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Hello, this is Brother Denny.

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Turn with me in your Bibles to Romans

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chapter 15.

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To Romans chapter 15.

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Just look at one verse here for a

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moment as a beginning text.

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Then I have a few other words of

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introduction for the message today.

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Romans chapter 15, verse 14.

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Paul writes here, And I myself also am

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persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also

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are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge,

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able also to admonish one another.

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Able also to admonish one another.

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The title of the message this morning is,

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Able to Admonish.

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Now this message is somewhat three different things

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at once.

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It is a teaching this morning on this

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subject of admonishing one another.

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And notice that it does say here, one

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another.

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This is one of those 38 one another

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verses in the New Testament.

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So it is a teaching on that, but

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it is also an appeal to you this

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morning to consider your own heart, your own

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life in the church here.

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But may I say, the message this morning

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is also a bit of an admonishment from

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me to you.

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And I am allowed to do that.

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I am commanded to do that actually.

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Just look at a verse.

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There are many verses we could look at,

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but I just want to show you this

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one.

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From me to you, that is part of

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this message.

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Turn to 1 Thessalonians 5.

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This does a little side verse here.

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Because this is part of the message.

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It is an admonishment to you.

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Look what it says here in verse 12

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of chapter 5 of 1 Thessalonians.

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And it says, And we beseech you brethren,

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so this is to you, to know them

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which labor among you.

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It is speaking as you look at your

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ministers.

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And are over you in the Lord, your

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ministers.

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Look at the last part.

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And admonish you.

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And so, Paul gives it here that this

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is a duty, this is a commandment of

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ministers.

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But, go back now over to Romans chapter

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15 again in verse 14.

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And we see here this phrase, able to

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admonish.

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Now, the word admonish here is used quite

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a bit in the New Testament.

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And it is given to us in three

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or four different words.

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The word warn or warning is the same

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word.

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The word admonish, the word correct, the word

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reprove, and the word rebuke.

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In the New Testament are essentially the same

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word.

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You can look it up in the Greek

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or in different ways in vines.

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And they are all in the same family

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of words and meanings.

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And basically they mean to reprove, to rebuke,

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to correct, to enlighten, to bring to light

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something in someone else's life.

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And teach them and warn them and bring

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correction.

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Bring them back to the place where they

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need to be.

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And there is an inference there that the

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way that you are going is not going

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to come out right.

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It is not going to come out right.

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So that is part of this.

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And the word able here is, may I

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say, a little bit surprising what it means,

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but it is also very wonderful too if

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we understand it.

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It is one of those words that has

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its root in that word dudamos, which means

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power.

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It is dudamehi I think in the Greek.

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And it basically means to have in you

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the power to get something done.

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It is kind of like that.

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Like there is something in you that is

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able to get this job done.

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And so he is saying, I am persuaded

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that in you there is this power, this

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ability to be able to admonish one another.

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So he is operating in faith, isn't he?

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He is having faith in the brethren that

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you can do this because in our own

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selves we would be tempted to doubt.

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Well, I can't do anything like that.

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That is a big thing to do.

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I am going to leave that for the

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ministry.

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I don't want to touch that.

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And all these other things.

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And so he is writing them here to

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say, I am persuaded you are able to

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admonish.

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And so that is the title of the

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message.

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And this is one of those messages that

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I would have to say that I have

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had a burden to teach on this subject

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for over a year now.

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And I have been waiting for a time

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when I felt free in the Lord to

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share this.

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Today is that day.

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And as we pick up this, one of

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the things I want you to keep in

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the back of your mind, one of the

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foundations I want you to keep laid in

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your heart, is that as you can see

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here in Paul's context of one anothering, that

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this is an important part of our relationship

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with the church and with one another.

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It's not just some separate little thing we

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tuck over here.

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It is part of the flow of our

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relationship.

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And so therefore we must see that part

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of my relationship with God involves my relationship

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with you.

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And to fail in one is to fail

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in the other.

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You know, in this New Testament church age,

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we cannot separate those two.

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We would like to, wouldn't we?

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At times it's very convenient to segregate those

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things in our mind, in our spiritual life

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we think.

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But you read the New Testament through and

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you're not able to do that.

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I'm sorry.

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I don't have time to do a whole

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teaching on that today.

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I did that about a year and a

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half ago.

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But if you understand that, you'll understand why

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this thing can flow the way it is.

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The other thing I'd like to say is

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as I was preparing this message, I thought

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of many reasons for sharing this message.

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Obviously it's in the Word of God.

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It's on the heart of God.

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But there's something I thought of which is

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perhaps a bit unique to us.

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Not totally, but perhaps a bit unique to

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us in our church, in our church circles,

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and in our church here as well.

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And as you know, in our circles, in

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our church here, we believe in a holy

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life.

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We believe in a godly life.

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We believe in having godly convictions, godly standards,

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godly beliefs, and ways of not just reading

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the Word of God, but actually incorporating them

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into our life and trying to walk in

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a way that is pleasing to our God.

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Not to get salvation, but after we are

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born again, because we love God, and we

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love the things of God, and we love

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what He loves, we want to do things

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that are pleasing to Him.

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Right?

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That's part of what we believe.

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But what is unique about us compared to

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other Anabaptist groups is most Anabaptist groups have

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written standards.

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They've taken this same thought, this same spiritual

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truth, and put it into written standards.

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And I can stand here and say I

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have nothing against that.

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I respect those.

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I have brothers in the Lord I know

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in those churches.

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And I am thankful for them taking a

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stand and for the heart in which they

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do it.

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However, we have chosen not to do that.

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We have chosen to have some of the

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same beliefs, some of the same thoughts, but

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thinking, no, we don't want to reduce those

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to a written standard.

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We want things written on the tables of

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our heart.

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And we want to go what we think,

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what we hope, and what we pray is

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a better way where we have self-examination

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rather than a list to refer to.

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Where we have the Spirit of God alive

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and working, we hope, in the breast, in

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the heart, in the life of each man

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and sister, each brother and sister in the

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church.

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And I am not at fault with us

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for choosing this way.

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I am at peace.

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I am blessed.

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Yet, we must also admit that just because

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we have chosen that way, doesn't mean we

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don't have potential for some problems.

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Isn't that right?

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We have problems too.

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We don't have all the answers.

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And as I was thinking about this a

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little bit, you know, you have a group

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of churches, basically, usually Anabaptists, that have written

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standards.

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And then you have, way over here, the

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rest of what we might call evangelical Protestantism

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of today, which for the most part, and

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I am generalizing here, and I cannot balance

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everything, but I've been in many of those

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churches, so I know somewhat of which I

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speak.

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For the most part, it's not that they

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just don't have written standards.

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They basically don't have standards.

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Divorce from your marriage?

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It's fine.

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Whatever you want to wear to church?

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It's fine.

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I mean, you just go down the list.

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Basically, every man is his own master.

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What does it say in Judges?

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And every man did what was right in

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his own sight.

