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announcement,

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but General Flynn is going to be with

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us this weekend. I'm very excited about that.

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This is this is,

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very important subject,

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human trafficking, child trafficking specifically,

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exploitation of children.

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The United States is the number one nation

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in the entire world

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for human trafficking.

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This is sad. It's disgusting.

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so many resources, and this is what we

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use them for.

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It's horrible. And so,

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and, by the way, the State of Colorado

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is one of the top states in the

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entire United States for human trafficking, too. Now,

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part of that is because

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we have made it easier for human trafficking

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in the State of Colorado than most other

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States. We pass laws constantly

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that,

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that make it easy for pedophiles to get

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away with what they do. We take away,

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penalties

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for this. We take away penalties for,

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the traffickers. We take away penalties for those

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that are buying the children.

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And, it's it's sad, but it's it's reality

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that Colorado leads the way in this subject.

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And now, some states I need to be

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fair. Some states are good about,

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putting laws in place for this and to

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to restrict this, but Colorado is is one

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of the worst.

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We made we've made that clear, and I

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see this constantly, constantly

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in the laws that are passed in Colorado.

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Any time we try to bring up something

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that would,

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hinder pedophiles, hinder trafficking,

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the Democrats shoot it down

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unanimously,

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every single time.

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it's horrible. And so

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join us. If you can only be at

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1 of the 2 days, do that. This

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is going to be very beneficial, very educational.

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You do have to sign up and there

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is a charge.

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I forget right offhand what the charge is,

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but you go to the website, you can

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go to events, the church website, go to

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events, and go down, and under there will

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be, General Flynn's,

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thing. So

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so hope to see you Friday, Saturday with

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So so, this morning, I I want to,

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this is gonna be a little challenging for

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to the point where

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it causes

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a change of action, it causes something

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to happen, okay?

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I think that's a necessary, important part of

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the process.

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and I wanna I wanna say give some

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disclaimers for us before I jump into this.

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the country has come to, We're not there

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yet. But where the church is starting to

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wake up, we're starting to see,

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Christians that are saying, wait a second, what

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has been happening? Our country has got away

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from us and we weren't paying attention.

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important things that has contributed to this was

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something, you know, it's kind of the the

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scripture that says that what

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Satan meant for evil, God meant for good,

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what Satan meant for evil, God meant for

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good,

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is the is the whole COVID

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scam that was pulled on America.

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them do their work and those kind of

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things, and they started realizing

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that that, there's some there's some really bad

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stuff going on in the schools. Not all

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teachers, obviously. We have we have great teachers

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in our city, we have great teachers in

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our church, but that's not the norm nowadays,

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of a lot of bad stuff that's being

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taught and being pushed through our school systems.

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of the reason I know that was the

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was because I I hear that anywhere I

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go around the state and I speak. People

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will come up to me every single event.

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you know, I was not involved. I didn't

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see this until

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COVID.

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other reasons, too. But what has happened with

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this is the church,

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church is starting to wake up.

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but specifically the church.

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we can't keep doing this. We can't keep

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letting Satan destroy us, destroy our children, destroy

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our country.

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gonna kinda go a different direction with this

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this morning. If we're not careful, what happens

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we start to stand up and fight,

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and we start which is necessary, which is

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important, but we get a little confused as

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to where the fight is and how we're

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supposed to fight. And so

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we start going after people.

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chapter 6 tells us that people are not

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actually the fight.

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when the person at the you know, that

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is the head of a 1,000 people march

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in

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in New York that are saying they're the

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transgender

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grooming march that are chanting,

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We're coming for your children.

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When that is headed up by a person,

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it's difficult

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to separate

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this battle is not against flesh and blood,

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right? I understand that.

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I I get that. I want to try

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to help us process this a little bit.

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in the Capitol, in one of the times

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I got up and spoke, and I mentioned

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that they that they were chanting

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by the thousands, chanting,

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we're coming for your children. And the Speaker

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of the House galloped me down and said,

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that is not happening.

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That is not happening. I said, No, but

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we have video. And she said, Please leave

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the well. I said, Yes, ma'am. So

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this. It's difficult to separate.

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fighting against flesh and blood, but it's flesh

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and blood that that is

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the face

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of evil and and Satan's push in this

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Satan uses people. He doesn't do it in

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a vacuum. He uses people.

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we have to make sure that who we

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is lining up with God's word and that

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our heart and our mind is right before

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God with all

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all of this, and that we are fighting

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the right way

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rather than,

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human way.

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human weapons.

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against spiritual

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realities.

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Spiritual realities. That's the trick, right?

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That's the that's the challenge. And so we're

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gonna we're

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gonna walk down through

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And there's a handful of Psalms here that

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are written by Esauf that

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are kind of this they're a little bit

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of the same thought processes.

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like, I think it's Psalm 71 or 72

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that talks about it's almost how depressed,

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he's getting because of the stuff that's happening.

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here. Ron, I think you should go read

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them. They're read them with that understanding, that

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they kind of all fit together. But this

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one I'm going to pull out, because I've

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been reading this over and over and over

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for months now,

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trying to make sure that I have the

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balance that I'm supposed to have, because it

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is challenging.

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It is difficult for me sometimes

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to to to walk into the capital

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conversations in our community

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that are are conversations

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almost,

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back and forth debate

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on whether we should murder our children.

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I don't I I that's not a debate

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to me. That is, you are wrong, you're

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evil, that's demonic.

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But that's that's what we're doing.

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These are the conversations. This is the stuff

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that's going on.

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I've had people tell me this a lot,

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but I had this conversation a couple weeks

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Where this person came up and said, you

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know, I watched the speeches that you give

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and I see all this stuff, and you

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are always so cool and calm and collected,

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in the capitol. They were serious.

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coming across? Because thank you. That is not

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how I feel.

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That is not how I feel.

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and I'm I'm not like an overly demonstrative

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person, but still,

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I wouldn't call it cool, calm, and collected.

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but it is difficult to keep your mind,

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your spirit right, and keep the balance that

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you need to have.

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evil. We're supposed to hate what is evil.

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We're We're supposed to hate what is evil.

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We're supposed to fight against what is evil.

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not letting this get into our spirit in

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a wrong way, and then also fighting

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people.

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We're fighting against evil,

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Satan.

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Okay? So Psalm 73,

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actually think it would work better in 6

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sections, but it becomes a little laborious that

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way. So, I simplified

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it to this. But this is important. The

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first two verses

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set the stage for the entire psalm. Now,

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this is when

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you're studying something like this,

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like the Psalms of David, he doesn't do

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the same thing, right?

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He, Esav, does a different he writes a

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different way. And this is one of the

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things that he does. This is his opening

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to

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versus what we call 2 versus

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is the theme of the entire thing. It's

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the point. And when he gets to the

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end, he's going to come back to that.

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He's going to arrive back at this, but

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with a declaration of action. Okay? So

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so understanding that as we're reading down through,

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when you get through verses 3 through

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16,

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there's there's a lot of stuff going on

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there. You got to keep in mind these

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first two verses. First one, truly God

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is good to Israel. And we understand that

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that includes us too.

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Truly God is good to you and I,

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to those whose hearts are pure. God is

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good. He's he's saying this upfront. This is

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the point of the psalm. It's not going

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to feel like that as we go through

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that through this. But that's the point of

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this thing, is that God is good.

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And then he says, and this sets up

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the this is the opposite, right? It's like

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him saying, but however

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Right? He says, but

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as for me,

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I almost lost my footing. God is good.

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He is,

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to those whose hearts are pure, he's gonna

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take care of you, all these things. God

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is good. But as for me, I almost

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lost my footing.

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My feet were slipping and I was almost

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gone. I almost,

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let me let me kind of help you

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with the the next statement. I

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almost gave in

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to everything that he's gonna explain. I almost

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gave in to all of this and lost

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my way.

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I almost did.

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So we need to see what he's talking

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about. What is what how did he almost

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if we know that God is good

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to to us, we keep our hearts and

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our minds and our focus on God. If

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we know that, then what is he saying

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when he says, almost lost my footing? We

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need to know that information. So verse 3,

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for I envied the proud,

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when I saw them prosper

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despite their wickedness

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I've experienced this and I think

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every single Christian will deal with this. You

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can't be a Christian for very long at

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all before you will get frustrated with God

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in a few different ways. And this is,

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I think, the easiest and the biggest way

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that Satan tries to manipulate us, is

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he he makes you

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assess

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yourself in relationship

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to other people. Okay? So when he says,

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when he saw the proud and he saw

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that they were prospering, what does that mean?

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This isn't this is inherent within the statement,

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is when you say that you see somebody

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else prospering, what you are saying is in

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direct relationship to you.

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You're not just saying in some kind of

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vacuum. In other words, if on a scale

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from 1 to 10, you're prospering and this

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does not just mean materialistically. Okay? This means

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in a lot of different ways. In fact,

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I think materialistically

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is probably one of the least ways that

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the psalmist is trying to address. He's talking

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more about,

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community relationship importance,

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just being,

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everything going their way kind of thing.

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So if if if in a prosper or

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blessing or God taking care of you kind

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of way, you're on a scale of 1

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to 10, you're about a 7 or 8.

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And the evil around you

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is being blessed at a 3 or a

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4, you will not say this statement. This

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doesn't come into your mind. The The moment

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it begins to be addressed by you and

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it becomes personal to you is when you're

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at about a

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5 and the

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person down the road that you know

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is doing bad things is a 5.2,

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now you're upset.

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Because it's in direct relationship to how you

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are assessing

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your existence,

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not the big picture of life,

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but you have specific people that you're processing

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this with. And it can be people that

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don't know you. I I part of the,

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part of the conversation in my head since

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the presidential debate has been this, is how

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how how everybody has been processing the presidential

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debate.

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And here's the thing. Is I really and

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I don't think I'm the only one. I

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think every almost every one of us in

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here could have figured this out. But you

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could have written the you could have written

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this script for this thing

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before they did the debate.

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It's amazing to me how many people online

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are like, well, how could ABC act like

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that? They just came after Trump.

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I'm like, are you where have you been?

