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You can call me crazy, but do 
you not think that this looks 

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like this? 
And you don't think that this 

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thing right here, there's an 
awful resemblance to this thing 

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right here. 
For those of you who are not 

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familiar with what has just 
happened. 

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Every four years 56, countries 
come together and they put on a 

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smaller version of the Olympics.
It's called The Commonwealth 

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Games and this year at the 
opening ceremony, which was 

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hosted. 
Stood in my country in England. 

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You know what they did. 
They brought out a 32-foot 

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bronze Bull and then a big crowd
of people got down on their 

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knees and began to worship this 
ball. 

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Now I know exactly what you're 
thinking you're saying Joe, it's

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just a piece of art, calm down, 
sit down and be quiet. 

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What can I say this if month is,
when he noticed that the people 

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of Israel after being gone for 
just five minutes, they turned 

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and worshipped him. 
Golden calf. 

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If Moses slam down the Ten 
Commandments and his face was 

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filled with rage, is it wrong 
for me to just simply ask the 

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question? 
What on Earth is going on right 

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now? 
Okay, I do admit that this could

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all be one big coincidence for 
personally. 

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I do find it rather. 
Suspect that right now in the 

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world, we live in. 
We have never seen more 

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spiritual Darkness. 
We've never had more people in 

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the world who are anti-god, who 
hate the God of the Bible and do

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everything that is Asset to what
the god of the Bible commands. 

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And then we tune in on TV. 
And we see millions of people 

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tuning in to see a big bunch of 
actors worshipping, a bronze 

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bull in a ceremony. 
Why is that so strange to me? 

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Because there is one God. 
When there was times of darkness

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in the Bible, there is one God 
that the people of Israel. 

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Repeatedly went back to 
worshipping over and over again.

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And it grieved God's spirit. 
What was this God's name they 

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are and what? 
All was by all you've guessed 

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it. 
He was a ball. 

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But actually this goes a lot 
deeper than just a bunch of 

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people worshiping a ball Idol 
when Jesus Christ was talking 

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about Satan. 
Do you know what name? 

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He gave to Satan. 
He called him, Beelzebub. 

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In other words, you are bail. 
You are the prince of demons and

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that is so scary. 
Because when Moses found the 

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people of Israel worshipping 
this gold calf, what did that 

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represent? 
It meant that those people Were 

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worshiping Satan when King Ahab 
and queen Jezebel, when they 

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introduced the worship of Baal 
worship to the people of Israel.

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What were they introduced in the
worship of? 

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They were encouraging people to 
bow down to Satan when Elijah 

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confronted those 450 prophets of
Baal who is he challenging? 

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He wasn't just confronting 450 
men know, he was confronting 450

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men who work for Satan. 
So if this is how it looks, 

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what? 
Said that the BBC is doing. 

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The BBC is encouraging people to
worship Satan on live TV. 

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But, hey, now, there is actually
another instance where Bulls are

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described rather negatively. 
The Bible says many bulls have 

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surrounded me, strong Bulls of 
Bashan, have encircled me. 

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Now, you're not going to believe
this but literally last week me 

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and my friend got charged out by
a cow. 

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We're on a sort of popular walk.
That's known as a 

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Family-friendly route. 
And we notice a large pack of 

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cows about 15 of them and they 
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What was particularly disturbing
is that those one large bowl. 

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Now, this wasn't an old decrepit
bull where you think. 

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Oh, it's fine! 
I can outrun this thing know 

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this ball was stacked. 
It could do some real damage. 

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So we're trying to creep past 
suddenly one of the cows turns 

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around and thrusts its head into
my friend, Paul's chest and 

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starts charging at him. 
Now my friend Paul. 

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He's not Biggest guy on Earth 
but he said you know what, I 

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just went into Crocodile Dundee 
mode and I put my hand on the 

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balls head and I just pushed it 
back and I saw it. 

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Literally what was happening was
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this cow and while all this is 
going on, my wife Emma is 

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screaming out crying my baby. 
Samuel my baby. 

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So what we did is eventually 
managed to pull back from the 

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cows, they followed us up a 
little bit and we climbed up 

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this hill over a wall to get to 
safety. 

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Now, the And we got to safety to
know what verse came to my mind.

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It was this verse in Psalm 22, 
that Bulls Great Balls of 

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batian. 
Have encircled me and it made me

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think how terrible this must 
have been for Jesus Christ. 

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Because that's who Psalm 22 is 
talking about is talking about 

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Jesus Christ, not with real 
balls, but with people 

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encircling him laughing at him, 
throwing out all kinds of 

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accusations mocking him saying, 
if you are the Son of God, him 

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hibbity Is the Son of God, bring
yourself down from the cross and

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then we'll believe people 
spitting on him. 

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People ripping his clothes off 
him. 

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People striking him, people 
crucifying him. 

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Jesus must have been terrified 
on that cross and yet he went to

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those Great Lengths are brave 
savior went to those lengths, to

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save you and me on the cross. 
He wrestled Beelzebub. 

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He wrestled Satan. 
And he crushed him and proved 

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all of his enemies, all of his 
phone. 

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Is wrong when he rose from the 
dead on the third day. 

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He paid the ransom that you and 
I could never pay. 

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He paid the debt for our sins 
and a bit like my friend Paul. 

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How he just went Brave and he 
protected me and Emma and our 

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child is a bit like that. 
Jesus Christ puts his hand on 

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the ball on Satan and holds him 
back and protects us his 

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children by shedding his blood 
and whilst were covered by the 

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blood of Jesus. 
Christ were safe. 

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Can I ask you a question? 
Are you Covered by the blood of 

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the Lord. 
Jesus Christ. 

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Have you come to the one who 
paid the price for your sins and

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asked for forgiveness? 
Because whether you believe that

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this is Baal worship at the 
Commonwealth Games, there's one 

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thing you cannot deny in its 
this, things are getting darker 

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and you need the light of the 
world. 

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The only light that this world 
needs, the only hope we have is 

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Jesus Christ because he will 
defeat. 

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This Darkness one day and the 
Bible says that we are called to

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come out. 
Out of Babylon, get out of 

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Babylon, get out of this idol 
worship. 

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Get out of all of this sin. 
All of this rottenness, that 

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will drag you down to Hell and 
turn to Christ. 

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I'll safety our salvation and 
our hope beyond the grave. 

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Please consider what I've said 
today, and please turn to the 

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Lord Jesus Christ in Repentance 
and Faith. 

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By the way, have you heard of 
Kendrick Lamar? 

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Have you seen how he's been 
mocking the Lord Jesus Christ. 

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