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This week, we have really been 
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Christianity as well as the 
outer aspects. 

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But most of all we've been 
focusing on being authentic and 

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genuine. 
You know, if there's anything 

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that causes shame to the cause 
of Christ, it's those who are 

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inconsistent in between what 
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And the way they live, it is 
inconsistency in what we say or 

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what we pledge, allegiance do 
and then sure. 

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Go by our Behavior, what our 
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And so we've been trying to 
eliminate or erase any 

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discrepancy between our claims 
to be followers of Jesus Christ 

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and really imitating him. 
We've been trying to understand 

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how important it is for us to 
have an inner life that 

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expresses itself and our outer 
deeds and how important it is to

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get to make sure that those are 
Those aspects are clear and 

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solid so that we will be 
successful and not vacillating 

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and our Christian commitment. 
We talked last night about James

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4 and verse 8. 
A Bible that tells us about a 

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double-minded man. 
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Man, is supposed to cleanse, his
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heart. 
That means to make single why? 

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Because that's what is expected 
by God, is for us to be genuine 

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and authentic in our behavior 
and Our Deeds are not supposed 

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to be sinful and our hardest 
opposed to be pure and anything 

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else. 
Other than that is hypocrisy in 

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James 18, it tells us that this 
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in instability in our Christian 
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It says a double minded, man is 
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So sometimes if we wonder why 
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be, perhaps we should examine 
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As we've been trying to looking 
into the word of God this week 

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to see what manner of people. 
We are and go away and not 

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forget what we are tonight. 
Do I want to talk about? 

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If you will not necessarily the 
other side of the coin, but I 

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want to make sure that we're 
balanced and make sure we 

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understand that there are two 
ingredients to acceptable 

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worship. 
The Bible says in John 4, verse 

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23 and 24 that God is Spirit And
though the and those that 

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worship Him must worship Him in 
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Now, there are many commentators
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different ingredients of 
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They will say correct. 
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spirit and other words, a man 
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according to truth, well, I 
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identifying that. 
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there, he's talking about with 
our spirit that is with the 

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authentic or Genuine. 
Of our inner life. 

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In other words, worshiping God 
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And that means with proper 
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According to God's word, John 
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I see no discrepancy and 
understanding that that passage 

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is teaching. 
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needed in order to have 
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But there are some people today 
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important than truth and we know
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That is Unbalanced and it is 
just as improper to put that 

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kind of a spin on that passage. 
As it is for people, to say, all

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we need is a form and not having
any real heart in it, that 

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that's more important to. 
We've been showing all week that

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the acceptable sacrifice must be
both inner and outer in order to

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be acceptable. 
We've been showing that alike in

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1st Corinthians, 13 chapter, 
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How important it is to have a 
That does things proper from a 

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proper motive in order for it to
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And that passage, he's talking 
about love and says, yay though.

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I give my body to be burned and 
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It profiteth nothing. 
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attitude. 
When one sacrifices must be a 

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necessary in order for God to 
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authentic sacrifice, because it 
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Nothing. 
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Yes, it's a great sacrifice, but
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For country or for Honor, or for
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God and God says, Hey listen, 
give him the body. 

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Making a great sacrifice is not 
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It's, whether it's done both 
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proper way to really focus our 
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I want you to look at one of the
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The last book in the Old 
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If you have it in your Pew 
Bible, please open up to Malachi

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The Book of Malachi. 
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priests because the priests are 
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Let's just be straight about it.
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They are doing wrong things. 
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wondering in themselves if it's 
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To serve god. 
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reveals their heart in some of 
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We're going to start reading 
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first chapter, notice as a son 
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is Master, then if I am a 
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And if I am a master, where is 
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In other words, he's saying in 
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those who have some authority 
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Where do I fit in? 
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Where's my honor says the Lord 
of hosts To You O priest who 

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despise my name. 
But you say how have we despised

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your name? 
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priest. 
You not honored me and they said

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wow how do we do that? 
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defiled food upon my altar but 
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in that you say the table of the
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And other words they were 
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on the Altar and they say it's 
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therefore, the quality of the 
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It doesn't really matter. 
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name this verse 8. 
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for sacrifice, is it not evil? 
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and the sick, is it not evil? 
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Would he be pleased with you or 
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Kindly says the Lord of hosts. 
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here. 
He's saying, you say sacrifices 

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sacrifice since it's going to be
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lame and the sick and the Blind 
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God says because the quality of 
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shows your lack of respect for 
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He said you're offering me. 
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Sacrifices expecting. 
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Yes. 
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No. 
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Others dishonour me. 
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challenging these people. 
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doing is bringing disrespect to 
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me, would your Governor be 
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No notice verse 9 and hat. 
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favor, that he may be gracious 
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your part? 
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Kindly says, the Lord of hosts? 
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rhetorical question, expecting 
the right answer, in other 

