a heavier than than are go 

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towards the center of the earth.
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gravity doesn't change one day 
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That's not the way it works. 
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because it's been proven over a 
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Also, in mathematics the sum of 
two plus two is four now with 

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the so-called new math, these 
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It may be two and a half, three 
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Who knows? 
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school was two, plus two is 
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The difference between a two 
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The closest difference between 
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geometry. 
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is not. 
Broad-minded, it's very 

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narrow-minded. 
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always points north magnetic 
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That's how ships are able to 
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navigate. 
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we'd have ships crashing into 
other ships or into land and 

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we'd have planes crashing in to 
other things as well because 

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they couldn't navigate 
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And if we ask someone today, if 
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someone asks us if how to get to
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we just say well just get out 
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around a little while. 
You might find it, but it 

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doesn't make any sense does it? 
Because we know that if we get a

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map and we follow the 
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there, you know, in the world is
said, basically, just be honest,

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just be sincere, just have your 
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to heaven and you'll be just 
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The Jesus said in John 14 and 
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I am the way, the truth and the 
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And no man comes unto the father
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Matthew 7 verses 13 through 14 
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wide is the gate and Broad is 
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destruction. 
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it, because narrow is the gate 
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leads to life. 
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Jesus was narrow-minded about 
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She clearly points out that 
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One is a Broadway, it's lacking 
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It's not a life of conviction. 
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It's an easy way. 
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You don't have to be careful on 
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broad. 
You know, we broadened up these 

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sidewalks on the outside so you 
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stay on them. 
We made it broader it's easier 

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to stay on the sidewalks that's 
the way the world thinks that 

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life ought to be just live 
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make it just be a good moral 
person and you'll make it But it

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clearly points out that that is 
the way the majority goes, the 

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way of the world, and he says, 
there are many who go in by it. 

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But he pointed out this out that
this road, as easy, as it may be

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in popular, as it may be, and is
heavily traveled leads to 

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destruction. 
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he says, enter at the narrow 
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and difficult is the way that 
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So, it's not always easy. 
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careless. 
And it is tolerant but the way 

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to heaven. 
God said it is intolerant. 

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Our Lord was tolerant, Jesus was
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expect intolerance or in. 
There are many things that we 

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don't expect intolerance in 
excuse me, and and failure. 

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Like a pilot, flying a plane. 
We don't want him to be just. 

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Flying it haphazardly, excuse 
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Once I was flying back from 
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Bakersfield and I was using what
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that's where you file, a flight 
plan and the air traffic, 

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controller knows where you're at
every moment of the way on your 

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trip. 
Well as I got down closer to 

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Bakersfield all of a sudden the 
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the radio and says we just want 
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at Baker few knickers field 
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one mile. 
Well you may say well Mi quite a

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ways I can tell you that I was 
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visual flight rules that's where
you have to look and see and 

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know where you're going and 
point out points of interest and

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things of that nature to 
navigate and watching your 

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compass. 
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weather uses what they call IFR 
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wasn't certified in instrument 
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I knew how to navigate, I might 
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and I said, well, okay, so what 
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He said, don't worry about it. 
He says, I'll guide you in so he

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gave me certain Compass headings
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will on what heading and after a
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If you look out your 10:00 you 
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Bakersfield Municipal, right 
about now. 

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And I looked out 11:00 and there
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Bakersfield Municipal out here 
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But I had to stay on that 
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And I had to follow, what the 
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telling me to make it safely to 
where I was going to see. 

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I was supposed to be having 
three mile visibility to be 

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flying with visual flight rules,
three miles. 

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I could have just said well you 
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myself and who knows? 
I may not have made it. 

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I may not have been made a wound
up out in the hobby or something

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for all I know because I 
couldn't see the ground or see 

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my, my landmarks and things, 
that nature is a nice when you 

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can trust what people say, 
people and things you can put 

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your trust in people, you can 
rely on. 

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I didn't want that air traffic 
controller to be broad-minded. 

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I wanted him to be narrow. - 
because he had Mike are in his 

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hands. 
Just so when we work toward the 

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goal of Heaven, I don't want to 
be broad-minded. 

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I want to come in on the right 
heading. 

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I want to come in on the right 
course, even though some may 

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consider that narrow-minded. 
And, you know, we hear that in 

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the religious world today, 
people will say, well, that's a 

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very narrow-minded view. 
Well, what does the Bible say 

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about that? 
If the Bible says it, then 

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that's what we need to do, beam 
doing what the Bible says, 

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doesn't mean more narrow minded.
That means that we are 

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intolerant of failure and things
of that nature. 

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God was so intolerant of man's 
lost condition that He sent 

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Jesus to this earth to suffer on
the cross to purchase our 

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Redemption from sin man's 
broad-mindedness was so serious 

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that he couldn't look upon it 
lightly and he couldn't, he 

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couldn't be broad-minded about 
their about their sin anymore. 

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And their captivity in sin. 
When you think about the price, 

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Jesus, Paid for our sins to 
redeem us from our sins. 

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Jesus couldn't be tolerant about
man's indifference toward him. 