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Where have you been? They didn't need Kamala

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in that.

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They didn't even need her there. They were

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gonna take care of Trump. They gave her

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all the questions ahead of time, prepped her,

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and she barely, barely held her.

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Guys,

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this is the thing, is then we get

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all upset. And, and here's what happens. And

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I understand there's some legitimacy to this, but

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I think, I think, I think the church

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is going overboard. A lot of

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ways, I think the Christians are going overboard.

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We just rant and rave online. This is

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horrible. And it's not like somebody opened up

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your Facebook account and was like, ABC was

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dishonest? What?

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I don't know.

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It's not like that's

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and I understand. Sometimes, you just need to

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say what is right and truth. I get

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that. Okay? I get that. But I think

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a lot of times, we're just ranting and

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raving on on x or or Facebook or

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something,

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and it literally accomplishes nothing, except it just

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accomplishes more anger between everybody. Everybody's more angry.

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Even all the people that are all on

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your side. You know, you put some on

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Facebook and 10 other people read it, They

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all agree with you a 100%, but at

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the end, the only thing that happens is

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everybody's more mad.

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But are we doing something?

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Are we trying to change something? Is there

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some action taken

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or are we confusing

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verbalization

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with no results as actual action?

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And then do we let it get in

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our spirit wrong? Is there other things that

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come along with this?

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He said, When I saw them prosper,

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despite their wickedness, they seem to live such

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painless lives. Really?

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Their bodies are so healthy and strong.

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Do you think maybe he's over exaggerating

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here a little bit?

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The evil people, they're always healthy and strong.

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They're always better off. Everything is always better.

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Verse 5, he says, they don't have troubles

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like other people.

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You realize okay. So let's go back to

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the to the opening line. God is good

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to those who truly go after him,

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who truly want relationship with him. He is

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revealing to you how he almost lost his

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footing.

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In other words, he almost

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made a major failure mistake here.

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This is how he's doing it, is he

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is assuming in his mind, it's a it's,

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projection kind of thing that that all of

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the bad guys

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are all

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everything goes perfect for the bad guys.

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Guys, I've done this.

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I thought this way.

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I felt this way. I have verbalized these

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kind of things.

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And it's not healthy. You you build a

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you build a

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a falseness that's unhealthy for you. It's it

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hurts you. And it's not even true to

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assume

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that that, the evil people don't have troubles

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like other people. And I'm not trying to

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justify what evil people do. I I said

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this a couple weeks ago, and I I

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preached an entire message about it a few

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months ago,

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that there are evil people.

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There are bad people on this planet. There

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are bad people in your neighborhood. There are

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bad people at your workplace, and they want

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to hurt you. Some people, the only thing

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that makes them happy is when they are

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hurting other people.

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Some people, the only thing that makes them

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happy is when they are causing

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confusion and dissension.

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I've seen that even within marriages, that that

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one of the

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people in the marriage have to stir up

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a problem where they don't feel good.

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I know a couple years ago that that

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they would fight so then they could make

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up.

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I'm like, skip the fight and just make

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out.

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Why?

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Right? Doesn't that seem better? I don't understand.

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But but we do this. We build, like,

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this false

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mentality

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thing.

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I don't know who I'll take

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a piano turn.

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Is that a

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is that a commercial? Should I pause?

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He says,

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he says, they don't have trouble like other

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people. They're not played with problems like everyone

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else. Come on. They are.

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But it's but see, it's easier to to

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have pity. It's easy to feel sorry for

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yourself

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when you can build the other side

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so

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much better,

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right? So much.

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We do the same thing with

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building the other side so much more evil.

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I mean, there I'm not backing away from

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where I started with this, guys. There is

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abject evil in this world,

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and it is attacking us, and it is

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attacking our families, and it is attacking our

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children, and we've got to stand up against

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this. But there's a difference between

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the actual demonic evil that Satan is trying

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to destroy humanity with and and our neighbor

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disagreeing with us and their dog pooping in

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our yard.

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That's not demonic.

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K? It's not Satan did not plan that

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whole thing to destroy your world and psyche.

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You you understand what I'm saying? But we

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but it's easier for us

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to vilify other people because we're justified by

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what we feel then.

550
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We can we can kind of ramp up

551
00:20:11,670 --> 00:20:12,309
our our,

552
00:20:12,950 --> 00:20:14,549
how how bad it is for us and

553
00:20:14,549 --> 00:20:16,390
how justified we are by saying and doing

554
00:20:16,390 --> 00:20:16,890
things

555
00:20:17,509 --> 00:20:18,330
that we shouldn't.

556
00:20:18,950 --> 00:20:20,710
He said, They wore pride like a jeweled

557
00:20:20,710 --> 00:20:22,890
necklace and clothed themselves with cruelty.

558
00:20:25,164 --> 00:20:25,751
I looked in probably 10 other translations. This

559
00:20:25,751 --> 00:20:26,239
is the only translation that I've been able

560
00:20:26,239 --> 00:20:27,325
to find that has it worded like this.

561
00:20:27,325 --> 00:20:28,384
It's interesting

562
00:20:28,924 --> 00:20:29,825
Well, I don't

563
00:20:30,285 --> 00:20:31,725
know why the translators came up with this

564
00:20:31,725 --> 00:20:32,785
as their their statement.

565
00:20:39,289 --> 00:20:41,230
Verse 7. These fat cats

566
00:20:42,970 --> 00:20:45,309
have everything their hearts could ever wish for.

567
00:20:45,609 --> 00:20:46,910
These fat cats.

568
00:20:47,450 --> 00:20:48,509
All the other translations

569
00:20:48,890 --> 00:20:50,775
say something along the lines of,

570
00:20:51,255 --> 00:20:51,755
their,

571
00:20:52,775 --> 00:20:55,575
their eyes bulge with all the things that

572
00:20:55,575 --> 00:20:56,394
they have.

573
00:20:57,015 --> 00:20:58,375
That's what it says. I don't know how

574
00:20:58,375 --> 00:21:00,234
they got fat cats out of that,

575
00:21:01,095 --> 00:21:02,535
but I can tell you they better not

576
00:21:02,535 --> 00:21:03,355
go to Ohio.

577
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,220
Yeah, I went there.

578
00:21:18,125 --> 00:21:19,805
I've been trying to think because I'm I'm

579
00:21:19,805 --> 00:21:21,505
an opportunist. I like to

580
00:21:22,045 --> 00:21:23,505
I like to look for opportunities.

581
00:21:23,965 --> 00:21:26,605
I like to make money and do stuff

582
00:21:26,605 --> 00:21:27,265
like that.

583
00:21:28,605 --> 00:21:29,965
I've been trying to figure out how to

584
00:21:29,965 --> 00:21:30,945
make cat bacon.

585
00:21:36,490 --> 00:21:37,309
Too far?

586
00:21:40,009 --> 00:21:42,090
Come on, guys. Focus. Talking about God's word

587
00:21:42,090 --> 00:21:42,590
here.

588
00:21:44,170 --> 00:21:45,070
Verse 8.

589
00:21:47,065 --> 00:21:49,404
They scoff and speak only evil.

590
00:21:50,025 --> 00:21:52,184
Again, there are going to be people in

591
00:21:52,184 --> 00:21:52,924
your world

592
00:21:53,544 --> 00:21:55,964
that they truly speak evil.

593
00:21:58,289 --> 00:21:59,590
Okay. That's a reality.

594
00:22:00,690 --> 00:22:02,850
Now, here's part of the conversation is you

595
00:22:02,850 --> 00:22:03,750
really can't

596
00:22:04,289 --> 00:22:05,190
change that.

597
00:22:06,850 --> 00:22:07,990
But you can

598
00:22:08,369 --> 00:22:10,470
decide how you're gonna react to that.

599
00:22:11,250 --> 00:22:12,630
You can't change them.

600
00:22:14,024 --> 00:22:16,664
They scoff and speak only evil. In their

601
00:22:16,664 --> 00:22:19,164
pride, they seek to crush others.

602
00:22:19,865 --> 00:22:21,724
They boast against the very heavens

603
00:22:22,184 --> 00:22:24,524
and their words strut throughout the earth.

604
00:22:25,820 --> 00:22:28,000
So the people are dismayed and confused,

605
00:22:28,619 --> 00:22:30,619
drinking in all of their words. And see,

606
00:22:30,619 --> 00:22:32,720
this is this is part of our problem.

607
00:22:33,099 --> 00:22:34,940
This is part of our problem. This is

608
00:22:34,940 --> 00:22:36,299
a major part of our problem in our

609
00:22:36,299 --> 00:22:37,820
country, but it's also a major part of

610
00:22:37,820 --> 00:22:38,805
the problem in the church

611
00:22:39,845 --> 00:22:42,164
is so these so the people are dismayed

612
00:22:42,164 --> 00:22:43,945
and confused. The people

613
00:22:44,325 --> 00:22:46,644
are dismayed and confused. But why are they

614
00:22:46,644 --> 00:22:47,705
dismayed and confused?

615
00:22:48,085 --> 00:22:50,085
Not because these people are saying things, not

616
00:22:50,085 --> 00:22:53,380
because they're cruel or evil or scoffing at

617
00:22:53,380 --> 00:22:55,799
God and all this other stuff, it's because

618
00:22:55,940 --> 00:22:56,680
the people

619
00:22:57,220 --> 00:22:59,000
are drinking in their words.

620
00:23:00,580 --> 00:23:02,039
They're buying it.

621
00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:04,980
We we were watching the debate with our

622
00:23:04,980 --> 00:23:05,640
our son

623
00:23:05,940 --> 00:23:07,275
and our daughter-in-law here and

624
00:23:08,315 --> 00:23:08,634
And,

625
00:23:09,595 --> 00:23:11,515
and and Isaac has a hard time staying

626
00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:12,015
quiet

627
00:23:12,714 --> 00:23:14,095
during these kind of things.

628
00:23:15,035 --> 00:23:17,134
Me, I'm much more mature and reserved.

629
00:23:20,559 --> 00:23:22,720
And and like every other cynist, that's a

630
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,259
lie. She's lying.

