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Thanks for checking out the 
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from St. 
Augustine, FL. 

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Now enjoy this message. 
So we're talking about the 

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Kingdom Code of Ethics 
principle, and by definition it 

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means this. 
This is the standard of conduct 

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established by the King for the 
behavior and social 

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relationships of his citizens. 
This is also the expectation of 

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the king regarding the values, 
moral standards the citizens 

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must adhere to. 
So think, do you think that the 

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mayor suffer the lamb that the 
Lord's going to save you? 

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Thought your electronic devices 
were cool? 

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Check this out. 
And that we're all going to be 

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at the mayor suffer the lamb 
playing video games or watching 

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movies right now. 
We're going to be tuned into the

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king and we're going to have the
best food ever and gain no 

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calories with it. 
It's going to be amazing, right?

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But the standard of conduct is 
established by the king, say, by

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the king, by the king. 
So what are ethics? 

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Ethics as a set of moral 
principles, the principles or 

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conduct of governing an 
individual or a group. 

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Now, this should not actually be
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In fact, for us to even have 
this conversation from the 

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church's perspective, it should 
be expected. 

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It's amazing how you know, 
especially in the United States,

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how so many times ministers and 
ministries have allowed 

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themselves to compromise the 
code of ethics supposedly for 

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the sake of winning the lost, 
right? 

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And so, you know, we reduce 
standards so that, you know, 

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we're not offensive. 
We reduce standards so that, you

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know, everyone can feel 
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And these particular. 
But you understand the world, 

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even in the devil's system, he 
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And everyone is conditioned to a
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How do we know this? 
Do you go to work? 

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I mean, when you, you don't 
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I mean, unless you're 
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And if you're self-employed, 
then most of the time your 

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clients are telling you when 
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You know, it's always funny when
I'm going to start my own 

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business. 
That's laughable because they 

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don't understand that is not you
get 5 hours, that means you work

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overtime and don't get OT. 
That's what that means, yeah. 

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I mean, when you start a 
business, I mean, you're putting

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everything in the business. 
You're like, you're just hoping 

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you're going to get paid. 
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You you may be getting things in
the account, but you're like, on

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a personal level, it's like, 
man, I'm putting everything into

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this deal. 
I understand how that is, but 

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you know, obviously we, we 
think, you know, that if we own 

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it, that everyone's working for 
us and then we're just making 

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money. 
There are people who function in

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that capacity and you can arrive
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reality of self-employed people 
never do because they're not, 

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they're self-employed, they're 
not actually business owners and

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there's a difference there or 
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That's a there's a difference 
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My point is, is that, you know, 
we have standards we associate 

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with all the time. 
If you go to Publix, there's a 

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standard you submit to the 
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You said what do you mean? 
Well, you understand if you act 

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a certain way, they can get you 
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There are places that literally 
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That's called a standard. 
And the established conduct in 

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that facility is you must be an 
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area. 
And people are shopping and are 

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submitting to that all the time 
without griping. 

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Do you go to work? 
They say you're going to be here

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at this time, or if you got a 
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If they tell you that, I mean, 
there's all kinds of stuff. 

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They tell you what your 
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You know, you agree based upon 
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Or maybe you just need a job. 
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And at the end of the day, 
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But these are standards. 
Then you have to go through HR. 

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And man, I was in the secular 
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There's all kind of hoops there,
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And it's even worse today, 
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There's sexual harassment, 
there's all kind of harassment, 

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people complaining, all the 
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and the world complies with 
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So then we come to the church 
and we act like all because it's

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free, right? 
And I couldn't do anything to 

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earn it. 
Then there's technically no 

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standard or expectation for me. 
But the Bible doesn't say that. 

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The Bible literally says there 
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There is a code of ethics that 
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church. 
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And we should be different. 
So I'm going to hit a couple of 

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scriptures real fast just for 
the sake of repetition real 

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quick, only so that you can 
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there are behaviors, there's 
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relationships that are not 
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All right, which means again, 
we've said this before, Jesus 

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said you cannot serve both God 
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So for you to say I can do it, 
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you cannot. 
Now, if you serve God, you could

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have wealth called wealth 
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But if you serve wealth, God's 
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You could say he's blessing you,
but he's not in it because the 

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devil give you the whole world. 
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the whole world and there's many
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God's not actually in that at 
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that. 
OK, that that means those who've

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been trained in righteousness 
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oh, the Lord's blessed me. 
You're like, bro, your 

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lifestyle's in such a way. 
I don't even you, you have no 

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connection with God and you're 
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The only blessing you have is 
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and the unjust. 
You may have that, but as far as

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it being consistently ordered of
the Lord, it's not the devil is 

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supplying your life to keep you 
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he'll supply you the world at 
the for for for 15 of your soul 

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right. 
So Ephesians chapter 5. 

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We saw this last week one 
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I'm just going to read it quick.
Therefore be imitators of God as

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beloved children and walk in 
love, just as Christ also loved 

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you and gave Himself up for you 
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to God, as a fragrant aroma. 
But immorality or any impurity 

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or greed must not even be named 
among you, as is proper among 

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Saints. 
And there must be no filthiness 

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or silly talking, of course 
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but rather giving a thanks for 
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You know with certainty that no 
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covetous man who is an idolatry 
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Kingdom of Christ and God. 
Let no one deceive you with 

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empty words. 
For because of these things, the

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wrath of God comes upon the sons
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Therefore do not be partakers 
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But you were formerly darkness, 
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Lord. 
Walk as children of the light. 

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So again Paul says, be an 
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You cannot act like the world, 
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Act like the world and tell me 
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Jesus did not come and imitate 
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They did not imitate the world. 
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He was perfect, blameless. 
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perfect. 
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and you've been made perfect. 
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more perfected than you think. 
Now, if you mess up, you have an

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advocate, you can get quick 
forgiveness, you understand, but

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your lifestyle is not a 
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although periodically or on some
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when the occasion occurs, you 
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Any time that I have a failure 
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I've not guarded myself leading 
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I have not had a failure in 20 
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coming if I don't do something. 
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because I knew it was coming 
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come alive and I wasn't doing 
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crucify it so it wouldn't get to
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Then when it got to that place 
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every minute of being in it, 
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what are you doing? 
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Well, I mean, you can't help it,
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You're just a sorry Sinner. 
Saved by grace, bro. 

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The Holy Ghost never told me 
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He wasn't audible, but it was 
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What are you doing? 
What are you talking? 

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Like, why are you behaving like 
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And I would get in private 
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Well, you know, boom, boom, 
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And I would give a list to 
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And they were all fleshly, and 
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me and championed my cause. 
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son, you've been delivered from 
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You're really without excuse. 
Then he would say, you know what

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you got to do. 
Now you know what you have to 

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do. 
Now you know what you must do. 

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And I know what that answer was.
I must ask for forgiveness. 

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I must go to the one that I've 
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I must ask them to forgive me. 
I must because that's the 

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conduct of a citizen in the 
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It's the standard of the king 
and he died so that I can live 

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that and it's not optional for 
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Not that's the standard. 
When you blow it, you've got to 

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fix it. 
I can't just sweeping out of the

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rug walk into the room and that 
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Can't do it. 
That's not how it works. 

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Y'all hearing me? 
All right, Galatians 519 and 21,

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we saw this and we'll read out 
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That said, the cravings of the 
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Sexual immorality, lustful 
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after things instead of God, 
manipulating others, hatred of 

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those who get get in your way, 
senseless arguments, resentment 

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when others have favored or 
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quarrels, only thinking of 
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your own opinions, being envious
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murder, uncontrolled addictions,
wild parties and all other 

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similar behaviors. 
Haven't I already warned you 

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that those who use their quote 
UN quote freedom for these 

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things will not inherit the 
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So these are outside the code of
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And in both of these passes of 
Scripture, and there was a third

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one I gave you out of First 
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communicated there are specific 
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not in the Kingdom. 
So you cannot be born again, 

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bring that kind of behavior in 
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That is a false. 
That's false. 

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And any church or minister or 
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with any of those actions within
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It is not true. 
Now, if you happen to fall in, 

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and when I say fall, you 
understand, it's really by 

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choice, OK? 
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into these things. 
We surround ourselves in 

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situations or we don't, you 
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that it becomes, we become prey 
to it, meaning we we easily 

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accept or, or set ourselves back
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OK, Because again, it is 
irresponsible for me to say, you

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know what, you just can't help 
it. 

