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Sir Winston Churchill called a 
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happened to be a minister and 
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some time with him and of course
the minister agreed. 

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And so the leader of this state,
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he spent several hours of one 
afternoon talking about all of 

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the pressing problems that face 
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seeking advice from his trusted 
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Well, later on in his Memoirs, 
this Minister wrote that in the 

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course of that conversation, he 
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mr. 
Churchill repeatedly made the 

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statement that all the problems 
that the world has does and ever

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will face, will not ultimately 
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comes again. 
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while I agree that the world is 
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man will not enjoy the true 
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until Christ comes back to claim
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world. 
I don't believe that the vexing 

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problems that we face tonight. 
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In fact, when Jesus came to live
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way. 
He came for the purpose of 

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untangling, the web of sin in 
John, chapter 1 and verse 9. 

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The scripture says that Jesus 
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lighteth every man that cometh 
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in John 8 and verse 12, I am the
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followeth me shall not walk in 
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life. 
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stumble Through The Dark. - of 
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When Jesus came to illuminate 
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to be the light of the world. 
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Shepherd. 
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The mighty Prince of Peace, and 
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answer to every single problem 
of man in every Walk of Life and

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every age in every culture, I 
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to a Crossroads or a decision in
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that man can face an obstacle, 
or man can face A tragedy in his

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life that man can face any kind 
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Jesus does not have the solution
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provide him with the principles 
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safely and successfully navigate
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Jeremiah reminded Us in Jeremiah
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Oh, Lord, I know that the way of
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in man that walketh to direct 
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Miliar verse really points to 
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And really man throughout the 
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according to his own steps, he 
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he tries to come up with his own
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the various problems that faced 
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But Jeremiah said, it is not 
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Solutions. 
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circles in life and we only Vex 
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in a state of endless 
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If we turn to within ourselves 
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Or we turn to papa popular or 
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the government or if we turned 
anything else for the answers 

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that we faced with in life, in 
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And verse 20 said, the wicked 
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it cannot rest, whose Waters 
cast up mire and dirt and there 

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is no peace. 
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and it will always be that way. 
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seeking the answers to all of 
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society and that face his own 
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But I think that we can see 
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the one real solution to his 
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counsel of God. 
And Isaiah says, they're like 

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the Sea and the sea is never 
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The sea, never rests, the sea is
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casting up its water in casting 
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he says it will always be with 
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Christ. 
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be no peace to his soul, they'll
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problems. 
What I want to talk to you 

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tonight. 
About how Jesus is the answer to

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all of our problems tonight. 
And I want to illustrate that to

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you in a number of, I hope very 
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And I want to begin by saying 
that Jesus is the answer to all 

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of our societal problems that 
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So overwhelming tonight, in 
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now at the Republican National 
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President Richard Nixon made the
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accepted his party's nomination 
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He said quote when the strongest
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tied down for years in a war in 
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When the richest nation of the 
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economy. 
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tradition of the rule of law is 
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lawlessness. 
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known for a century of equal 
opportunity is torn by racial 

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violence and when the president 
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travel abroad or to any major 
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hostile and violent 
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for new leadership in America in
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I suppose it just about any 
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stand and essentially make the 
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what your Radiology, or your own
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tonight, I think we could really
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within that statement and I 
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agree that what has happened 
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Nixon made that statement has 
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solve the problems that face our
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You think about it. 
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today than we were then. 
Our land is still torn asunder 

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by hatred and crime and the 
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every kind. 
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society has only grown worse and
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grow worse as man stays on his 
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And I would Echo the sentiment 
that we do need a change in 

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leadership in America and we 
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And, you know, we've been 
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last few months. 
If you watch the news and follow

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politics, people say, it's time 
for change and we need change in

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Washington. 
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and I'm not Taking a political 
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political person and I don't get
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But I can tell you that we do 
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and we need change of leadership
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guarantee you that neither 
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office or any candidate. 
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for office, would agree with 
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that we need to change of 
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We don't need merely a new man 
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in Congress or a new man and the
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But rather we need a whole new 
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as mankind. 
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century especially we have 
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of our land and our problems by 
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spending, massive amounts of 
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and government programs. 
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turned around as a society and 
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be the real answer to our 
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We have totally removed him from
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Jesus. 
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I say it is a political campaign
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and I don't know about you but 
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Now I'm tired of turning on the 
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news cycle of endless campaign 
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that they're going to do this 
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they're going to do the other 
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than the other person now. 
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that all of these candidates one
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to make a list of promises so 
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You can hardly count them that 
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and now even trillions of 
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those programs and they all 
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approach in the best solution, 
the best program that's going to

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bring this country about around,
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around and make it a better 
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successful and prosperous and 
peaceful Society. 

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Well, I'm going to tell you 
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You can make all the promises of
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You can enact all the programs 
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You can spend all of the 
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want to spend, but Society is 
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And we're not going to really 
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society until we recognize and 
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Lord Jesus Christ. 
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government is a distinct entity 
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and distinct from the church. 
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appoints. 
Men worldly men to serve in 

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those particular positions. 
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providentially execute his will 
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And I believe that God sets up 
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and I fully believe that 
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And I believe that civil 
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our lives. 
Civil Authority keeps peace and 

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order in our society and it 
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life as a group of people as a 
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But I'm going to tell you, our 
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Go far beyond what? 
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this Earth can solve in 
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of the seventh angel sounded and
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heaven, saying, the kingdoms of 
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kingdoms of our Our Lord and of 
his Christ and he shall reign 

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forever. 
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a time in the future from that 
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gospel message would be 
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powerful influences into the far
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Now, this is not a premillennial
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premillennial proposition but 
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remember that the kingdom of God
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not a political organization and
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ER, and that better, and that 
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entangle themselves in the 
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this. 
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in the world, by spreading the 
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disseminating the truth to the 
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Now, that's how we affect change
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Today have turned their pulpits 
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Convention platforms. 
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been tried in recent years to 
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I don't believe that that's the 
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but rather the church is sole 
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gospel. 
That's what we're here for and 

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by so doing to fill the Earth 
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Kingdom. 
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prophecy related by John is 
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was coming a time when the 
gospel was going to have free 

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cores and go into the world. 
And in that, since Christ, was 

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going to have rain, or Dominion 
in the hearts of men and because

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Christ would take up his Reign 
and men's hearts, The world was 

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going to be influenced through 
and by that and I'll tell you 

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that if men would listen to and 
he'd and obey the gospel tonight

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the world will immediately 
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They would heed the principles 
of the Gospel then we would live

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in a completely different 
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Let me give you a few of a few 
examples of some things that 

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will immediately change. 
You know we could solve a lot of