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You know?

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That is basically, for the most part, and

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again, please allow me to generalize here.

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So, I would just say over here, no

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standards.

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That is a generalization.

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And that is basically, you know, these two.

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So, if I would say to you, do

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you want to live here?

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Most of you would say, no.

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If I would say, do you want to

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live in this kind of church?

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Most of you would say, no.

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That's why I'm here.

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So, if you don't want to live here,

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and you don't want to live there, I

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would say to you that one of the

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requirements, one of the conditions of being in

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a church where we don't have this, and

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we don't want to go here, but we

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want to live in a church that does

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have beliefs, that does have practices, that does

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have standards, that does have teaching from the

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Bible, you must be willing.

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You must have, in effect, in our midst,

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admonishing, rebuking, correcting.

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You must be open to going to one

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another, and you must go to one another,

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or you will not make it.

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We will not make it.

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We will have serious consequences if we are

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not open to this concept.

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And though we do not have, again, written

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standards, we do have beliefs, practices, may I

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say general understandings of the heartbeat of the

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brotherhood that have evolved out of the teachings,

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and brothers' meetings, and everything else over the

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last, whatever it's been, 22 years now, I

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guess almost, of how we're going to walk

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some biblical truths out in the Bible.

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But, what do we do if someone drifts,

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or someone is not with us, or someone

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is beginning to sin, or beginning to move

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away from these beliefs and practices?

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What if someone chooses to go toward the

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world and you notice it?

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What if someone chooses to start wearing clothing

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that you know is immodest and is not

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in keeping with our beliefs?

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What do you do?

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What if a young man chooses a car

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that is, frankly, carnal, and you know why

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he chose it?

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What do you do?

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What do you say?

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You just mumble it home?

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What do you do?

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What if someone begins watching videos?

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What if they're not faithful in their devotional

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life and you know it?

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What if they begin wearing a covering that's

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a fashion statement, with lace and all these

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other things, instead of a modest symbol of

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submission that it is?

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What do you say?

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What do you say?

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What do you say when someone is divisive?

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What do you say when someone is covetous?

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What do you say?

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What do you do when they have a

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flat spot there in their life and they

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begin to drift?

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What do you say when a young man

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begins to wear country western cowboy clothes?

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You know, what do you say?

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Nothing?

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Do you run and tell five people?

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What do you do?

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What do you do?

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What should you do?

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And the list could go on.

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The point is, what do we do as

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a church to bring correction when we don't

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want this, but we don't want to live

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here either?

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Well, we need to help someone in that

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situation I just described to see they're going

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the wrong way.

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A way that will lead to serious consequences

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in their life and, may I say, to

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very serious consequences in the life of the

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church.

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Because what one does affects us all.

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We understand that concept, don't we, in the

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New Testament age that we live in?

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Things that pull one brother in the brotherhood

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down begin to have an effect on the

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rest of us.

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And I believe that you would agree with

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me that if we look through our sermons

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and doctrine and teaching of the last 22

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years, there has been very good messages on

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everything I just mentioned and 50 other things

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I didn't even mention, haven't there?

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There's very good messages on all those subjects.

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And you could say, well, I hope they'll

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just go listen to a tape.

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I'll just give them a tape.

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Well, that's not a bad thing.

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But is that all?

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Is that all?

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I would say, despite all the wonderful teaching

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that we have had here, and I've heard

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much of it myself, I don't want to

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say I've listened to all of it, but

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I've heard a lot of teaching before I

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came here and since I have, that one

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area that there's been a very serious lack

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is this area of personal one-on-one

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among the brethren, admonishing, warning, correcting and reproving

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among us.

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And so that is part of my admonishment

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and my appeal to you today.

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So what do we do?

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I believe that, again, this way of approaching

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church life is a bit unique among us.

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But if we fail to admonish one another

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and we do not have written standards, it's

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not going to work.

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Our church life is just going to drift

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and drift and drift.

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It's not going to work.

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So, one of the beauties of not having

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written standards, if I may say it this

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way, is to recognize and understand that I

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love my brother and I am responsible for

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him and he for me.

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We are connected.

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We are members fitly joined.

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And the key word is joined.

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There is something in him of me and

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in me of him.

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And I must see that.

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And I am responsible to have input into

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his life, not to just give him a

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list.

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I'm responsible to love him enough to speak

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to him concerning his or her life.

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I have noticed here, and I know you

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have too, that many of us here, when

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we testify for sometimes just for salvation's sake,

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a testimony or for baptism or for membership

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especially, many of us here say things like,

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I would really appreciate and I really desire

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to have input and correction and admonishment into

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my life.

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How many have ever said anything like that

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up in front of the congregation or maybe

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even in a prayer group or something?

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Okay, over half the group.

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Yet, I wonder how often this really happens.

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How do we do it?

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How do you receive it if it does

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happen?

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Who should do it?

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You know, there's questions that come.

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And today my prayer is that God, through

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the preaching of His Word and through His

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Spirit, would speak to your heart and my

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heart today.

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Well, now a moment ago I did mention,

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I just want to show you one thing

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here.

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The preaching and teaching, the bank of tapes

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we have here on all of these subjects

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of our beliefs and practices.

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But, you know, there's something we need to

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see even in that.

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I want to turn over to 2 Timothy

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for just a moment.

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2 Timothy 4.

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2 Timothy 4, let's see, verse 2, it

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says here, Paul is writing to Timothy about

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his job.

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He says, preach the Word.

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Well, that's been done.

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Be instant in season, out of season.

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Reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all longsuffering and

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doctrine.

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So, it seems here that Paul recognized that

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just preaching the Word, may I say, this

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was written to the church, is not enough.

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That after preaching and teaching, there naturally the

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pattern follows what?

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Reprove and rebuke.

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And it's not said here, but we know

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it is.

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It is part of the Christian life.

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After reproof and rebuke happens, and it's brought

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to the light, what happens?

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Hopefully, repentance, and then grace, and forgiveness, and

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restoration, all those things.

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So, if you can see this, it's not

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just, we can't just say, well, we have

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the teaching, we have the preaching, and amen

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for that.

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But after that, by definition of preaching, there

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needs follow, if the pattern is right here,

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and it is, reproof and rebuke.

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And then with that, when we see that

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we have erred or we're off, repentance, and

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then of course, grace and forgiveness, and those

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things follow.

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Turn over, since we're close to there, to

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Titus 2.15. I'm just giving you a

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couple of New Testament verses here to just

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add a little weight to your thoughts here

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this morning.

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And there's dozens and dozens of verses we

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could go to, but for sake of time,

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I won't.

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Titus 2.15 Titus 2.15 says, These

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things speak and exhort and rebuke with all

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authority.

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Let no man despise thee.

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This is strong medicine, isn't it?

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These aren't willy-nilly words, are they?

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You know, this isn't like, maybe should I

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do this or whatever.

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I mean, this is like rebuke with all

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authority.

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I mean, this is strong medicine.