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words, he's not expecting them 
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The answer is supplied know God 
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offering. 
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Listen. 
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among you who would shut the 
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uselessly Kindle Fire on my 
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I am not pleased with. 
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nor will I accept an offering 
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Now, first of all, I want to get
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Let's answer the question word. 
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Where are they offering 
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The answer is, yes. 
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about people here, we're not 
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They were offering something to 
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Yes, you would say they were 
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pleased with what they were 
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No, he was not, he was not. 
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all. 
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uselessly kindling. 
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I'm not accepting your worship, 
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You notice, when he goes on to 
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rising of the sun, even stood, 
setting, my name will be great 

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among the Nations. 
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going to be offered to my name 
and a grain offering bet is pure

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Among the Nations says, the Lord
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pro feigning it profaning it in 
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is defiled. 
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is to be despised how tiresome 
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Notice their attitude in verse 
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And you also say my how tiresome
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it. 
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bring that with just taken by 
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You bring the offering, should I
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Says the Lord, but cursed be the
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flock and boughs it. 
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animal to the Lord for Or I am a
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hosts and my name is feared 
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In other words, basically, he's 
saying there are Gentile Nations

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that fear me, and you guys are 
treating me worse than you treat

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your own. 
Governor, would you offer that 

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to your governor and you offer 
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How sad. 
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In fact, he uses a very unusual 
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He uses the word profane. 
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something holy and use it in an 
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Special way, we use this word 
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profanity, that is where we take
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It in an Unholy way. 
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In Prayer. 
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When we hit that, you know, 
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we use God's name in a profane 
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That's why we call it profanity,
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since well. 
The Lord says, I want to be 

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respected among the Nations and 
you guys aren't respecting me 

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because of your attitude about 
the offering and the offering it

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self. 
There are many other points here

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in the Book of Malachi. 
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in the New Testament focused 
upon these this this 

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hypocritical attitude on the 
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And we're going to get to that 
in just a moment but as I said, 

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we're going to look at both 
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We're going to look at both 
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comes to acceptable worship as I
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acceptable worship and some have
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The other way they have gone to 
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Mmm. 
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Well emotionalism is just as 
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in that, it goes so far that it 
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emotion itself is what we're 
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An emotion is what we're after. 
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about. 
Is just generating a certain 

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emotion amongst us and then if 
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oftentimes the ends justify the 
means and we get this emotion 

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about our religion. 
And their motion is all that. 

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It is. 
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Well, tonight that's not true. 
Either. 

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That's not true. 
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formalism doing something 
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doing something for an emotion 
without the right objective as 

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well. 
Both of them are just as wrong, 

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and I think we need to really 
identify here what we're talking

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about. 
Let's examine emotions and what 

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the Bible has to say about them 
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Sometimes, in this world, we go 
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believe this applies to us in a 
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Since what we've been talking 
about this week is change and 

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sometimes people look at what 
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worship and they said our 
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Now, sometimes they're talking 
about the form and that can't be

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changed. 
True worship is true worship, 

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period, John for 23 and 24. 
It's either acceptable or it's 

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not acceptable. 
The form is either, right? 

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Or wrong, you're either 
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What happened? 
The night Jesus was betrayed or 

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you're not. 
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they go so far as to say, well, 
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emotion? 
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about dating someone I've heard 
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know I don't know if I love them
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immature. 
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infatuation. 
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friendship and you kids come and
they want they want their the 

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some of these issues sorted out.
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this person. 
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would you feel if that person 
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that sorts it out real quick? 
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them then I say well then you're
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you're not in love with him. 
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all times. 
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friend, you know, in other words
a friend, you like whenever 

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they're they're supporting you 
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there, chastising you're 
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their behavior. 
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enemies. 
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fifth chapter that's the kind of
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Love is shown oh does God love 
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Oh yes, he loves us. 
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We've learned that this week 
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everywhere to repent. 
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repent, if he's critical then he
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Me no that's wrong. 
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repent, you see and then 
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relationships and and things 
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that's proper in the church. 
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sing songs of praise to God, 
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are joyful in that they express 
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But if somebody dies as was 
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this congregation in the last 
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Heavenly Home, sometimes we as a
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seeing The Blues. 
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If a leader dies is it proper to
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song? 
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fast as we can, sing it. 
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In fact, they sing it so fast. 
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they say, worships got to be 
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It's got to be quick, and it's 
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Go go, sometimes it's 
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and sing songs of soberness and 
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In an appropriate slow fashion, 
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and real. 
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tonight. 
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judge worship as to whether it's
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excitement is all they're 
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appropriate according to the 
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Sometimes they want a better 
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just just dissed, get 
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their emotions at all. 
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Emotions are out of control. 
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Christians and the Bible speaks 
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become the object of worship. 
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So let's talk more in detail 
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In the scriptures, the Bible 
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14 chapter and verse 40 that 
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decent and orderly fashion. 
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appropriate to the assembly. 
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order, Lee is different, even 
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Now Glenn, what do you mean by 
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Well, you know, throughout 
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clocks, especially digital All 
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by the atomic clock throughout 
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years without literally, 
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But when did they assemble? 
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bread on the first day of the 
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The Bible says for them to Terry
one for another and other all 

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assembled there. 
They did not show up within five

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minutes but the audience was 
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anybody there and within five 
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pencil in the hall, you better 
step back because you're going 

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to get trampled if you try to 
pick it up. 

