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Church in Easton, MA. 
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message from God's word will be 
a blessing to you. 

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Second. 
Peter chapter #2 is where we are

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in the Word of God this morning.
And I've said this before and 

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this is not novel for me to say 
this, but I will say it again 

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this morning anyway. 
And that's that Any fool can 

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break something. 
Any fool can break something. 

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It takes someone with some skill
to be able to build. 

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I remember when we were moving 
from our apartment right up the 

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road from here. 
We lived a couple doors down 

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from Bay State Ford here on 138 
or whatever it's called now. 

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But that's where we lived 
several years ago. 

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We had an upright piano that had
been given to us and we had 

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known that it was not going to 
go with us to our new apartment.

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It was on the 2nd floor. 
It was just not. 

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It was not in the shape or we 
were not in a place where we 

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were able to bring it to where 
we're going to go. 

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And so we thought we would bless
someone by giving away for free.

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Do you know how hard it is to 
give away a free piano? 

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It is almost impossible. 
Nobody wanted this upright 

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piano. 
And so we got to the place where

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we said, well, we don't know 
what to do. 

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Nobody wants it. 
Nobody's going to pick it up. 

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I'm going to have to take this 
thing apart and just, you know, 

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get rid of it. 
And so I never really thought 

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about how hard it would be to 
take apart a piano. 

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And so, you know, I started with
the legs and that was easy. 

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And then the keyboard, you know,
kind of did a few of these on 

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the keyboard and kind of thong, 
thong, thong until finally it 

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started coming apart and the lid
came apart. 

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But then I was left with the 
box, you know, everything that 

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was left really the heart of the
piano. 

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And you know, I had a cordless 
drill and it was trying to be 

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able to take it apart. 
And there was nothing about that

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that wanted to get taken apart. 
And I don't know about you and 

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guys and well, maybe ladies too,
but you, you're trying to 

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destroy some, you're trying to 
break something down. 

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And at first it's not going the 
way you want it to go. 

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And you get more and more 
desperate as you go. 

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And I could just imagine 
somebody seeing me on the side 

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of 138 with a piano and just 
wailing it at this thing. 

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Boom, boom, trying to take it 
apart, run it through. 

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I finally got it down to where I
got to the, the, the hammers and

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the, and the, the strings that 
were there because really a 

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piano is a stringed instrument. 
There's the keys, hit hammers 

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that make it work. 
And that didn't work out well. 

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So finally I had nothing to do 
but take it to the the dumpster 

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in our new apartment, which 
means I had to break the whole 

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thing and take the whole thing 
as it was and then slide it down

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into the dumpster, which was 
something to watch. 

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And I just heard this thing. 
It's like I was murdering it. 

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It went just like that. 
I was looking around to make 

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sure to home from the leasing 
office was watching as I was 

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taking this piano and throwing 
it in the dumpster as I went. 

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But you know, we get desperate. 
You're trying to break something

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and it just, and if someone had 
watched me on the side of the 

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road or someone had watched me 
that dumpster, I look like a 

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maniac because I was just trying
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The, the pulling, the pounding, 
the prying. 

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It was just, I was just trying 
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the more it wouldn't break, the 
crazier I got. 

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You know, in today's text where 
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of God, yes, there is a 
connection, believe it or not, 

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to what I just said. 
You know, there's a group of 

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people that the Bible calls 
brutes that they act like brute 

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beasts, some unsaved false 
teachers that act in a way that 

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is so unseemly and so wild that,
listen, all they can do is break

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things down. 
That's all they can do. 

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That which is in their heart and
what's in their spirit spirit is

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to break things. 
And so we're going to look at 

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how destructive they are here in
our text. 

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But I also want to see why it's 
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because I'm not looking at 
necessarily false teachers here 

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this morning. 
I'm not looking at anybody that 

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I would call a brute beast. 
But we, we do need to be careful

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that the spirit of the brute 
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That even if we are not the 
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here in Second Peter chapter #2 
that that same spirit should not

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in any way reside within the 
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Would you stand, please, for the
reading of God's Word? 

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Second Peter chapter #2 We're 
going to begin in verse #9 and I

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know that we read verse 9 last 
week, but I think it's important

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that we read it again to help us
understand why we're having this

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conversation here in verse 10 
and onward, it says, But the 

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Lord knoweth how to deliver the 
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Aren't you glad for that? 
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the day of judgment to be 
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So now we're talking about the 
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to be punished. 
But chiefly them that walk after

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the flesh in the lust of 
uncleanness, despise government.