631
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,279
And, and and and and we kept saying

632
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,539
I think all of us kept saying this.

633
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,035
How can people believe that stuff? How can

634
00:23:35,035 --> 00:23:37,535
people well, here's the here's the reason why.

635
00:23:37,835 --> 00:23:39,214
Because they choose to.

636
00:23:40,474 --> 00:23:42,555
Because to everybody, every one of us in

637
00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:45,535
this room, we choose to believe certain things.

638
00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:47,410
Now you say, yeah. But but what I

639
00:23:47,410 --> 00:23:48,930
choose to believe is based on truth. I

640
00:23:48,930 --> 00:23:50,930
would agree. I'm not I'm not picking on

641
00:23:50,930 --> 00:23:53,009
you. I don't know what you believe or

642
00:23:53,009 --> 00:23:54,769
don't believe, but I do know this, we

643
00:23:54,769 --> 00:23:57,269
choose whether we're gonna believe something or not.

644
00:23:57,809 --> 00:24:00,289
That's not a that's not a, an arbitrary

645
00:24:00,289 --> 00:24:01,424
thing that just happens.

646
00:24:01,985 --> 00:24:03,525
You have to make a choice.

647
00:24:03,904 --> 00:24:05,424
Do I believe this or do I believe

648
00:24:05,424 --> 00:24:05,924
this?

649
00:24:06,945 --> 00:24:09,345
Well, you're choosing. Now I think I I

650
00:24:09,345 --> 00:24:11,345
think most I would like to say all,

651
00:24:11,345 --> 00:24:13,525
but I I think that's probably, percentagewise,

652
00:24:13,825 --> 00:24:14,565
not possible.

653
00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:16,839
But I think most of what I believe

654
00:24:16,839 --> 00:24:19,160
is actually based upon truth and fact. Okay?

655
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,160
I believe I think that. That's why I

656
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,299
believe what I believe.

657
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000
I I believe what God's word says because

658
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,099
I I believe it to be truth. So

659
00:24:27,184 --> 00:24:29,585
so I understand, you know, where my source

660
00:24:29,585 --> 00:24:30,704
is, but at the end of the day,

661
00:24:30,704 --> 00:24:32,164
I'm the one choosing this.

662
00:24:32,865 --> 00:24:36,065
Our country right now is choosing to believe

663
00:24:36,065 --> 00:24:37,904
a lot of stuff because there's a lot

664
00:24:37,904 --> 00:24:39,285
of things that our country

665
00:24:40,144 --> 00:24:42,660
does not actually believe in their heart,

666
00:24:43,619 --> 00:24:45,880
but they're choosing to believe it.

667
00:24:47,220 --> 00:24:48,119
No. Nobody,

668
00:24:48,740 --> 00:24:51,080
nobody down in there, unless they are completely

669
00:24:51,220 --> 00:24:52,359
blinded by Satan,

670
00:24:52,820 --> 00:24:55,140
nobody believes at the end of the day

671
00:24:55,140 --> 00:24:57,080
that you can change your sex.

672
00:24:58,184 --> 00:24:59,404
Nobody believes that.

673
00:25:01,224 --> 00:25:02,825
But that's why we use a word like

674
00:25:02,825 --> 00:25:04,904
gender because we can cloud it up a

675
00:25:04,904 --> 00:25:06,684
little bit, make it a little more confusing.

676
00:25:06,825 --> 00:25:08,984
We can't exactly define it. But but now

677
00:25:08,984 --> 00:25:10,984
now we've got a word that helps us

678
00:25:10,984 --> 00:25:11,964
lie to ourself,

679
00:25:13,630 --> 00:25:16,289
And then we drink in all the words

680
00:25:17,309 --> 00:25:20,910
and then we're dismayed and confused, which causes

681
00:25:20,910 --> 00:25:21,890
bigger problems.

682
00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:26,690
Verse 11, what does God know? They ask.

683
00:25:26,835 --> 00:25:28,615
I I love the fact that

684
00:25:29,154 --> 00:25:30,755
the people question this. This is one of

685
00:25:30,755 --> 00:25:32,194
the things the funny things for me that

686
00:25:32,194 --> 00:25:34,214
has always been with atheists,

687
00:25:34,994 --> 00:25:36,515
people that claim to be atheists. I just

688
00:25:36,515 --> 00:25:38,115
don't really believe that there is such a

689
00:25:38,115 --> 00:25:39,794
thing as an atheist. I think you gotta

690
00:25:39,794 --> 00:25:42,029
try really, really hard to not believe in

691
00:25:42,029 --> 00:25:44,289
something that God put within you in intuitively.

692
00:25:45,230 --> 00:25:45,730
Okay?

693
00:25:46,750 --> 00:25:48,450
But this is one of the big things

694
00:25:48,509 --> 00:25:51,089
is how much they feel a need

695
00:25:51,470 --> 00:25:52,929
to fight against

696
00:25:54,924 --> 00:25:57,644
God and against the idea of God or

697
00:25:57,644 --> 00:25:58,144
Christianity

698
00:25:59,085 --> 00:26:01,825
or the Bible. And they'll spend their life

699
00:26:02,125 --> 00:26:04,704
building the arguments and fighting against this.

700
00:26:06,204 --> 00:26:06,704
I

701
00:26:07,420 --> 00:26:08,720
I don't believe

702
00:26:09,099 --> 00:26:09,839
in unicorns

703
00:26:11,099 --> 00:26:12,859
unless I'm around my granddaughter and then I

704
00:26:12,859 --> 00:26:14,400
get a little hazy on weather.

705
00:26:16,460 --> 00:26:17,839
Do you believe in unicorns?

706
00:26:21,184 --> 00:26:23,025
But you know what? It's not my life's

707
00:26:23,025 --> 00:26:23,525
crusade

708
00:26:23,904 --> 00:26:25,125
to disprove unicorns.

709
00:26:27,345 --> 00:26:29,125
They're they're it's not real.

710
00:26:30,305 --> 00:26:31,605
I can't say that publicly,

711
00:26:31,904 --> 00:26:32,404
Arch.

712
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:37,669
There are children in the room. So you

713
00:26:37,669 --> 00:26:39,049
understand what I'm saying. Right?

714
00:26:40,069 --> 00:26:42,470
They they ask, how what does God know?

715
00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:44,569
Does the most high even know what's happening?

716
00:26:44,869 --> 00:26:46,390
The the fact that you are bringing God

717
00:26:46,390 --> 00:26:48,494
into the subject is a weird

718
00:26:48,954 --> 00:26:51,214
conversation you are only having with yourself.

719
00:26:53,035 --> 00:26:55,134
Does does God even know what's going on?

720
00:26:55,194 --> 00:26:57,595
If he's God, he does. If he's not,

721
00:26:57,595 --> 00:26:58,654
why do you care?

722
00:27:00,075 --> 00:27:00,575
Right?

723
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,220
Verse 12, look at all these wicked people

724
00:27:04,079 --> 00:27:06,079
enjoying the life of ease while their riches

725
00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:06,579
multiply.

726
00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:09,440
And then verse 13, he kind of switches

727
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,599
gears because he goes back to himself. But

728
00:27:11,599 --> 00:27:13,279
I'm gonna include it in the first category

729
00:27:13,279 --> 00:27:14,339
here. Verse 13,

730
00:27:15,245 --> 00:27:17,345
did I keep my heart pure for nothing?

731
00:27:18,525 --> 00:27:20,465
Have you ever asked God things like this?

732
00:27:21,245 --> 00:27:23,505
God, I'm trying to do everything right,

733
00:27:24,765 --> 00:27:27,485
but everything happens bad to me and nothing

734
00:27:27,485 --> 00:27:29,345
happens bad to the other guy.

735
00:27:29,789 --> 00:27:31,090
Make it about us,

736
00:27:31,710 --> 00:27:32,864
right? Did I keep myself innocent for no

737
00:27:32,864 --> 00:27:33,710
reason? I've even tried to use the, pastor

738
00:27:33,710 --> 00:27:36,509
Trump card on God. Right? God, I'm I'm

739
00:27:36,509 --> 00:27:37,730
one of your chosen ones.

740
00:27:47,284 --> 00:27:48,964
You know, you know how much better I

741
00:27:48,964 --> 00:27:49,464
am

742
00:27:50,804 --> 00:27:52,184
and everyone else, Lord?

743
00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:57,784
God, I'm one of your I'm I've sacrificed

744
00:27:57,924 --> 00:27:59,384
my whole life for you.

745
00:27:59,759 --> 00:28:00,259
Right?

746
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,720
You've got those versions. You just don't have

747
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,019
the pastor Trump card.

748
00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:08,259
It's a good one.

749
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:09,460
But

750
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,519
here's the thing. Do you really think God's

751
00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:13,200
up there like, oh, wait. Yeah. You're right.

752
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,180
You're a pastor.

753
00:28:14,524 --> 00:28:15,184
My bad.

754
00:28:19,644 --> 00:28:21,404
Did I did I keep my heart pure

755
00:28:21,404 --> 00:28:23,484
for nothing? Did I keep myself innocent for

756
00:28:23,484 --> 00:28:24,224
no reason?

757
00:28:25,484 --> 00:28:27,105
He's this is a pity party.

758
00:28:27,980 --> 00:28:30,240
I get nothing but trouble all day long.

759
00:28:30,859 --> 00:28:32,720
Every morning brings me pain.

760
00:28:33,019 --> 00:28:35,580
Really? Is it is life really as bad

761
00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:38,000
as you're making it out here to be?

762
00:28:39,660 --> 00:28:41,357
Guys, be careful because when you when you

763
00:28:41,357 --> 00:28:41,494
when you start doing this, you can find

764
00:28:41,494 --> 00:28:42,330
everything wrong with everything. And then, you

765
00:28:43,765 --> 00:28:44,991
everything wrong with everything. Instead of pausing long

766
00:28:44,991 --> 00:28:46,244
enough to say, wait a second, I'm still

767
00:28:46,244 --> 00:28:46,744
breathing

768
00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:49,525
air God made. That's good. Right? I'm still

769
00:28:49,525 --> 00:28:50,825
smelling flowers,

770
00:29:08,299 --> 00:29:08,799
a

771
00:29:14,085 --> 00:29:16,025
my deck out back to pray, because

772
00:29:17,845 --> 00:29:19,525
I get to look at the mountains while

773
00:29:19,525 --> 00:29:20,505
I'm praying. That's

774
00:29:24,244 --> 00:29:26,164
That's way better than praying in a building

775
00:29:26,164 --> 00:29:26,825
like this.