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There is a rush of Christians in
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that's just a biggest rush to 
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We seem to be so precise. 
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that concept everywhere to the 
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brother, and assemble, and they 
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there. 
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singing. 
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everybody gets there, and 
they're all see until everybody 

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gets their, that's their 
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And that's the way they do it. 
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there and decently in order, 
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starts a song before Services 
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place. 
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start and it might be disruptive
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its culture. 
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easygoing in some places than 
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us to have certain appropriate 
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He says, listen, I want it done 
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want it to be raucous. 
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reflect honor and respect for 
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sometimes can be so formalistic 
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We sing songs in such a deadpan 
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the attitude with which we sing 
that song has absolutely no 

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relevance to its message or to 
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You know, I remember singing 
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Lord and let our joy abound you 
know Mark and everything and it 

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sounded like a horrible song 
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just horrible and stand up for 
Jesus and revive us. 

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Again. 
How many of us have heard revive

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us again? 
Sung like a funeral March that's

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just so out of character. 
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When they come to worship, they 
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the first time, they look at 
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words and they look at us. 
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they think that it's hypocrisy. 
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we've heard that song for the 
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it's just old to us. 
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worship to make sure that other 
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The songs that were singing. 
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proper proper and decent and in 
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choose the songs, Now, Terry, 
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I've often used this point here,
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teaching, I mean, we were young 
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I remember. 
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or third lesson that I ever 
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in Cottage Grove, Oregon on the 
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up and led the invitation song. 
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That's not necessarily bad. 
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know? 
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you know, brother, sing songs 
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being said to what is being 
talked about, it is appropriate 

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song leaders to ask the teacher,
what? 

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He's teaching on and seeing if 
your songs can match the message

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that's going to be given that 
morning and says worship it, 

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enhances Focus. 
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addressing what's going to be 
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And in Matthew the 15th chapter 
verse 7 you probably all knew we

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were going to this passage but 
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said in verse 7 and 8. 
You Hypocrites, rightly did 

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Isaiah prophesy view. 
This people honors me with their

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lips, but their heart is far 
from me. 

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But in vain, do they worship me 
teaching as doctrines the 

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precepts of men? 
If it applies, then it applies. 

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Now, vain means, empty, empty or
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like in the Old Testament. 
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ever kindled. 
The fire at all in loving and 

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serving God and Matthew. 
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it involves our total being in 
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starting in verse 37. 
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And he said to them, you shall 
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Your God with all of your heart 
with all your soul, with all 

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your mind. 
This is great. 

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Foremost commandment in the 
second liken. 

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It to it. 
You shall love your neighbor as 

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yourself. 
God wants us to have a heartfelt

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religion. 
Is emotion necessary in order to

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please God. 
Well, yes, there is Is an 

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emotion called love. 
Let's look at a few passage. 

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I want you to follow along with 
me as much as you can. 

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I'm going to repeat these verses
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8 that is First Peter 4, verse 
8. 

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Let's look at a few passages 
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Notice what it says above all 
keep fervent in your love for 

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one another because love covers 
a multitude of sins. 

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Does God expect us to have 
fervent emotions? 

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Oh yes, he does, fervent 
emotions. 

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We need to be in contact with 
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want some fervent emotions. 
I wanted you to fervently love 

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your brethren in First 
Corinthians. 

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A sixteenth chapter First 
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Notice what it says here. 
If anyone does not love the 

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Lord, he is accursed merriment 
Maranatha. 

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Does not love the Lord. 
Are we supposed to have love for

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the Lord? 
Our is that supposed to call for

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some emotion from us? 
Yes, it definitely does. 

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Is there supposed to be the 
emotion of Hope? 

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And, yes, Hope does have an 
emotional aspect to it. 

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We're going to notice more about
that in a moment, but notice in 

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Romans 12 and verse 12, if you 
No, Romans 12 and verse 12. 

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It says here, rejoicing in Hope 
persevering. 

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It's in Tribulation devoted to 
prayer, rejoicing in Hope. 

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Is rejoicing emotion? 
Yes. 

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Is it caused by Hope? 
Oh, yes, this is an emotion 

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rejoicing is something that we 
are definitely supposed to have.