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the ramifications and 
consequences of Mall saying if 

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we would just simply stop them 
all saying but we're not living 

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in a society that's about to do 
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In fact people In every way 
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a perverted and immoral and 
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possibly imagine and it only 
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No one is standing up. 
And saying that homosexuality is

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a sin that homosexuality is an 
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they are saying that we need to 
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They're telling us that we need 
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disease. 
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that is to get into the schools 
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our young people about safe ways
to commit fornication and the 

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committee evil in the sight of 
God and they like to get in any 

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kind of a venue or any kind of 
an educational Channel, they 

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possibly can to influence young 
people with this idea that two 

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men or two women can marry one 
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relationship. 
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that's a big part of the impetus
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Well, you're sadly deceived, you
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I'm going to tell you, that's 
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get across there. 
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absolutely rip him out of this 
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Being a God who has Authority 
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humanism and, and godlessness 
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television, that's exactly 
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government and the courts. 
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what's happening on your 
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When you turn it on, they're 
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subconscious messages at 
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marriage. 
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a normal relationship. 
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for life. 
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not as normal and over Romans 
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Paul, in fact indicted the 
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very sins and he pointed to the 
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completely Godless and they're 
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one time, but they had 
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their thinking, they refuse to 
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praise and glory. 
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him. 
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was they became vain in their 
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according to verse 26 was for 
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vile affections for. 
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natural use into that which is 
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the men Men leaving the natural 
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lust, one toward another men, 
with men working that, which is 

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unseemly. 
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themselves that recompence of 
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Now, you know what that means? 
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modern language, that means they
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They receive the recompense of 
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Now that may sound cruel and 
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compassionate and Ring. 
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face the fact of the matter that
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whenever history proves whenever
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that a particular kind of 
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of behavior leads to a certain 
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and engage in that behavior or 
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that consequence. 
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they can blame and that's when 
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can't blame the government for 
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They can't blame their next door
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They can't even blame what they 
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They can't blame anybody in the 
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make out of their life. 
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chose something other than the 
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their reward, they got what they
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You know, what? 
The answer to our societal 

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problems of immorality are 
tonight, it's one word, but it's

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a word, nobody wants to hear and
that's the word repentance it. 

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A word that many pulpits across 
this land have fallen as silent 

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as the tomb, where it's 
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And that is the word repentance.
Religion. 

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Today, is all about feeling good
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Today is all about getting a 
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don't have to give up or change 
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be what they are and come as 
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But I'm going to tell you God's 
will God's word and God's 

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message is still just as loud 
and clear and Powerful As It 

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Ever Was repent. 
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world's problems tonight but no 
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Remember indicted, the people of
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come to the light because they 
love Darkness rather than light,

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their deeds are evil, and they 
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their lives. 
And so, they stopped their ears 

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and they try to destroy the 
messenger. 

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They try to remove any influence
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As a result, they continue to 
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pitiful state of our land 
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You know, many of the economic 
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society. 
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and I'm not preaching. 
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believe tonight that America is 
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Say a Christian Nation because I
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exclusive word that doesn't 
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land. 
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other Nation, but I will say 
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founded in some regards upon 
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about and that you can learn 
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And as a result, our society 
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Because when people follow the 
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only leads to good things within
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God's word contains wisdom. 
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author is one who created, man 
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And so why would God's ways and 
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Not be what's, why would they 
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We're drowning in a sea of debt 
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of people out there who don't 
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world owes them a living and God
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Other than that, in Genesis 
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cursed, man after he fell by 
transgression, he cursed the man

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he cursed, the woman, he cursed,
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the man that in the sweat of thy
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thou return unto the ground as 
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There's a principle at work 
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He has to work for what he eats,
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second Thessalonians, the third 
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Brethren there that the apostles
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of being willing to work with 
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those who were lazy and became 
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could merely rely on everyone 
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provide their living. 
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brethren in the name of our 
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withdraw yourselves from every 
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What does it mean? 
They're what is this sin of 

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walking disorderly? 
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which he received of us. 
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yourselves, know how ye ought to
follow us for. 

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We behaved not ourselves 
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Neither did we eat any man's 
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Labour and travail night and 
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That we might not be chargeable 
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have not power, but to make 
ourselves an example, unto you 

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to follow us for, even when we 
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commanded you that, if any would
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eat? 
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we rolled up our sleeves and we 
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So to prove to you that we were 
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nought. 
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work and we set an example 
before you and I'm going to tell

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you something, any preacher, 
this too lazy to get out of he 

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needs to and get a job. 
And work is not a good example 

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for the church and he's not 
worth the salt that goes in his 

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bread. 
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has every right, if he meets the
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spiritual qualifications, to be 
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the church to preach the gospel,
I believe that's perfectly fine.

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But there are times when a 
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to go out and find another way 
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And if he does that, he's to be 
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The world owes, nobody a living 
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somebody in the church that will
not go out and do an honest 

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day's work for an honest day's 
pay. 

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And I'm not talking about people
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I'm not talking about people who
are not able to go out and work 

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as they once did. 
But when you have people who 

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could but will not go out and do
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honest day's pay, not only does 
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obligation to support them and 
to Aid them. 

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The church is wrong and is 
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If it does, Paul said that this 
person needs Should be withdrawn

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from you, withdraw yourself, 
from that brother. 

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That walketh disorderly, you 
don't support him, you don't 

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help him you withdraw from him 
and you let him know that that 

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attitude and that behavior is 
unacceptable in the sight of 

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God. 
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politicians are unpopular with 
the American people and with the

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Congress because of the position
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welfare, you let the Apostle 
Paul get ahold of them. 

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Paul said in first, Timothy 
Chapter 5 and verse 8, if any 

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provide not for his own and 
specially for those of his own 

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house, he hath denied Tied, the 
faith and is worse than an 

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Infidel. 
Jesus has the answer to our 

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problems if we would just listen
to what Jesus says and live by 

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his word, but people don't want 
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And no wonder we find ourselves 
in problems. 

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That seem impossible to solve 
number two, I'm going to switch 

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gears here and say that Jesus is
the answer to the problems that 

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we face in the church tonight. 
He is the answer to problems 

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that we face congregationally. 
Now, some people live under the 

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illusion that the church will 
never have problems They have 

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this notion that the church is 
some sort of a Utopia where no 

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one will ever have any kind of 
conflict or disagreement and 

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that if that ever does happen, 
that something is really out of 

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kilter and and they get all 
discouraged and they throw up 

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their hands in some cases and 
even quit or remove themselves 

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from the church or grow weak 
because they witness problems in

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the Lord's body. 
Well, I've got news for you 

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tonight since the church was 
established on the day of 

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Pentecost till today, there has 
never been an age of time that 

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the church is not had trouble. 
There has never been a period of

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time where the church has never 
had problems. 