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Presumptuous are they self 
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They are not afraid to speak 
evil of dignities, Whereas 

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angels, which are greater in 
power, and might bring not 

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railing accusation against them 
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But these, as natural brute 
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destroyed, speak evil, if the 
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shall utterly perish in their 
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receive the reward of 
unrighteousness, as they that 

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count it pleasure to riot in the
daytime spots they are, and 

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blemishes, sporting themselves 
with their own deceiving, while 

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they feast with you and the guys
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And they cannot cease from sin, 
beguiling, unstable souls and 

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heart. 
They have exercise with covetous

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practices. 
Cursed children which have 

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forsaken the right way are gone 
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And I'm going to end right there
in the middle of the verse 

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because you could summarize how 
they live by this. 

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They have forsaken the right way
and are gone astray. 

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You'll be seated this morning. 
And certainly you look at that 

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and you say, what on earth does 
this have to do with me, Pastor?

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These are the kind of people I 
don't want to be around. 

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These are the kind of people I 
don't want to listen to. 

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These are the kind of people I 
don't want to be influenced by. 

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What does this have to do with 
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And we'll look at that by God's 
grace here over the next few 

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moments. 
Heavenly Father, do pray to you.

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Just be with us as we're in the 
Word today. 

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Help us not to exhibit the 
characteristic of these brute 

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beasts, Lord, these people, 
these unsaved, these ungodly 

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people who do such wickedness. 
Lord, I look at people today, 

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many of whom have a testimony of
being your children, having been

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saved by the blood of Christ. 
Lord, may none of the 

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characteristics that we see here
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Lord, we may not be those brute 
beasts, but we don't even want 

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to have the Spirit of the brute 
beast within us would help us to

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draw close to you, and not to be
destroyers, but to be builders. 

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And we ask it in Jesus name, 
Amen. 

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The Bible makes it clear that 
Satan is a destroyer while God 

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is a giver of life. 
John 1010 says the thief cometh 

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not but to steal and to kill and
to destroy. 

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But Jesus said I am come that 
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I mean, ask Job what, what did 
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God was willing to place a hedge
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he? 
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grab some hedge Clippers, wasn't
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Because he want to get as close 
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And by the way, he only could 
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the Father. 
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characteristic of God is to 
protect and to build. 

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The characteristic of Satan is 
to destroy. 

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You know, I don't know that I've
even thought about this until 

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this week. 
Maybe you have before, but I've 

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never thought about it before. 
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Jesus during his life here on 
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that he was a Carpenter, what 
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A Carpenter is a builder. 
The very fact that while he was 

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here during his formative years,
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He was building because that's 
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He is a builder. 
He said in John chapter 14, in 

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my father's house are many 
mansions. 

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If it were not so, I would have 
told you, I go to prepare a 

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place for you. 
And listen, I'm not suggesting 

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this morning that Jesus is in 
heaven with a hammer and nails 

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and drywall and that he's 
making, you know, mansions for 

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us up there in the sense of the 
way we would build things here 

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today. 
What I am saying is this, that 

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when you see the characteristics
of God, you see that he is one 

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who is a builder. 
And when you see the 

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characteristics of Satan, you 
see one who is a destroyer, a 

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thief, one who not to have life 
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Christ builds lives and Satan 
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But our text here that we just 
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moments gives us some 
characteristics of a particular 

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group of unbelievers. 
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on reading, and if we were to 
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verse #15 we'd find that it's 
talking about some false 

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teachers, some of those same 
false teachers that we looked at

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in our study in the book of Jude
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So there's these brute beasts, 
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They're so ungodly. 
They are reserved for judgment 

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because of not just the fact 
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because they are actively acting
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In fact, they are called 
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because like a child that just 
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understanding of the destruction
that it's actually causing, they

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are acting like these beasts. 
They're acting like these 

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children. 
But I see this just as like we 

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find in the characteristics of 
Christ and the characteristics 

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of Satan, a brute only breaks 
things apart. 

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They can't build anything up. 
The brute, as we see here in 

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these verses, only breaks things
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They never can build things up. 
And Peter vividly describes 

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several ways that they use their
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are both good and right. 
Now we're not going to dwell on 

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any of these single ones for 
very long, but we're going to 

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try to look at them all together
as a group after we identify 

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them singularly. 
Because I want us to identify 

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how these brutes use their 
bodies, their senses to be able 

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to break things down, and then 
how that affects us in our 

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Christian life here today. 
So first of all, I see this from

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our text in verse #10 that a 
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We see in verse #10 the very 
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brute uses his feet to destroy. 
It says in verse 10, but chiefly

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then that walk after the flesh 
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It says walking in the flesh, 
lust of uncleanness. 

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As Christians, we're told not to
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rather told to walk in the 
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Galatians 516 this I say then 
walk in the spirit, that ye 

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fulfill not the lust of the 
flesh, but the brute walks 

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totally and completely after 
their own flesh. 