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And notice in Philippians 4 
verse 4, he puts it even more 

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specifically, Philippians 
chapter 4 and verse 4. 

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Notice what it says, it says 
rejoice in the lord always. 

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And again, I say rejoice, 
Rejoice. 

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How many times have we had 
someone consider us to be on 

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authentic Christians because 
when we sing a song about joy, 

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we express no joy while singing 
it. 

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They have a right to say that 
we're Hypocrites whenever we 

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sing about joy and we're not 
expressing. 

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Any enjoy, we're not emoting any
Joy. 

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If you will notice in second 
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Corinthians 7 verse 10. 
For the sorrow that is according

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to the will of God, produces a 
repentance without regret 

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leading to salvation but the 
sorrow of the world produces 

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death. 
What is this verse suggesting? 

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It's suggesting that sometimes 
whatever. 

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We are taught some passage of 
scripture. 

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We it produces within us, asaro 
a sorrow. 

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But what happens with that 
sorrow we're going to notice in 

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a minute. 
It produces a fruit or has a 

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fruit and that fruit It is 
repentance. 

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But what is the, what is the 
emotion? 

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That hearing disobeyed God or 
God is not? 

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Well pleased with this. 
What is the emotion that we feel

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sorrow? 
That's what happens. 

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Sometimes, when we look to the 
word of God and we see him, it 

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produces within us a sorrow 
because of our love for God. 

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It produces sorrow within our 
hearts, you know, I'm sad. 

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Whenever I love my wife and I 
find out that what I've been 

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trying to do for her is not 
pleasing to Or you're trying to 

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please your eyes. 
I fixed this favorite thing for 

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you and he's not, please, you, 
he produces some kind of Sorrow 

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within you. 
Well, that is proper whenever 

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we're trying to serve God and 
honor him and find out that 

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we've been doing something 
wrong, it produces sorrow, but 

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not just the superficial sorrow.
It's a sorrow that has some 

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fruit to it, and we're going to 
notice that more in a moment. 

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But this is a proper response to
God's word. 

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I want us to get that. 
It's a proper response. 

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And to God's word. 
What about the emotion of hate? 

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Is that a god-given emotion as 
well? 

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Yes, and I'm just going to 
Proverbs 8 and verse 13. 

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The Bible says, we're supposed 
to hate evil and wickedness and 

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the wicked way even the Lord 
hates. 

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The Bible says, there's to be 
the emotion of fear, Matthew, 

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10, and verse 28. 
There's a place for emotion in 

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the life and in the worship of 
the church in the life of the 

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Christian, and in the worship of
the church, there is a place for

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this, but This emotion must have
a basis. 

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It must be rooted in faith. 
It must be rooted in the word of

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God, faith comes by hearing and 
hearing by the word of God 

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Romans 10. 
And verse 17, this requires us 

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to use our intellectual fat 
faculties in whenever addressing

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issues of emotion. 
In other words, let's be very 

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clear about this. 
There's an aspect of Love. 

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That is a choice. 
There's an aspect of love that 

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requires obedience. 
God commanded in first, John, 

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that we love one another. 
We make it either a choice to 

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obey or not obey. 
Well, Glenn, how can a motion be

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commanded? 
How can a man be commanded to 

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love his wife, Ephesians 5, 
Well, it is a command. 

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So, love is a choice, isn't it? 
Yes. 

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What we love is a choice. 
Now, how we feel about that is 

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our responsibility as well as 
just an emotion. 

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Sometimes, if we don't have 
feelings of love for our 

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brethren, we have to learn to 
develop them because to fail to 

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do so would be Disobedience when
a husband refuses to love his 

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wife? 
He is being Disobedient to God. 

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00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,500
When a man refuses to love God, 
he is refusing to be obedient to

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God, whenever we do not 
subject-- our heart soul and 

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mind to God, we are being 
disobedient to God. 

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So, part of love, part of Hope. 
And part of all of these things 

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are choices intellectual 
choices. 

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There's a part of that within us
how we feel about things. 

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Is not just a automatic 
response. 

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There is a responsibility to 
feel certain ways about certain 

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00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:50,800
things about our wife about Sin 
and about these other things. 

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00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:54,900
Glenn, that's awful tough. 
It's hard for me to develop that

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00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:57,300
emotion my friends. 
That's the whole point. 

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I'm getting at tonight, 
sometimes if there is a variance

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in, how we feel about sin or how
we feel about our wife, 

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sometimes that's evidence of 
disobedience in our heart. 

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00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,300
And in our will have you ever 
thought about that? 

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Have you ever thought that? 
Maybe if you're having improper 

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00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:21,000
emotions, it's because of 
improper decisions Or a lack of 

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devotion. 
You see? 

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There's that's symptomatic. 
Whenever we don't have proper 

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emotions, it's symptomatic of 
other things. 