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You just go right all the way 
back to the beginning and the 

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church had problems over what to
do with Gentiles. 

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The church had great problems 
over that. 

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That were very divisive problems
and that's not to say that 

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problems are to be desired, 
that's not to say that we're to 

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try to create problems. 
But the fact of the matter is, 

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when you're dealing with 
fallible men, and when you're 

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dealing with something, as 
weighty as the human soul, and 

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an eternal Soul, you're going to
have, you're going to have 

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disagreements and conflicts and 
emotions are going to run high 

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and there are going to be 
problems within the church. 

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So let us not be so naive 
tonight as for I think that we 

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will not encounter rough spots 
along the way, but I am going to

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tell you this, the Lord has the 
answer to work them out. 

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And the problem that I see in 
the church today is not that we 

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have problems but that we try to
do everything in the world. 

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Besides what the Lord says to 
solve those problems and instead

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of solving those problems, we 
make them worse. 

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We compound them. 
We frustrate ourselves in trying

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to work out those problems, we 
try to apply our psychological 

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approaches to working out 
differences, and problems 

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between Brethren and sometimes 
we just outright ignore what the

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Bible says, to do about it. 
Now, I believe that there are at

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least two ingredients that are 
essential for the church to grow

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and remain in the will of God. 
One of them is sound leadership 

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in every church and if we have a
dearth of anything in the 

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Brotherhood today, it is a 
dearth of good solid 

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knowledgeable leadership in the 
church. 

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I go to too many places today 
where there is absolutely a 

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vacuum. 
There are no reliable leaders in

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that congregation some 
Brethren's idea of being a 

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leader of the Church is lining 
up services before they start 

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making sure there's a summer 
meeting book and make sure to 

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make making sure the light bill 
gets paid on time every month. 

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Well, that's all important and 
that's a part of it. 

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But leadership is a lot more 
than that and you can have all 

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of the business meetings in the 
world, and you can take all the 

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votes in the world, on every 
issue that you want to take. 

452
00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:01,000
And you have all the meetings, 
you want to have. 

453
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,900
I'm going to tell you, it boils 
down to the fact that there have

454
00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:05,700
got to be some men and every 
congregation who know the Bible 

455
00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:07,800
and who have the backbone to 
stand up for the Bible. 

456
00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:11,900
There has to be men who care 
about the souls of those who are

457
00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:15,100
in that congregation and who 
watch for The Souls of people in

458
00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:18,800
that congregation who are aware 
of problems that confront the 

459
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,600
church and face the church and 
who are guarding the souls of 

460
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,300
those who may need protection, 
and who may need to be 

461
00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:28,200
strengthened in the faith. 
And we're lacking that in so 

462
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,300
many places. 
Let me tell you, I've not been 

463
00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:32,300
preaching that long. 
I'm not that old of a person, of

464
00:23:32,308 --> 00:23:34,400
course. 
But I can tell you, I've seen a 

465
00:23:34,408 --> 00:23:38,300
difference in just 10 or 15 
years when I first rated 

466
00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:40,700
preaching, the gospel. 
And I went to some of those old 

467
00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:44,000
churches, for example, down in 
the Deep South where I live now,

468
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,300
you would go to some of those 
old churches. 

469
00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:48,500
And I'm going to tell you, there
were some old men who were 

470
00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:51,300
leaders in those congregations 
and they planted themselves 

471
00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:53,500
right on the front row of those 
Church buildings. 

472
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,000
And when you got up to preach, 
believe me, it was intimidating 

473
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,900
because you were preaching to 
some men who knew the Bible. 

474
00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:03,200
And whenever you got in their 
homes, after services or 

475
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,700
throughout that meeting, you 
knew that you were going to have

476
00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:09,100
some Bible conversations you 
knew We're going to ask you 

477
00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:12,200
about what you preach and you 
knew that if you dared step out 

478
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,200
of line and preach something 
that was questionable or wrong, 

479
00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:17,000
there were going to be some 
brethren who are going to line 

480
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,100
up with the back and they were 
going to call you on the carpet 

481
00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:21,400
about it and they were going to 
straighten you out. 

482
00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:24,400
And I'm convinced we have a lot 
of churches today, where you 

483
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,000
could nearly get up and say, the
sky is green, and the grass is 

484
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,200
purple, and say anything in the 
world. 

485
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,500
You want to say and people come 
by and shake your hand and say, 

486
00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:34,100
wonderful, message. 
We need sound leadership in the 

487
00:24:34,108 --> 00:24:38,500
church tonight, we need men. 
Who study the Bible and Who care

488
00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:41,100
about the church? 
Who have the backbone to 

489
00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:44,000
confront problems? 
That arise within the church? 

490
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000
We need leaders and we need 
teachers. 

491
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,700
Who offer the church, a 
well-balanced diet of 

492
00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:52,000
edification who addressed the 
needs of the congregation and 

493
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000
what they teach, and many 
places, just aren't getting that

494
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000
tonight. 
They're not getting the kind of 

495
00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,300
teaching. 
They need to hear. 

496
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,700
They're not getting any 
substance in their teaching, 

497
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,300
because sometimes, sadly the men
who get up in the Pulpit. 

498
00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:08,100
Don't know any more about the 
Bible than the people. 

499
00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:11,100
They're trying to teach And 
that's a problem. 

500
00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,800
And we could solve a lot of the 
problems that we have. 

501
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,200
If men, instead of just being 
concerned about getting their 

502
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,600
way and men being concerned 
about having the preeminence in 

503
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,400
the church, had a real love and 
care about the church, and men 

504
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,900
had a knowledge of the Bible and
know how to apply that 

505
00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:30,400
knowledge. 
We could solve a lot of our 

506
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,800
difficulties. 
Now, the same vein. 

507
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,800
I want to say that every church 
needs discipline. 

508
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,500
Now, we don't like to talk about
discipline and discipline. 

509
00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,200
Really sounds kind of like an 
ugly and a harsh word to us. 

510
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,700
And when we think about 
discipline we Think about 

511
00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:45,100
immediately disfellowshipping 
someone well that's not 

512
00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:46,600
necessarily what I'm talking 
about. 

513
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,700
When I talk about discipline. 
In fact really there are two 

514
00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:53,200
kinds of discipline and both of 
them, the church desperately 

515
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,400
needs. 
One of them is instructive 

516
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,800
discipline and discipline does 
not necessarily have to be. 

517
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,100
It doesn't have to be what we 
think of as negative. 