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Now when I talk about the flesh,
I'm not talking about this 

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physical flesh, you know, that 
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That's not what I'm speaking 
about, and that's not what Peter

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is speaking about, but rather 
the ungodly desires that are 

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within our heart, the things 
that we know we should have no 

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part of. 
If you want to know the flesh, 

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it's the selfish part of you. 
If you want to know the flesh, 

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it's the part of you that likes 
to cuss or that wants to cuss. 

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It's the part of you that likes 
to lie to get its own way, or if

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it's at least not outright lie, 
but at least to maybe just shade

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the truth a little bit in your 
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That's the flesh. 
The flesh acts and pride the 

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flesh. 
The flesh thinks of itself. 

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The flesh always wants more. 
The flesh is never satisfied. 

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No, no, not talking about this 
skin that hangs upon our bodies,

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but rather the flesh is that 
part of us that desires things 

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that we know we ought not to be 
desiring, particularly if we're 

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a child of God. 
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my interpretation of this here, 
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walking after the flesh in what?
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So it seems very clear that this
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physical flesh, but rather it's 
talking about the flesh of which

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is part of our spirit and it's 
the part of us that wants no 

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part of God and no part of his 
word. 

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about lust, it's any unspiritual
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It's anything that we ought not 
to have, anything that we ought 

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not to partake of that our soul 
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trouble wherever they can find 
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The brute will use their feet. 
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to wherever the action is. 
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we were a youth director. 
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wife and I, we work with 
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would take kids to camp and it 
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The ones that were did not want 
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didn't want to do right in like 
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It was incredible. 
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convention beforehand and they 
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there, but they always found 
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direction and they were all 
trying to where was the 

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direction away from us because 
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where we were, because they knew
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trouble. 
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careful. 
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feet to run after the things of 
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Isaiah 59 verse 7 says this. 
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make haste to shed innocent 
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wickedness live this type of 
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Their feet are running towards 
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These are the people that run 
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they'll run over whoever they 
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They will run to all the wrong 
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reasons, in all the wrong ways. 
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Because they are brute beasts 
and they run and they use their 

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feet to be able to absorb the 
things of life that they know 

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they should not be a part of. 
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It's not just that they use 
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that they use their mouth to 
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Not just to be able to walk in 
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talk that is certainly not one 
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Pick it up in the middle of 
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government. 
Presumptuous. 

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Are they self willed? 
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evil of dignities, whereas 
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power and might bring not 
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before the Lord, but these as 
natural brute beasts made to be 

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taken and destroyed, speak evil 
the things they understand not, 

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and shall utterly perish in 
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The Bible says that the brute 
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without even giving any second 
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They are always smarter than 
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They're always smarter than the 
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They're always smarter than 
their leader. 

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They're always smarter than the 
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everyone else said. 
If only people would sit down 

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and listen to them, they would 
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This is the way the beast is 
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This is the way the brute is 
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In fact, an interesting parallel
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despising government and 
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And it basically says this, the 
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they deal with the demons. 
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that angels are certainly on the
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will, and they are on the side 
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But it says even they are 
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demons. 
They said, and these brute 

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beasts they have, they don't, 
they don't think about anything.

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All they're thinking about is 
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And all they're thinking about 
is using their mouth in a way 

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that is not pleasing to God. 
I love the the definition in 

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verse #12 it says this. 
They speak evil things. 

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They understand not you know, 
it's one thing to be ignorant in

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life. 
Let's be honest, we're all 

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ignorant about something. 
Ignorance is not. 

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It's almost like it's a slam if 
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someone else is. 
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don't know something. 
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things that I am ignorant about 
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It's just the way life is. 
We don't have total knowledge 

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about everything. 
It's one thing to be ignorant, 

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but it's another thing to be 
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knowledgeable. 
That's where it gets dangerous, 

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doesn't it? 
Oh, I know a lot about 

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electricity. 
Let me put this fork in the in 

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the receptacle. 
Well, yeah, you might not want 

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to do that. 
That, you know, that may not be 

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a good idea. 
I remember several years ago 

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when I don't know if it was the 
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long way from there. 
Aren't we? 

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I think we're on 16 right now. 
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they came out with a new 
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And it was RETINA, the RETINA 
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And I remember reading this and 
I thought it was the Retina 

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display. 
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people, you know, this, this 
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I mean, look at how sharp it is,
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Finally, someone said to me, do 
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I said, no, it's retina. 
I said, that's how you spell 

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retina. 
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Retina, you know, tomato, 
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No, I was going around spreading
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people. 
Like you got to see this retina 

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display. 
It's awful. 

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I was so ignorant, but I was so 
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what I was talking about, that 
probably other people were 

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saying maybe it is retina. 
I don't know. 