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Whenever we read about God's 
love in the word of God, we 

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should be moved to love him. 
Notice in first, John, the 

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fourth chapter, this whole book 
is dedicated to teaching 

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Christians, if you love God, you
ought to love one another. 

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But notice what he says here in 
1st, John chapter 4 And verse 9.

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By this is the love of God was 
manifested in us. 

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That God has sent his only 
begotten son in the world so 

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that we might live through him 
in. 

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This is love not that, we loved 
God, but that he loved us. 

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00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,000
And sent his son to be the 
propitiation for our sins. 

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Beloved, if God, so loved us. 
So, awful ought, we to love one 

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another. 
Love one another. 

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00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,400
He makes some rational 
conclusions here. 

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He says listen because of God, 
loving our first. 

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Doesn't that bring about certain
other emotions. 

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There are certain consequences 
to this love. 

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Yes, he says, if this is the way
God loved us. 

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Can't we now learn what? 
It means to love one another. 

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Yes we can. 
God God wants us to understand 

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00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,800
that if we can feel this way, if
this situation, we ought to 

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learn. 
Then to Transpose. 

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00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,000
Our understanding of this 
situation to another situation, 

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00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,000
if you love here, why can't you 
love here? 

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00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:02,300
And so he tells us to learn from
one experience and apply it to 

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00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:06,500
another notice, though, 
scriptural emotions. 

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In other words, they have a 
foundation, they have a fruit 

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that is born. 
They are not simply a motions, 

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00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:17,800
for emotion sake, their emotions
that have certain kind of fruits

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to them. 
Look, this is the most important

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part of the lesson. 
I want you to listen, very 

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carefully to the next five 
minutes of this lesson. 

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Listen very carefully and read 
and take notes. 

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Listen, very carefully. 
The emotion of love bears fruit 

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in obedience notice in John. 
The 14, if you have your Bibles,

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please open the Book of John 
Gospel of John John, the 14th 

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chapter And verse 15, notice 
what Jesus says here, if you 

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love me. 
You will keep my Commandments. 

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There it is. 
He says, here's the fruit. 

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Emotion has fruit. 
There's a consequence to that 

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emotion and God designed for it 
to Bear a certain kind of fruit.

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Not a motion for a motion sick 
and not emotional own. 

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Emotional own is just emotional 
ism. 

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What true and authentic 
realistic emotion. 

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Emotion has fruit in our life 
has fruit. 

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Notice what he says here. 
If you love God, you'll keep my 

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Commandments. 
Jesus goes on in this book and 

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says, if you keep my 
Commandments, he it is who loves

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me Jesus, determined that 
emotion by its obedience in 

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their manner of life. 
Let's look at some other paths. 

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And first John 5 verse 3, if 
we've just came from first John,

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but notice in first John 5 verse
3 For this is the true love of 

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God, that we keep his 
Commandments and his 

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Commandments are not burdensome.
You know, whenever you love 

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someone you're not going to find
his Commandments to be a burden.

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You're not going to find his 
restrictions to be in a burden, 

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00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,200
you know. 
It's just not going to be that 

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way. 
You're not going to chafe 

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against the command that, you 
know, was given for your 

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welfare, God loves us. 
He wants to give good gifts to 

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us. 
God did not give us commands. 

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Just give commands. 
He gave us our commands for our 

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00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:50,300
welfare for our benefit, God has
to design in the parameters in 

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the barriers and in the limits. 
He put in our life, you know, 

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00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:58,000
kids like to say to their 
parents in their immaturity. 

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00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,700
You know, oh, you just don't 
want me to have any fun. 

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00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,400
You know, the parents would 
they're almost tempted sake. 

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00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,600
Yeah, go ahead and play with the
lighter. 

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00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,800
Go ahead, play with the knife. 
See if you can juggle them, you 

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00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,600
know, we sometimes just want to 
say how you kids are so dumb. 

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00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:19,500
But the point is, is, you know, 
that that's immaturity on the 

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00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:21,400
part of the child, you say to 
them? 

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00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,100
No, the reason why I told you 
not to play with knives, you may

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00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:27,200
not understand it now, but I 
don't want you to hurt yourself,

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00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:30,200
right? 
Sometimes you want to tell him 

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00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,300
to go out and play in the 
highway but most of all you 

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00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:36,100
don't because you don't want to 
See him hurt and that's why God 

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00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:38,000
told us for that. 
There's parameters. 

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00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,100
That's why God told us not to do
certain things. 

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00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,600
It isn't because he wants us, 
not to have fun. 

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00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,900
It's because he knows it'll hurt
us, he knows it'll be harmful 

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00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,800
for us, you know that it doesn't
promote spirituality. 

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He knows that it's not good for 
us eternally. 