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Turn back over to 1 Thessalonians.

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We looked at this a minute ago, but

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now I want you to see something else

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there in chapter 5.

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You know, the preacher is supposed to admonish,

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but look down in verse 14.

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Remembering that the word warn and rebuke and

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reprove and admonish are the same words here,

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same meanings.

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Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that

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are unruly.

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Comfort the feeble-minded and so on.

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And so here's a New Testament, and this

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is only one of many, commandment telling you,

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brethren, which includes the sisters, to admonish.

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To warn them.

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And what does unruly mean?

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Those that are out of order.

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Those that are not going the right way.

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Those that are drifting.

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Those that are off.

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Warn them.

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Which means to admonish or rebuke or reprove.

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And I could go on and on with

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a lot of other verses in the New

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Testament, but I won't do that right now

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for sake of time.

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I would like to look in Proverbs where

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many of these verses are found, but I

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wanted to set a New Testament foundation in

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your thinking.

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But there is something here that is very

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easy to look at.

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I don't think I'll have you look.

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I think I'll just read from my list

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to go a little bit quicker.

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But you just listen and make a note

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of this list.

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I'm going to give you five things, five

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biblical reasons why you must embrace, not just

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receive, but you must embrace rebuke or reproof

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in your life.

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Five biblical reasons.

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You write these down and you write down

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these verses quickly.

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Number one, these are five biblical reasons why

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you need to embrace rebuke.

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Number one, it will keep you out of

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ignorance.

550
00:23:07,970 --> 00:23:10,230
And I'm speaking of these things in a

551
00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:11,450
spiritual sense today.

552
00:23:11,830 --> 00:23:13,710
There's a physical side to this which we

553
00:23:13,710 --> 00:23:16,330
could talk about, but I won't today for

554
00:23:16,330 --> 00:23:16,910
sake of time.

555
00:23:16,970 --> 00:23:18,070
But you make the applications.

556
00:23:18,350 --> 00:23:19,970
But I'm talking about spiritual issues.

557
00:23:20,170 --> 00:23:21,350
It will keep you out of ignorance.

558
00:23:21,730 --> 00:23:23,830
And I could ask you the question today,

559
00:23:23,930 --> 00:23:25,990
brothers and sisters, and I know your theology

560
00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:27,430
is right, but I'll ask you anyway.

561
00:23:28,130 --> 00:23:30,570
Spiritually speaking, do you want to remain ignorant?

562
00:23:33,570 --> 00:23:36,110
I mean, really, in your heart, do you

563
00:23:36,110 --> 00:23:37,450
want to remain ignorant?

564
00:23:37,450 --> 00:23:40,570
I don't think so.

565
00:23:41,330 --> 00:23:46,770
Proverbs 12 says, Whoso loveth instruction, loveth knowledge.

566
00:23:47,010 --> 00:23:50,770
But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

567
00:23:51,110 --> 00:23:53,590
And brutish means ignorant, dull.

568
00:23:54,350 --> 00:23:56,570
So if you don't like it, if you

569
00:23:56,570 --> 00:24:00,790
cringe, you know, if you start sweating when

570
00:24:00,790 --> 00:24:03,430
somebody comes to you, I'm sorry, the Bible

571
00:24:03,430 --> 00:24:04,430
says you're brutish.

572
00:24:05,930 --> 00:24:07,290
God says that.

573
00:24:08,190 --> 00:24:10,030
Those are strong words, aren't they?

574
00:24:11,330 --> 00:24:14,590
Number two, well, there's another verse here.

575
00:24:14,670 --> 00:24:16,290
Proverbs 15, 31 and 32.

576
00:24:16,410 --> 00:24:17,210
Write that down.

577
00:24:17,490 --> 00:24:18,530
I'm just going to read 32.

578
00:24:18,870 --> 00:24:22,730
He that refuseth instruction, despiseth his own soul.

579
00:24:23,150 --> 00:24:27,430
But he that heareth reproof, getteth understanding.

580
00:24:28,590 --> 00:24:29,370
You following?

581
00:24:29,970 --> 00:24:30,990
So that's number one.

582
00:24:31,790 --> 00:24:33,210
It will keep you out of ignorance.

583
00:24:33,210 --> 00:24:37,410
Number two, it will prosper your way spiritually.

584
00:24:37,930 --> 00:24:40,890
It will prosper your way spiritually.

585
00:24:41,310 --> 00:24:42,470
Proverbs 13, 18.

586
00:24:43,470 --> 00:24:45,050
And again, do you want to grow?

587
00:24:45,830 --> 00:24:47,130
It's the same sort of question.

588
00:24:47,870 --> 00:24:49,030
Do you want to grow spiritually?

589
00:24:49,550 --> 00:24:50,790
You want to stay where you're at or

590
00:24:50,790 --> 00:24:51,410
do you want to grow?

591
00:24:52,130 --> 00:24:55,670
Proverbs 13, 18 says, Poverty and shame shall

592
00:24:55,670 --> 00:24:57,750
be to him that refuseth instruction.

593
00:24:58,190 --> 00:25:02,070
But he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.

594
00:25:02,070 --> 00:25:04,370
And the word honored there means it'll be

595
00:25:04,370 --> 00:25:05,710
multiplied unto him.

596
00:25:06,410 --> 00:25:08,150
There will be gain and increase.

597
00:25:08,490 --> 00:25:09,910
And make this spiritual application.

598
00:25:10,290 --> 00:25:13,590
To regard means to want it, to desire

599
00:25:13,590 --> 00:25:15,970
it, to look for it, actually.

600
00:25:17,010 --> 00:25:18,430
I wonder how many of us look for

601
00:25:18,430 --> 00:25:18,990
reproof.

602
00:25:20,570 --> 00:25:23,350
Three, and again, I'm making a spiritual application.

603
00:25:23,670 --> 00:25:25,390
It will keep you alive.

604
00:25:26,210 --> 00:25:28,370
Reproof will keep you alive.

605
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,050
Do you want to be spiritually alive?

606
00:25:32,970 --> 00:25:34,210
Or do you want to be dead?

607
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,840
Proverbs 15, 10 says, Correction is grievous unto

608
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,500
him that forsaketh the way.

609
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,820
And he that hateth reproof shall die.

610
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,300
Again, strong words, aren't they?

611
00:25:53,660 --> 00:25:54,540
Strong words.

612
00:25:54,940 --> 00:25:58,400
Four, it will keep you in God's will

613
00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,480
for your life.

614
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,960
Talking about reproof and rebuke.

615
00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:04,540
It will keep you in God's will for

616
00:26:04,540 --> 00:26:04,940
your life.

617
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,220
I know your theology.

618
00:26:06,380 --> 00:26:07,800
Again, if I were to ask you, Do

619
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,280
you want to be in God's will today?

620
00:26:09,420 --> 00:26:11,140
Everybody would raise their hand, wouldn't you?