518
00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:07,200
It doesn't have to be harsh. 
And certainly our preaching 

519
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,000
should never be rude or hateful 
or condescending but you know 

520
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,300
every time a faithful man gets 
in the pulpit and preaches, a 

521
00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:18,300
gospel sermon and tells me 
something that is needful for my

522
00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:21,200
soul. 
I am receiving discipline. 

523
00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:26,500
When a brother tells me that I 
am doing something that is wrong

524
00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:29,100
or that poses a danger to my 
soul. 

525
00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:33,500
I'm receiving discipline. 
And every person in the church 

526
00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:37,600
every child of God needs 
discipline in their life just as

527
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,900
much as every child in your any 
other Home needs discipline and 

528
00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:44,600
just as you see the results in 
the life of a child that goes 

529
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,600
without discipline and is 
allowed to run, amok and do 

530
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,700
simply whatever they want to do 
and they're never told not to do

531
00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:52,500
anything. 
They're never Oakland or 

532
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,400
chastised for doing what is 
wrong. 

533
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,100
Just as we see the result of 
that and too many homes. 

534
00:26:57,100 --> 00:26:59,300
We see the result of that in too
many churches. 

535
00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:02,500
There are places where leaders 
don't want a lot of things talk 

536
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,000
about because they're afraid is 
going to make somebody mad and 

537
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,800
is going to run somebody off and
it's going to diminish the size 

538
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,700
of the crowd. 
And it's going to Quench and 

539
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,900
throw a bucket of cold water on 
the excitement. 

540
00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:14,800
They think they have in the 
congregation. 

541
00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:18,300
Well, listen, now the Lord's, 
not concerned about having a 

542
00:27:18,308 --> 00:27:20,200
building full of people. 
The Lord's concerned about 

543
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,600
having a building full of 
converted people, the Lord is 

544
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,000
concerned about saving people's 
souls, and taking them to 

545
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,100
heaven. 
And that involves telling people

546
00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:31,100
what they need to know. 
And sometimes that's not 

547
00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:33,400
popular. 
Sometimes that doesn't sit very 

548
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,800
well with them, but it's needful
and we desperately need 

549
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,800
instructive discipline. 
I know some congregations. 

550
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,300
If they refuse the kind of 
preaching they need to hear, 

551
00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:46,600
they won't call a preacher 
that's going to get up and 

552
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,400
preach on things. 
They're not going to call the 

553
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,100
preacher. 
Who's going to get up and lay it

554
00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:52,500
on, lay it on the line. 
They're not going to call the 

555
00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,500
preacher as some of the old 
timers, you saved this going to 

556
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,100
Shell it down and show the cob 
because that kind of preaching 

557
00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:59,500
is not popular today and you 
know, they end up paying the 

558
00:27:59,508 --> 00:28:03,700
price for that. 
Because in some places that I'm 

559
00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:07,300
aware of, they allow things to 
run amok and they allow things 

560
00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:09,900
to grow weak and it gets to the 
point. 

561
00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:12,300
That even the leaders of that 
church realize that it's getting

562
00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:15,300
out of hand and it's going too 
far and all of a sudden they try

563
00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:18,000
to put the brakes on it and they
don't know what to do about it. 

564
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,400
Well, you know what? 
They should have done something 

565
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,300
a long time ago, they should 
have been disappointing. 

566
00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,500
The church all along by teaching
what the church needed to hear 

567
00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:27,100
and informing and educating the 
membership of their 

568
00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,600
congregation. 
Now sometimes unfortunately, it 

569
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,300
precedes to the point that we 
Corrective discipline, 

570
00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:36,900
corrective, discipline, and this
is a misunderstood thing, 

571
00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:40,300
because many times people think 
of corrective discipline as a 

572
00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:43,900
weapon that's used in 
retaliation or that corrective 

573
00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,700
discipline is some form of 
punishment for people. 

574
00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:50,700
And because we have that kind of
mindset about discipline. 

575
00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:55,500
We tend to try to avoid it and 
we tend to fail to execute it 

576
00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,300
when sometimes it's necessary. 
But I believe that's the Lord's 

577
00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:03,000
will for every Church to deal 
with problems. 

578
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,300
Some problems that arise by 
using corrected discipline. 

579
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,300
You know, they're in First 
Corinthians 5. 

580
00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:12,600
We're aware of that situation, 
that Paul addressed at Corinth. 

581
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,000
He said there was a man and that
congregation that had his 

582
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,500
father's wife and he said that 
this was a sin that was so dark 

583
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:23,700
and so heinous and it was not 
even named among the Gentiles. 

584
00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:26,900
And Paul says, you ought to be 
ashamed of it, Paul says, you 

585
00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:30,600
ought to mourn over it. 
But instead, your puffed up over

586
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,300
it, I don't think this means 
that the Corinthians were going 

587
00:29:33,300 --> 00:29:35,500
around bragging about the fact 
that they had a man living in an

588
00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:39,200
incestuous relationship, Well, 
what I do think it means is that

589
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,000
these people were looking the 
other way and they were acting 

590
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,200
as though all was well, and they
were proud of themselves as a 

591
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,200
congregation and of their 
spiritual progress of their 

592
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,300
spiritual condition when really 
that wasn't the case in the eyes

593
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:53,000
of God. 
Paul says, they should have been

594
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,800
morning, they should have been 
deeply grieved, and concerned 

595
00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:59,600
about the sin of this land and 
so grieved about it that they do

596
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,400
something to try to save his 
soul. 

597
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,200
And Paul says, in order to save 
his soul. 

598
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,100
If this man won't repent, Paul 
said, you don't need women. 

599
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:12,000
You withdraw from him. 
That doesn't mean you just don't

600
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,800
call on Adelita song. 
Paul says, you don't eat with 

601
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,200
such a wand and Paul gives two 
reasons. 

602
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,600
Paul says, you don't eat with 
such a one, first of all. 

603
00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:27,100
So, that perchance they might be
saved, that is deliver them over

604
00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:30,100
to Satan. 
So, that perchance in the end, 

605
00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:35,600
their soul might be saved. 
Now, I've known the situations 

606
00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,600
where someone went astray and 
became guilty of some terrible 

607
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,600
sin and where Brethren 
scripturally and in the right 

608
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,100
motive in love and concern for 
that brother, they enacted the 

609
00:30:47,108 --> 00:30:49,300
kind of discipline that the 
Bible teaches needed to be 

610
00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:51,000
enacted. 
They followed the Bible's 

611
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,300
instructions and it may have 
taken a while. 