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00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,000
And therefore the Bible says 
this is the love of God, that we

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00:36:57,008 --> 00:36:59,200
keep his commands, and his 
Commandments are not burdensome 

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00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,900
whenever you love God. 
His Commandments are not 

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00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:04,400
burdensome. 
So that's the fruit if you will 

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00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:09,800
of loving God, but notice the 
emotion of Hope also that we've 

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00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:15,000
identified has a fruit, notice 
what the Bible says in Romans 8 

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00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:27,600
chapter in verse 24, in Romans 
8, verse 24, Notice for in hope 

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00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,900
we have been saved but hope that
is seen is not hope for who 

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00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:36,500
hopes for what he already sees. 
But if we hope for what we do 

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00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:41,600
not see with perseverance, we 
wait eagerly for it. 

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Well, what is the fruit? 
What is the fruit of of Hope? 

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If you will Desire with 
expectation? 

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What's the fruit of that? 
Patience. 

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00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:57,800
Endurance. 
We endure we endure whenever we 

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have hope it helps our 
endurance. 

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00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,200
It helps are holding on. 
What about the emotion of joy in

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second Corinthians chapter 8? 
Notice the passage in second 

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00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:11,400
Corinthians chapter 8. 
Notice what it already said. 

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00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,600
I believe we've already read it 
in second Corinthians chapter 8.

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Starting reverse to notice for 
in a great deal of fliction, 

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their Abundance of Joy and their
deep poverty overflowed in the 

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00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,300
wealth of their liberality for a
testify, according to their 

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ability and beyond their 
ability. 

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00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:32,600
They gave of their own accord, 
begging us with my much urging 

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for the favor and participation 
of the sport of the Saints. 

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00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,800
And we this not as we'd expected
but they first gave themselves 

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00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,600
to the Lord and To Us, by the 
will of God, now hear this joy 

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00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,700
that they had in their, in their
lives. 

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00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,700
It bore fruit in sacrifice. 
That's the effect. 

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00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:56,300
That was the fruit of This Joy. 
They wanted to do this and what 

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00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:59,100
it led them to was sacrifice to 
God. 

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00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,200
And we noticed in second 
Corinthians, notice just back 

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one chapter chapter 7 and verse 
10 of chapter 7 and verse 10. 

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Notice, it says, for the sorrow 
that is according to the will of

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00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:12,700
God, produces a repentance 
without regret leading to 

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00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:15,200
Salvation. 
Why does the effect of Sorrow 

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00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,500
Godly sorrow repentance? 
It has an effect. 

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00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:23,900
It has a fruit. 
T' to it, notice the emotion of 

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00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:27,900
hate bears with it. 
The rejection of are in Psalms 

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00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:31,000
119. 
The Bible says in verse 127 and 

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00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:37,400
128 that the person who love who
hates the iniquity, who does not

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00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,900
want to to do those things, 
which do not please God, that it

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00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:44,800
affects them and they and they 
can't stand false worship and 

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00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,200
false ways before God, Psalms 
119. 

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00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:53,800
Reading verse 127. 
Notice therefore, I love your 

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00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,000
Commandments above gold. 
Yes above Feingold. 

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00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:59,200
Therefore, I steam right? 
Your precepts concerning 

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00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:04,000
everything. 
I hate every false way so we 

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00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,800
don't we do not approve. 
We do not appreciate those who 

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00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,600
teach false Doctrine and those 
who teach error not that we 

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00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,700
don't love the person. 
We love them as much as God does

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00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:18,600
or we should. 
But we hate the fact that false 

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00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,100
Doctrine is being preached. 
We do not approve of it. 

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00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:24,400
We do not endorse it, we do not 
give it a greeting as the p. 

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00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:28,200
As the scripture says, well 
there's the emotion the emotion 

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00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:32,400
of fear also bears fruit in 
departing from Evil, the but the

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00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:37,200
book just flat-out says that in 
Proverbs 16 and verse 6, the 

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fear of the Lord caused us to 
reject people. 

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00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:44,100
So that God has a design for his
emotions. 

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00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:52,000
God gave you your emotions So, 
both aspects are wrong. 

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00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:55,500
To have formalism without 
emotion is Apocrypha. 

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00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:59,200
See. 
Do I have a motion without it? 

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00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:04,000
Being based on a scriptures, 
it's nothing more than fleshly. 

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00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,100
It is, fleshly people who we 
just want excitement, they want 

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00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:11,300
Thrills, you know, in our 
culture and I'm going to be very

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plain here. 
I could go I have several more 

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pages because this was an 
interesting study, but I'm going

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to wrap it up here. 
Let's just wrap it up. 

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There are people who have been 
critical of the church in the 

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past saying I'll Glenn, you 
know, the church is just so 

677
00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:32,900
dead. 
They just don't show any 

678
00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:36,300
emotion. 
You know what, I don't defend an

679
00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:39,900
emotional assist with emotion 
less worship service. 

680
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,200
If you think a song about Joy, I
hope your singing with joy. 