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That's not true. 
You can't help it. 

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You can help it. 
You can help it so you stop it, 

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but you can also help it when 
you're in it so that you can get

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back out. 
Because again, a righteous man 

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may fall seven times, but but he
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Now, does he get up in 
unrighteousness? 

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No, he gets back up in 
righteousness 'cause he repents,

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he asks for forgiveness, and he 
goes back to the behavior 

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befitting the Kingdom. 
Amen. 

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Now the world cannot do our 
behavior because they're not of 

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the nature of God. 
So again, as I said last week, 

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someone could come in here and 
be participating in behavior 

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that we've listed in these 
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And is it wrong? 
Yes. 

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But again, to tell them you 
can't do that without them being

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changed in their spirit. 
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Now, it doesn't mean we can't 
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That doesn't function in the 
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Now, that man, I just can't help
it. 

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You. 
You should say. 

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I know. 
See what we do a lot of times as

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believers, we try to change the 
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spirit in them and their spirits
change to be changed. 

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Well, you got to quit doing 
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What you need to say. 
Well, I understand you're doing 

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it. 
You can't help it. 

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You're right. 
You're stuck. 

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Yeah, but you can get out. 
How? 

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You must be born again. 
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them. 
I mean, it's not right. 

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I get it. 
But we're we can't say you're 

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going to have to quit sleeping 
around. 

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I mean, if they're lost, they're
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You're going to say you can't 
help but sleep around, can you? 

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I mean, go ahead and just just 
be honest. 

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That's how they function. 
You say, do you want to get out 

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of that? 
Because you can. 

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Christ is made away because that
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Kingdom. 
And you can get out, but you're 

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in it. 
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And there's no reason for me to 
tell you to change because you 

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can't change that. 
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you'll give your life to Him. 
And then at that point when they

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come into the Kingdom now it's a
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And I'm amazed of how clear the 
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But, and I know why it does and 
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it's amazing, as clear as the 
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congregation members of the 
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knows he died on the cross. 
I pointed this because it's this

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here, but it's not a cross. 
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the cross for their sins because
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that does not give them the 
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They are only going to be thrown
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the second death. 
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Lord, they become a new 
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In Christ, the old passes away. 
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before the cross never makes it 
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A new spirit gets on the inside.
The Holy Ghost bears witness. 

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And in essence when we shut the 
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none of that is allowed in here.
But yet we preach like it all 

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gets to come over and we can 
live it this way because we 

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weren't good enough to get out 
then we're really not good 

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enough if it wasn't forgotten. 
And we're going to live the same

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thing basically here. 
But God knows we asked him to 

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come into our heart and the 
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different than the world. 
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us and it's not his scripture. 
Now why would we keep this 

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position? 
Because we want our carnality. 

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We want the world and all of its
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go to hell. 
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you have to abandon that. 
And the Kingdom is extremely 

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clear because again, you have no
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God's like I took the nature out
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I gave you a new nature that is 
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connected to there. 
And if you allow that nature to 

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develop by my spirit called the 
Holy Ghost that I put in you, He

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will renew your mind and your 
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differently. 
You have to see yourself free 

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from that right. 
That's why Romans 8 says we've 

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been free from the law of sin 
and death. 

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We are in a new law called the 
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Christ Jesus. 
Hallelujah, Amen. 

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So we've been made righteous in 
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with God. 
But we have to renew our minds 

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so that the righteousness that 
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manifest in the world. 
We are never to live like the 

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world with a righteous spirit, 
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That's not the context. 
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knows. 
I mean, again, when you go to 

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school, there's a lot of 
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There's math, there's English, 
you know, there's history, 

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there's science. 
Maybe those are all different 

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subjects. 
All of them contain words, some 

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have numbers. 
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concepts there. 
Some of us were better in 

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subjects than others, but at the
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them so that we can improve and 
function in society and so on 

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and so forth. 
Right? 

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OK, well, the same things in the
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So again, if you know nothing 
about calculus, I'm not talking 

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to you about calculus. 
We got to go back to the 

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beginning. 
We're going to do basic 

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arithmetic, but basic, basic 
arithmetic is the foundation 

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that will allow us to build each
stage until we get to, you know,

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deeper layers of mathematics. 
Same thing with English, you 

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know, English, they just get you
phonics. 

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So you can even say a word, you 
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And then they get into sentence 
structures. 

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I mean, that's next level stuff.
I mean, I'm getting into this 

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stuff right now, got my own 
personal tutor and it's like 

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next level stuff. 
And then you, when you see it on

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paper, that's one thing. 
It's another thing when you're 

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speaking like I'm doing right 
now and I'm having to be 

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conscious of whether or not I'm 
saying what should be written 

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correctly. 
Are you hearing me? 

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But through repetition and 
practice and study, I can 

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transform my mind never to do 
another double negative 

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sentence. 
Hallelujah. 

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And for all you English people, 
you say Amen. 

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For all you non-english people, 
you're like, what's he talking 

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about? 
I understand to you, you won't 

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know. 
But to those who know, they 

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don't know that boy don't know 
what he talking about. 

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I don't want to be in that room 
with those who will know. 

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Why? 
Because I'll be a better pastor 

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in five years. 
I'm going to have better 

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influence. 
You know, if I'm going to be 

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before people in government, I 
need to be able to speak and 

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have a better orator skills, 
right? 

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We should develop ourselves 
entirely. 

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And honestly, English was work. 
My point though, is, is that I 

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can't bring my baby gibberish. 
I mean, because if I talk to you

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like I did when I first came 
out, well, not when I first came

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out of the womb, but I wasn't 
talking. 

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But you know, once I started. 
To communicate with vocal cords,

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you understand? 
You want me to tell you what my 

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preaching would sound like, 
right? 

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Because when you're a child and 
you want something, and as a 

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pastor, I want you to grow up 
spiritually. 

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So this is what my sermons would
sound like. 

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So 
what does it sound like? 

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Because I'm going to scream 
until you get it, because that's

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what babies do, right? 
They scream until they're 

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satisfied. 
And a lot of y'all ain't 

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satisfied me yet. 
So we'd be screaming forever. 

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Be like, what can we do to 
satisfy pastor? 

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Renew your mind. 
Right, Right. 

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All right. 
I'm glad that sunk in. 

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Amen. 
So Paul, again, when it comes to

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the code of ethics in First 
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that he mentions a particular 
behavior that was happening in 

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the Corinthian church that he 
says didn't even happen in the 

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world. 
And he was so put out about it 

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to the point that he says in 2nd
1st Corinthians 511 to 13, he 

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said, but actually I wrote to 
you not to associate with any 

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so-called brother if he is an 
immoral person or covetous or 

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idolatry or reviler or a 
drunkard or a swindler, not even

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to eat with such a one. 
For what do I have to do with 

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judging outsiders? 
Do you not judge those who are 

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in the church? 
Now again, in the church, when 

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someone says don't judge me, 
that's not scriptural. 

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Now, again, I'm not judging you 
to determine whether you're 

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going to be in the lake of fire 
or not. 

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That's not my judgement. 
My judgement is based upon your 

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behavior, the code of conduct, 
the fruit you are to display. 

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And if you are, if you are 
acting and behaving like an 

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unbeliever, I have every right 
in the church to say what are 

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you doing with the expectation 
you need to change? 

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And the reason I would say it is
because you can and your spirit 

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man already will is is 
different. 

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You've just gone backwards with 
your mindset. 

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That's why Roman says whoever 
sets his mind on the flesh 

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fulfils the desires of the flesh
and the flesh produce what? 

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Death. 
But those who set their mind on 

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the Spirit, well, we have our 
minds set on the Spirit 'cause 

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we are alive to the Spirit, but 
we have to set our minds there. 

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Paul and another one of his 
epistles, when he's talking 

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about being born again, he says 
put on the new man with that, 

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which is a really interesting 
statement, 'cause if you're born

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of God, you don't put that on. 
God made you a new creature in 

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Christ. 
But when he says put on the new 

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man, what's he talking in 
reference? 

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He's saying you've got to put 
that on in your mind. 