776
00:29:27,365 --> 00:29:28,424
It's way better.

777
00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:31,359
You know what's cool? Get up into the

778
00:29:31,359 --> 00:29:31,859
mountains,

779
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,220
get by a little

780
00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:34,019
stream,

781
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,220
and just sit there and talk to God.

782
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,700
You're in the middle of his amazingness.

783
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:41,220
Not buildings,

784
00:29:41,794 --> 00:29:42,888
It's easy to worship the God that made

785
00:29:42,888 --> 00:29:44,794
that. Get out of the the the caving

786
00:29:44,794 --> 00:29:45,335
in mentality.

787
00:29:45,714 --> 00:29:46,454
I get nothing but trouble

788
00:29:47,075 --> 00:29:47,575
all

789
00:29:49,794 --> 00:29:50,534
day long.

790
00:29:57,769 --> 00:29:59,869
Every morning brings me pain. No, it doesn't.

791
00:29:59,929 --> 00:30:01,769
It doesn't have to if you don't want

792
00:30:01,769 --> 00:30:02,349
it to.

793
00:30:03,049 --> 00:30:04,589
You're making those decisions.

794
00:30:05,129 --> 00:30:06,809
If I had really spoken this way to

795
00:30:06,809 --> 00:30:08,490
others, I would have been a traitor to

796
00:30:08,490 --> 00:30:10,490
your people. God, you're letting all these other

797
00:30:10,490 --> 00:30:12,089
people get away but you would never let

798
00:30:12,089 --> 00:30:12,974
me get away with

799
00:30:14,575 --> 00:30:16,335
this. So I tried to understand why the

800
00:30:16,335 --> 00:30:18,194
wicked prosper, but what a difficult

801
00:30:18,734 --> 00:30:20,974
task it is. And then he begins the

802
00:30:20,974 --> 00:30:23,214
process of change. Remember, what is the first

803
00:30:23,214 --> 00:30:23,714
sentence?

804
00:30:24,335 --> 00:30:25,315
You are good.

805
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,820
God, you are good to me.

806
00:30:28,519 --> 00:30:31,180
That's where he's trying to get back to.

807
00:30:32,519 --> 00:30:33,660
But I almost

808
00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:36,059
completely had a falling out.

809
00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:39,400
And he switches, and this is the second

810
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:39,900
part,

811
00:30:40,214 --> 00:30:42,535
verse 17. He begins the journey that he

812
00:30:42,535 --> 00:30:43,835
needs to begin back.

813
00:30:44,375 --> 00:30:46,875
Then I went into your sanctuary. Oh, God.

814
00:30:48,054 --> 00:30:49,515
Then I went into your sanctuary.

815
00:30:50,535 --> 00:30:52,054
I've heard this for years. Even when I

816
00:30:52,054 --> 00:30:54,054
was a kid, I would hear this. Somebody

817
00:30:54,054 --> 00:30:55,755
hadn't been in church in forever.

818
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,460
And something bad goes

819
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,160
wrong in their life. And they show up

820
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,940
to church. And I would hear

821
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,119
other people in the church there like their

822
00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:06,860
every day.

823
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:08,840
And they would say, oh, did you see

824
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,336
so and so was there today? Well, you

825
00:31:09,336 --> 00:31:09,367
know, this bad thing happened. That's the only

826
00:31:09,367 --> 00:31:09,394
reason they were at church. And they would

827
00:31:09,394 --> 00:31:09,422
say, oh, did you see so and so

828
00:31:09,422 --> 00:31:09,452
was there today? Well, you know, this bad

829
00:31:09,452 --> 00:31:09,480
thing happened. That's the only reason they were

830
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:10,230
at church.

831
00:31:11,174 --> 00:31:13,015
This bad thing happened. That's the only reason

832
00:31:13,015 --> 00:31:13,995
they were at church.

833
00:31:18,375 --> 00:31:19,035
Okay? Good.

834
00:31:20,055 --> 00:31:21,995
They chose the right choice.

835
00:31:23,740 --> 00:31:25,519
What would you rather be saying?

836
00:31:25,819 --> 00:31:26,140
Oh,

837
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,099
well, they chose drugs and they OD'd and

838
00:31:29,099 --> 00:31:29,599
died

839
00:31:31,579 --> 00:31:33,200
because that bad thing happened.

840
00:31:33,579 --> 00:31:35,500
It's weird how we do this. But what

841
00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,795
happens is we can say, well, I'm there

842
00:31:37,795 --> 00:31:39,875
every week. Specifically, if you volunteer and you

843
00:31:39,875 --> 00:31:41,234
work and you do a lot, I'm there

844
00:31:41,234 --> 00:31:42,595
every week. And who are they to just

845
00:31:42,595 --> 00:31:45,075
come walking in like this place belongs to

846
00:31:45,075 --> 00:31:45,575
them?

847
00:31:48,835 --> 00:31:50,375
Who does it belong to?

848
00:32:03,190 --> 00:32:03,690
Great

849
00:32:04,595 --> 00:32:05,795
One of the things that I pray when

850
00:32:05,795 --> 00:32:07,734
I'm driving back and forth to the capitol,

851
00:32:08,115 --> 00:32:10,835
I pray and I pray constantly, constantly, constantly.

852
00:32:10,835 --> 00:32:12,775
When I'm by myself, I pray out loud.

853
00:32:12,994 --> 00:32:14,695
When I'm with others, I just pray.

854
00:32:15,634 --> 00:32:16,134
But

855
00:32:16,595 --> 00:32:18,434
I pray, God, help my mind and my

856
00:32:18,434 --> 00:32:19,890
spirit be in the right place

857
00:32:28,849 --> 00:32:30,470
room. Because if you only see

858
00:32:30,930 --> 00:32:32,390
the physical, the natural,

859
00:32:32,815 --> 00:32:34,494
you stay there. You get caught up in

860
00:32:34,494 --> 00:32:36,494
there and that's where you're living. It's where

861
00:32:36,494 --> 00:32:39,075
you're living mentally, emotionally. That's what you're fighting

862
00:32:39,215 --> 00:32:40,275
or not fighting.

863
00:32:40,575 --> 00:32:43,154
And and that's where you're that's where the

864
00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:44,515
the domain is.

865
00:32:45,349 --> 00:32:46,789
But if you can if you can transcend

866
00:32:46,789 --> 00:32:48,490
it, if you can step outside of that,

867
00:32:48,549 --> 00:32:50,309
and you can see the bigger picture as

868
00:32:50,309 --> 00:32:52,710
he's saying here, I finally understood the destiny

869
00:32:52,710 --> 00:32:54,390
of the wicked. Now, he's not finished being

870
00:32:54,390 --> 00:32:56,789
negative yet, but he but he is setting

871
00:32:56,789 --> 00:32:59,535
up the right mindset now. God, when I

872
00:32:59,535 --> 00:33:02,174
finally get to you, I begin to understand

873
00:33:02,174 --> 00:33:03,154
the bigger picture.

874
00:33:03,535 --> 00:33:05,694
And here's the bigger picture. This is still

875
00:33:05,694 --> 00:33:07,214
the negative, but it's the beginning of the

876
00:33:07,214 --> 00:33:10,095
bigger picture. Verse 18, truly you put them

877
00:33:10,095 --> 00:33:11,315
on a slippery path

878
00:33:11,899 --> 00:33:14,059
and send them sliding over the cliff to

879
00:33:14,059 --> 00:33:14,559
destruction.

880
00:33:14,859 --> 00:33:17,039
And here's where you should at least pause

881
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:19,899
and say, do I want that of other

882
00:33:19,899 --> 00:33:20,399
people?

883
00:33:23,914 --> 00:33:25,674
Think about what I'm saying. Because guys, here's

884
00:33:25,674 --> 00:33:28,474
where here's where being truly a Christian and

885
00:33:28,474 --> 00:33:31,034
letting God's grace first change you and then

886
00:33:31,034 --> 00:33:33,115
you giving grace to others, this is where

887
00:33:33,115 --> 00:33:34,894
it'll be convicting to us.

888
00:33:35,674 --> 00:33:38,075
Do I really want them to slide over

889
00:33:38,075 --> 00:33:39,450
a cliff of destruction?

890
00:33:40,630 --> 00:33:42,150
Or could I have the argument that I

891
00:33:42,150 --> 00:33:44,330
just want how they are wrong

892
00:33:44,789 --> 00:33:45,690
put on display?

893
00:33:47,269 --> 00:33:47,769
Right?

894
00:33:49,269 --> 00:33:51,769
I I want it I want every

895
00:33:52,595 --> 00:33:55,154
evil lie. I want everything to be brought

896
00:33:55,154 --> 00:33:56,914
to light. I want it to be surfaced.

897
00:33:56,914 --> 00:33:59,474
Not all mine, but everybody else's. I want

898
00:33:59,474 --> 00:33:59,974
everything

899
00:34:00,835 --> 00:34:03,075
to be brought to the surface. But do

900
00:34:03,075 --> 00:34:04,455
I want them destroyed?

901
00:34:10,030 --> 00:34:10,690
We're talking

902
00:34:12,510 --> 00:34:13,409
deeper Christianity

903
00:34:13,710 --> 00:34:14,210
stuff,

904
00:34:14,829 --> 00:34:17,170
stuff that's much more challenging to deal with.

905
00:34:18,349 --> 00:34:20,269
Do I want them to be destroyed? I

906
00:34:20,269 --> 00:34:22,454
want what they're doing to be destroyed. And

907
00:34:22,454 --> 00:34:24,295
if their business is bad, I want their

908
00:34:24,295 --> 00:34:25,515
business to be destroyed.