681
00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:46,100
But if you've got together and 
your Sorrowing with the loss of 

682
00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:48,400
brother, my friends, it's 
perfectly appropriate for us to 

683
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,100
get together and cry together 
and bear one another's burdens. 

684
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:55,200
It's the Bible says Rejoice with
those who rejoice and weep with 

685
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,700
those who weep. 
Now, don't tell me the church, 

686
00:41:57,700 --> 00:42:00,000
doesn't have any motion. 
If it doesn't, it's wrong. 

687
00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:06,200
But at the same time to worship 
emotion is just as wrong to just

688
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,800
go after a sensory experience of
hand-clapping and joy and just 

689
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,800
believe that we have to roll in 
the aisles and we have to have 

690
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,800
all these other things. 
My friends, that is nothing more

691
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,100
than fleshly excitement. 
That's not genuine either. 

692
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:26,200
Both extremes are wrong. 
What we need to have in the 

693
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:34,000
church is real and authentic 
worship where we combine words 

694
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,800
with authentic feelings. 
When we sing, And songs of Joy 

695
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,100
are songs of joy and songs of 
hope, our sons of Hope and songs

696
00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:47,800
of regret are genuinely songs of
self-reflection. 

697
00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:51,200
And whenever we give I want to 
talk more about worship with the

698
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,200
Bible demands it whenever we 
give we give cheerfully not 

699
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,600
grudgingly or under compulsion 
that word under compulsion there

700
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,200
doesn't mean like we're being 
commanded by God and therefore 

701
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,600
there must be a contradiction in
Scripture that word under 

702
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,400
compulsion is talking about as 
if it were a tax and they hated 

703
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,400
paying taxes back, then it was 
like Like extortion. 

704
00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:12,100
And you know what? 
Feelings of extortion. 

705
00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:17,100
Feel like it's whenever a 
spyware company infects your 

706
00:43:17,100 --> 00:43:19,800
computer to sell its spyware. 
That's extortion. 

707
00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:23,000
Get irritated at that. 
You know what? 

708
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,600
That's like. 
But the Bible says, whenever you

709
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,100
give to the Lord, that's not the
supposed to be attitude. 

710
00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:30,500
You, in other words, we're 
happy. 

711
00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:32,200
We're thrilled were chill for 
that. 

712
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,000
We have been blessed so that we 
can promote the cause of Christ.

713
00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:39,000
We have been blessed so that we 
can support the The gospel to 

714
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,500
the world. 
I'm thrilled to have a job so 

715
00:43:41,500 --> 00:43:44,200
that I can serve god with what 
he's blessed me with. 

716
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,000
I'm thrilled to be able to help 
the cause of Christ, in this 

717
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,600
way, and to help out poor 
Brethren. 

718
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,100
I am cheerful. 
I am happy and thrilled. 

719
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:54,300
The God says, God loves a 
cheerful Giver. 

720
00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:58,900
And whenever it comes to our 
songs, they need to be 

721
00:43:58,900 --> 00:44:01,100
appropriate when it comes to our
prayers. 

722
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:06,800
How many times I literally have 
been ashamed in a service where 

723
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,900
I have bought Brethren and the 
dismissal prayer was said in one

724
00:44:09,900 --> 00:44:15,900
breath, This person isn't 
talking to God, they're talking 

725
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:20,000
at God, and it is not 
appropriate and it is not 

726
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,400
reverent to spit out phrases 
that you don't know. 

727
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:28,200
And you don't understand and to 
talk and shoot something at God 

728
00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:31,700
how ashamed we should be to 
pray. 

729
00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:35,700
So repetitively. 
And so inappropriately that we 

730
00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:38,500
just want to get it over with 
and see how quickly we can get 

731
00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:42,100
through a prayer or how quickly 
we can get through a song. 

732
00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:46,600
Shame on us for thinking that 
way. 

733
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,100
Let us be real, let us be 
authentic. 

734
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:55,600
And whenever we reverently 
approach God, We need to pre 

735
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,800
aware and talk to him as if God 
were present and be humble 

736
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,700
before him. 
And be able to thank God for 

737
00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:05,900
what's happened. 
And what's going on my friends? 

738
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:08,900
Teach your children to pray, 
appropriately. 

739
00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:13,100
The prey, a properly. 
Whenever it comes to teaching, 

740
00:45:13,100 --> 00:45:15,100
we're not just goes to preach. 
We're supposed to preach the 

741
00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:19,100
word. 
Not just preach preach the word.

742
00:45:19,100 --> 00:45:21,100
There's some people say man. 
He just preached. 

743
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,400
He preached. 
All right but the him, preach 

744
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,000
the word. 
We're supposed to preach the 

745
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000
word whenever we sing. 
We're supposed to sing 

746
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,100
appropriately. 
Pray, pray, appropriately. 