612
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,100
But I've known of cases where 
those Brethren finally came back

613
00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:58,900
to the Lord. 
And they straightened up their 

614
00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:02,400
life because seeing that they 
were not in fellowship with 

615
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,400
God's people. 
Finally got the message across 

616
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,500
to them. 
They were not in fellowship with

617
00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:11,800
God. 
But I can't exactly recall a 

618
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,900
situation where someone was 
living. 

619
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:18,800
In an immoral life. 
And just suddenly said, well, 

620
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,800
you know, everybody down. 
There's just been so tolerant 

621
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,400
and so accepting of me. 
I think I need to give up this 

622
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,300
lifestyle. 
I think I need to quit doing 

623
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:30,700
what I've been doing. 
It doesn't work that way. 

624
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,600
Jesus has the answer and if we 
would listen to Jesus 

625
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,300
prescription for the disease, we
could heal the disease. 

626
00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:41,600
It really boils down to the fact
that we need a real Revival. 

627
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,400
Not only in plain Old Time, 
Gospel preaching, but it times 

628
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,300
we need to have the courage and 
we need to have. 

629
00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:51,700
Yes, the love for those Souls 
who stand in Jeopardy of being 

630
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:56,200
lost to do what the Bible says. 
That's not only true of the 

631
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,100
immoral man is true of the false
teacher. 

632
00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:00,900
Paul said, in Titus 1 and 10, 
there are many unruly and vain 

633
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,500
talkers and deceivers specially,
they of the circumcision whose 

634
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,400
mouths must be stopped. 
Now, how do you stop their 

635
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,400
mouths? 
You certainly don't call them to

636
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,500
preach. 
You don't give them a platform 

637
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,200
to teach other people. 
He says they subvert whole 

638
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,700
houses teaching things which 
they ought not. 

639
00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:18,600
In other words, they go from 
family to family and from house 

640
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,600
to house and from person to 
person spreading their Doctrine,

641
00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:23,800
Paul said their mouths must be 
stopped. 

642
00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:25,800
They must be Mark there. 
Must be avoided. 

643
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,600
People must know to avoid them 
and the danger that their 

644
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,200
Doctrine poses. 
Wherefore rebuke them sharply. 

645
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,700
Paul says that they may be sound
in the faith, Titus 3 and 10. 

646
00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:36,100
Mm. 
And it isn't heretic after the 

647
00:32:36,108 --> 00:32:38,900
first and second admonition, 
reject knowing that he, that is 

648
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:42,500
such subverted and sinneth being
condemned of himself, Romans 16 

649
00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:44,000
and 17. 
I beseech you Brethren mark 

650
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,200
them, which cause divisions and 
offences contrary to the doctor,

651
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,200
which you have learned and avoid
them for they, that are such 

652
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,500
serve, not our Lord, Jesus 
Christ, but their own belly. 

653
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,100
And by good words, and fair 
speeches deceive, the hearts of 

654
00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:56,900
the simple. 1st Corinthians 5 
and verse 11. 

655
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:00,000
Listen now Paul says, but now I 
have written unto you not to 

656
00:33:00,008 --> 00:33:02,900
keep Company If any man that is 
called a brother, be a 

657
00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:07,700
fornicator, or Covetous, or an 
idolater, or a railer, or a 

658
00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:11,100
drunkard, or an extortioner with
such an one. 

659
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:16,000
No, not to eat. 
You know, it's wrong to rail 

660
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,600
against your brethren. 
It is so wrong. 

661
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,500
That the Apostle Paul says, when
one is guilty of it, you 

662
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:24,300
withdraw from him and you don't 
eat with him. 

663
00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:28,700
Now I want I'm worked in an area
and there was a congregation 

664
00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:32,500
that was afflicted by a railer. 
There was a man and that 

665
00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:37,500
congregation that had ruled that
church by his temper for years. 

666
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,600
He would have outbursts in the 
services of the church even He 

667
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,400
would often times, be raped, the
Brethren, the man, who taught 

668
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,300
the man who waited on the table.
The man that led a song at the 

669
00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:49,700
back door of the church 
building. 

670
00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:54,500
And this man had divided 
congregations in his area, where

671
00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:58,000
he lived, because of the fact 
that he would often go about and

672
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,300
make false accusations and rail 
against his own brother. 

673
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,100
Well, you know, it finally came 
to a head in one of these 

674
00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:07,800
congregations and some of the 
Brethren left that church and 

675
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,300
they went down the road to 
another church because they were

676
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:14,300
tired of putting up with him. 
Well, the next thing I knew 

677
00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:16,600
these people were calling the 
other churches in the area and 

678
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,199
they were saying. 
Now, we hope you're not on, call

679
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,199
on that man because we won't 
come to your meeting if you're 

680
00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,400
going to call on him. 
And that just didn't sit exactly

681
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,400
right with me. 
And I told one of those Brethren

682
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,100
that called me, one day until 
you're willing to do what the 

683
00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,199
Bible says to do about that. 
Because after all this man was 

684
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,199
under your jurisdiction, he was 
a member of your congregation 

685
00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:39,800
and until you're willing to do 
what the Bible says, to deal 

686
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,500
with him, you have no right to 
call up to this other 

687
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,500
congregation and tell them what 
to do about him. 

688
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,400
And you see it took a problem. 
That should have been reserved, 

689
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,000
one, local congregation and it 
spread it to multiple 

690
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,699
congregations in an area and it 
became and still is a big mess. 

691
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,100
That's because we don't listen 
to Christ. 

692
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,900
And we make a bigger mess 
instead of solving our problems.

693
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:06,200
I got to hurry. 
I believe that Jesus is well as 

694
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,300
the answer to confusion in 
religion, many people think that

695
00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:12,000
Christ instituted, the thousands
of churches that exist in the 

696
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,100
world and they'll even thank God
and their prayers for all of the

697
00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:17,800
denomination's, it exists. 
The problem with that is 

698
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,100
according to First Corinthians 
14 and verse 33, God is not the 

699
00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:23,500
author of confusion, but of 
peace. 

700
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,200
Now, you know, if you're 
confused tonight, you're not 

701
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,700
alone. 
If you're confused as you look 

702
00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:31,200
out, The landscape of religion 
and you're searching for the 

703
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,400
truth and you don't know hard to
wear to began and you don't know

704
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,300
who's telling who's saying, what
is opposed to somebody else, and

705
00:35:37,308 --> 00:35:39,000
who's right? 
As opposed to who's wrong, 

706
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,700
you're not alone. 
You're in the same boat with 

707
00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:43,700
Millions upon millions of people
who have turned away tonight 

708
00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:47,200
from Christianity because of the
fact that there are so many 

709
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,900
churches and denominations at 
all claim to be the Lord's. 

710
00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:52,600
But you know, Jesus has the 
answer. 