621
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,900
Well, the Bible says in Proverbs 10, 17,

622
00:26:15,380 --> 00:26:18,220
He is in the way of life that

623
00:26:18,220 --> 00:26:19,560
keepeth instruction.

624
00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,520
But he that refuseth reproof erreth.

625
00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:26,360
Meaning, you will not find the way of

626
00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,080
life, the will of God, if you refuse.

627
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:29,980
Reproof.

628
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:30,880
You won't.

629
00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:33,360
You know, it's a Bible truth.

630
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:39,070
Five, desiring to embrace rebuke and reproof.

631
00:26:39,190 --> 00:26:41,870
It is a proof of your maturity.

632
00:26:42,270 --> 00:26:45,290
It is a sign of your growth and

633
00:26:45,290 --> 00:26:45,950
your maturity.

634
00:26:47,210 --> 00:26:52,450
Proverbs 17, A reproof entereth more into a

635
00:26:52,450 --> 00:26:55,530
wise man than a hundred stripes unto a

636
00:26:55,530 --> 00:26:55,810
fool.

637
00:26:58,270 --> 00:27:01,330
Proverbs 15, 12, A scorner, and a scorner

638
00:27:01,330 --> 00:27:02,930
is one who doesn't want reproof.

639
00:27:03,110 --> 00:27:05,690
A scorner loveth not the one that reproofeth

640
00:27:05,690 --> 00:27:05,950
him.

641
00:27:06,550 --> 00:27:09,370
Neither will he go unto the wise.

642
00:27:11,910 --> 00:27:12,750
Many verses.

643
00:27:12,930 --> 00:27:13,710
So many verses.

644
00:27:16,290 --> 00:27:19,450
So much of the heart of God in

645
00:27:19,450 --> 00:27:20,030
these things.

646
00:27:20,750 --> 00:27:22,290
Now, I do want to go back to

647
00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:23,830
the New Testament and show you a verse

648
00:27:23,830 --> 00:27:28,370
in Revelation so that we can again undergird

649
00:27:28,370 --> 00:27:29,770
ourselves and our thinking.

650
00:27:31,490 --> 00:27:33,770
On this side of the cross to make

651
00:27:33,770 --> 00:27:37,030
sure that we're seeing the heart of God

652
00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:38,550
and what God is trying to accomplish.

653
00:27:39,690 --> 00:27:42,530
Revelation 3, 19.

654
00:27:42,670 --> 00:27:46,710
Revelation chapter 3, verse 19.

655
00:27:49,590 --> 00:27:52,830
And here, if you know anything about the

656
00:27:52,830 --> 00:27:55,070
first three or four or five verses of

657
00:27:55,070 --> 00:27:57,450
the book of Revelation, it's written to the

658
00:27:57,450 --> 00:27:59,990
church and to things the church either should

659
00:27:59,990 --> 00:28:01,870
be doing or should not be doing.

660
00:28:02,950 --> 00:28:05,650
And Jesus speaks here in Revelation 3, 19

661
00:28:05,650 --> 00:28:08,670
and He says, As many as I love,

662
00:28:08,690 --> 00:28:10,930
and notice the word love, okay?

663
00:28:11,110 --> 00:28:12,370
This is where we are on this side

664
00:28:12,370 --> 00:28:13,870
of the cross and we're understanding how God

665
00:28:13,870 --> 00:28:15,870
deals with us and the reason and the

666
00:28:15,870 --> 00:28:17,950
motivation behind why He does things.

667
00:28:18,290 --> 00:28:24,170
As many as I love, I rebuke and

668
00:28:24,170 --> 00:28:24,690
chasten.

669
00:28:25,710 --> 00:28:29,050
Be zealous, therefore, and repent.

670
00:28:31,430 --> 00:28:33,670
And as I understand what Jesus is saying

671
00:28:33,670 --> 00:28:36,370
here, He means that most of this rebuking

672
00:28:36,370 --> 00:28:39,570
that is done in the New Testament age,

673
00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:41,570
and if you read all these information He

674
00:28:41,570 --> 00:28:43,930
gives about the church, is done by who?

675
00:28:44,490 --> 00:28:45,570
Directly by Jesus?

676
00:28:46,770 --> 00:28:47,850
Some is done that way.

677
00:28:47,910 --> 00:28:49,490
The Holy Spirit can rebuke us, can't He?

678
00:28:49,810 --> 00:28:51,670
But you know, it doesn't always work that

679
00:28:51,670 --> 00:28:51,810
way.

680
00:28:51,990 --> 00:28:54,070
Often it comes from the church.

681
00:28:55,130 --> 00:28:57,210
Often from other people in the church.

682
00:28:57,350 --> 00:29:01,090
Yes, from a sermon sometimes, but also from

683
00:29:01,090 --> 00:29:01,690
one another.

684
00:29:02,250 --> 00:29:03,970
And Jesus is saying, As many as I

685
00:29:03,970 --> 00:29:05,250
love, I rebuke.

686
00:29:05,470 --> 00:29:06,930
Who is His mouthpiece?

687
00:29:07,470 --> 00:29:08,690
Who are His hands?

688
00:29:08,790 --> 00:29:09,590
Who are His feet?

689
00:29:09,850 --> 00:29:12,570
Who does He use to rebuke and reprove?

690
00:29:13,890 --> 00:29:16,850
He uses you and I.

691
00:29:17,010 --> 00:29:21,970
He uses vessels fit for the Master's use.

692
00:29:22,090 --> 00:29:22,890
Think of this scene.

693
00:29:22,930 --> 00:29:23,670
Don't turn there.

694
00:29:23,670 --> 00:29:25,730
Think of this scene and just make an

695
00:29:25,730 --> 00:29:31,950
application here in John 13 there, where Jesus

696
00:29:31,950 --> 00:29:35,110
just finished washing the disciples' feet, and He

697
00:29:35,110 --> 00:29:37,590
says, Now you go and do likewise.

698
00:29:38,810 --> 00:29:40,010
You go and do likewise.

699
00:29:40,510 --> 00:29:42,090
And the application I want you to make

700
00:29:42,090 --> 00:29:45,270
is, one way in which disciples wash one

701
00:29:45,270 --> 00:29:50,650
another's disciples' feet is reproving and rebuking and

702
00:29:50,650 --> 00:29:51,790
warning and admonishing.

703
00:29:52,650 --> 00:29:55,510
Just as in physically, just as in the

704
00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:58,770
physical, when I wash a brother's feet, I

705
00:29:58,770 --> 00:30:01,510
don't want to get the water too hot

706
00:30:01,510 --> 00:30:02,970
and scald him, do I?

707
00:30:03,410 --> 00:30:04,990
But neither do I want to make it

708
00:30:04,990 --> 00:30:08,410
so cool and cold, it doesn't do the

709
00:30:08,410 --> 00:30:10,590
job and remove the dirt and the grime

710
00:30:10,590 --> 00:30:11,170
that's there.