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You have to remind yourself 
you're not the person who used 

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to be dead and separated from 
God. 

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You're not a a lie. 
You're you're not held bondage 

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to that kind of behavior and 
thinking you're not bound to it 

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was in my family. 
Well, that's not in the Jesus 

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family. 
You're in a new family. 

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You're in the wrong tree, 
people. 

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So every time you use excuses 
like symptoms in your body and 

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sickness or behaviors, temper 
tantrums or you're impatient, 

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well, you know, my Mama was 
impatient. 

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Who cares? 
You're not your Mama. 

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You're actually your own person.
And who's your daddy? 

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Because that's what I want to 
know. 

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Who's your daddy? 
Because your daddy sits on a 

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throne and your daddy don't act 
like that. 

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And he's made you in his nature.
So at the end of the day, the 

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church should have this conduct 
that is so awesome, like the 

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Kingdom, that when someone comes
in that they realize, man, I 

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fill out a place and they 
should. 

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Nobody could come up out of hell
and go stand before Jesus and 

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feel like that they fit in. 
In fact, we've seen it in 

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Scripture when the when the 
Lord, when the father came down 

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out of heaven came down on a 
mountain or what I mean the the 

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and his covenant. 
I mean, the ones he had already 

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like shed blood to cover and was
his chill was his nation were 

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afraid of him couldn't even be 
in his presence and the audacity

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that we think that we can behave
any way we want to and we going 

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to just walk right up to the 
throne. 

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I mean, it's it's insanity. 
But again, we so many babes in 

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Christ have been been sold such 
a watered down version of Jesus 

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that all they know about him is 
that he died for their sins. 

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If they ask him to come in their
heart when they die, they go to 

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heaven and that's all they know.
So that's all they that's the 

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only way they know how to live. 
Now, when I say that it's not 

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like the Holy Ghost and say you 
need to go somewhere else that 

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you can teach you how to live 
because I've been that person. 

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Go where you can find somewhere 
to learn how to live because in 

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me, I'm like, there's got to be 
more than this. 

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I knew I was going to heaven. 
Now I knew based upon what I 

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knew because I've learned more 
since then. 

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But with that being said, I'm 
like, there's got to be more. 

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And then all of a sudden I get 
in places that knew more truth, 

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knew more behavior, conduct, 
character, how I could release 

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this person on the inside. 
And man, when I operated in 

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those truths by faith, it's 
changed my life. 

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This changed my life. 
It allows me to stand in front 

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of a person and let them slap me
in the face and tell them to hit

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me again. 
I've done that. 

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And when I did that, the person 
who slapped me the first time 

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ended up paying my year at Rhema
the second year and then later 

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came to this church and got 
healed here. 

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This is amazing stuff. 
But again, if I lived according 

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to the flesh, we just would have
hit, right? 

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I mean, I'm not going to be 
slapped by somebody in front of 

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everybody and being, you know, 
to be embarrassed. 

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I mean, if you're going to lose,
go, at least go fighting, right?

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I mean, that's typically the 
mentality. 

450
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But I had a greater one on the 
inside. 

451
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,640
And I did more in that moment 
than someone slapping me in the 

452
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,960
face. 
And it yielded more than I 

453
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,280
expected. 
All right. 

454
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,720
Are you hearing me? 
So again, the message says it 

455
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,920
this way, He said it says. 
But I'm saying that you 

456
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,960
shouldn't act as if everything 
is just fine when a friend who 

457
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:44,280
claims to be a Christian is 
promiscuous or crooked, is 

458
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,800
flipped with God, flipped with 
God, or rude to friends, get 

459
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,920
drunk, gets drunk, or becomes 
greedy and predatory. 

460
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,160
You can't just go along with 
this training it as acceptable 

461
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,520
behavior. 
I'm not responsible for what the

462
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,440
outsiders do, but don't we have 
some responsibility for those 

463
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,080
within our community of 
believers? 

464
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,320
He says God decides on the 
outsiders, but we need to decide

465
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,840
when our brothers and sisters 
are out of line and if 

466
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,440
necessary, clean house. 
So again, it is a false 

467
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:22,240
statement for the church to 
believe that someone has the 

468
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:29,520
right to fellowship in a local 
body if they repeatedly will not

469
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:35,040
come out of knowingly wrong 
behavior of the Kingdom, that 

470
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,120
they should have an unlimited 
supply of mercy. 

471
00:28:45,750 --> 00:28:52,110
That is mythical thinking. 
And honestly, through the 30 

472
00:28:52,110 --> 00:28:55,870
years I've been doing ministry, 
most Saints can't handle that, 

473
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,840
can't handle it. 
And what's really sad, the 

474
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,640
majority of the Saints don't 
have enough discernment to know 

475
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,200
that brother is so jacked up. 
They should go. 

476
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,840
And then when they do go, they 
go try to run them down. 

477
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,520
Or like, why you trying to run 
down somebody we got rid of? 

478
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,040
Oh, y'all don't want to hear 
this because I, I'm, I got a 

479
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:32,880
message, I got revelation, I got
a message the day Jesus was 

480
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,640
silent. 
It blow your mind. 

481
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:47,480
He didn't even talk, offered no 
salvation, none. 

482
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,920
And we think everybody at every 
time, at any time, it's because 

483
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,920
we're untrained. 
We're so untrained. 

484
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,400
No, the church wouldn't be in 
the position it's in the United 

485
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:06,600
States if we were wiser as a 
church body and say, what are 

486
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:11,720
you doing acting like that? 
When you have Kingdom peer 

487
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:19,680
pressure, then fleshly people 
are either going to get right in

488
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,280
the Kingdom that they already 
can. 

489
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,760
You're with no excuse. 
You're born of the Spirit now. 

490
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,520
Or take your fleshly cell phone 
down the road 'cause you're 

491
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,760
choosing. 
Well, they, they weren't nice, 

492
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,840
but no, you wouldn't repent. 
I mean, really, that's the key. 

493
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000
Well, they're not a friendly 
church. 

494
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:42,240
No, you're an unrepented person.
That's what that looks like. 

495
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,400
Say Amen anyway. 
All right, which brings me to 

496
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,480
Proverbs chapter 6, new verse 
for today. 

497
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,720
You ready? 
Proverbs 616 to 19. 

498
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,200
It says there are six things 
which the Lord. 

499
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,880
What's that word? 
Come on, say that word. 

500
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,080
Come on, say that word again. 
Who? 

501
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,160
Who hates? 
Who hates? 

502
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:06,840
Who's hating? 
Oh, but God is love. 

503
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:15,280
Love can hate and be righteous. 
See, it's amazing how much we 

504
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,840
allow the world to dictate how 
we interpret Scripture. 

505
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:27,960
There are six things which the 
Lord hates, yes, seven which it 

506
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,080
which are an abomination to him.
So when we get to the 7th 1:00, 

507
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,560
we, we going beyond hate, we 
getting into abomination. 

508
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:43,080
All right, let's go on #1 
haughty eyes #2A lying tongue. 

509
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,520
Did you lie to me? 
I might as well just look at you

510
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:54,280
and say, well, God sure hates 
this conversation because you 

511
00:31:54,280 --> 00:32:07,820
just lied to me and hands that 
shed innocent blood. 

512
00:32:07,820 --> 00:32:09,580
Now that one's like no brainer, 
right? 

513
00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:15,100
Verse 18, a heart that devises 
wicked plans. 

514
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:18,380
The problem with that is, is 
that they're typically extremely

515
00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:29,440
nice people. 
They're cunning feet that run 

516
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,440
rapidly to evil. 
So that's 12345. 

517
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:39,240
Here's number six, a false 
witness who utters lies. 

518
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,080
Now this is someone who's coming
in, knows it isn't true, but are

519
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:48,880
trying to slander someone else. 
And then here we go. 

520
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,360
You ready for the abomination? 
The one that's worse than hate 

521
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,680
and one who spreads strife among
brothers. 

522
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,760
Now God hates these first six 
and typically these are easy to 

523
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,880
see outside of the community of 
the church. 

524
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:14,920
But when inside his community 
someone starts spreading strife,

525
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,200
Daddy is not well with that 
child. 