747
00:45:30,100 --> 00:45:33,100
Give give cheerfully. 
And whenever we take the 

748
00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:36,600
communion, I don't know if 
anything that's more emphasized 

749
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,700
in First Corinthians 11 than to 
do. 

750
00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:44,200
So in a proper manner, Examining
yourself. 

751
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,100
Because two failed to do. 
So we'll eat and drink judgment 

752
00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:52,800
to himself now. 
Brethren, let's just be real 

753
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,700
about this for a moment. 
People who visit our assemblies 

754
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:05,100
do see quickly, how we sing, how
we pray and how we teach. 

755
00:46:05,900 --> 00:46:11,600
And if they don't come back, If 
they don't come back, we need to

756
00:46:11,607 --> 00:46:14,000
ask ourselves. 
Is it? 

757
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:19,200
Because they've seen a 
disconnect from real and 

758
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,600
authentic emotions from what 
we're doing? 

759
00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:25,900
Both sides are wrong formalism 
is wrong. 

760
00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:29,500
If you will, in that sense, and 
emotionalism is wrong. 

761
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:35,400
The Bible says, whenever you 
approach, God don't just do it 

762
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,200
with your lips. 
Your heart far from him. 

763
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,500
Serve God, with all of your 
heart. 

764
00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:43,800
Soul, mind and strength. 
When you sing a song, sing it. 

765
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:47,700
Like, you mean it and if you 
can't sing it, like, you mean 

766
00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:49,400
it? 
Don't sing it, don't lead it. 

767
00:46:50,300 --> 00:46:53,700
There are some songs that I 
think are inappropriate, you 

768
00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:58,600
know, when we need to there's 
there's one song that I think 

769
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,400
sounds sarcastic, you know, just
wait till you see me in my new 

770
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,600
home, That sounds arrogant to 
sweat it. 

771
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,300
Like there's Nan and out all the
way through it. 

772
00:47:07,300 --> 00:47:10,100
Just wait till you see me in my 
new home, I just don't like that

773
00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:12,600
song that's personal and if 
brother and choose delete it, 

774
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,100
they can lead it with spirit and
understanding. 

775
00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:16,800
I don't sing it. 
Whenever somebody leads it, I 

776
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,500
just don't You have yours. 
I have mine. 

777
00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:23,500
I hope. 
I hope you're not the author of 

778
00:47:23,508 --> 00:47:27,900
the song or we're going to have 
words after it just because it's

779
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:29,600
a song, doesn't mean we have to 
sing it. 

780
00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:36,200
But I'll tell you what. 
We need to think more about the 

781
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,400
songs we pick. 
Do I hear an amen. 

782
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:44,100
We need to think about the way 
we pray. 

783
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:49,100
Amen. 
Because to do otherwise is to 

784
00:47:49,100 --> 00:47:56,200
dishonor our God It's 
disrespectful to God brethren. 

785
00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:07,500
To offer him in sincere worship.
So tonight church, we can't talk

786
00:48:07,500 --> 00:48:11,300
about change without talking 
about our emotion as well. 

787
00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:17,100
And yes, we need some emotion, 
but not more for more sake. 

788
00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:23,100
We don't need more emotion, just
to be emotional and to be 

789
00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:26,500
sensory and to have some 
overload and to have some kind 

790
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:28,600
of excitement. 
No. 

791
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:38,000
We need real worship. 
Told me the real thing tonight. 

792
00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:41,100
If you're coming to God, why 
don't you make some choices? 

793
00:48:41,100 --> 00:48:43,400
You may have to make some 
choices about your love for God.

794
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,000
Do you love God enough to commit
to him tonight? 

795
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,900
Does this emotion have its 
fruit? 

796
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:52,100
Does it have a fruit? 
Does your love for God? 

797
00:48:52,100 --> 00:48:56,000
Leads you to obey him tonight in
needs to it, needs you to lead 

798
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,700
to a commitment, it needs you to
lead to repentance. 

799
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,600
If you're, maybe you're feeling.
In sorrow tonight over some of 

800
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,700
the things that you've done or 
the way you hey, perhaps that 

801
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:09,100
sorrow needs to lead to a change
repentance. 

802
00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:13,100
Maybe you have joy tonight. 
Maybe you understand? 

803
00:49:13,100 --> 00:49:15,700
For the first time that God 
wants you to be saved and he 

804
00:49:15,700 --> 00:49:18,900
desires for you to be saved and 
you obey him and you're thankful

805
00:49:18,900 --> 00:49:20,700
that you have the opportunity to
obey him tonight. 

806
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,000
Express your joy in obedience 
tonight, but let that emotion 

807
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,700
have its proper fruit. 
God designed it. 

808
00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:31,500
Emotion have fruit have effect 
proper Effect in our life. 

809
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,300
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810
00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:41,000
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811
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