909
00:34:26,375 --> 00:34:28,055
You know, if they're trafficking kids and things

910
00:34:28,055 --> 00:34:29,755
like that, I want that to be destroyed.

911
00:34:30,215 --> 00:34:31,335
But do I want them

912
00:34:32,135 --> 00:34:34,215
and here's the ultimate way to ask the

913
00:34:34,215 --> 00:34:36,055
right question do I want them to go

914
00:34:36,055 --> 00:34:36,715
to hell?

915
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,660
In an instant, they are destroyed, completely

916
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,660
swept away by terrors.

917
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,840
When you arise, oh Lord, you will laugh

918
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,260
at their silly ideas as a person laughs

919
00:34:51,724 --> 00:34:53,105
at dreams in the morning.

920
00:34:53,965 --> 00:34:55,105
And then he finally

921
00:34:55,644 --> 00:34:56,704
makes the switch.

922
00:34:57,965 --> 00:34:59,025
In verse 21,

923
00:35:00,125 --> 00:35:02,125
this is the 3rd section. I realized my

924
00:35:02,125 --> 00:35:03,105
heart was bitter.

925
00:35:03,659 --> 00:35:05,420
That my heart was bitter and I was

926
00:35:05,420 --> 00:35:06,393
all torn up inside. I realized I was

927
00:35:06,393 --> 00:35:07,367
bitter, which means this goes all the way

928
00:35:07,367 --> 00:35:08,460
back to verse 2. This is where he

929
00:35:08,460 --> 00:35:08,960
almost

930
00:35:17,434 --> 00:35:17,934
derailed.

931
00:35:19,514 --> 00:35:20,894
This is where he almost

932
00:35:21,514 --> 00:35:24,414
completely had the fall the falling out.

933
00:35:25,914 --> 00:35:28,155
Is he let it get into his heart

934
00:35:28,155 --> 00:35:28,889
as bitterness

935
00:35:30,409 --> 00:35:32,170
to the point where he was okay with

936
00:35:32,170 --> 00:35:33,230
them being destroyed.

937
00:35:35,289 --> 00:35:36,589
Because we can't do that.

938
00:35:38,010 --> 00:35:40,170
I know our country is very vitriolic right

939
00:35:40,170 --> 00:35:40,401
now, and everybody's being put against, everybody else,

940
00:35:40,401 --> 00:35:40,909
right? That,

941
00:35:42,894 --> 00:35:44,114
everybody else,

942
00:35:45,534 --> 00:35:46,434
right? That

943
00:35:46,974 --> 00:35:48,275
there is, there is,

944
00:35:49,134 --> 00:35:52,014
everything is, everything is racist and the race

945
00:35:52,014 --> 00:35:52,514
baiters

946
00:35:53,054 --> 00:35:54,755
are they're pitting us against each other.

947
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,519
Right? Everything is homophobic. Everything is, well, you

948
00:35:58,519 --> 00:35:59,340
know, whatever.

949
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,380
You can understand

950
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,699
the agenda. You can see

951
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
the evil in the darkness, and we are

952
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,219
supposed to hate

953
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:09,340
hate

954
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:10,300
sin.

955
00:36:10,635 --> 00:36:11,135
Difficult.

956
00:36:11,434 --> 00:36:12,425
And he says,

957
00:36:24,829 --> 00:36:26,989
then I realized my heart was bitter. The

958
00:36:26,989 --> 00:36:28,690
problem wasn't all of those people.

959
00:36:29,070 --> 00:36:31,469
The problem wasn't their cruelty or how they

960
00:36:31,469 --> 00:36:33,570
were trying to hurt me or other people.

961
00:36:33,710 --> 00:36:35,469
The problem is not actually that at the

962
00:36:35,469 --> 00:36:37,469
end of the day. The problem is my

963
00:36:37,469 --> 00:36:38,449
heart is bitter.

964
00:36:39,364 --> 00:36:41,125
I'm still going to fight all against that

965
00:36:41,125 --> 00:36:42,724
stuff. I'm not going to let that stuff

966
00:36:42,724 --> 00:36:44,724
go away. I'm not going to let I'm

967
00:36:44,724 --> 00:36:46,324
not going to I'm not going to let

968
00:36:46,324 --> 00:36:48,505
them groom our children. I'm not.

969
00:36:48,885 --> 00:36:51,364
I'm going to fight against that because it's

970
00:36:51,364 --> 00:36:51,864
demonic.

971
00:36:54,389 --> 00:36:56,969
But I also and this is where praying

972
00:36:57,029 --> 00:36:58,889
all the way to the capitol and back

973
00:36:59,109 --> 00:36:59,849
every day

974
00:37:00,230 --> 00:37:01,369
can make the difference,

975
00:37:01,750 --> 00:37:02,809
is I also

976
00:37:03,349 --> 00:37:05,750
need to to understand that these people are

977
00:37:05,750 --> 00:37:09,355
being manipulated by Satan, Maybe, maybe voluntarily, I

978
00:37:09,355 --> 00:37:11,034
think a lot of them are. They know.

979
00:37:11,034 --> 00:37:13,275
They know what they're doing. But Satan is

980
00:37:13,275 --> 00:37:15,755
trying to destroy them and they can't see

981
00:37:15,755 --> 00:37:16,255
that.

982
00:37:17,835 --> 00:37:18,394
So I got a

983
00:37:20,250 --> 00:37:20,750
to

984
00:37:24,569 --> 00:37:25,069
see.

985
00:37:25,650 --> 00:37:26,150
They

986
00:37:26,730 --> 00:37:27,230
get

987
00:37:27,809 --> 00:37:28,309
to

988
00:37:28,889 --> 00:37:31,449
see. Then, not only do they stop doing

989
00:37:31,449 --> 00:37:33,610
all the bad stuff and stop trying to

990
00:37:33,610 --> 00:37:35,614
hurt kids and stop all the,

991
00:37:36,554 --> 00:37:39,195
the evil, now they're actually going to fight

992
00:37:39,195 --> 00:37:40,414
against it.

993
00:37:41,914 --> 00:37:44,155
I've got a great message I'm putting together

994
00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:46,894
about the very first speaker of the house,

995
00:37:47,114 --> 00:37:49,514
the United States, very first guy ever that

996
00:37:49,514 --> 00:37:51,610
was a speaker of the house. Now,

997
00:37:51,989 --> 00:37:53,369
look at what he says. I

998
00:38:05,525 --> 00:38:06,805
Now, look at what he says. I realized

999
00:38:06,805 --> 00:38:08,164
that my heart was bitter. I was all

1000
00:38:08,164 --> 00:38:10,505
torn up inside. I was so foolish

1001
00:38:10,885 --> 00:38:11,704
and ignorant.

1002
00:38:13,125 --> 00:38:15,445
I love it when guys in the Bible

1003
00:38:15,445 --> 00:38:17,445
say things about themselves that I say about

1004
00:38:17,445 --> 00:38:18,184
me regularly.

1005
00:38:19,579 --> 00:38:20,719
Makes me feel good.

1006
00:38:21,820 --> 00:38:23,599
You ever Have you ever said to yourself,

1007
00:38:23,980 --> 00:38:25,599
man, that was stupid.

1008
00:38:29,019 --> 00:38:30,639
You're just being dumb,

1009
00:38:32,234 --> 00:38:32,734
Right?

1010
00:38:34,074 --> 00:38:35,135
Why? Because

1011
00:38:36,074 --> 00:38:37,775
we are. That's the reason.

1012
00:38:38,074 --> 00:38:38,894
There you go.

1013
00:38:39,514 --> 00:38:40,255
He says,

1014
00:38:40,635 --> 00:38:42,875
I was so foolish and ignorant. And then

1015
00:38:42,875 --> 00:38:44,875
he says, to God, I must have seemed

1016
00:38:44,875 --> 00:38:46,920
like a senseless animal to you.

1017
00:38:47,799 --> 00:38:49,799
I must have seemed like a complete idiot

1018
00:38:49,799 --> 00:38:50,619
to you, God.

1019
00:38:51,639 --> 00:38:52,539
And you know,

1020
00:38:53,639 --> 00:38:55,559
I've said that to God and it's amazing

1021
00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:57,500
how quiet God gets at that moment.

1022
00:38:59,864 --> 00:39:02,284
He's not coming to my defense. No, Scott.

1023
00:39:02,344 --> 00:39:03,565
You're not an idiot.

1024
00:39:06,505 --> 00:39:07,324
He's just

1025
00:39:09,625 --> 00:39:13,065
Right? Because why? Guys, when we actually allow

1026
00:39:13,065 --> 00:39:15,065
the stuff that Satan is trying to do

1027
00:39:15,065 --> 00:39:17,420
to destroy us, to get in our heart

1028
00:39:17,420 --> 00:39:20,299
and begin to destroy us, we're the ignorant

1029
00:39:20,299 --> 00:39:20,799
ones.

1030
00:39:21,980 --> 00:39:23,440
We're the foolish ones

1031
00:39:24,299 --> 00:39:26,780
because that is Satan's goal and he is

1032
00:39:26,780 --> 00:39:27,599
being successful

1033
00:39:29,885 --> 00:39:32,444
and we're allowing it to happen. See, here's

1034
00:39:32,444 --> 00:39:33,505
the thing about bitterness.

1035
00:39:33,804 --> 00:39:35,585
Nobody can make you bitter.

1036
00:39:37,244 --> 00:39:38,864
Only you can make you bitter.

1037
00:39:40,364 --> 00:39:40,864
Nobody

1038
00:39:41,244 --> 00:39:43,809
can they People can do things to you,

1039
00:39:43,809 --> 00:39:46,069
but nobody can make you unforgiving.

1040
00:39:47,730 --> 00:39:50,389
Only you can make use yourself unforgiving.

1041
00:39:51,569 --> 00:39:54,130
Satan does things. He's gonna constantly do stuff

1042
00:39:54,130 --> 00:39:56,210
to us. Why? Because he wants to destroy

1043
00:39:56,210 --> 00:39:58,069
us. He wants to steal, kill, and destroy.