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He's he seems, he seems really 
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But this is what the brute does,
is they talk in such a way that 

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they know everything, but they 
know nothing. 

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They know everything about 
everything but they've used 

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their mouth to destroy people. 
They will pull down whatever 

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they can with their mouth. 
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you can go to James chapter 3 
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chapter 3 are we find that our 
tongue is like a tiny spark that

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can ignite an entire forest. 
It's like a small rudder that 

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steers a massive ship. 
It's like a wild beast that no 

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man contain. 
The tongue is the smallest or 

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one of the smallest parts of our
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problems. 
Never heard it said before that 

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our tongue could be a divine 
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And boy, certainly you can 
remember things, perhaps that 

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people said to you 2030, fifty 
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but yet you can also remember 
someone who spoke words of 

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kindness and grace and love and 
helped you. 

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The brute can't do that. 
The brute has to cut with his 

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mouth. 
That's all that he can do. 

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See, the brute uses his feet to 
destroy, use his mouth to 

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destroy. 
He also uses his eyes to destroy

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it. 
It says that he uses his eyes 

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having eyes full of adultery 
that cannot cease from sin. 

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Verse #14 eyes full of adultery,
that they cannot cease from sin.

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The 7th commandment clearly 
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adultery. 
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eyes in such a way that leads to
sexual immorality. 

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These brute beasts have no 
barriers to that which is good 

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and right and godly, 
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the issues of sex. 
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important this morning. 
And I don't want to go too far 

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off in a tangent, but at the 
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bears reminding and repeating 
this morning why it's important 

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that God's churches stand for 
biblical sexuality. 

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You know, sometimes I think that
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way churches have presented, 
that the issue of sex in and of 

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itself is dirty or shameful or 
disgraceful. 

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May I remind you that God was 
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was the one who defined it, and 
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because God is the definer, God 
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boundaries and parameters for 
what it is. 

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Human sexuality is God has 
defined it as one man and one 

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woman having relations within 
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That's not a controversial 
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it has become a controversial 
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The word adulterate. 
We see the word adultery, and 

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sometimes we miss the mark of 
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And of course we understand the 
breaking of a marriage vow. 

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But if something is adulterated,
it means that it's been 

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corrupted. 
That's why you say, well, you 

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know, just give me the 
unadulterated truth. 

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That means give me the 
uncorrupted truth. 

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Give me the very essence of the 
truth. 

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So basically adultery is the 
corruption of the vows of 

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marriage and these brute beasts 
have no concept of that which 

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God has put in place when it 
comes to the issue of marriage. 

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And because of it, it causes a 
complete and total breakdown. 

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Now again, I don't want to get 
on a hobby horse or a soapbox 

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this morning. 
I have neither a horse nor do I 

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have a soapbox here that I can 
mount. 

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But I will say this, we are in 
the end of what is often called 

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Pride Month. 
But I will tell you this, when 

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it comes to the issues of Pride 
and when it comes to the issue 

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of taking that which God has 
said is viable and good and 

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right and corrupting, that we 
find this, that it doesn't lead 

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to good things. 
In fact, the Bible says this, 

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that says pride isn't exactly 
something we should be aiming 

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for, that it's humility in the 
child of God. 

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Now, do we need to love those 
who are the LGBTQ movement? 

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Absolutely we should. 
You know why we should? 

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Because God loves them. 
Because the Bible says that God 

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loves all. 
That's why he died on the cross.

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But at the same time, I will 
tell you this, that there have 

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been and will continue to be 
repercussions in our society as 

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long as the trans movement and 
as long as homosexuality and 

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those types of things are being 
taught and preached and given in

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society as if they are all on 
equal footing and they are not. 

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The Bible has said one man, one 
woman in the confines of 

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marriage. 
That is good and right and holy.

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Anything outside of that is sin.
Again, that's not popular 

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preaching today. 
That doesn't win me any awards. 

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But I will say that that's what 
the Bible teaches. 

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And these brute beasts want to 
break down all of the barriers. 

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They have adulteress eyes. 
And by the way, where the eyes 

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look, the body tends to follow. 
Eve is a great example of that. 

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What did she do in Genesis 
chapter #3 verse 6? 

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She looked at the tree and saw 
that it was good for food. 

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And once she cast her eyes on it
and looked at it a while, guess 

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what? 
She was eating it not long after

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that. 
That's why Psalm 101 verse 3 

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says, I will set no wicked thing
before mine eyes. 

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I hate the Wick of the. 
I hate the work of them that 

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turn aside. 
It shall not cleave to me. 

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So don't put those things in 
front of your eyes. 

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Look, what you put in front of 
your eyes will end up being 

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where you're going. 
Why do we tell you to be so 

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careful about the entertainment 
that you watch? 

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Why? 
Because those things that you 

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watch could end up influencing 
you and your life. 