526
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,240
And all day long you can say the
Lord loves you and he does, 

527
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,040
because love has met every 
condition to keep you out of 

528
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:35,960
being a strife maker. 
So when you're creating strife, 

529
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,360
strife among the brothers, the 
love is saying you better repent

530
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:46,000
and get out of that and get over
here back under the blood, cause

531
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,160
love did that for you. 
But if you continue this course,

532
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,040
you're going to have the 
consequence of that course, 

533
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,880
'cause my word does what my word
does to those who create strife.

534
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,520
Are you hearing me now? 
One of the easiest strife ones 

535
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,840
is this. 
It happens in the church and, 

536
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,080
and, and listen, the reason why 
this is easy, because it's the 

537
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,239
Satan's number one tactic. 
You have to understand it's this

538
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,880
tactic. 
Who sits on the throne in 

539
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,120
heaven? 
Who sits on the throne in 

540
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,800
heaven? 
God the Father. 

541
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,360
Does he sit on the throne in 
heaven? 

542
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,920
Is he supreme authority? 
Who's at his right hand? 

543
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,280
Jesus. 
And who has Jesus deployed to 

544
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,800
the earth? 
The Holy Spirit, three in one. 

545
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,639
But even in the Godhead, Jesus 
said, I only do what the Father 

546
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:38,040
says. 
The Holy Spirit only tells us 

547
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,199
what Jesus does. 
So the Holy Spirit is 

548
00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,199
representing Jesus. 
Jesus is representing the 

549
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:45,080
Father. 
The Father is all authority, 

550
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:51,960
power, love, justice. 
OK, somebody and his creation 

551
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:57,840
says I want his throne now. 
It wasn't Jesus, it wasn't the 

552
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,280
Holy Ghost. 
We know it was an anointed 

553
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,200
cherub. 
We call him Satan today. 

554
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,800
So you understand, how does 
Satan convince 1/3 of the 

555
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,000
angels? 
He goes by and says, I'm not 

556
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000
really sure about what the 
Father's doing. 

557
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:20,880
So he starts to create strife 
among the angelic beings of the 

558
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:25,840
character of God. 
This is why the pastor is always

559
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:33,240
the one targeted because he is 
the under shepherd of the Great 

560
00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,440
Shepherd. 
You understand, I'm not the head

561
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,000
of this church. 
His name's Jesus. 

562
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,320
And let me just go ahead and let
you know so you will know when 

563
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,400
you do talk about me among the 
brethren in ways that are not 

564
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:49,760
positive. 
Jesus is listening because when 

565
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:55,600
they talked about Moses, Moses 
said you better get out the way 

566
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:02,680
son, because I am going to smoke
Miriam and Aaron because I have 

567
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,120
heard them talk about you. 
And Moses had to say don't do it

568
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,080
Lord. 
He said let me tell you 

569
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,680
something, the way your sister 
has talked about you, I'm going 

570
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,800
to do something. 
So she going to have leprosy for

571
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,840
seven days. 
Well, she don't talk about you 

572
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,320
like that and and everybody in 
this congregation is going to 

573
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,480
know that. 
But see, we live in the age of 

574
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,680
mercy and grace of which these 
actions don't happen that fast, 

575
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,360
but we act like God all of a 
sudden developed. 

576
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:46,360
He's hearing impaired. 
But you understand, God can 

577
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,640
interpret everything, I'm just 
telling you. 

578
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,920
But then we do it to each other,
so and so, and we talk about why

579
00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:00,800
do we do this? 
This is not behavior fitting of 

580
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,960
the Kingdom of God, period, 
period. 

581
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,200
Now you say, well, am I talking 
about someone? 

582
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,240
If they've done something wrong,
what you need to do is if 

583
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:11,560
someone's gone wrong, you go to 
them in private and you try to 

584
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,360
get them to change their 
behavior because at the end of 

585
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,680
the day, the Kingdom don't 
function like this. 

586
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,240
But if they do not repent and 
you know of a couple people that

587
00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,040
have seen that action, you try 
to say, hey, come on, let's 

588
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,480
change. 
But at that point, even in those

589
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:29,320
places, they have a shepherd or 
a pastor that you say pastor so 

590
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,120
and so. 
I talked to them about this. 

591
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,360
Notice it, I mentioned it 
because you know what? 

592
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,360
The body can do that. 
But at the end of the day, it's 

593
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,920
good for me to know because if 
they come to me and start 

594
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,240
running you down and I'm 
unaware, then I'm coming to you 

595
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:48,120
to try to find out what's going 
on, right? 

596
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,760
At the end of the day, we can 
reconcile because that if they 

597
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,320
don't want to repent, then it's 
going to come to me anyway. 

598
00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,360
And at that point, we're trying 
to do what we need to do to get 

599
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,400
behavior, the code of ethics of 
the Kingdom of God, to function 

600
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,120
within the church because God 
expects it. 

601
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:13,240
And again, this is not hard. 
So you have to strip that from 

602
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,080
your mind. 
This is not hard. 

603
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,400
This is actually easy for you 
because you are already born in 

604
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,680
Christ. 
You've been made righteous. 

605
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:29,400
You have the power to crucify 
the flesh that you have it. 

606
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:34,600
So when here it comes, I mean, 
at least be like David, because 

607
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,880
when Nathan says you are that 
man, he repented, right? 

608
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,400
But why do we want to save our 
face? 

609
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,160
That's the problem. 
You want to save your life, 

610
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,200
you're going to lose it. 
We think that's only applicable,

611
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,440
you know, in salvation. 
I mean, I've seen many believers

612
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,200
lose their life because they 
wanted to save their life, you 

613
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,480
know, not make it look like they
were doing that. 

614
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,240
You're doing it. 
Just repent, man. 

615
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,360
What's the problem? 
We'll get reconciled and we'll 

616
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,080
Alec, it never happened. 
This is what we're already 

617
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,960
positioned or all of us are 
actually positioned to do that. 

618
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,840
The minute a person repents, we 
forgive them. 

619
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,760
Hallelujah. 
So you know, how do you know 

620
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,160
something's going on in the 
camp? 

621
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,720
Well, how are they talking? 
Amen. 

622
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,080
How are they talking? 
How are they talking about 

623
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,800
people? 
I mean, if all they're doing is 

624
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,800
complaining and whining and, 
and, and talking about this 

625
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,720
person talking about that, you 
get around someone's talking 

626
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,720
about different layers of 
leadership, you should be like, 

627
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:39,960
bro, something ain't right here.
So at the end of the day, if 

628
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,440
someone came to you and say, you
know, I think pastor, you should

629
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,360
say, let's go talk to him. 
I mean, how hard is that? 

630
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,120
But ten times out of 10, you 
know what they're going to say. 

631
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,560
No, no, I mean, no, I'm not 
going to deal. 

632
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:55,840
I'll just let the Lord deal with
it. 

633
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,080
No, we going to deal with it 
because apparently you were bold

634
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,640
enough to say something to me 
about it. 

635
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,160
So let's go deal now. 
You're not so bold. 

636
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,560
I mean, do you fit the lying 
tongue now? 

637
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,120
Now again, outsiders, what do 
you expect? 

638
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,040
They come in here. 
All that guy, I mean plenty of 

639
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,600
come through. 
He just wants your money. 

640
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,640
We don't even talk about money. 
I mean whatever I mean, because 

641
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,440
they have their own hang up. 
You know, I'm not going to run 

642
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,200
you down and try to fix you 
because you need to be changed 

643
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,160
spiritually. 
You're not going to change. 

644
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,120
And I understand that. 
And you know what, you don't 

645
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:38,440
offend me. 
You're no issue. 

646
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,240
I understand you're helpless and
we can actually help you should 

647
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:45,440
you choose to want to be helped.
Because we were like you. 

648
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,560
We were dead in our trespasses 
and sin. 

649
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,600
We thought we were right, but 
God, Amen. 

650
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:58,480
But now, now that we're in 
again, Coach Shirley can tell 

651
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,120
you, I don't care where those 
boys played baseball before. 

652
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:08,040
There is a code of ethics, a 
conduct behavior that's going to

653
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,840
happen on that team. 
And if they violate it, I don't 

654
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:16,280
care how good you are. 
You're out, right? 

655
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,800
And you know what, they'll do it
for baseball. 