1044
00:39:58,175 --> 00:39:59,074
But he cannot

1045
00:39:59,454 --> 00:40:00,355
make you

1046
00:40:01,215 --> 00:40:02,514
be angry at God.

1047
00:40:03,375 --> 00:40:06,594
He cannot make you hate other people.

1048
00:40:07,454 --> 00:40:09,474
He cannot make you be bitter.

1049
00:40:20,489 --> 00:40:22,909
Bitter. We embrace that. We choose

1050
00:40:23,769 --> 00:40:24,269
that.

1051
00:40:24,575 --> 00:40:26,755
We choose to to go down the road

1052
00:40:26,815 --> 00:40:28,675
that Satan is paving for us.

1053
00:40:29,454 --> 00:40:32,115
Verse 23, yet I still belong to you.

1054
00:40:32,175 --> 00:40:34,494
You hold my right hand. Even though I

1055
00:40:34,494 --> 00:40:36,655
am ignorant and I am doing the wrong

1056
00:40:36,655 --> 00:40:39,599
things, you're still full of grace, and you're

1057
00:40:39,599 --> 00:40:41,920
gonna hold my hand. And guys, that's where

1058
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,859
he's trying to get to with this.

1059
00:40:45,759 --> 00:40:48,819
We cannot let satan manipulate us

1060
00:40:49,119 --> 00:40:52,175
in this in this fight. Our our our

1061
00:40:52,175 --> 00:40:55,614
country is is in a horrible, horrible bad

1062
00:40:55,614 --> 00:40:56,114
place.

1063
00:40:56,655 --> 00:40:58,515
I don't believe we go by the Constitution

1064
00:40:58,574 --> 00:41:00,175
anymore, the rule of law, or any of

1065
00:41:00,175 --> 00:41:01,315
this kind of stuff.

1066
00:41:02,094 --> 00:41:03,695
All of this stuff, I had I had

1067
00:41:03,695 --> 00:41:04,355
so many

1068
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:06,760
people from other states

1069
00:41:07,059 --> 00:41:08,920
calling me and asking I'm talking about,

1070
00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:11,859
representatives, elected officials from other states that are

1071
00:41:11,859 --> 00:41:13,859
calling me and asking me about what's going

1072
00:41:13,859 --> 00:41:14,679
on in Aurora.

1073
00:41:15,380 --> 00:41:17,619
And the media now in Denver is really

1074
00:41:17,619 --> 00:41:19,859
doubling down and trying to say, oh, there's

1075
00:41:19,859 --> 00:41:21,079
nothing to see here.

1076
00:41:21,614 --> 00:41:23,534
Are you even watching that? It's getting worse

1077
00:41:23,534 --> 00:41:25,934
and worse. Nothing to see here. They've taken

1078
00:41:25,934 --> 00:41:29,054
over entire car the Venezuelan gangs have taken

1079
00:41:29,054 --> 00:41:31,695
over entire car apartment complex and they actually

1080
00:41:31,695 --> 00:41:33,235
have people that they have

1081
00:41:33,869 --> 00:41:34,609
kept inside,

1082
00:41:35,309 --> 00:41:37,009
kidnapped and kept inside

1083
00:41:37,309 --> 00:41:39,730
of these apartments. And this is on video.

1084
00:41:39,789 --> 00:41:41,949
People have this stuff. This is not something

1085
00:41:41,949 --> 00:41:44,289
that people are thinking might be the case.

1086
00:41:45,710 --> 00:41:46,929
K. This is happening.

1087
00:41:47,594 --> 00:41:50,155
But it's interesting how all of this stuff

1088
00:41:50,155 --> 00:41:51,914
is being covered up. All of these people

1089
00:41:51,914 --> 00:41:53,594
are trying to do this kind of stuff.

1090
00:41:53,594 --> 00:41:54,954
But you know what? I have learned at

1091
00:41:54,954 --> 00:41:55,934
the end of the day

1092
00:41:56,394 --> 00:41:58,715
is that even if I even if I'm

1093
00:41:58,715 --> 00:42:00,074
going to buy into all of that stuff

1094
00:42:00,074 --> 00:42:01,355
and be ignorant, I'm going to let this

1095
00:42:01,355 --> 00:42:03,030
get into my spirit or what. But you

1096
00:42:03,030 --> 00:42:05,429
know, God will God will extend grace to

1097
00:42:05,429 --> 00:42:05,929
me.

1098
00:42:08,150 --> 00:42:09,929
He will still extend grace to

1099
00:42:11,110 --> 00:42:13,030
me. If you say, well, well, I don't

1100
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:15,190
believe this has happened. Okay. God will still

1101
00:42:15,190 --> 00:42:16,485
extend grace to you.

1102
00:42:17,285 --> 00:42:17,845
Understand the difference in the fight. I'm not

1103
00:42:17,845 --> 00:42:18,405
going after people. I'm going I'm going after

1104
00:42:18,405 --> 00:42:18,965
the evil and the sin. I'm going after

1105
00:42:18,965 --> 00:42:19,625
the junk

1106
00:42:28,739 --> 00:42:29,639
that has become

1107
00:42:31,059 --> 00:42:32,519
our state and our country.

1108
00:42:33,460 --> 00:42:34,840
Our country is

1109
00:42:35,699 --> 00:42:36,420
our country is

1110
00:42:37,699 --> 00:42:38,179
we don't

1111
00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,900
I know I keep using this example, but

1112
00:42:40,900 --> 00:42:43,215
our president's not even running the country. I

1113
00:42:43,215 --> 00:42:44,442
believe and the people have different views about

1114
00:42:44,442 --> 00:42:45,135
this, but I believe the World Economic Forum

1115
00:42:45,135 --> 00:42:47,215
is running our country. That means people from

1116
00:42:47,215 --> 00:42:50,175
other countries are running our country. The reason

1117
00:42:50,175 --> 00:42:50,675
I'm

1118
00:42:50,974 --> 00:42:52,655
saying all of this is the church has

1119
00:42:52,655 --> 00:42:53,155
got

1120
00:42:53,535 --> 00:42:54,690
to stop playing games. And the church has

1121
00:42:54,690 --> 00:42:54,761
got to stop playing games. And the church

1122
00:42:54,761 --> 00:42:54,832
has got to stop playing games. And the

1123
00:42:54,832 --> 00:42:55,144
church has got to stop playing games. And

1124
00:42:55,144 --> 00:42:55,644
the

1125
00:42:56,210 --> 00:42:58,690
is the church has got to stop playing

1126
00:42:58,690 --> 00:42:59,190
games.

1127
00:43:00,449 --> 00:43:01,670
We need to be serious.

1128
00:43:02,049 --> 00:43:04,130
We need to start really praying I saw

1129
00:43:04,130 --> 00:43:06,609
online a group of people that actually groups

1130
00:43:06,609 --> 00:43:08,769
all over the country that got together during

1131
00:43:08,769 --> 00:43:10,769
the debate and rather watch rather than watch

1132
00:43:10,769 --> 00:43:12,824
the debate and get mad, they all got

1133
00:43:12,824 --> 00:43:14,125
together and prayed

1134
00:43:14,744 --> 00:43:15,565
during the debate.

1135
00:43:16,344 --> 00:43:17,885
And I thought, there you go.

1136
00:43:18,984 --> 00:43:21,385
That's what we're supposed to be doing. That's

1137
00:43:21,385 --> 00:43:23,385
how you fight. All I did was sit

1138
00:43:23,385 --> 00:43:25,224
and listen to my son get mad the

1139
00:43:25,224 --> 00:43:25,885
whole time.

1140
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,000
But but I'm I'm hoping one of these

1141
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,140
days he grows up

1142
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,700
and be more like his daddy.

1143
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,820
But here's the thing, guys. Those people praying,

1144
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,694
they figured it out. That's how you fight.

1145
00:43:44,234 --> 00:43:45,675
That's how you do this is who the

1146
00:43:45,675 --> 00:43:47,434
this is who the church needs to be,

1147
00:43:47,434 --> 00:43:49,675
is we've got to stop playing petty little

1148
00:43:49,675 --> 00:43:51,295
games with everybody

1149
00:43:51,755 --> 00:43:52,494
on Facebook

1150
00:43:53,034 --> 00:43:54,635
and and and x and,

1151
00:43:55,299 --> 00:43:57,319
and Instagram and and that have

1152
00:43:58,179 --> 00:44:01,380
no bearing whatsoever on anything except makes everybody

1153
00:44:01,380 --> 00:44:01,880
mad.

1154
00:44:02,739 --> 00:44:03,559
And instead,

1155
00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:05,539
begin to really get in and fight. Get

1156
00:44:05,539 --> 00:44:07,514
your word open and pray through the word.

1157
00:44:07,755 --> 00:44:10,074
Pray through the things where Jesus says that

1158
00:44:10,074 --> 00:44:12,335
all government rests upon his shoulders.

1159
00:44:13,594 --> 00:44:15,375
Pray that over our country.

1160
00:44:17,194 --> 00:44:19,214
Guys, I I don't know what's gonna happen

1161
00:44:19,610 --> 00:44:21,530
in November, but I keep saying this and

1162
00:44:21,530 --> 00:44:22,909
I stand on this.

1163
00:44:23,210 --> 00:44:24,269
They are not

1164
00:44:24,570 --> 00:44:27,630
going to let Trump in the White House.

1165
00:44:28,570 --> 00:44:31,289
They are not going to let that man

1166
00:44:31,289 --> 00:44:32,030
get there

1167
00:44:32,755 --> 00:44:34,614
because he will destroy them,

1168
00:44:35,394 --> 00:44:36,695
and they know it.

1169
00:44:37,715 --> 00:44:38,534
The people

1170
00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:42,434
will will will tear this stuff down and

1171
00:44:42,434 --> 00:44:44,195
rebuild our country the way it needs to

1172
00:44:44,195 --> 00:44:44,855
be rebuilt.

1173
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:46,920
They cannot let him get to the White

1174
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,840
House. So you say, well, then what happens?