711
00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:57,500
To that confusion. 
Jesus said in Luke 18, verse 10 

712
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,800
unto you, it is given to know 
the mysteries of the kingdom of 

713
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,600
God, but to others in Parables 
that seeing, they might not see 

714
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,500
and hearing, they might not 
understand the parable, is this,

715
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:08,300
the seed is the word of God. 
You know, that's the answer 

716
00:36:08,300 --> 00:36:11,000
right there. 
The seed is the word of God. 

717
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,600
Now, there are a lot of things 
in life morally and spiritually.

718
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,000
Otherwise it revolve around this
little thing that we call the 

719
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,100
seed principle. 
And we all understand the seed 

720
00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:21,600
principle that is that you can 
take a seat of a particular 

721
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,500
variety, and you can plant it in
the Earth. 

722
00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:26,500
And that in time when that seed,
germinates and springs up and it

723
00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:28,700
brings forth fruit, that, that 
kind of fruit is going to be 

724
00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:30,300
according to the seed that 
you're so. 

725
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,600
In other words, you're not going
to go out and plant a seed of 

726
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,000
corn and go out later in the 
year and fine wheat. 

727
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,500
You're not going to set out a 
tomato Vine and then go out a 

728
00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:41,500
few months later and pick 
watermelons off of that vine or 

729
00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,600
squash or something else and 
you're certainly not going to 

730
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,800
see some sort of a strange plant
that has a tomato on one Vine. 

731
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,800
A watermelon on another squash 
on another and something else on

732
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,800
another. 
We know that when you plant one 

733
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,300
kind of seed, One plan is going 
to come from that and that plan 

734
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:58,400
is going to very specific type 
of fruit. 

735
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,800
Nothing more, nothing less, 
nothing different. 

736
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:04,800
Jesus said, the seed of the 
kingdom is the word of God. 

737
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:08,200
Now, all things were created 
miraculously but they are 

738
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,700
sustained sustained through that
natural principle when God, 

739
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,300
created all living things of the
time of the creation. 

740
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:17,800
He did so by Miracle. 
He did not put a seed in the 

741
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,200
barren Earth but rather Jesus 
are rather God planted a 

742
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,900
full-grown tree. 
When he made man he did not 

743
00:37:24,900 --> 00:37:29,700
begin with an embryo but rather 
God had a full-blown full-grown 

744
00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:31,800
man fashioned Out of the Dust of
the earth. 

745
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:34,800
He created Eve out of rib that 
you took out of the sight of man

746
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,300
that was a miracle but within 
every living thing and every 

747
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:42,000
species, he placed the seed of 
reproduction and that seed 

748
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,900
forever sustains and propagates 
that particular species Well 

749
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,600
when the church was established,
it was established by Miracle on

750
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,800
the day of Pentecost, the holy 
spirit, filled the apostles and 

751
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,500
they began by inspiration, as we
talked about last night to 

752
00:37:56,508 --> 00:37:59,200
Herald the gospel and to reveal 
unto the Saints. 

753
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,200
The faith that would once. 
And for all be delivered and 

754
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,100
therefore, the seed was placed 
within that new and that 

755
00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:09,000
miraculously created organism 
that seed of reproduction, being

756
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,400
the word of God, that was 
inspired when it is taken that 

757
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,200
it is sown in other Hearts, we 
did is take any even across or 

758
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,400
All this world across the sea 
and went even spans generations 

759
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:26,200
of time, and ages, and cultures.
And that seed is planted in the 

760
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,900
sea in the heart of men in the 
fertile heart of man. 

761
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,500
If it grows, it's going to 
produce one thing. 

762
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:36,800
And that is that which it came 
from. 

763
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,300
And that tells me that if a 
person simply takes the Bible 

764
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:46,400
and simply reads and understands
and obeys what the Bible teaches

765
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:53,300
him to do, then he's going to be
one thing and one thing only and

766
00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:56,900
that is a new testament. 
Christian he's not going to be a

767
00:38:56,900 --> 00:38:59,500
Christian of one kind of a 
variety or another. 

768
00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:01,300
He's simply going to be a 
Christian. 

769
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,800
He's going to be what they were 
back there. 

770
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,100
Now, why you have so many 
churches in the world tonight is

771
00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:10,800
because people do something 
besides what the Bible says, 

772
00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:14,700
because they're Guided by their 
Creed's, by their catechisms, by

773
00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:17,300
their confessions of Faith, by 
their traditions. 

774
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,300
By their prejudices and not by 
the simple teaching of the word 

775
00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:26,600
of God. 
And so, again, I say Jesus is 

776
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,600
the answer to confusion and 
division that exists in 

777
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,400
religion, tonight, number 4, 
Jesus is the answer to Broken 

778
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,800
homes? 
And do we ever need an answer to

779
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,400
this real problem in our world 
tonight? 

780
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:44,900
Half of all marriages, fact more
statistics. 

781
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:47,700
Now, show us in this country 
that more than half of all 

782
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:51,700
marriages, end in divorce. 
It's hard. 

783
00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:54,800
It's hard to go a day without 
meeting somebody. 

784
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,900
Who hasn't been divorced and 
remarried and often multiple 

785
00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:03,900
times and it's hard to go to a 
congregation anymore. 

786
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:06,100
Where there are not people who 
have been divorced and 

787
00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:09,600
remarried. 
I hear of marriages in the 

788
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,600
church that are on the rocks or 
ended in divorce and sometimes 

789
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,900
those divorces are Justified, 
unfortunately and sometimes 

790
00:40:17,900 --> 00:40:20,400
they're not. 
But I can tell you that 

791
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,400
regardless of the circumstances 
that precipitated, those 

792
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,900
divorces whatever, the reason 
behind them. 

793
00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:28,900
The fact that he came to that 
point is a blight on this 

794
00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:31,800
country and it is a blight on 
the people of God. 

795
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,800
I feel sorry for children that 
grow up in homes today that they

796
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,400
don't even know who their moms 
and dads are and they talk about

797
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,500
their stepmothers and their 
stepfathers and sometimes it's 

798
00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:46,100
so mixed up and so convoluted 
you can't unravel it, neither 

799
00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:49,200
can they? 
But when you set aside God's 

800
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,600
Arrangements trouble ends up 
being the result. 

801
00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,300
Now, over in Ephesians 5 and 6, 
you have a very simple an 

802
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:56,200
ancient pattern for the home 
that God designed. 