656
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,800
How much more to the one who 
died for us and then actually 

657
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,680
he's empowered us to be the 
elite athlete again. 

658
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:33,400
We actually are all starters. 
How about that? 

659
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,040
I mean, now God doesn't do 
participation trophies. 

660
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,960
I just want you all know that He
doesn't do that. 

661
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,000
You actually have to play the 
game called faith. 

662
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,760
You got to get out there and do 
something. 

663
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,400
Can't be riding the pond and say
I'm part of the team. 

664
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,840
No, you got to get engaged. 
You got to be at practice. 

665
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,040
You got to work this thing, but 
we know whether you work in it 

666
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,640
or not. 
That's why Paul said if a man 

667
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,520
don't need a man to work. 
I saw some of y'all, y'all 

668
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:02,720
busybodies out there, y'all 
ain't doing Jack right. 

669
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:08,720
If a man does not work, if a man
does not, If a man does not, 

670
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:10,680
it's not. 
If a man don't, that is 

671
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,840
incorrect. 
If a man does not work, so quit 

672
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:20,560
saying don't. 
It's doesn't and some of you 

673
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,200
said I didn't realize it 'cause 
you're from the South. 

674
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,880
This is the problem. 
We're fixing this, we're fixing 

675
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,200
it now. 
There's nothing negative on the 

676
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,800
South other than when you're 
Grammarly wrong. 

677
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:35,480
We're not ignorant people. 
OK, Hallelujah. 

678
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:45,320
So if a man does not eat work, 
then let him starve. 

679
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,080
Hallelujah. 
OK, Thank you. 

680
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:55,160
Ephesians 4. 
Ephesians 4. 

681
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,160
Amen. 
Hallelujah. 

682
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,080
I may need to bring some of my 
youth pastor back around here to

683
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:05,000
help y'all out. 
Ephesians 422 to 27. 

684
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,600
Then we'll jump down to 29. 
It says again that in reference 

685
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:13,640
to your former manner of life, 
you understand we have a former 

686
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,760
manner. 
This is what I love about David 

687
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,920
Mackey, especially, you know, 
when he had just, you know, come

688
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,120
to the church, his whole life's 
being changed. 

689
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,320
And again, behavior, code of 
conduct, everything's different.

690
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,760
Quit drinking, alcoholic 
forever, her whole life. 

691
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,360
I mean, I'm talking about hidden
stuff everywhere. 

692
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:38,160
Cold Turkey, but he's cold 
Turkey because he kept 

693
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,440
scriptures in his ear. 
Temptation came, but the 

694
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,480
scripture kept running in his 
mind thinking because he knew 

695
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,000
inside I have the power to do 
this and then he had this kind 

696
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,080
of tenacity that you know what, 
if I could live that's good as a

697
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:57,280
Sinner, Surely I can live even 
better as a believer because the

698
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:58,520
greater ones on the inside of 
me. 

699
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,160
So when I was talking, he said. 
Now the old man, I always loved 

700
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:07,520
that because he always kept a 
kept an arm's distance from. 

701
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,400
The old man and. 
When the thought came of how to 

702
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,040
handle said, he said now the old
man, which is telling. 

703
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,760
Me I. 
Had this thought that the old 

704
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:23,040
man would have jumped on, but 
I'm a I'm a new man, right? 

705
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,760
So in reference to your former 
manner of life, you lay aside 

706
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,320
the old self, which is being 
corrupted in accordance with the

707
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,800
lusts of deceit that you be 
renewed in the spirit of your 

708
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:38,720
mind and put on the new self, 
which is what in the likeness of

709
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:42,960
God has been created in 
righteousness and holiness of 

710
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,240
the truth. 
Therefore, laying aside 

711
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:50,440
falsehood, speak truth, each one
of you with his neighbor, for we

712
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,560
are members of one and mother. 
Be angry and do not sandwich 

713
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,880
tells us angry. 
Any angry emotion can happen 

714
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,920
righteously. 
So do not think because you're 

715
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,600
born again. 
You're like the Jesuses that we 

716
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,320
see on most of the films where 
he never raises his voice. 

717
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:17,560
The Lord. 
Has anger now the Bible tells us

718
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:23,680
the Father has an area in him 
that has anger because it says 

719
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:30,120
he's storing up wrath for the 
sons of disobedience so. 

720
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,120
Here he is. 
Forgiving. 

721
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,440
He he, he's done everything for 
us to come in. 

722
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:40,560
He's trying to draw you in. 
He's to taking care of every 

723
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,440
condition on the man so that you
can accept Jesus. 

724
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:48,800
Yet he's also got a burner of 
anger waiting to be poured out 

725
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,400
on those who will not accept 
Jesus as Lord. 

726
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,360
That's happening, and He's 
righteous in doing so. 

727
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,200
So be angry and do not sin. 
Do not let the sun go down in 

728
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,920
your anger, and do not give the 
devil an opportunity. 

729
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,720
Now, in this first year, I took 
this to an extreme when my wife 

730
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:08,840
and I were young in our marriage
because we had a conflict. 

731
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,680
We're not going to bed. 
It was not going to happen. 

732
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,920
And again, I took this to an 
extreme, OK? 

733
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,240
But you know, I just took it a 
little too literal. 

734
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,840
And if we had some challenges, 
you know, when we first got 

735
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,520
married, because we're growing 
and developing, she had a lot of

736
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,600
baggage. 
I have my own set of baggage. 

737
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,440
We're merging. 
You know, we're trying to do it 

738
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,680
right. 
And I know what God says. 

739
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,320
She knows what God says. 
She wants to handle it one way. 

740
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,920
I want to handle it another way.
And I would use the scripture 

741
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,240
and man at night brought it. 
I would turn lights on. 

742
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:40,800
I would snap sheets off. 
We are not going to get go to 

743
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,800
bed till this thing's done. 
And she was. 

744
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:47,000
Patient with me. 
Long-suffering. 

745
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,800
I'm serious, 'cause that's. 
You know, at some point she. 

746
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,760
Realized God love him, it's 
really not a big deal to me. 

747
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,320
We can go to bed and we can 
finish this in the morning, but 

748
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,760
he's got to hang up and for his 
sake, let's resolve this deal, 

749
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,960
right? 
And honestly, she would just 

750
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,440
resolve me now. 
I don't know that she was always

751
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,240
resolved. 
She would figure that out or we 

752
00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:13,400
talk about a little bit later 
and it's like, wow, I guess we 

753
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:14,480
could have talked about this in 
the morning. 

754
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:15,760
I figured it out later on, you 
know. 

755
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,000
Now there are occasions that if 
it's certain thing you need to 

756
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,120
talk because if you lay in the 
bed, he'll pound you all night 

757
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,480
long and then you'll wake up the
next day and you'll even be more

758
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:32,840
angry and be like don't even 
touch or don't even look at me, 

759
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,520
OK. 
And I know I'm prophesying now 

760
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,560
because some of y'all been in 
this case before where you're 

761
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,920
like don't even talk to me. 
I mean, you're so put out now 

762
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,320
because you've let it Stew, 
because when you go to sleep, 

763
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,040
you're not sleeping now. 
So you. 

764
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,360
Understand in those comments 
like. 

765
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,640
It's better for us to get some 
reconciliation resolution here 

766
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,400
and again, how fast, as quick as
you can kill your flesh. 

767
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:54,920
I mean, it's really not doesn't 
take long. 

768
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,280
You got get over yourself. 
How? 

769
00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:59,880
Fast did it? 
Get over yourself. 

770
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:01,600
The other one gets over 
themselves. 

771
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,720
Admit our owns, forgive and go. 
Let me tell you how fast that 

772
00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:10,920
is. 15 seconds. 
This is ain't all not fair 

773
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,360
people. 
This can be 15 seconds, 'cause 

774
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,840
that's about how long it takes 
for me to tell you I did wrong 

775
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,320
in five seconds. 
She says she what her wrong was 

776
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,560
if there was wrong, if there was
not a wrong, we're just 

777
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,600
whoever's admitting. 
And then I forgive and then you 

778
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,120
kiss. 
And then sometimes it goes 

779
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,800
beyond that because you know 
what? 

780
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,520
That's what people that are 
married can do. 