1175
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:50,679
I don't know what's gonna happen. I do

1176
00:44:50,679 --> 00:44:53,000
know this. The vice president, the one who

1177
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,300
ratifies the election,

1178
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,780
she's gonna ratify her own election.

1179
00:44:59,244 --> 00:45:00,765
They're not gonna let him get there. That

1180
00:45:00,765 --> 00:45:03,565
means between now November, things are gonna get

1181
00:45:03,565 --> 00:45:06,525
worse and November, it's gonna blow up. And

1182
00:45:06,525 --> 00:45:08,445
guys, the church better be ready to be

1183
00:45:08,445 --> 00:45:10,525
the church because it could get crazy violent

1184
00:45:10,525 --> 00:45:11,099
in our country.

1185
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:13,519
It could get crazy violent.

1186
00:45:14,220 --> 00:45:15,840
We don't need that.

1187
00:45:18,619 --> 00:45:20,239
We need the church

1188
00:45:20,619 --> 00:45:23,099
needs to have our eyes open and be

1189
00:45:23,099 --> 00:45:25,605
doing the right things at the right time,

1190
00:45:25,844 --> 00:45:29,204
not letting pettiness and bitterness and anger rule

1191
00:45:29,204 --> 00:45:29,945
the day.

1192
00:45:31,125 --> 00:45:33,065
We need to be the people of God.

1193
00:45:34,085 --> 00:45:35,065
All of us,

1194
00:45:35,445 --> 00:45:38,184
not a small group, but all of us

1195
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,179
be the people of God.

1196
00:45:41,039 --> 00:45:42,900
That needs to start long before

1197
00:45:43,199 --> 00:45:44,099
election day.

1198
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:46,819
We've got to figure this out.

1199
00:45:50,319 --> 00:45:52,319
He says, you guide me with your counsel,

1200
00:45:52,319 --> 00:45:54,099
leading me to a glorious destiny.

1201
00:45:54,454 --> 00:45:55,761
Anybody else. I've got God. I don't need

1202
00:45:55,761 --> 00:45:57,068
anybody else. I desire you more than anything

1203
00:45:57,068 --> 00:45:57,494
on earth. Is that is that our defining

1204
00:45:57,494 --> 00:45:57,994
statement?

1205
00:46:10,590 --> 00:46:11,678
Truth for you, you need to get on

1206
00:46:11,678 --> 00:46:12,590
your face before God because that's the only

1207
00:46:12,590 --> 00:46:13,090
hope

1208
00:46:13,390 --> 00:46:15,070
for you and that's the only hope for

1209
00:46:15,070 --> 00:46:15,890
those around you,

1210
00:46:22,394 --> 00:46:23,675
relational, anything that you could put as a

1211
00:46:23,675 --> 00:46:25,695
priority in your life. Lord,

1212
00:46:26,155 --> 00:46:26,655
I

1213
00:46:27,675 --> 00:46:28,505
desire you more.

1214
00:46:35,859 --> 00:46:37,265
My health may fail. Now, this is interesting

1215
00:46:37,265 --> 00:46:37,677
because he's finally coming full circle. At the

1216
00:46:37,677 --> 00:46:39,539
first, he was like, well, the wicked never

1217
00:46:39,539 --> 00:46:42,099
gets sick. Now, he's got it. He's figured

1218
00:46:42,099 --> 00:46:43,000
it out. Even

1219
00:46:49,144 --> 00:46:50,444
not about whether somebody else is not

1220
00:46:51,545 --> 00:46:52,295
getting sick.

1221
00:47:02,650 --> 00:47:04,489
It's not about whether somebody else is getting

1222
00:47:04,489 --> 00:47:04,989
something.

1223
00:47:05,449 --> 00:47:07,929
It's not about somebody else. It's do you

1224
00:47:07,929 --> 00:47:09,789
desire the Lord more than anything?

1225
00:47:11,050 --> 00:47:12,590
That's that's the point.

1226
00:47:13,610 --> 00:47:15,449
And he finishes it up with an action.

1227
00:47:15,449 --> 00:47:16,429
I'm gonna tell

1228
00:47:16,969 --> 00:47:17,469
people

1229
00:47:17,894 --> 00:47:20,695
how awesome God is. Verse 27. Those who

1230
00:47:20,695 --> 00:47:21,994
desert him will perish,

1231
00:47:23,255 --> 00:47:25,894
for you destroy those who abandon you. But

1232
00:47:25,894 --> 00:47:27,974
as for me, I can't do anything about

1233
00:47:27,974 --> 00:47:29,275
them. But as for me,

1234
00:47:29,829 --> 00:47:32,010
how good it is to be near God,

1235
00:47:32,789 --> 00:47:34,969
I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter.

1236
00:47:35,190 --> 00:47:36,650
And I will tell everyone

1237
00:47:37,190 --> 00:47:39,049
about the wonderful things you do.

1238
00:47:39,829 --> 00:47:40,969
I will tell everyone.

1239
00:47:41,954 --> 00:47:44,775
Why? Because he's the only hope. When everybody's

1240
00:47:44,835 --> 00:47:46,855
fighting, innergetic Jesus.

1241
00:47:47,795 --> 00:47:49,414
Guys, your only hope is Jesus.

1242
00:47:50,195 --> 00:47:51,735
I've said that to so many,

1243
00:47:52,434 --> 00:47:53,730
married couples over the years.

1244
00:48:06,135 --> 00:48:08,454
If you will repent and turn to Jesus

1245
00:48:08,534 --> 00:48:09,175
but heshe

1246
00:48:09,974 --> 00:48:12,795
If you will repent and turn to Jesus,

1247
00:48:13,815 --> 00:48:15,114
you can save this thing.

1248
00:48:15,894 --> 00:48:17,275
It's the same with our country.

1249
00:48:17,894 --> 00:48:18,954
As if you repent

1250
00:48:19,510 --> 00:48:20,570
and turn to Jesus,

1251
00:48:20,869 --> 00:48:22,170
we can save our country.

1252
00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:24,650
We can save our country.

1253
00:48:25,670 --> 00:48:26,890
God, we need you

1254
00:48:28,550 --> 00:48:29,031
so much more than we we even know.

1255
00:48:29,031 --> 00:48:29,216
Lord, I think this thing is crumbled even

1256
00:48:29,216 --> 00:48:29,400
farther than we can see. Lord, I think

1257
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:29,585
this thing is crumbled even farther than we

1258
00:48:29,585 --> 00:48:29,769
can see. Lord, I think this thing is

1259
00:48:29,769 --> 00:48:29,954
crumbled even farther than we can see. Lord,

1260
00:48:29,954 --> 00:48:31,289
I think this thing is crumbled even

1261
00:48:34,875 --> 00:48:37,295
crumbled even farther than we can see.

1262
00:48:38,954 --> 00:48:40,954
God, that doesn't change you. You're still in

1263
00:48:40,954 --> 00:48:41,454
charge.

1264
00:48:43,355 --> 00:48:44,255
You're still

1265
00:48:44,875 --> 00:48:45,375
God.

1266
00:48:46,474 --> 00:48:47,695
You still rule

1267
00:48:47,994 --> 00:48:48,815
and reign.

1268
00:48:49,809 --> 00:48:51,109
You are still sovereign.

1269
00:48:52,449 --> 00:48:54,449
That there is nothing that's happening on the

1270
00:48:54,449 --> 00:48:54,949
planet

1271
00:48:55,409 --> 00:48:58,449
that is escaping you. There's no evil. There's

1272
00:48:58,449 --> 00:49:01,089
no plans that is that is getting by

1273
00:49:01,089 --> 00:49:01,589
you.

1274
00:49:04,325 --> 00:49:05,704
Or do you know everything,

1275
00:49:06,565 --> 00:49:07,945
and you're still in control.

1276
00:49:10,724 --> 00:49:12,744
So Lord Jesus, we trust you.

1277
00:49:15,045 --> 00:49:16,184
We trust you.

1278
00:49:19,309 --> 00:49:20,289
We need You.

1279
00:49:21,630 --> 00:49:23,390
Lord, I pray for my heart with this,

1280
00:49:23,390 --> 00:49:24,590
and I pray for every one of us

1281
00:49:24,590 --> 00:49:25,329
in here

1282
00:49:26,269 --> 00:49:27,250
that I truly

1283
00:49:27,550 --> 00:49:28,769
desire You

1284
00:49:30,844 --> 00:49:31,824
more than anything.

1285
00:49:33,565 --> 00:49:35,644
And Lord, if I don't reveal that to

1286
00:49:35,644 --> 00:49:37,025
me, show it to me.

1287
00:49:38,284 --> 00:49:39,505
I desire you

1288
00:49:40,284 --> 00:49:41,344
more than anything.

1289
00:49:42,525 --> 00:49:44,065
I need you more than anything.

1290
00:49:46,190 --> 00:49:48,109
Lord, help me to love you more than

1291
00:49:48,109 --> 00:49:48,609
anything.

1292
00:49:54,030 --> 00:49:55,329
In Jesus' name.

1293
00:50:06,164 --> 00:50:07,385
God, I pray against

1294
00:50:09,525 --> 00:50:11,144
any kind of bitterness.

1295
00:50:14,150 --> 00:50:16,150
I pray against anything that builds that we

1296
00:50:16,150 --> 00:50:17,849
allow to build up in our heart

1297
00:50:18,389 --> 00:50:19,289
against people.

1298
00:50:21,829 --> 00:50:23,429
Lord, I don't want the bad guys to

1299
00:50:23,429 --> 00:50:23,929
win

1300
00:50:25,509 --> 00:50:26,710
but I don't want them to go to

1301
00:50:26,710 --> 00:50:27,210
hell.

1302
00:50:30,355 --> 00:50:32,295
Lord, I pray you tear down their kingdoms,

1303
00:50:33,234 --> 00:50:35,414
and in doing so, you save their souls.

1304
00:50:41,660 --> 00:50:42,719
In the name of Jesus.

1305
00:50:43,820 --> 00:50:45,340
God, help it not to get into my

1306
00:50:45,340 --> 00:50:46,700
spirit. And I pray this for every one

1307
00:50:46,700 --> 00:50:49,200
of us. God, I I I rebuke

1308
00:50:49,579 --> 00:50:52,219
the spirit of of bitterness and anger and

1309
00:50:52,219 --> 00:50:52,719
unforgiveness.