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Be careful what you watch. 
Be careful what your eyes look 

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at. 
Be careful that our eyes are not

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roaming eyes, but rather that we
have the type of eyes like Job 

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says that made a covenant with 
my eyes that won't even look 

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upon a mate. 
And ironically, and all of this 

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Lamentations 3 verse 51 says 
this mine, I affected my heart. 

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And that's important because we 
see the brute doesn't just use 

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his feet to destroy his mouth to
destroy, his eyes destroy, but 

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he uses his very heart to 
destroy. 

448
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,760
He uses his very heart, the very
essence of who he is to destroy.

449
00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:51,960
And this is probably the worst 
of all. 

450
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,800
And it gets to the very root of 
the problem. 

451
00:23:54,200 --> 00:24:01,120
It says in verse #14 it says the
middle of verse 14 and heart, 

452
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,080
they have exercised with 
covetous practices, cursed 

453
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,960
children. 
Now, this is not saying that 

454
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,440
they were cursing at children, 
that that would certainly be 

455
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,480
very bad. 
But I don't believe that's what 

456
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,200
this is saying here. 
I do believe it means that they 

457
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,240
are acting like petulant 
children that cannot be 

458
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,840
controlled. 
They, they, they don't listen. 

459
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,680
They, they don't listen to 
nobody. 

460
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,080
Just like many of us have talked
to our small children at some 

461
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,520
point and we told them, you you 
shouldn't do this, it's not good

462
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,120
for you. 
And they say, but I want to do 

463
00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:30,920
it. 
And you say, but you shouldn't 

464
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,360
do this, but I want to do it. 
And they go over and over and 

465
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,560
they don't believe you. 
I remember when Bethany was very

466
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,880
young and I was teaching at 
Westgate and every morning I 

467
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,280
would come through with a cup of
coffee past her homeroom or past

468
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,880
her, the lunchroom where she was
at. 

469
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:48,080
And I would be going to my 
classroom to get my classroom 

470
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,160
ready to go. 
And for it seemed like for weeks

471
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,760
she would ask me, could I have a
sip of your coffee? 

472
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:52,800
Could I have a sip of your 
coffee? 

473
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,200
She was like 6 years old. 
Can I have a sip of your coffee?

474
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,680
And I was drinking black coffee,
you know what I'm saying? 

475
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,600
And so there wasn't even cream 
and sugar in there to kind of 

476
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,080
cut the taste a little bit. 
And can I have a sip of your? 

477
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,840
I said no. 
And finally, one day I had 

478
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,200
enough. 
And I said, you know what? 

479
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,040
Help yourself. 
He said, pastor, that's probably

480
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,000
not what you're supposed to do. 
Listen, don't judge me, all 

481
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,400
right? 
But anyway, this is about you a 

482
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,440
man, all right? 
Not me. 

483
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,600
But no, but I said, go ahead, 
take a sip. 

484
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,640
And you know what? 
She's a blah, blah, blah, blah, 

485
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,240
blah. 
And she spit it out like I've 

486
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,200
tried to tell you. 
And now she lives like with an 

487
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,280
IV of coffee. 
So maybe I was the one that got 

488
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,280
her hooked. 
I don't know. 

489
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,720
But I remember that first taste.
She's like, I don't want it. 

490
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,200
I tried to tell, but there's no 
listening. 

491
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,880
There's no convincing that these
these brute beat. 

492
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,480
There's no convincing them. 
That's why Romans chapter 1, it 

493
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,240
talks about that God gives them 
over to reprobate mind to commit

494
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,720
some of those things that we're 
talking about. 

495
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,480
Because literally he says, 
listen, I don't want you to do 

496
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,200
this. 
I'm begging you not to do this, 

497
00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:54,040
but if you're going to do this, 
then you have a free will, then 

498
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,960
you're going to do it. 
They've been corrupted in their 

499
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,360
heart. 
Their compromise heart means 

500
00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:04,240
that they have become rotten to 
the core, as it says in Romans 

501
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,640
chapter 1, verses 21 and 22. 
And verse #22 is perhaps the 

502
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,600
saddest part of that. 
It says this professing 

503
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,880
themselves to be wise. 
They became fools. 

504
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,840
Like they think that they are so
much smarter than everyone else,

505
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,400
but they're really fools. 
I've said it before and I say it

506
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,640
again, that that the heart of 
every matter is an issue of the 

507
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,200
heart. 
At the heart of every matter is 

508
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,920
an issue of the heart. 
And this is certainly true for 

509
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,640
the brute. 
You know, what's their motive? 

