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One day an old man wanted to 
teach a younger man on the 

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damage. 
That gossiping words can do. 

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So he handed him a knife in one 
hand and a pillow in the other 

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hand. 
And he said, young man. 

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I want you to go to the local 
Market Square and I want you to 

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cut a big hole in this pillow 
and wave it above your head as 

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quick and as fast as you can. 
So we went the young man. 

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He took the knife. 
He took the pillow and he cooked

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a big hole in the middle of the 
pillow and waved it above his 

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head as fast as he could. 
He returned to the old man's 

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office. 
He said I've done exactly as you

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said old man. 
What next Goods, tell me now. 

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What is it that fell out of that
pillow? 

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When you cut a hole in it? 
Oh feathers, sir. 

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Hundreds and hundreds of 
feathers poured out of the 

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pillow everywhere. 
Very good young man. 

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Now for you to really understand
the damage that gossip does I 

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want you to go back to the 
market square? 

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And I want you to pick up every 
single Feather, which fell out 

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of that pillow and put them back
inside of the pillow, but sir, 

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that's impossible. 
I've no idea where all those 

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feathers have gone. 
There's no way of getting them 

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all bad. 
And so it is with gossip. 

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Every time you spread a rumor, 
every time you say, a lie, every

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time I hurtful word comes out of
your mouth. 

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There's no way of getting it 
back. 

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So I just want to warn you 
young, man. 

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Be very careful of the feathers 
that you drop going forward in 

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the future. 
So that's really the number one 

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thing that you and I as 
Christians should stop saying we

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should stop starting sentences 
like this. 

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I don't mean to gossip. 
But have you heard the news? 

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Have you heard what happened to 
her? 

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Now? 
Don't tell anybody this. 

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This is a big secret. 
But Mr. We really got to stop. 

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This gossipin really is 
Christian and it is a problem in

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the church. 
Sadly, but the Bible says this, 

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a Whisperer Parades close 
friends. 

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And the fact is this guy's, if 
you're someone who spreads 

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rumors, if you're someone who is
given to gossip, you're going to

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divide people. 
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Christians need to stop saying 
is we need to stop telling Bible

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jokes. 
We've all heard them before with

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our Christian friends, perhaps 
your pasta, perhaps a famous 

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preacher, you've heard really 
makes light of the word of God, 

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but I don't think this is a good
thing to do. 

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You might think Joel come on, 
lighten up. 

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You need to take a chill pill 
you. 

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You're going a bit over-the-top 
here, but I do believe this. 

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I do think the devil loves it. 
When we make a joke out the word

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of God. 
I mean, think about it. 

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If our non-Christian friends, if
our neighbors, see a sort of 

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making Bible jokes all of the 
time. 

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Well, then they too will see 
this book as a joke. 

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They won't take it seriously. 
And here's another thought for 

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you. 
Did you know this book that you 

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have in your hands? 
This very day came to on a sea 

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of blood people died for this 
book, and we're going to make 

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some small. 
See little jokes about it. 

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Number three, we as Christians 
need to stop saying this is the 

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last time. 
God, I'll never do this again. 

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Have you ever said that before? 
I know I am. 

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I remember when I was 19 years 
old and I remember tears, 

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streaming down my face, and I 
was just crying out to God, 

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please Lord God, I will never do
this. 

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Again. 
This is the last time now, what 

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do you think? 
Do you think I ever committed 

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that sin again? 
I'm afraid to say I did 

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actually. 
And is tempting, isn't it in the

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heat of the emotion when you 
feel so broken? 

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When you realize the sin has not
satisfied you at all to make 

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vows to God, to make promises to
God, but instead rather we 

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should say, Lord, God help me to
never do it again. 

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I need your help. 
I can't do it on my own, please.

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Would you help me to never do 
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Again? 
Ecclesiastes, chapter 5, verse 4

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says this. 
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not delay. 
A paying it. 

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But he has no pleasure in fools.
Pay. 

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What You vow, it is better that 
you should not vow than that. 

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You should vow and not pay. 
The fourth thing that the last 

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thing we need to stop saying as 
Christians is, we need to stop 

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preaching in our prayers now 
perhaps I'm the only one who's 

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ever noticed this and maybe it's
not a big thing. 

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Maybe it's just something in my 
own head. 

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What have you noticed? 
When a pastor might preach a 

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message and say the message is 
on how crucial it is to Share 

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the gospel with others and then 
it comes to a public time of 

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prayer at the end and different 
members of the congregation 

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start praying. 
And one of them, praise 

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something like this. 
Oh, Lord God. 

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Thank you that you're going to 
save everyone. 

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Anyway, thank you that. 
There's no need for us to share 

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the gospel. 
And here this pasta is just 

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laboured this point that we do 
have a responsibility to share 

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the gospel and someone's got an 
agenda. 

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They've got maybe a theological 
position that they want to 

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preach to everyone else. 
You know, how discouraging that 

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must be for the preacher and not
only that, it causes division in

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the church. 
What should public prayer be 

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about? 
It's not about a devotional. 

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It's not about a time for us to 
have a little soapbox to preach 

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all of our ideas. 
It's about lifting up, praises 

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to the Lord Jesus Christ. 
It's about adoring God, so that 

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the rest of the church might be 
up builds. 

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It's about praying for that 
person who's struggling with 

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something so that lady knows 
that you actually do care about 

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the Fact that she's got a knee 
operation next week. 

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Batman knows that you do 
actually care that his mother 

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has cancer. 
That's what public prayer should

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be about. 
So, let's just be very gentle 

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and loving and not be divisive 
in our prayers, but seek to 

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build one, another up and 
encourage one. 

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Another just while we're talking
about encouragement. 

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Can I just say you guys at home?
Are massively encouraged me. 

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