711
00:30:11,930 --> 00:30:14,550
The point is, I need to humble myself

712
00:30:14,550 --> 00:30:16,970
and go to them and serve them and

713
00:30:16,970 --> 00:30:19,690
wash their feet and help them remove those

714
00:30:19,690 --> 00:30:21,170
things out of their lives.

715
00:30:21,170 --> 00:30:22,090
We must do that.

716
00:30:22,630 --> 00:30:25,410
So for a few minutes now, I want

717
00:30:25,410 --> 00:30:31,930
to look at the one who goes.

718
00:30:32,050 --> 00:30:34,370
I'm going to talk today about the one

719
00:30:34,370 --> 00:30:36,430
who goes a little bit, and I'm also

720
00:30:36,430 --> 00:30:38,930
going to talk about when it's our turn

721
00:30:38,930 --> 00:30:39,630
to receive.

722
00:30:40,010 --> 00:30:42,330
Because in the church, there should be both

723
00:30:42,330 --> 00:30:44,430
of those things happening in our life, right?

724
00:30:44,870 --> 00:30:47,190
Going and also then receiving.

725
00:30:47,670 --> 00:30:48,990
First, I'll talk about going.

726
00:30:49,610 --> 00:30:52,810
Talk about the one who sees the sin

727
00:30:52,810 --> 00:30:55,030
in his brother or sister's life.

728
00:30:55,150 --> 00:30:57,070
The one who sees the flat spot, sees

729
00:30:57,070 --> 00:31:04,200
the straying, sees the drifting, sees that there's

730
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,180
an area in the life and practice of

731
00:31:07,180 --> 00:31:10,580
this brother or sister in the church that

732
00:31:10,580 --> 00:31:11,380
is not right.

733
00:31:13,930 --> 00:31:15,690
And first, I think we need to admit,

734
00:31:15,890 --> 00:31:19,070
in our flesh, in our flesh, in our

735
00:31:19,070 --> 00:31:22,230
human tendency or weakness, none of us like

736
00:31:22,230 --> 00:31:23,590
to go, do we?

737
00:31:23,970 --> 00:31:25,910
You know, that's not the job we would

738
00:31:25,910 --> 00:31:26,830
sign up for.

739
00:31:27,210 --> 00:31:29,250
Or I hope it's not in your flesh.

740
00:31:29,310 --> 00:31:30,350
I mean, you know, in your weakness.

741
00:31:32,730 --> 00:31:35,050
That, you know, I don't want to do

742
00:31:35,050 --> 00:31:35,350
that.

743
00:31:36,270 --> 00:31:37,830
But I think if we will look at

744
00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:40,110
our own heart, we will have to admit

745
00:31:40,110 --> 00:31:42,810
that the root of that is fear of

746
00:31:42,810 --> 00:31:43,110
man.

747
00:31:44,470 --> 00:31:46,010
That's one of the problems, isn't it?

748
00:31:46,810 --> 00:31:48,470
We don't like to rock the boat.

749
00:31:49,290 --> 00:31:51,450
We want people to like us.

750
00:31:53,790 --> 00:31:55,770
And beyond that, if we pull the veil

751
00:31:55,770 --> 00:31:59,130
back really deep on our own heart, the

752
00:31:59,130 --> 00:32:01,670
real truth is that you may not realize,

753
00:32:02,210 --> 00:32:04,710
but I'm hoping you'll hear it today and

754
00:32:04,710 --> 00:32:06,010
get on the other side of it, is

755
00:32:06,010 --> 00:32:09,110
the real problem is too often we love

756
00:32:09,110 --> 00:32:11,190
ourselves more than our brother and sister.

757
00:32:13,740 --> 00:32:14,240
We do.

758
00:32:16,260 --> 00:32:18,500
We love ourselves more than our brother and

759
00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:18,800
sister.

760
00:32:19,060 --> 00:32:23,400
Because Jesus says, those that I love, I

761
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:23,920
rebuke.

762
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,200
Or as many as I loved.

763
00:32:25,620 --> 00:32:26,860
How many do you love here?

764
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,000
Just one?

765
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:30,980
How many do you say you love?

766
00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:36,720
I remember, let me illustrate it this way.

767
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,200
I remember back a number of years ago,

768
00:32:40,220 --> 00:32:41,580
I was living in Florida and I had

769
00:32:41,580 --> 00:32:42,120
a friend.

770
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,960
And he and his wife had children later

771
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,100
in life and for various reasons and had

772
00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:52,700
a little girl.

773
00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:54,660
Her name was Mandy.

774
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,060
And oh my, he was quote unquote proud

775
00:32:59,060 --> 00:32:59,800
of that little girl.

776
00:33:00,020 --> 00:33:04,060
And she got older and like little girls

777
00:33:04,060 --> 00:33:06,800
do, she suddenly wasn't the little angel she

778
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,260
was when she was two months old.

779
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,440
And she got to be two and three

780
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,360
and she was getting worse and worse.

781
00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:17,540
And you know, finally, I was talking to

782
00:33:17,540 --> 00:33:21,420
him and you know, just about children and

783
00:33:21,420 --> 00:33:21,820
all this.

784
00:33:21,980 --> 00:33:23,160
And he just kind of admitted.

785
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,940
He said, well, you know, the problem is

786
00:33:24,940 --> 00:33:27,480
really, I just can't.

787
00:33:27,580 --> 00:33:28,740
And you got to understand he's Southern.

788
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,400
So he said, I just can't whoop her.

789
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:31,700
I mean, that was his way he talked.

790
00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:33,200
So I just can't whoop her.

791
00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:35,020
I just can't do it, Rick.

792
00:33:35,580 --> 00:33:36,220
And I said, why?

793
00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:39,060
And he goes, I just love her too

794
00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:39,760
much.

795
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,680
But you know, he didn't.

796
00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:43,380
He loved himself.

797
00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:46,740
And she grew up a spoiled little girl.

798
00:33:47,020 --> 00:33:47,960
He just wouldn't do it.

799
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,040
Why wouldn't he do it?

800
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,060
Well, the problem was he didn't love her

801
00:33:51,060 --> 00:33:52,080
too much.

802
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,360
He loved himself.

803
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,020
And he didn't want to do it.

804
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,100
He didn't want to do, because we know

805
00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:00,400
what does the Bible say about that?

806
00:34:01,460 --> 00:34:03,900
If you love them, you will chase them

807
00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:05,500
for their sake.

808
00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:07,360
But he didn't do it for his own

809
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,219
sake, you know.

810
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,580
And so, we need to see this tendency

811
00:34:12,580 --> 00:34:13,639
in all of us.

812
00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:18,300
We need to see that as Christians, we

813
00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:23,040
are actually disobeying God when we do not

814
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,820
go to our brother or sister.

815
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,000
We actually have a responsibility to go.

816
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,639
And when we don't go, admonish.

817
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:31,639
We're disobeying God.

818
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,940
In Ezekiel 33.7, God says, So thou,

819
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:36,900
O son of man, I have set thee

820
00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:39,040
a watchman over the house of Israel.