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He said in Matthew 12 and verse 
30, he who is not with me is 

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against me. 
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he who believes and is baptized,
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not believe will be condemned. 
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doesn't it? 
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It's a narrow way. 
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of two different roads, two 
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different Masters, two different
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that we can spend an eternity. 
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no one can serve two masters for
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He will hate the one and love 
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You cannot serve God and Mammon.
we have the power to choose whom

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and what we will serve today, 
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serve Christ. 
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Christ said the Broadway, the 
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to death and destruction only 
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leads home and heaven. 
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about playing both sides. 
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toward the gospel is kind of 
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Dodgers and the Giants playing 
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and we go down there and we root
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you, hey, make up your mind who 
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If you're rooting for both both 
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Christ. 
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no man can serve two masters. 
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So we have to make the choice. 
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are living in these days. 
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the old-timers would say a willy
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say, Just however, you want to 
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Just as long as you have a good 
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And you don't kill somebody. 
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Jesus was intolerant toward 
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Jesus got onto the Pharisees 
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other sector of the Jews because
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about. 
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were the inwardly. 
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They were fake, Matthew 23 and 
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And 28 woe to you scribes and 
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He said for you cleanse the 
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inside they are full of 
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inside you are full of hypocrisy
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Counterfeit and fake Christian 
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and the damage and progress of 
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Then then what the Brethren are 
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in the community or spread the 
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intolerant of the hypocrisy of 
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Excuse me. 
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6 and verse 16. 
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Jesus is intolerant towards 
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Then he said to them all if 
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let him deny himself and take up
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You know, self certain 
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These days is one of the reasons
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they can't give up their self 
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Christ. 
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being spiritually nearsighted. 
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things that they want to do, 
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to do to the wrong, the Rich 
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He said in Matthew 19 verse 21. 
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sell. 
What you have and give to the 

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poor. 
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wanting him to make sure that he
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the point. 
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give everything up. 
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poor He also said in Matthew 
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save his life, will lose it but 
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sake will find it life. 
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our selfishness, lose our 
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The type of life that is in 
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He he wanted Peter James and 
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and follow him. 
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with those occupations. 
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That's not the point. 
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they had to follow Jesus. 
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with. 
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we have to give up our self. 
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sin is trawl tolerant toward the
center but intolerant towards 

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sin to the Ultras. 
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neither do I condemn you go and 
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He forgave her but condemn, the 
sin because he hated the sin You

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know, people say, well, when you
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Sinner, you hate, that person, 
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everything that you, that you 
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to be nice to them. 
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them and do what they do. 
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what they do. 
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towards a sinner, not towards 
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We love the sinner, not the sin,
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intolerant of sin. 
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of Pentecost Acts 2:38 repent 
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baptized in the name of Jesus 
Christ for the remission of your

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sins. 
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sin that he died on the cross to
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of sin and John 3 and verse 16 
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So loved the world that he gave 
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whoever believes in him should 
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life. 
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problem that we have in a lot of
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today. 
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If leaders in the world today, 
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enacted christ-like and followed
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puts in a way out of their life.
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if not all the world's problems 
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If mr. 
Biden would Do what is right and

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christ-like of mr. 
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What is right and priced like if
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would do what is right and 
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All of the problems in the world
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of Christ is God's answer to sin
to all who repent and are 

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baptized for the remission of 
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Sacrificed on the cross 
sacrifice, on the cross, cancels

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out sin. 
You know we have these wildfires

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in California here in the 
Summers and one of the things 

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that that Force Fighters forced 
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back burner or burn back, 
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they'll set a fire around a 
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all the fuel of the fire. 
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that spot, it has nothing left 
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The fire stops its advance in 
the poems and people are saved 

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from the fire. 
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fire with fire, and that's what 
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cross. 
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Jesus Took upon himself, our 
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were baptized it. 
Cancels out the same. 

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We deserve that but Jesus 
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rightfully, we have coming to us
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Created a place of Refuge for 
all of us to escape the Judgment

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of sin that we deserve. 
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to not tolerate sin. 
To be intolerant of sin. 

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Don't be selfish. 
Sacrifice your life to him as 

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we're called to do and hearing 
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So then Faith cometh by hearing 
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and believing the word of God 
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died for our sins, Mark, 16 and 
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He that believeth and is 
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But he that not, he that 
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Repent of your sins, Acts 2, and
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Then Peter said to them, repent.
And be baptized every one of you

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in the name of Jesus Christ. 
Christ for the remission of sins

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and you shall receive the gift 
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Holy Ghost, or Spirit confess 
the name of Christ. 

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Romans 10, verses 9 and 10 that 
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mouth, the Lord Jesus. 
And shalt believe in thine heart

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that God has raised him from the
dead. 

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Thou shalt be saved for with the
heart, man, believeth unto 

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righteousness. 
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made unto salvation and then be 
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For the remission of your sins, 
the like figure. 

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Our interview even baptism doth 
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putting away of the filth of the
flesh, but the answer of a good 

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conscience toward God, by the 
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And to those who are children of
God, confess your sins confess, 

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your trespasses to one another 
and pray for one another that 

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you may be healed. 
The effective fervent prayer of 

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a righteous man avails much. 
This is the plan that will save 

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us. 
This, this overrides sin. 

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It cancels out sin when we obey 
God's commands, we can't 

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tolerate sin anymore because God
doesn't tolerate sin. 

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Jesus doesn't tolerate sin. 
That's the lesson. 

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Yours this morning. 
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