781
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,480
Just say Amen anyway. 
I mean, you should say yeah. 

782
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,840
Now don't go home and pick a 
fight just so you can go 

783
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,720
somewhere tonight, Skip. 
That part just say let's go. 

784
00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:52,000
Somewhere, all right, Verse 29. 
Verse 29. 

785
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:56,400
Let no unwholesome word proceed 
from your mouth, but only such a

786
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,960
word as is good for edification 
according to the need of the 

787
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,680
moment, so that it will give 
grace to those who hear. 

788
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,880
This is very important because 
again, we are family. 

789
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:13,520
We're not perfect people and the
reality is some of us are 

790
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,840
actually doing a lot better than
people are saying we are. 

791
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,160
I'm just going to say that. 
Because again, when people talk 

792
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,920
behind the back and you're a 
person who listens to the 

793
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,080
conversation behind the back 
without actually going to the 

794
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,080
source and whoever that source 
is, I may be that source, it may

795
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:37,520
be somebody else's, the source. 
Well, you're violating. 

796
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:42,920
Stuff like this, because if 
someone is not having wholesome 

797
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,840
words and edification and and 
building up, and I mean again, 

798
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,720
if someone's not excited about 
the church they've been planted 

799
00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:55,760
in, it's really time to leave. 
Because God is not trying to. 

800
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,240
Keep you somewhere to be a nag 
and it's. 

801
00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:03,080
Not your assignment by. 
God to nag they are to point out

802
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:07,080
everything wrong is to. 
Have peace, love. 

803
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,360
Love the people around you, 
recognize that some people make 

804
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,440
mistakes, but by God I have. 
And you know what? 

805
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:17,440
I can forgive them really quick.
You know, and somebody's like, 

806
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:18,800
man, I think. 
Well, you know, if they did, 

807
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,600
let's pray for them. 
I mean, most people don't even 

808
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:21,760
engage in it. 
Let's pray for them. 

809
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:22,840
What happened? 
What'd you hear? 

810
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,280
That's not the code of conduct 
of the church. 

811
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,880
And if you're hearing this, you 
got to cut that stuff off. 

812
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,280
You have to be wise enough to 
say wait a minute. 

813
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,280
You're. 
This is like. 

814
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,880
We're like, you know, trying to 
have reality church. 

815
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,960
I mean, people are talking about
church like it's a TV reality 

816
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,720
show and it's actually not 
reality. 

817
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,680
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit. 
By whom you were sealed for the 

818
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,560
day of redemption. 
Let all bitterness and wrath and

819
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,640
anger and clamor and slander be 
put away from among you, along 

820
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,880
with all malice. 
Be kind to one another. 

821
00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:09,640
Be what? 
Be kind to one another. 

822
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,280
You know, sometimes people come 
up to me and say, Pastor Earl, I

823
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,400
hadn't seen so and so. 
Well, I pray for him. 

824
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:16,520
I mean, what do you want me to 
say? 

825
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,120
Because you know what? 
I know a lot. 

826
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,720
About things, but I don't talk 
about it and I'm sure not going 

827
00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:27,840
to talk bad about them, but. 
I don't can't say they don't do 

828
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:28,960
the. 
Opposite. 

829
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:31,800
I mean that should. 
Be like easy. 

830
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,960
For you to discern if someone is
willing to talk bad about 

831
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,400
someone but the person you go 
to, they won't talk bad. 

832
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:47,400
It should be a clear indicator 
which one's off should be easy 

833
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,920
at that point the discern or 
even if the if the person's not 

834
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,040
admitting it at the time and 
someone is correct, if the 

835
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,200
person not willing to pray for 
them so that they can change. 

836
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,320
If that person who's complaining
won't pray for the one they're 

837
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:08,200
complaining about, this is a 
clear indication that is 

838
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,160
violating. 
The code of. 

839
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:14,800
Ethics. 
Clear indication of doing this, 

840
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:17,760
right? 
I mean, really, why do we have 

841
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,840
this mythical thinking that 
everyone's going to stay in the 

842
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:21,200
church at every state that came 
in? 

843
00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:23,280
Jesus doesn't even guarantee 
this. 

844
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,400
I mean, does. 
It grieve. 

845
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:28,040
Sure. 
That's why I said don't grieve 

846
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:29,560
the Holy Spirit. 
You know the Holy Spirit's 

847
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:35,000
grieved when a believer doesn't 
do it right and then hardens 

848
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:40,040
themselves from doing it right. 
All because they want to save. 

849
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:48,240
Face. 
Come on most of y'all. 

850
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:51,720
Know that I mean I could pull 
people up here on the platform 

851
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:55,960
say let's just go ahead and tell
everybody about your life what 

852
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:56,880
I. 
Know. 

853
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:02,520
About you that you've told me. 
And most people just like, don't

854
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:06,120
want. 
To do that invitation, yet 

855
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,280
somebody can go around and say 
something and then no one even 

856
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:17,800
asked me the question. 
That's violating the code of. 

857
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:22,960
Ethics. 
And as a church, we shouldn't 

858
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,680
put up with. 
That kind of behavior we should 

859
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:27,640
be. 
Resistant to. 

860
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:31,040
Individuals that would want 
they're not with us if that's 

861
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:36,120
how they're going to respond. 
Does it grieve us? 

862
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,360
Yes. 
But again, in the case of of of 

863
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,280
Pastor Darrell, he had a 
situation with a particular 

864
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,720
staff and the Lord said get rid 
of them. 

865
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,680
The Lord told him to do this. 
He's the head of the church. 

866
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,560
But when the person was 
confronted by the pastor, which 

867
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:55,160
was Pastor Darrell, he cried 
crocodile tears, said that he 

868
00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:04,880
was sorry, basically Esauld 
Pastor Darrell in the office, he

869
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,880
said, OK, I'll restore you. 
Why? 

870
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:12,080
Because it is the natural desire
to want to see people get it 

871
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,000
right. 
But the Lord already told him, 

872
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,640
and God is not a man, that he 
shall lie six months. 

873
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,960
Later. 
A worse thing happened with this

874
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,120
individual pastor at that. 
Point was. 

875
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,400
Upset because he now you know 
here, I know you were wrong. 

876
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,840
You admitted it. 
I said I would restore you and 

877
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:33,600
then you're going to do this. 
You're out. 

878
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,680
Then they ran him down all over 
town, ran him down through the 

879
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,680
car, and 200 of his members left
the church. 

880
00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:45,280
Now, Pastor Daryl was pretty. 
Upset about that at that point 

881
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,960
and then more left because, you 
know, pastors like trying to 

882
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:53,120
because people are talking and 
he's trying to say it in a way 

883
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,200
without saying it in a way. 
And people got offended by that 

884
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,240
and more left and he's so then 
he went to Lord. 

885
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:01,680
He's crying. 
He's like, Lord, what? 

886
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,160
I didn't do the sin. 
Why is this happening? 

887
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,360
And the Lord said these words to
him. 

888
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,960
He said, son, I told you to find
him the first time. 

889
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,120
What made you think you could do
something for him that I 

890
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:15,080
couldn't? 
But you know what? 

891
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:19,000
There's so many people in. 
Churches thinks that everyone 

892
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:24,640
can get it right, but not 
everyone's going to get it 

893
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:32,430
right. 
And for the righteous, if it 

894
00:55:32,430 --> 00:55:34,750
grieves them, it breaks your 
heart. 

895
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:41,040
But for the sake of. 
The good of the flock it's time 

896
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:46,320
to go. 
It's time to go. 

897
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:55,240
I'll say Amen anyway. 
OK verse 32. 

898
00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:59,400
We got to be kind to one another
right tender hearted forgiving 

899
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,560
each other just as Christ as 
also forgive you. 

900
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:06,000
Let's read out the the the 
passion real quick says and 

901
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,680
never let ugly or hateful words 
come to your mouth. 

902
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,680
See these are things that 
violate the code of conduct. 

903
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,560
But instead let your words 
become beautiful gifts that 

904
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:18,560
encourage others. 
Do this by speaking words of 

905
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,640
grace to help other help them. 
The Holy Spirit of God has 

906
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:25,160
sealed you in Jesus Christ until
you experience your full 

907
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,560
salvation. 
So never grieve the Spirit of 

908
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,640
God or take for granted His holy
influence in your life. 