821
00:34:39,179 --> 00:34:41,000
And we can make the spiritual application.

822
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:43,580
God's house today is the church, right?

823
00:34:44,139 --> 00:34:46,659
Therefore, thou shalt hear the word at my

824
00:34:46,659 --> 00:34:47,159
mouth.

825
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:47,960
And what?

826
00:34:48,580 --> 00:34:49,320
Warn them.

827
00:34:49,340 --> 00:34:50,560
And if you look it up, it means

828
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:51,739
admonish and rebuke.

829
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,620
Warn them from me.

830
00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:57,640
And the next verse goes on to say,

831
00:34:57,860 --> 00:35:01,280
And if you don't, and they perish, their

832
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,960
blood is on your hands.

833
00:35:03,220 --> 00:35:05,280
Now those are strong words again from the

834
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:05,820
Old Testament.

835
00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:07,720
But we're allowed to look back at the

836
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,300
Old Testament as examples, the New Testament says,

837
00:35:10,540 --> 00:35:13,880
and see the spiritual principle here that God,

838
00:35:13,940 --> 00:35:16,820
that there is a responsibility and an accountability

839
00:35:16,820 --> 00:35:20,480
that comes in the house of God, that

840
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:21,420
comes in the church.

841
00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:24,200
And we see that we have a responsibility

842
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:25,100
to do this.

843
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,840
Now, I can think of, I just have

844
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,440
to confess, I can think of failures of

845
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,880
my own, and I can think of failures

846
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,980
of our own as a church here at

847
00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:38,260
Ephrata and both when we were all back

848
00:35:38,260 --> 00:35:40,000
at charity, of individuals.

849
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,040
You know, if you think of the watchman,

850
00:35:42,220 --> 00:35:43,300
what is he supposed to do?

851
00:35:43,340 --> 00:35:45,100
He's on the walls and he's watching.

852
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:45,760
He's alert.

853
00:35:46,260 --> 00:35:47,040
He's attentive.

854
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:47,980
He's focused.

855
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,160
He's going to warn them for the sake

856
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:52,000
of the whole village.

857
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:53,340
It's not just for his sake.

858
00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:54,940
He's watching for dangers.

859
00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:59,880
But what if he doesn't warn because, well,

860
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:01,760
he either fell asleep or maybe he just

861
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,360
thought, you know, this doesn't look like that

862
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:04,520
big of a danger coming.

863
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:05,860
They'll laugh at me.

864
00:36:05,940 --> 00:36:07,380
They'll think I'm being foolish.

865
00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:09,620
They'll misunderstand me.

866
00:36:10,140 --> 00:36:12,180
I think this time I'm going to let

867
00:36:12,180 --> 00:36:12,760
it go.

868
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,600
But then the danger comes in and several

869
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,640
people perish because of those thoughts and that

870
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:19,420
attitude he had.

871
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,000
What do you think they would think of

872
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,340
that watchman after that?

873
00:36:23,420 --> 00:36:25,100
They'd say, shame on you.

874
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:26,380
Why didn't you come?

875
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:27,760
And what I was starting to say a

876
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,220
minute ago, I would have to say, I've

877
00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:32,200
seen examples here in our church and when

878
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:33,880
we were all together at charity where that

879
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,360
very thing happened where some of us saw

880
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,540
something that was off in someone's life.

881
00:36:39,620 --> 00:36:40,840
They were strained, you know.

882
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,300
And usually, we give ourselves away in outward

883
00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:43,680
things.

884
00:36:44,020 --> 00:36:46,060
I can't see your heart, can I?

885
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,040
But I can because the Bible says that

886
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,240
what's in your heart is going to come

887
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:50,500
out.

888
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,340
And you notice a different attitude, a difference

889
00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:55,960
in dress, starting to listen to other music,

890
00:36:56,220 --> 00:36:58,100
the car changes, start missing church.

891
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,720
Just things just start happening and you start

892
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,680
going, something is wrong.

893
00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:05,660
But what if you don't go to that

894
00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:06,060
person?

895
00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:10,120
Well, I have seen situations in our own

896
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,660
churches here where they end up falling into

897
00:37:12,660 --> 00:37:13,500
terrible sin.

898
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:16,040
And yes, shame on them for the sin,

899
00:37:16,140 --> 00:37:16,720
but you know what?

900
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,420
The Bible would say, God would say, shame

901
00:37:18,420 --> 00:37:19,700
on you, church.

902
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:21,760
You failed.

903
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:23,920
You failed.

904
00:37:24,020 --> 00:37:26,440
We join in some of that failure.

905
00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:28,360
And we need to see this as a

906
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,060
serious thing.

907
00:37:31,180 --> 00:37:33,000
And just let me help you here.

908
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,360
I don't have time to balance everything in

909
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,480
what I need to say today, so you

910
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,400
just give me some grace and pray that

911
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,880
the Spirit of God would fill in the

912
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:44,880
gaps in your minds.

913
00:37:45,380 --> 00:37:47,380
But we should see ourselves not in this

914
00:37:47,380 --> 00:37:49,640
role as a watchman, we should see ourselves

915
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,800
not as accusers, but counselors.

916
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:53,920
Okay?

917
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,280
And there's a difference.

918
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:56,900
We're not lawyers.

919
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:58,580
We're counselors.

920
00:37:58,740 --> 00:38:01,520
Counselors that rely on the Word of God

921
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,560
to take it to somebody and try to

922
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,500
bring light and understanding because obviously, they're not

923
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:08,840
seeing something here.

924
00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:10,960
There's something wrong happening here.

925
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,800
There's some sin happening here that's causing them

926
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:14,820
to go in this way.

927
00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:18,780
And so we need to see ourselves as

928
00:38:18,780 --> 00:38:19,340
counselors.

929
00:38:19,660 --> 00:38:22,000
That we are not to present ourselves as

930
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,440
a prosecuting attorney with a case to win,

931
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,960
but rather we are coming to restore in

932
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,240
love for the right reason.

933
00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:36,200
And the way that we urge them to

934
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,960
repent and to see this sin is very

935
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:41,480
important.

936
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,120
Our response to the sin in their life

937
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,120
should be carried out on the basis of

938
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,940
Revelation 3.19. Jesus said, as many as

939
00:38:49,940 --> 00:38:51,180
I love.

940
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,860
In other words, if that cannot be part

941
00:38:53,860 --> 00:38:57,860
of the motivation in your heart, warning, danger,

942
00:38:57,980 --> 00:38:59,300
there's something wrong with your heart.

943
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,780
Because we're not an attorney.

944
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,180
Think of it this way for a minute.

945
00:39:05,820 --> 00:39:07,000
God wants us to be...

946
00:39:08,140 --> 00:39:10,400
You can either be a lifeguard or you

947
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,380
can be a judge.

948
00:39:11,940 --> 00:39:14,820
Both deal with somebody that's doing something wrong.

949
00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:17,540
One pronounces a sentence and puts them away.