510
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,400
What's their motive at all this?
You know, oftentimes when 

511
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,520
there's a crime, they ask what's
the motive, What's the motive 

512
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,280
for the brute? 
And I think it's very clear for 

513
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,320
what we see here. 
The motive of the brute is 

514
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,440
singular and it's simple mass 
destruction. 

515
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,800
Mass destruction. 
They want to destroy as much as 

516
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:53,560
they can. 
You know why? 

517
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:59,560
Because there's something in a 
very deep down part of us, we're

518
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,160
breaking stuff. 
Feels pretty good, doesn't it? 

519
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,800
You know, I know that because 
there's a there's places now you

520
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:11,880
can go and pay money, pay real 
money and go take a sledgehammer

521
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:18,320
and go break old TV's and 
bookshelves and pictures of your

522
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,480
ex-girlfriend and all these 
different things and they pay 

523
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:23,880
you. 
It used to be back in the day 

524
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,200
that those are people that 
worked at a junkyard and you 

525
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,120
know, but now you have to pay 
them to be able to go in and 

526
00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:32,960
work and sledge and people will 
scream and people will break 

527
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,720
stuff and they come out where 
they say, oh, that felt good. 

528
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,440
I feel so much better now. 
I don't get that. 

529
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,800
And if you want breaks, we'll 
pretty Outback in the church. 

530
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,160
We got some stuff that probably 
needs breaking. 

531
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,960
Well, you can do it for free all
right, as long as you haul it 

532
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,760
away when you're done. 
Because that's really what we 

533
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:46,800
need to do. 
We need to haul some of that 

534
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,720
stuff away. 
But you can break stuff for 

535
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:49,880
free. 
But there's something. 

536
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,120
And the brute gets pleasure out 
of breaking others down. 

537
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:56,240
That's where they get their 
pleasure. 

538
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,520
I'm going to break others down 
and I'm going to make everyone 

539
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,720
else feel bad because what they 
do, because they break everyone 

540
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,760
else down and push themselves up
in the process. 

541
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,800
And all I see here is prideful, 
arrogant, brutish people that 

542
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,480
all they can do is break others 
down. 

543
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,720
Now there's no doubt from our 
text that a brute is someone who

544
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,120
gives themselves totally to 
destruction. 

545
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,920
That was the end of the message.
You say, pastor, that was one of

546
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,760
the strangest and most 
unhelpful, most unencouraging 

547
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,400
messages I've ever heard at 
Liberty Baptist Church. 

548
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,560
And thank the Lord, it's not the
end. 

549
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,160
Now, you may still feel that way
in a few minutes, but I can't 

550
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,920
control that. 
But if that was where we just 

551
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,560
stopped, we'd say, well, yeah, 
these people are bad. 

552
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,400
We, we don't want any part of 
them. 

553
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,080
We don't we don't want to be 
part of them. 

554
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,760
We don't want it if they have 
ministries. 

555
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,240
We don't want to be part of 
their ministries. 

556
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,600
We don't want to be part of 
their teaching. 

557
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,600
We don't want to be influenced 
by them in any way. 

558
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,200
No, pastor, these are people. 
They're reserved for judgement. 

559
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,200
The Bible says I don't want to 
be any part of that whatsoever. 

560
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,480
And I think we would all agree 
with that this morning. 

561
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,880
But I would also say, and this, 
that we have to think about this

562
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,640
and consider this in our own 
lives, that the spirit of the 

563
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,960
brute is lodged within our 
flesh. 

564
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,480
And if we're not careful, that 
some of those characteristics 

565
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:20,400
can come out from our feet, from
our mouth, from our eyes, even 

566
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,360
from our heart. 
What does the Bible say? 

567
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,680
That we need to die daily. 
That we have to crucify our 

568
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,960
flesh daily. 
No, no, I'm not talking that we 

569
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,200
will become like the brute in 
totality. 

570
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,760
These people are unsaved. 
And if you are saved, you know 

571
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,560
Jesus Christ your Savior. 
But I will say this, we don't 

572
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,880
want to mimic them in any part 
of our being. 

573
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,280
Why? 
Because where Satan is a 

574
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:50,040
destroyer, God is a builder. 
So what are we to do as children

575
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,560
of God? 
We're not to be destroyers. 

576
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:59,400
We are to be builders, 516 says 
they have they that are Christ's

577
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,200
have crucified the flesh with 
the with the affections and 

578
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,200
lust. 
We are to crucify our flesh. 

579
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,360
But there's parts of our flesh 
that keep popping up. 

580
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,480
It's those parts of the flesh 
that keep popping up. 

581
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,240
You know what they do? 
They just want to break stuff. 

582
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,320
That's what they do. 
Which one of us hasn't used our 

583
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,000
feet, our eyes, our mouth, or 
our heart to tear someone else 

584
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,360
down? 
Who hasn't? 