909
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,480
Lay aside bitter words, temper 
tantrums, revenge, profanity and

910
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,400
insults, but instead be kind and
affectionate towards one 

911
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,480
another. 
Has God graciously forgiven you?

912
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:41,760
Then graciously forgive one 
another. 

913
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,800
The depths I've cried. 
I know pastor and I have some 

914
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:46,480
common relationships with 
people. 

915
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:51,280
And so, you know, obviously he 
is a pastor, a father of faith. 

916
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,840
And so, you know, based upon 
sometimes he'll get engaged in 

917
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:56,240
some conversation with people 
that I know. 

918
00:56:56,240 --> 00:56:58,960
So I'm aware of a situation and 
then all of a sudden he becomes 

919
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,000
aware of a situation and then we
talk about that particular 

920
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,920
situation. 
And you know, and I've heard him

921
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:10,160
say to people, he says, well 
look, just go on, just forgive. 

922
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,080
Just let. 
It go you're. 

923
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:20,200
Somewhere else now. 
And it's amazing when people 

924
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:21,080
can't. 
Let it go. 

925
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,480
Won't let it go. 
Like. 

926
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,960
It's their duty. 
To inform now. 

927
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,520
You understand the minute that 
happens it. 

928
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:37,480
Becomes your duty to inform the 
whole Church of something that 

929
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:38,760
you're not the. 
Pastor of. 

930
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:49,920
That is breaking code of ethics.
Now again, you're saying, well, 

931
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:51,880
you sure? 
You know that makes it look like

932
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,680
we put too much faith in the 
pastor. 

933
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,480
You don't put no faith in me. 
I didn't die for you. 

934
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,240
But there is a rank and 
structure. 

935
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,240
You put your faith in God. 
You know what? 

936
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,680
God is not mocked. 
There's not going to be a Have 

937
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:09,120
you not seen recently some well 
known ministers that are not in 

938
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,160
pulpits today? 
Why? 

939
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:16,240
'Cause your. 
Sin will surely find you out. 

940
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,840
Do you think I am immune to 
that? 

941
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:26,080
No it. 
Scares me to death. 

942
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:31,400
That would scare me to death, 
the fear. 

943
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:37,560
Of God, that scares me so much 
that there would be no, no, not 

944
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,880
going to do it, Not going to do 
it. 

945
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,240
That's God scares me, man. 
I do not want to be in the hands

946
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,240
of an angry God. 
I'm not going to do that. 

947
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,800
I have no pride, nothing. 
Let's just reconcile. 

948
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:51,920
Let's just get it fixed because 
there is nothing you've done 

949
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:53,160
other than blasphemy of the Holy
Ghost. 

950
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:54,800
And we wouldn't be having this 
conversation anyway. 

951
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,600
There's really nothing going on,
nothing you can say to me, 

952
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,080
nothing that could have done, 
nothing that could have 

953
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:00,960
happened, that we can't 
reconcile this thing, get it 

954
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:02,560
fixed. 
It's always been my attitude. 

955
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:03,960
It is my attitude. 
It should always be your 

956
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:05,880
attitude. 
And if someone doesn't keep that

957
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:09,200
attitude, then there's a problem
with that individual. 

958
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:13,840
They're breaking the code of 
ethics, right? 

959
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:18,480
Again, years ago, in the 
beginning, you know, there was 

960
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:22,440
some individuals that were here,
you know, had some challenges 

961
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:26,120
personally in their own lives. 
We reconciled that. 

962
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:30,520
But then all then ended up 
having challenges with the 

963
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,920
church in general and left and 
did not leave. 

964
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,560
Great. 
But all you can do is go on 

965
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:38,840
because again, I don't have to 
defend myself. 

966
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:41,360
That's not. 
My assignment. 

967
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:42,680
The Bible. 
Says vengeance is mine. 

968
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:46,720
Thus saith the Lord, I will, and
again I can help that process by

969
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,040
praying for them, by even 
blessing them. 

970
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,680
Right. 
And as a. 

971
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,400
Result of that all. 
That does is allow God to do 

972
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,720
what he does. 
Years later I get a call. 

973
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,880
Repentance. 
Years later. 

974
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:15,320
Relationships restored, the 
spouse contacted people that 

975
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:19,000
were here during that time and 
asked for forgiveness about some

976
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,920
scenarios that the people didn't
even realize that they had that 

977
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:25,640
position and were quick to 
forgive. 

978
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:28,920
Because they were having some 
challenges. 

979
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,040
And they started examining their
heart and like, wow. 

980
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,760
So they repented too. 
It took. 

981
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:38,720
Some time, but you. 
Know how quick it was us for us 

982
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:42,960
to do this? 
We were years ago already. 

983
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:46,920
In this position, just waiting 
for them to come home to have 

984
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:47,560
that now. 
They don't. 

985
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:51,880
They're not. 
Here, but it's restored, so 

986
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:52,360
there's. 
Nothing. 

987
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,680
Anything that's going. 
On that can't get restored in 

988
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:58,920
any of our lives because the 
code of ethics in the Kingdom of

989
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:07,440
God is forgiveness, loving, 
right, patient, being kind to 

990
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:12,040
one another. 
Amen period. 

991
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,760
And anything else is 
unacceptable behavior in the 

992
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:19,160
Kingdom of God. 
Romans chapter. 12. 

993
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:22,760
Last passage of Scripture and 
we'll be done. 

994
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,600
Romans 12 starting verse nine. 
It says let love be without 

995
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:31,200
hypocrisy. 
Right. 

996
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:33,600
Let love be. 
Without hypocrisy. 

997
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:37,520
Now, what's that mean? 
That means you talk the word, 

998
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:40,840
but you don't do the word 
because you know you can. 

999
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,160
Get around a lot of Saints. 
That know the word. 

1000
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:46,640
But they don't do it. 
And again it's. 

1001
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:51,920
Unavoidable that the fruit of 
their lives don't manifest. 

1002
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:55,920
It's unavoidable. 
I have been in. 

1003
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,120
Ministry long enough and I've 
been around, and some of you've 

1004
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,800
been here long enough too that 
you can look out at some that 

1005
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,520
had been here before and their 
lives are in complete shambles 

1006
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:09,760
today because of a conscious 
choice to get against. 

1007
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:15,880
Jesus and be actively attending 
a. 

1008
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,720
Different church, but still life
is falling apart because they 

1009
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:24,200
did not reconcile. 
You cannot leave the. 

1010
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:28,480
Church one church, go to another
church and expect you to be 

1011
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:33,080
fruitful without having 
reconciliation if there was an 

1012
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:36,840
issue. 
Can't do it. 

1013
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,200
I don't know why it's getting so
quiet in here. 

1014
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,360
I mean, I just want, I mean. 
We're going to have what the 

1015
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:52,200
Bible says we'll have and that 
is a church without spot or 

1016
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:54,600
wrinkle, right. 
We're going to be people that 

1017
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:55,840
aren't coveting each other's 
stuff. 

1018
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,320
We're going to love each other. 
We going to be be champion each 

1019
01:02:58,320 --> 01:02:59,280
other. 
We're going to like you're so 

1020
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:00,720
awesome. 
You're amazing. 

1021
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:05,080
I mean what Bridget awesome 
tonight wasn't Laura awesome 

1022
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:08,040
tonight wasn't Eloise did 
awesome tonight? 

1023
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,440
You know, I mean, because, you 
know, obviously Marcus is going 

1024
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:13,240
to be, you know, has come out of
this position and it's going to 

1025
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,400
be travelling. 
And so, you know, but look what 

1026
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,560
we're doing. 
We're champion the next day. 

1027
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:20,160
We don't sit. 
Back and. 

1028
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:25,080
Whine and complain and cry and 
we champion each other. 

1029
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,400
We champion what he's doing. 
We champion what we're doing. 

1030
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,640
We're champion the 'cause we 
love each other. 

1031
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,240
We, we're, we're passionate 
about the work of the Lord. 

1032
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,240
We're passionate about doing the
things we're supposed to do. 

1033
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,720
So we abhor what's evil. 
We cling to what is good, be 

1034
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,040
devoted to one another and 
brotherly, love giving 

1035
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,480
preference to one another and 
honor, not lagging behind in 

1036
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:53,320
diligence fervent. 
In spirit serving. 