803
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,600
And when God created the home, 
which he did in the Garden of 

804
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,200
Eden, had a design for it. 
The problem is society is a very

805
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,800
Trusted in that design. 
And unfortunately, some of the 

806
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,400
church are very interested in 
that plan, or that design Paul 

807
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,200
States and Ephesians chapter 5, 
that the relationship that a man

808
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,700
has to his wife is the same as 
Christ has to the church and it 

809
00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:17,500
just as Christ is the head of 
the church. 

810
00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:19,800
So is the husband be the head of
his wife and the head of his 

811
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,300
home. 
And at the wife, is to submit 

812
00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:25,400
under her husband, just as 
Christ are just as the church 

813
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,200
does unto Christ, this hearkens 
to the principle that the 

814
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,100
Apostle Paul set forth and First
Corinthians chapter 11 and verse

815
00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:34,800
3 when he told, Told us that the
head of every man is Christ and 

816
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,100
the head of Christ is God, and 
that the head of woman is the 

817
00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,000
man. 
Now, I don't know if anything I 

818
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,300
could get on television tonight 
and say that would be more 

819
00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:43,000
unpopular, or get any more hate 
mail. 

820
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:43,800
Than that? 
Right there. 

821
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,400
You could read 1st Corinthians 
11, and verse 3 on, the average 

822
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,700
Street Corner in this country, 
and somebody's going to Bob you,

823
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,500
because that's completely out of
date. 

824
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:56,200
That's sexist, you know, but the
fact of the matter is, God says 

825
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,400
that the husband is to be the 
head of his hole and the wife is

826
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,600
to submit herself unto the 
husband And I don't have time 

827
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,200
tonight to go into all of what 
that means and and to qualify 

828
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,700
that by saying that that does 
not give the husband, the right 

829
00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:15,100
to rule over his wife in a way. 
Unlike Christ does over his 

830
00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:18,500
church and treat her in a way 
that is not right. 

831
00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:20,300
That's not what I'm talking 
about tonight. 

832
00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:22,600
And that's not what the Bible is
talking about tonight. 

833
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:24,900
The Bible is talking about the 
fact that the man is in a 

834
00:42:24,908 --> 00:42:28,500
position of spiritual leadership
within his house, and the woman 

835
00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:31,800
is subordinate to that and 
Ephesians chapter 6. 

836
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,600
The Paul taught that children 
are to obey their parents in the

837
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,200
lord and there to honor their 
father and their mother. 

838
00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:39,700
You certainly don't see much of 
that today because children are 

839
00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:41,500
allowed to do whatever the world
they want to do. 

840
00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:44,200
And if they don't like what 
their parents do or how their 

841
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,000
parents raise them, why in some 
cases, they can just go down to 

842
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,300
court and sue their parents. 
Some children just take a gun 

843
00:42:50,300 --> 00:42:52,300
and they shoot their parents. 
They don't have respect for 

844
00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:53,900
their parents. 
They don't love their parents. 

845
00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:55,500
They're not taught to love their
parents. 

846
00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:58,000
There's something left to 
themselves from the earliest of 

847
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,700
Ages. 
And a simple Bible home. 

848
00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:04,600
After the Bible pattern is a 
rare sight today, we need homes,

849
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,200
where fathers of the God-fearing
leaders? 

850
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,100
They're supposed to be, we need 
homes where wives and mothers 

851
00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:11,400
placed their responsibilities, 
to the home above everything 

852
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,000
else we need homes, where 
children are made to love their 

853
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,700
parents and respect authority, 
because that lesson that they 

854
00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:19,100
learn early in life will carry 
them all through life. 

855
00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:21,600
When they must respect the 
authority of others, we need 

856
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,000
homes. 
Where children are taught the 

857
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,900
Bible and they're taught how to 
pray. 

858
00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:27,600
That's the kind of home Timothy 
was raised in because Paul said 

859
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,400
in second with a 1 in 5 When I 
call to remembrance the 

860
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,800
unfeigned faith, it is in the 
which dwelt first in my 

861
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,700
grandmother, Lois, and I mother 
Eunice and I am persuaded that 

862
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:38,200
in the also, that's a wonderful 
thing. 

863
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,700
That's a wonderful blessing my 
friend if you were raised in a 

864
00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:46,200
home like that and some of us 
may take it for granted but if 

865
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,300
you grew up in a Christian home 
where you had a mother and a 

866
00:43:49,308 --> 00:43:52,800
father who took you to church 
and you had a mother and father 

867
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,000
who taught you the Bible and 
taught you how to live the right

868
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,700
kind of life and put Christ 
first and made him preeminent 

869
00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:02,800
and all things you are a very 
rare and a very blessed 

870
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,700
individual tonight. 
And a lot of people don't know 

871
00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:10,300
that, a lot of people have never
experienced that Henry Grady. 

872
00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:16,800
Was the prolific author and 
historian and newspaper 

873
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,800
journalist in Atlanta Georgia. 
He wrote for the Atlanta 

874
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,900
Constitution Journal. 
And he became a very famous and 

875
00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:30,200
prominent wealthy man. 
And as he began to enjoy the 

876
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,300
success that life brought to 
him, he finally found himself 

877
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:37,400
moving away from his early 
childhood roots, and getting 

878
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,700
caught up in all of the lights 
and the Glamour and the glitter 

879
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,000
of the world. 
One day, he told his staff at 

880
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,700
the newspaper that he was going 
to take a trip out into the 

881
00:44:47,707 --> 00:44:50,400
country to see his mother and he
would return in just a couple of

882
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,300
days. 
He packed his bag and he made 

883
00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:58,200
his way way out into the country
to a humble little home. 

884
00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:04,700
We're his elderly, mother still 
lived. he told his mother he 

885
00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:08,600
said mother, I have come home 
because I want to spend the 

886
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,200
night here with you. 
And I want you mother to do what

887
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,800
you used to do. 
I want you before we go to bed 

888
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,700
tonight, to take down the Bible 
and I want you to read it to me.

889
00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:24,800
And I want you to pray for me. 
And that night, that happened. 

890
00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:28,700
His mother pulled down the 
tattered old Family Bible that 

891
00:45:28,700 --> 00:45:32,900
he had been read from or read to
from as a child and she read 

892
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:37,500
several verses and chapters in 
fact from God's word they knelt 

893
00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:41,400
down and she led a very 
heartfelt and sincere prayer for

894
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,300
her son. 
She took him up to the little 

895
00:45:44,300 --> 00:45:47,000
room where he grew up and she 
tucked him in that little bed 

896
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,700
just like he were still a little
boy. 

897
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,200
And he went home that next day. 
And claimed that he had 

898
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,700
experienced an Awakening of his 
faith in a real Revival of his 

899
00:45:57,700 --> 00:46:00,600
faith and his life was changed 
by that night. 