950
00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:20,720
The other sees them in trouble, goes out

951
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,220
and rescues them to bring them back to

952
00:39:22,220 --> 00:39:24,360
shore, but tells them, don't ever do that

953
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:24,700
again.

954
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:31,200
But there's that first attempt to rescue them.

955
00:39:31,340 --> 00:39:35,340
Think of Jesus and the Pharisees with the

956
00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:36,420
woman caught in adultery.

957
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,140
Many people read that story and they miss

958
00:39:38,140 --> 00:39:39,160
the whole point of the story.

959
00:39:39,580 --> 00:39:41,220
Did you realize that both Jesus and the

960
00:39:41,220 --> 00:39:43,200
Pharisees were after the exact same thing?

961
00:39:43,940 --> 00:39:45,600
They both wanted the same thing.

962
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,180
They wanted her to sin no more.

963
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,660
Jesus even finishes the whole thing there with

964
00:39:49,660 --> 00:39:52,020
the woman caught in adultery by saying, go

965
00:39:52,020 --> 00:39:54,160
and sin no more.

966
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,440
And what does no more mean?

967
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,280
He wasn't being soft milk toast.

968
00:40:00,420 --> 00:40:02,380
He was saying no more.

969
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,740
But He was being more of a lifeguard.

970
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:07,800
He was rescuing her.

971
00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:09,460
He says, I don't condemn you.

972
00:40:09,460 --> 00:40:11,000
He offered her forgiveness.

973
00:40:11,540 --> 00:40:12,840
He offered her grace.

974
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,400
He offered her life.

975
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:16,020
A lifeguard deals in life.

976
00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:18,540
A judge deals in putting people away.

977
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,700
The Pharisees wanted her to sin no more,

978
00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:23,180
so they used the law, which was okay.

979
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:24,300
This is sin.

980
00:40:24,580 --> 00:40:27,160
And the law demanded death.

981
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:28,860
We'll put her away.

982
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:31,820
We know how to deal with sin.

983
00:40:32,220 --> 00:40:33,240
We'll just put them away.

984
00:40:34,020 --> 00:40:36,640
Jesus also said, no more sin.

985
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:38,300
But He wanted to rescue.

986
00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:40,980
So, you know, you need to see yourself

987
00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:43,440
as a lifeguard rather than a judge.

988
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,260
May we see these things rightly.

989
00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:49,180
That's in John 8, if you want to

990
00:40:49,180 --> 00:40:50,020
look at it sometime.

991
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,300
Verses 10 and 11, I think.

992
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,420
Now, I want to go on here and

993
00:40:54,420 --> 00:41:00,140
I want to get very practical, I'll call

994
00:41:00,140 --> 00:41:02,460
it, very real, and just give you...

995
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,900
Don't already have your pen and paper out.

996
00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:06,260
Get it out, okay?

997
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:07,680
Get it out.

998
00:41:08,420 --> 00:41:09,960
Don't come to listen to one of Brother

999
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,320
Rick's sermons without pen and paper.

1000
00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:12,760
How's that?

1001
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,680
You know you're going to get a list

1002
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:17,720
sooner or later, right?

1003
00:41:19,460 --> 00:41:21,180
So, get your pen and paper out.

1004
00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:24,180
Now, I've already mentioned some of the things

1005
00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:25,620
I'm going to go over on this list,

1006
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,160
but take some notes on these things about

1007
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,700
the, may I say, the loving, biblical, proper

1008
00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:35,080
way to go to someone who is straying,

1009
00:41:35,460 --> 00:41:38,460
who is sinning, who is blind, who does

1010
00:41:38,460 --> 00:41:40,740
have a flat spot, who is drifting, however

1011
00:41:40,740 --> 00:41:42,440
you want to say it, away from the

1012
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,300
heart of the brotherhood and from the way

1013
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:45,780
that God wants them to go in their

1014
00:41:45,780 --> 00:41:46,140
life.

1015
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:49,060
Now, if this sermon...

1016
00:41:49,060 --> 00:41:50,480
I just want to give a warning to

1017
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,180
you because I know somebody's sitting here like

1018
00:41:52,180 --> 00:41:52,380
this.

1019
00:41:52,580 --> 00:41:55,600
If this sermon is scaring you, thinking, oh

1020
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,840
no, Brother Rick is going to pave the

1021
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,360
way for people to start coming to my

1022
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,160
life, you're already thinking wrong.

1023
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,820
You should be thinking, great!

1024
00:42:04,620 --> 00:42:06,700
This means I can be more like Christ.

1025
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,260
This means I'm going to be in the

1026
00:42:08,260 --> 00:42:08,540
way.

1027
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:10,180
This means I'm going to grow.

1028
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:11,460
Remember those five things?

1029
00:42:11,460 --> 00:42:12,960
Why you need to embrace rebuke?

1030
00:42:13,420 --> 00:42:15,080
Keep those back there.

1031
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:16,740
Don't forget that, okay?

1032
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,660
Don't forget that.

1033
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:21,780
Praise God.

1034
00:42:21,860 --> 00:42:23,100
We get to be more like Jesus.

1035
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:24,480
Okay, here's the list.

1036
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,300
Number one, pray, pray, pray.

1037
00:42:29,340 --> 00:42:29,780
Pray.

1038
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:30,640
Go to God.

1039
00:42:30,820 --> 00:42:31,520
Seek God.

1040
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,540
Pray, first of all, that God would help

1041
00:42:33,540 --> 00:42:35,380
you to remove the beam from your own

1042
00:42:35,380 --> 00:42:36,540
eye, right?

1043
00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:38,600
That you would cleanse your own heart.

1044
00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:40,800
God needs to use pure vessels.

1045
00:42:41,220 --> 00:42:42,180
Not perfect.

1046
00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:44,400
Not meaning that you and I are sinless.

1047
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,560
But we do need to clean our own

1048
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:46,960
heart up.

1049
00:42:47,020 --> 00:42:49,720
Make sure that your heart is pure and

1050
00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:50,600
your motive is pure.

1051
00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:52,140
And you can only do that, I think,

1052
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:53,080
if you start by praying.

1053
00:42:53,580 --> 00:42:56,340
Number two, seek biblical confirmation.

1054
00:42:56,860 --> 00:42:59,320
Number two, seek biblical confirmation.

1055
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,540
Trust the Word of God.

1056
00:43:01,860 --> 00:43:03,360
Ask God to show you in the Bible.

1057
00:43:03,420 --> 00:43:05,900
When you see somebody straying or in sin

1058
00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:08,120
or drifting and you're just thinking, what's wrong

1059
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:08,460
here?

1060
00:43:08,660 --> 00:43:09,940
Go to the Word of God.

1061
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,340
Seek confirmation.

1062
00:43:11,340 --> 00:43:14,240
Seek affirmation in the Word of God.

1063
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,260
The power of the Word of God to

1064
00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:19,760
restore the wayward should never be underestimated.