585
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:29,520
At some time or season, we used 
words to tear down our spouse to

586
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:34,240
win an argument, but in the 
process, we didn't really win in

587
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,160
our marriage, did we? 
We actually lost. 

588
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,160
Which one of us didn't perhaps, 
maybe tear down our own children

589
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,960
to make them obey, but we lost 
some of their hearts in the 

590
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,840
process? 
Tear someone down at church. 

591
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,160
They they got you one too many 
times. 

592
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,400
I'm just tired of it. 
It's enough, but perhaps maybe 

593
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,800
you don't even realize where 
they're coming from and some 

594
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,160
issues and difficulties they've 
been having within their own 

595
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,720
life. 
And you and trying to correct 

596
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,560
someone in a church have used 
the exact opposite of what God 

597
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:12,600
has called us to do to try to 
bear one another's burdens, to 

598
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:18,800
tear down our Co workers because
they just don't get it. 

599
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,800
I know nobody probably has a Co 
worker in here like that, but 

600
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,440
you know, I have a feeling we've
all experienced the fact there's

601
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,120
someone that they just don't get
there so oblivious. 

602
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,960
And there's a time you just you 
tear them down. 

603
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,920
You know what, they deserved it,
but they'll never be able to 

604
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,200
hear the gospel from you again 
because of the way you handled 

605
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,080
it. 
Tear down an enemy to gain 

606
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,280
revenge. 
Somebody's hurt us and we're 

607
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,040
going to hurt them back. 
But in the process of that, we 

608
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:50,480
end up losing ourselves, who we 
are, because of the fact that we

609
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,760
are so badly wanting to have a 
vendetta that we become 

610
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,880
unrecognizable ourselves and in 
some way maybe end up becoming a

611
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,920
mirror image of the person of 
which we're trying to inflict 

612
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:01,840
the difficulty in in the first 
place. 

613
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:06,520
I'm not calling you a brute this
morning. 

614
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,280
I wouldn't dare do that. 
But wouldn't we all say that 

615
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,920
there can be times in our life 
that the characteristic of the 

616
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,320
destroyer, the one who tears 
down, the characteristic of the 

617
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,080
brute, can be found even within 
our own lives? 

618
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,520
God says these things ought not 
to be. 

619
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,560
Now, listen, I'm not talking 
about trying to correct someone 

620
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,480
or trying to help them 
biblically in love. 

621
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,280
You know, sometimes if you want 
to build some somebody up, you 

622
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,760
have to tear something down. 
You know, if you're going to 

623
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,840
build on a previous foundation, 
you might have to tear down what

624
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,400
was on the foundation 
previously. 

625
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,800
So you can build up, right? 
But that's not what I'm talking 

626
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,120
about. 
This is an issue of the heart. 

627
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,680
You know the difference when you
come to a brother in Christ and 

628
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,960
say, you know, there's something
I see that I just want to help 

629
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,720
you with. 
I'm not, I'm not, I'm nobody, 

630
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,400
I'm not saying I'm somebody, but
I've been this way before and I 

631
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:02,760
just want to give you some 
encouragement. 

632
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,440
The big difference between that 
and saying, what's the matter 

633
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,480
with you? 
Why do you even come to this 

634
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,520
church? 
Say nobody talks like that. 

635
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,080
Thankfully no one's talked like 
that yet. 

636
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,200
But there's a big difference, 
isn't there? 

637
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,360
Ones with the intent to tear 
down the others. 

638
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,240
They tend to build up. 
God's called us to be builders. 

639
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,840
You know, the entire World Trade
Center complex took well over 10

640
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,560
years to be able to assemble not
just the twin towers, but the 

641
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,840
other buildings that were there,
but ten years to be able to put 

642
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,920
all of that together. 
But many of you, like me, 

643
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:46,120
watched on September 11th, 2001,
in about an hour, the entire 

644
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,800
complex was gone. 
Why? 

645
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:55,400
Because of a few who caused 
terror, who inflicted that 

646
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,960
terror upon not the buildings, 
but the people, those buildings 

647
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,680
and the people of this country. 
And they tore down and they 

648
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:09,760
destroyed. 
You know, I don't ever want 

649
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,560
within my spirit to have 
anything that could be labeled a

650
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,800
spiritual terrorist is causing 
terror for the sake of terror. 

651
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,760
Oh, it feels good. 
It feels good. 

652
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,880
You know, when someone messes 
with you, it feels good to mess 

653
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,360
with them. 
Peyton said once that she said 

654
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,280
we were talking about something 
and she said this. 

655
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,760
She said, you mess with us, we 
mess with you. 

656
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,360
And I said, excuse me. 
She said, yeah, you mess with 

657
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,600
us, we mess with you. 
I said, did you learn that from 

658
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,320
mom again? 
All right, but but no, that's 

659
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:43,960
that's a joke, all right? 
It's a joke. 