900
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,900
On another occasion. 
He happened upon a little 

901
00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:06,300
Mountain Home as he was 
traveling back from Washington 

902
00:46:06,300 --> 00:46:09,400
DC. 
And this family invited you to 

903
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:10,900
come in and spend the night with
them. 

904
00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:15,500
And he was impressed because 
before the family went to bed, 

905
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:18,200
after they had enjoyed a 
wonderful supper, the family 

906
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,200
gathered in front of the Hearth 
of the living room of the 

907
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,600
father, pulled down the Family 
Bible and they read, they 

908
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,900
studied the scriptures together 
and they prayed and they went to

909
00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:27,300
bed. 
And the next morning they got up

910
00:46:27,300 --> 00:46:29,100
and they did the same thing 
before they went about their 

911
00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:31,700
activities for the day and 
Henry. 

912
00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:33,900
Grady Grady continued his 
journey on home from the 

913
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nation's capital and when he got
back, he wrote his column about 

914
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,000
his trip. 
And he said, I have now 

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00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,800
determined that the capital of 
the United States of America is 

916
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,400
not in Washington, DC. 
It's in every home that is 

917
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,500
spread across the length and 
breadth and width of this great 

918
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:55,400
nation. 
And so it is tonight, the 

919
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,800
unfortunate thing is, there are 
millions of children in this 

920
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,200
world that don't know anything 
about a home like that. 

921
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,200
All they know is a home where 
the only time the name of God is

922
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,400
used as in an oath. 
The only time they ever hear 

923
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:13,100
Jesus is when somebody Is mad 
angry. 

924
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,100
They've never had anybody read 
the Bible to them. 

925
00:47:18,100 --> 00:47:21,300
They never been taken to church.
They don't know anything about 

926
00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:24,200
that tonight. 
And if you're denying your 

927
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,900
children that kind of upbringing
though, you may say were a 

928
00:47:26,900 --> 00:47:29,200
Christian home, we're a 
Christian family. 

929
00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:31,600
Were members of the church, 
that's not what I'm talking 

930
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,200
about tonight. 
If you're denying your children,

931
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,600
the kind of raising where Christ
comes first in their life, 

932
00:47:38,300 --> 00:47:41,300
you're cheating them. 
You're cheating the church. 

933
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:47,100
And you're cheating the world. 
I grew up in a home and it 

934
00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:52,300
wasn't a perfect home. 
But it was a Christian home. and

935
00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:54,600
one of the things that I will 
always remember, as long as I 

936
00:47:54,600 --> 00:48:00,400
live about my childhood and 
specifically About my mother. 

937
00:48:01,700 --> 00:48:04,600
I don't guess there was a single
morning of my childhood that I 

938
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,700
didn't get up and get ready to 
go to school. 

939
00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:10,500
But the during that time, she 
would not be sitting in the 

940
00:48:10,500 --> 00:48:14,900
living room in her chair. 
With a Bible open across her 

941
00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:18,400
lap. 
And a notebook out taking notes.

942
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,800
As she studied for herself, the 
word of God. 

943
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,700
That made an impression on me. 
It taught me that the Bible is 

944
00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:28,600
important, and when I was 
growing up, I can tell you that 

945
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,000
there wasn't a service of the 
Lord's Church, unless we were 

946
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,800
sick and we didn't attend. 
Well, there was a gospel 

947
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,000
meeting. 
We were going to be there. 

948
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,200
We're going to be there every 
night. 

949
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,400
A Wednesday night, dad would get
home from a hard day at work and

950
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,900
he would be as tired. 
Having worked himself to a 

951
00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:48,200
standstill. 
But we loaded up in the car. 

952
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,800
And we drove to church. 
And that made a profound 

953
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,000
influence on me as it didn't any
of you because you grew up in a 

954
00:48:56,008 --> 00:48:58,900
home like that. 
And the world needs more homes, 

955
00:48:58,900 --> 00:49:01,800
like that. 
Jesus is the answer to the 

956
00:49:01,808 --> 00:49:05,000
broken homes that we have in our
land tonight. 

957
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,800
If we would go back to Bible 
principles for the home, The 

958
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,900
lessons yours tonight and 
appreciate a little long but 

959
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:14,800
maybe there's someone here who's
outside of Christ? 

960
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,400
Maybe your life is in disarray, 
maybe you have a lot of problems

961
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,700
and a lot of questions tonight 
that you're just having a hard 

962
00:49:21,700 --> 00:49:25,700
time finding the answers to and 
you're facing some crises and 

963
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:29,500
your face facing some problems, 
maybe of your very own device of

964
00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:32,900
your very own design. 
That you don't know how to get 

965
00:49:32,900 --> 00:49:35,400
out of. 
You just don't know which way to

966
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:39,300
turn, you know over there in 
Jeremiah believe it's the 18th 

967
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:42,200
chapter, there's a beautiful 
passage where God talks about 

968
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,500
the nation of Israel in their 
broken state. 

969
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,200
And he tells the prophet to go 
down to The Potter's House and 

970
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:50,900
God was going to show him 
something there. 

971
00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:53,700
And he said that there in that 
house he saw the Potter take a 

972
00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:56,900
vessel a broken vessel and mold 
it and put it up on the wheel 

973
00:49:56,900 --> 00:50:00,700
and as the wheel turned and so 
forth The Vessel was flawed, it 

974
00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:03,300
was marred and so God put it 
back on the wheel and he made it

975
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:06,200
again. 
You know, that's what the Lord 

976
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,500
could do with your life tonight.
And that's what the Lord wants 

977
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:10,600
to do with your life. 
Just like he did Israel, back 

978
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,900
long ago. 
No matter how many pieces it may

979
00:50:13,900 --> 00:50:18,100
be shattered into, he wants to 
take those broken pieces and he 

980
00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:22,200
can put them on the transforming
wheel of his Spirit of his word 

981
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,000
and he can mold and shape them 
into a beautiful vessel that you

982
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,900
never thought possible. 
So why don't you turn it over to

983
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:31,500
him tonight? 
Repent of your sinful living. 

984
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,600
Put your faith in your trust in 
him. 

985
00:50:33,700 --> 00:50:36,600
Confess his name before this 
audience and will baptize. 

986
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,000
You this hour for the remission 
of sins and you'll be a new 

987
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,600
creature in Christ in a new page
on which to write The land of 

988
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,700
beginning again, as we sometimes
call it. 

989
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,600
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990
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:54,400
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991
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,500
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992
00:50:57,500 --> 00:51:00,600
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993
00:51:01,300 --> 00:51:05,100
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994
00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:09,100
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995
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:14,700
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996
00:51:15,300 --> 00:51:18,800
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