1310
00:50:53,579 --> 00:50:54,719
I rebuke that.

1311
00:50:56,704 --> 00:50:58,244
God, deliver us from that.

1312
00:50:59,664 --> 00:51:00,965
Save us from that.

1313
00:51:03,344 --> 00:51:05,204
Cleanse our minds and our hearts,

1314
00:51:06,704 --> 00:51:08,545
so that so that we don't let anger

1315
00:51:08,545 --> 00:51:10,324
and hate rule so much.

1316
00:51:11,099 --> 00:51:13,900
God, it seems so prevalent in our country

1317
00:51:13,900 --> 00:51:14,640
right now.

1318
00:51:16,380 --> 00:51:17,920
Help us to get away from

1319
00:51:20,059 --> 00:51:21,519
it, in the name of Jesus.

1320
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,139
Communion, I think, I think what we

1321
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:43,059
should do when

1322
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:45,299
we take

1323
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:47,940
communion is we ask for

1324
00:51:54,014 --> 00:51:54,514
forgiveness.

1325
00:51:55,614 --> 00:51:57,775
We're remembering that Jesus died on the cross

1326
00:51:57,775 --> 00:51:58,434
for us.

1327
00:51:58,974 --> 00:51:59,875
That's the point.

1328
00:52:00,335 --> 00:52:02,094
If you need communion, if you didn't grab

1329
00:52:02,094 --> 00:52:03,454
one when you came in, raise your hand

1330
00:52:03,454 --> 00:52:04,914
real quick and they'll bring you.

1331
00:52:08,119 --> 00:52:08,619
Brainwashed.

1332
00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:10,860
This is the,

1333
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,739
this is the point of community. It's to

1334
00:52:14,039 --> 00:52:14,539
say

1335
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:15,739
I remember

1336
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,119
I'm remembering that when you died on the

1337
00:52:18,119 --> 00:52:19,420
cross, you did it to say

1338
00:52:35,390 --> 00:52:37,010
So we're gonna, we're gonna

1339
00:52:38,829 --> 00:52:40,930
tie this up together this morning

1340
00:52:41,630 --> 00:52:43,469
by just asking the Lord just to wash

1341
00:52:43,469 --> 00:52:44,849
us with his blood.

1342
00:52:45,309 --> 00:52:47,250
Just cover us, forgive us.

1343
00:52:47,775 --> 00:52:49,077
Stuff to control me. I want Jesus to

1344
00:52:49,077 --> 00:52:49,714
be God over my life,

1345
00:52:50,494 --> 00:52:50,994
right?

1346
00:53:03,309 --> 00:53:05,150
On the night when he was betrayed, the

1347
00:53:05,150 --> 00:53:06,530
Lord Jesus took some bread

1348
00:53:07,469 --> 00:53:09,150
and he gave thanks to God for it,

1349
00:53:09,150 --> 00:53:11,469
then he broke it into pieces. Think about

1350
00:53:11,469 --> 00:53:13,090
when he broke this into pieces.

1351
00:53:14,045 --> 00:53:15,724
So this had been this is Passover and

1352
00:53:15,724 --> 00:53:17,184
it had been celebrated for,

1353
00:53:17,885 --> 00:53:20,785
remembered and celebrated for literally centuries,

1354
00:53:21,485 --> 00:53:23,344
a couple thousand few 1000 years.

1355
00:53:24,605 --> 00:53:26,445
And there's the point in in the middle

1356
00:53:26,445 --> 00:53:28,125
every time where they take at the end

1357
00:53:28,125 --> 00:53:30,150
and it's it's not like bread,

1358
00:53:30,610 --> 00:53:33,110
like yeast bread. It's non yeast bread. It's

1359
00:53:33,409 --> 00:53:36,289
flat, like cracker. Right? If you've ever been

1360
00:53:36,289 --> 00:53:38,309
at our Seder dinner, that's matzo bread.

1361
00:53:39,170 --> 00:53:39,409
And,

1362
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:41,489
he takes and breaks this. Do you think

1363
00:53:41,489 --> 00:53:44,230
about this? When he breaks this, he realizes

1364
00:53:44,954 --> 00:53:47,375
the next thing that's going to be broken

1365
00:53:47,755 --> 00:53:48,575
is him.

1366
00:53:50,555 --> 00:53:51,695
He knows that,

1367
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and he does it.

1368
00:53:57,219 --> 00:53:59,239
Because the whole point is you and I.

1369
00:54:00,019 --> 00:54:02,280
The whole point is those disciples sitting there

1370
00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:04,820
that he wants them to know, I'm gonna

1371
00:54:04,820 --> 00:54:07,640
be broken for what reason so that you

1372
00:54:08,019 --> 00:54:10,019
can be put together. You can be made

1373
00:54:10,019 --> 00:54:12,114
whole. Said, this is my body which is

1374
00:54:12,114 --> 00:54:13,875
given for you. Do this in remembrance of

1375
00:54:13,875 --> 00:54:15,454
me. God, we thank you for what this

1376
00:54:15,454 --> 00:54:16,994
little piece of bread represents.

1377
00:54:17,534 --> 00:54:19,534
That it represents you, that it represents you.

1378
00:54:19,534 --> 00:54:20,034
It

1379
00:54:27,269 --> 00:54:28,650
That it represents you

1380
00:54:29,670 --> 00:54:30,570
being brutalized

1381
00:54:30,869 --> 00:54:31,610
for me.

1382
00:54:35,190 --> 00:54:36,809
Lord, I thank you for that.

1383
00:54:37,670 --> 00:54:40,170
I'm completely indebted to you for this.

1384
00:54:41,815 --> 00:54:43,355
I can never repay you.

1385
00:54:44,614 --> 00:54:46,375
Lord, I also know you didn't do it

1386
00:54:46,375 --> 00:54:48,695
for that. You did it just because you

1387
00:54:48,695 --> 00:54:49,434
love me.

1388
00:54:52,420 --> 00:54:53,559
So Lord, thank you.

1389
00:54:54,260 --> 00:54:55,719
Thank you for our healing

1390
00:54:56,179 --> 00:54:57,639
that you provide with this,

1391
00:55:00,340 --> 00:55:01,480
in Jesus name.

1392
00:55:02,659 --> 00:55:03,960
Let's take the bread together.

1393
00:55:19,655 --> 00:55:21,014
In the same way, he took the cup

1394
00:55:21,014 --> 00:55:21,755
of wine

1395
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,239
after supper saying, this cup is the new

1396
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:24,739
covenant

1397
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:26,980
between God and his people,

1398
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:28,739
an agreement confirmed

1399
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,860
with my blood. It is it is bound

1400
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:34,500
contractually with his blood.

1401
00:55:35,735 --> 00:55:37,574
Do this in remembrance of me as often

1402
00:55:37,574 --> 00:55:38,315
as you drink

1403
00:55:38,855 --> 00:55:40,695
it. For every time you eat this bread

1404
00:55:40,695 --> 00:55:43,335
and drink this cup, you're announcing the Lord's

1405
00:55:43,335 --> 00:55:44,875
death until he comes again.

1406
00:55:45,494 --> 00:55:47,034
Jesus, thank you for forgiveness.

1407
00:55:48,375 --> 00:55:49,755
Thank you for your blood.

1408
00:55:51,460 --> 00:55:52,260
Me. I pray for all of us. Convict

1409
00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:54,280
us of the things that we know

1410
00:56:06,324 --> 00:56:07,065
are not

1411
00:56:07,565 --> 00:56:08,065
right.

1412
00:56:08,565 --> 00:56:09,785
Convict us, Lord,

1413
00:56:10,724 --> 00:56:12,585
and we wanna get them right with you.

1414
00:56:15,285 --> 00:56:16,025
In Jesus'

1415
00:56:17,285 --> 00:56:18,824
name, wash us clean,

1416
00:56:20,349 --> 00:56:21,569
covers with your blood.

1417
00:56:24,109 --> 00:56:25,489
Let's take the drink together.

1418
00:56:33,789 --> 00:56:35,409
Thank you so much, Jesus.

1419
00:56:37,875 --> 00:56:39,175
Thank you for your grace.

1420
00:56:41,954 --> 00:56:44,535
Thank you for your mercy. And I pray

1421
00:56:45,635 --> 00:56:47,095
that we will be a people

1422
00:56:48,599 --> 00:56:51,980
that stand up for your word, your truth,

1423
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:53,500
your righteousness,

1424
00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:55,500
and your justice.

1425
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,380
But Lord, I pray that we do it

1426
00:56:58,680 --> 00:56:59,900
with your heart,

1427
00:57:01,734 --> 00:57:03,914
your compassion and love for the lost.

1428
00:57:05,414 --> 00:57:07,275
Lord, help us to tell people

1429
00:57:08,214 --> 00:57:09,914
how wonderful you are,

1430
00:57:11,655 --> 00:57:12,875
in the name of Jesus.

1431
00:57:14,950 --> 00:57:16,470
God, help it not to get into our

1432
00:57:16,470 --> 00:57:16,970
heart

1433
00:57:18,230 --> 00:57:20,010
and become bitterness and unforgiveness.

1434
00:57:21,590 --> 00:57:22,650
Lord, thank you.

1435
00:57:23,110 --> 00:57:24,489
Thank you for your grace.

1436
00:57:25,510 --> 00:57:27,289
Help us to extend it to others.

1437
00:57:29,804 --> 00:57:31,664
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

1438
00:57:35,565 --> 00:57:37,184
Amen. Before noon tomorrow,

1439
00:57:37,804 --> 00:57:39,425
God's gonna give you the opportunity

1440
00:57:40,035 --> 00:57:42,695
to tell somebody how wonderful God is.

1441
00:57:44,035 --> 00:57:45,795
Take the chance. Step out there a little

1442
00:57:45,795 --> 00:57:47,015
bit and just tell them.

1443
00:57:47,474 --> 00:57:48,375
Tell them something.