660
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,880
It's the red hair. 
But it's not really an issue. 

661
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,440
OK, just you know, you mess with
us, we mess with you like, but 

662
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,639
that's, that's what our flesh 
wants. 

663
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,200
Your flesh wants it and my flesh
wants it. 

664
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,600
Well, I'm a pretty, you know, 
mild mannered person. 

665
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,080
Come on, of course you are. 
And maybe maybe I am too. 

666
00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:07,280
But somewhere deep inside, if 
someone hurts you, you want it 

667
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,320
and you want it bad. 
I know because I feel it. 

668
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,360
But you know what we need? 
You know what you need when you 

669
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,280
get off the tracks a little bit?
You need someone to come 

670
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,320
alongside you and say, hey, I 
love you. 

671
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,160
I'm going to tell you something 
because I love you and I hope 

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you still love me when this 
conversation's done. 

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I've had a few people along the 
way, but one of those, Pastor 

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Richard Rossiter, which I think 
you 2 are pretty well acquainted

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with, who in my life came to me 
a few times and said, hey, 

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what's the matter with you? 
Why? 

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Why are you doing this? 
And he didn't do it for the 

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intent to tear down. 
He did it with the intent to 

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build up. 
We all need people who are 

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builders in our life. 
So you need to be a builder 

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Several years ago when it's 
amazing. 

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I could say several years ago 
when I had my surgery back in 

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2021, it was on a Thursday and a
lot of those days were a blur. 

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All I remember was on the 
Sunday, it was the first day 

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that Diane didn't come because 
she was at church. 

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And I told her, please don't 
come to the to the hospital that

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day. 
But it was also a day where I 

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thought, Hey, I'm feeling pretty
good. 

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I don't need pain meds. 
What I didn't know was I was 

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feeling really good because I 
had pain meds. 

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And so it's, hey, let's taper 
this off. 

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And they said, well, you know, 
listen, we could taper it off 

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and we started back up. 
But there's going to be, you 

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know, listen, if you get off of 
it, it's going to take several 

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hours for you to start feeling 
good again. 

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I was like, I'm good, I'm great.
And a few hours later I was 

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pushing that red button. 
Like how many times did I push 

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this red button? 
Like Sir, that you can't do that

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anymore? 
Like can't something else get 

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out of here? 
I mean, I was just, I was a 

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mess. 
And by Monday when Diane came, I

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was just physically, 
spiritually, emotionally, 

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mentally, if there's any other 
ways I was a mess, I was I was 

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gone. 
But I remember telling her, I 

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said, I need someone to pray 
with me. 

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00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,440
I'm not talking about Diane and 
I praying together. 

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I just, I need to talk to 
somebody. 

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And I remember calling two men 
in this church and I was so 

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00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:23,400
helped by two men who were 
builders and at that moment, at 

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that time in their life, 
builders who I was able to talk 

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00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,440
to. 
And they prayed with me and I 

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was so helped. 
Let me ask you, would anyone 

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00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:40,800
call you to be a builder in 
their life or someone saying I 

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00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,840
got some problems, but I don't 
want them to know because if 

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they see weakness in me, they 
will attack it Again, I'm not 

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00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,640
talking about being soft on sin.
I'm not talking about saying, 

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you know, avoiding the problems 
of others. 

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00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:55,920
Oh, everything's great, 
everything's wonderful. 

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That's what I'm talking about. 
I'm talking about this. 

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Does Jesus Christ act that way? 
No. 

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He told the woman at the well 
what her sin was in no uncertain

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terms, but he was still a 
builder. 

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What should we be like this? 
No, these characteristics, the 

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hands, the feet, the mouth, the 
eyes, the heart, they shouldn't 

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be found in us, in any part of 
us. 

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00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:24,000
What are we to do? 
We are to be builders. 

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00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,720
A brute gives themselves totally
to destruction, but a 

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00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,080
Christian's life should be 
dedicated to building. 

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Jude chapter one, verse 20 says 
this. 

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But beloved, building up 
yourselves on your most holy 

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faith, praying in the Holy 
Ghost, would anyone ask you to 

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be a builder in their life? 
And as we add to our faith this 

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week, let's use our senses. 
Let's use our bodies not to tear

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down, but to build up for the 
cause of. 

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Christ, thank you for listening 
to the sermon from the pulpit of

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Liberty Baptist Church. 
If this message was a blessing 

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00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,120
to you, or if there's any way we
can serve you, please let us 

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know by contacting us at 
info@mylibertybaptist.org. 

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Or you can visit us this Sunday 
at 800 Washington St. in Easton,

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MA. 
May the Lord bless you as you 

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grow in His Word.