1037
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:58,520
The Lord rejoicing in hope, 
persevering in tribulation, 

1038
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:03,000
devoted to prayer, contributing 
to the needs of the Saints, 

1039
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:07,720
practicing hospitality. 
We bless. 

1040
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:09,360
Those who? 
Persecute us. 

1041
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:21,830
We bless them. 
We bless and do not. 

1042
01:04:22,270 --> 01:04:27,630
Curse. 
Rejoice with those who. 

1043
01:04:27,630 --> 01:04:29,510
Rejoice. 
Weep with those who weep. 

1044
01:04:29,910 --> 01:04:31,950
Be of the same mind towards one 
another. 

1045
01:04:31,950 --> 01:04:34,950
Do not be haughty in mind, but 
associate with the lowly. 

1046
01:04:34,950 --> 01:04:37,870
Do not be wise in your own 
estimation. 

1047
01:04:37,870 --> 01:04:41,710
Never pay back evil for evil to 
anyone. 

1048
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:47,760
This is why it's easy in the. 
Code of conduct to understand if

1049
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:51,560
a person is out is if if a 
person has genuinely been wrong 

1050
01:04:52,000 --> 01:05:01,680
and they want to get back. 
They're wrong if you've seen 

1051
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:02,680
them done. 
Wrong. 

1052
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,520
I mean literally seen, not 
conversation. 

1053
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,520
Literally. 
You're like, man, I can't 

1054
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,480
believe they did that. 
Do you it that your Kodak should

1055
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:17,240
say You know what, I forgive 
them and at. 

1056
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:18,720
The end of the day, I'll, I, I 
can. 

1057
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,720
Deal with that. 
I'll talk with them. 

1058
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,440
This is none of your business. 
You don't have to be. 

1059
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:24,720
Let's pray for them. 
You know how many people are 

1060
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:26,560
offended by somebody else's 
offense and. 

1061
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:30,200
It didn't even happen to them. 
Right. 

1062
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:31,480
Because again, what are we 
doing? 

1063
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:36,840
We're taking societal issues. 
Who is the one being victimized?

1064
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:38,640
I'm going to champion for them. 
But you've never been 

1065
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:40,080
victimized. 
Yeah, but I'm standing for them 

1066
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:41,800
because who's going to stand in 
for the rights of them? 

1067
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,160
And then the church, we do this.
We look for the one that got 

1068
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:47,600
hurt, then we want to. 
Champion, but half the time. 

1069
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:49,240
We don't even know if the hurts 
real. 

1070
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:53,760
And then if it is real, we want 
to kind of. 

1071
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:57,120
Keep it and keep talking to them
like they're still hurt. 

1072
01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,600
You know, this is what I hate 
about alcoholic is anonymous. 

1073
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:02,600
I'm an alcoholic. 
Well, are you delivered? 

1074
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:05,720
Have you been set free? 
Because you don't have to be an 

1075
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:08,240
alcoholic, you know, But they 
keep. 

1076
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:09,840
Them in remembrance. 
Because again, if you don't 

1077
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,160
remember that, you were. 
Now again, I know what I was 

1078
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:13,720
without Christ. 
I understand that. 

1079
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,160
But I don't dwell in that. 
I'm too. 

1080
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,280
Focused on who I am. 
Now in Christ. 

1081
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:24,160
And when I focus on those. 
I'm not thinking about sin. 

1082
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:27,920
I mean, drinking is not even a 
thought in my mind. 

1083
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,640
One word comes to my mind when. 
It comes to alcohol. 

1084
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:36,880
Flee. 
That's what comes to my mind. 

1085
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,320
Flee. 
Flee. 

1086
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,200
Flee. 
I'm not doing it. 

1087
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:51,360
I got to keep my mind sober. 
Are you hearing me? 

1088
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:53,680
Respect. 
What? 

1089
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:56,000
Is right in the side. 
Of all men, if possible. 

1090
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,520
And here's the key, verse 18. 
We close with this one if 

1091
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:01,560
possible, which means it's not 
always possible. 

1092
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:09,320
So if possible so. 
Far as it depends on and. 

1093
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,720
This is. 
How we all ought to live. 

1094
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:16,720
If possible, as far as it 
depends. 

1095
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:22,560
On you be at peace with all men.
And there are many 

1096
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:26,200
relationships. 
In my 54 years, OK, I don't 

1097
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,760
remember the first five years of
those relationships. 

1098
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:35,480
But beyond that, in those. 
Relationships OK after I came 

1099
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:38,600
into Christ which was 21 I was 
born again at 9:00 but I didn't 

1100
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,200
live for Jesus. 
Now there have been some 

1101
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:47,800
relationships that I had between
9 and 21 that were I was not 

1102
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:53,120
good person. 
And I look for I, I. 

1103
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:55,760
Always ask if I can have the 
opportunity. 

1104
01:07:56,080 --> 01:08:01,680
Let me ask them to forgive me. 
Allow me to be able to have a. 

1105
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:04,840
Conversation I remember one I 
talked to a a girl in high 

1106
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:08,520
school that I knew we were over 
at the 312 location and called 

1107
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,160
me had a challenge where their 
brother knew I was in ministry 

1108
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:15,640
now which obviously they were 
shocked and but we. 

1109
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:17,399
Talked and in my. 
Conversation. 

1110
01:08:17,399 --> 01:08:19,160
I said. 
I'm not going to say her name, 

1111
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:25,680
but I said, hey, I just want you
to forgive me because I wasn't a

1112
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:31,600
good guy in high school. 
And her words was like. 

1113
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,640
Earl Sure you were, man. 
You were awesome, I said. 

1114
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:38,200
No, I was not. 
I was. 

1115
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:43,040
Not, I mean, honestly, it was 
awkward. 

1116
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:44,160
She didn't. 
Know how to forgive me? 

1117
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:52,439
But the reality was. 
When I look at my standard Dang.

1118
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:57,800
She had a nickname for me which 
were. 

1119
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:00,720
Letters, I will never tell you 
what they were. 

1120
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:08,080
Yeah, right there was. 
Actions was another. 

1121
01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:10,560
Particular individual I. 
Would love to be able to have a 

1122
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:16,319
face to face and say I am sorry,
forgive me I think. 

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01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:17,560
They're with the Lord, I think 
not. 

1124
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:20,040
With the Lord like gone, but I 
think they're, you know, have a 

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01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,200
relationship with God. 
I don't follow them. 

1126
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,399
So, you know, I don't run my 
friends down. 

1127
01:09:24,399 --> 01:09:26,240
They're not friends anyway. 
They're acquaintances because if

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01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:27,800
they really want to have a 
relationship with me, they all 

1129
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,160
know where I'm at. 
They can come see me. 

1130
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:33,600
But that the point is, is, you 
know, those things weigh heavy 

1131
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:35,680
on me in the context that it's 
not right. 

1132
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:37,960
And if there's an opportunity, I
want to get that right because 

1133
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:41,960
if possible. 
As long as it depends on me, I. 

1134
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:46,040
Want to get at peace? 
And it's easy to get at peace. 

1135
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:47,840
Why? 
Because the blood of Jesus 

1136
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:52,080
covers every wrongdoing, there's
not an issue going down that God

1137
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:55,120
has not taken care of. 
Period. 

1138
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:03,880
And I submit to that you. 
Have to submit to that and. 

1139
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,320
That's why this house will be a 
great. 

1140
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,760
House, because we submit, we 
live to the code of ethics. 

1141
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:11,440
Amen. 
When I was in the military, we 

1142
01:10:11,440 --> 01:10:15,800
had the UCMJ Uniform Code of 
Military Justice. 

1143
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:20,400
We had to submit to that code. 
Well, I'm in a Kingdom bigger 

1144
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:23,120
than that now. 
And here's a great thing. 

1145
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:30,040
He gave me the spirit that can 
do this code, and I want to 

1146
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:33,240
because it reflects the nature 
of my king. 

1147
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:35,440
Let's do it together. 
Amen. 

1148
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:37,880
Let's pray. 
Father, we love you, we honor 

1149
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:39,840
you. 
We thank you so much 

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01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:06,640
the.