1065
00:43:20,940 --> 00:43:24,500
Number three, do not discuss with others.

1066
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,700
Do not discuss with others.

1067
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:28,720
You're still not hearing me.

1068
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,220
Do not discuss with others.

1069
00:43:33,060 --> 00:43:33,460
Okay?

1070
00:43:34,820 --> 00:43:36,120
Even with me.

1071
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,980
Don't come tell me until you've gone to

1072
00:43:40,980 --> 00:43:41,260
them.

1073
00:43:41,340 --> 00:43:42,960
Don't come and tell the ministry.

1074
00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:44,100
Go to them.

1075
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:45,880
Go to them.

1076
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,280
You don't need my approval.

1077
00:43:48,580 --> 00:43:49,160
You don't.

1078
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:50,300
Go to them.

1079
00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:50,900
You need God.

1080
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:51,640
You need to pray.

1081
00:43:52,020 --> 00:43:53,180
And if you're clear, go.

1082
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,540
Now, the only exception I'll make for this

1083
00:43:56,540 --> 00:43:57,580
is husbands and wives.

1084
00:43:57,720 --> 00:43:59,660
Now, realizing that husbands and wives are one,

1085
00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:02,460
sometimes you do need to make sure your

1086
00:44:02,460 --> 00:44:03,340
heart is clear.

1087
00:44:03,980 --> 00:44:05,980
And you know, with spouses, I understand those

1088
00:44:05,980 --> 00:44:06,240
things.

1089
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:07,700
We're one and all that.

1090
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,580
But to go tell other people in the

1091
00:44:09,580 --> 00:44:12,360
church, even the ministry, may I say, please

1092
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:13,160
don't do that.

1093
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:15,780
It doesn't bear any good fruit.

1094
00:44:16,260 --> 00:44:17,100
It really doesn't.

1095
00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:21,780
Four, get a burden for the person.

1096
00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:25,240
Number four, get a burden for the person.

1097
00:44:25,540 --> 00:44:27,560
Remember the lifeguard example.

1098
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:30,600
When the lifeguard sees the person beyond the

1099
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,800
ropes where they're supposed to be, they've broken

1100
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,740
the rules, does he sit there and write

1101
00:44:35,740 --> 00:44:37,660
up a report about the person breaking the

1102
00:44:37,660 --> 00:44:37,960
rule?

1103
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,240
Or does his heart go, oh no, they're

1104
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,920
in trouble and there's an immediate burden, right?

1105
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:44,600
He doesn't have to get a burden.

1106
00:44:44,860 --> 00:44:46,100
It just comes upon him.

1107
00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:48,020
Sometimes you and I aren't that good.

1108
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:49,580
We need to get a burden.

1109
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,740
Well, I don't know how you do it,

1110
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,760
but you can get a burden from God.

1111
00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:56,540
God can help you get the right burden

1112
00:44:56,540 --> 00:44:57,440
for somebody's heart.

1113
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,160
Weep for their sin.

1114
00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:00,500
You're not a judge.

1115
00:45:00,940 --> 00:45:03,380
Feel the weight of the issue in light

1116
00:45:03,380 --> 00:45:05,120
of eternity in the Kingdom of God.

1117
00:45:05,660 --> 00:45:06,880
Feel your love for them.

1118
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,080
Do not go as a judge in a

1119
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,300
critical manner.

1120
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:12,220
Get a burden.

1121
00:45:13,260 --> 00:45:15,740
Five, do not be reactionary.

1122
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,600
Do not just react, in other words.

1123
00:45:18,660 --> 00:45:21,400
In other words, sometimes you see something and

1124
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,160
you just sort of have a knee-jerk

1125
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:23,620
reaction.

1126
00:45:23,700 --> 00:45:25,180
You just run and go do something.

1127
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,240
And I've found often that it just doesn't

1128
00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:29,320
work out that way.

1129
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,180
It's just maybe, that's why you need to

1130
00:45:32,180 --> 00:45:33,400
go back to number one and pray.

1131
00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:35,560
You know, sometimes people see something and they

1132
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,240
just kind of react and you don't know

1133
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:39,920
what's going on.

1134
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,800
You haven't seen the whole picture yet.

1135
00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:43,100
And I know none of us can ever

1136
00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:44,360
see the whole picture, so I'm not using

1137
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:45,380
this one to get out of going.

1138
00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:46,860
But I'm just saying, you know, can you

1139
00:45:46,860 --> 00:45:50,480
just pause long enough to make sure you've

1140
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:51,780
prayed and you have a burden?

1141
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,500
You know, just take your time.

1142
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,680
Six, and this one goes along, seek appropriate

1143
00:45:58,680 --> 00:45:59,320
timing.

1144
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:01,960
You know, don't go up in the middle

1145
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,320
of a bunch of other people and, you

1146
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,260
know, boom, boom, boom, hit somebody with something.

1147
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,080
You know, seek appropriate timing and place.

1148
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,660
And by timing, I don't just mean take

1149
00:46:13,660 --> 00:46:14,420
too much time.

1150
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,300
I also mean don't wait too long.

1151
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,040
Because sometimes people see something in somebody's life

1152
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,520
and they wait and they wait and they

1153
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:21,700
wait.

1154
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:22,660
And you know one of the problems with

1155
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:25,120
waiting, besides the person's getting further away, is

1156
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,140
the more you wait, you get actually, I've

1157
00:46:28,140 --> 00:46:29,780
seen in some people's hearts, and even in

1158
00:46:29,780 --> 00:46:31,520
my own heart, you almost develop a critical

1159
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,100
spirit the longer you wait.

1160
00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:34,320
Isn't that sad?

1161
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:35,520
I don't know why that is.

1162
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,740
Human beings are strange creatures, some of the

1163
00:46:37,740 --> 00:46:38,380
things we do.

1164
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,140
But in the flesh, those things can happen.

1165
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:41,880
Don't let it...

1166
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,000
In other words, it festers.

1167
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:44,100
You know what I mean by festering?

1168
00:46:44,180 --> 00:46:45,380
You ever let a sore fester?

1169
00:46:45,780 --> 00:46:47,080
Don't take too long.

1170
00:46:47,260 --> 00:46:48,760
You need to find your balance in this

1171
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:49,040
thing.

1172
00:46:50,700 --> 00:46:52,860
Okay, seven, now you've gone to see them,

1173
00:46:53,140 --> 00:46:55,220
pray with the person first.

1174
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,240
Before you talk to them, if at all

1175
00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:01,260
possible, pause for prayer together.

1176
00:47:01,260 --> 00:47:04,100
You need somebody else there besides the two

1177
00:47:04,100 --> 00:47:04,380
of you.

1178
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:05,260
You need God there.

1179
00:47:05,340 --> 00:47:06,200
You need Christ there.

1180
00:47:06,260 --> 00:47:07,500
And you need to invite Him to come

1181
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:09,440
for His wisdom and His grace and His

1182
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:10,420
mercy and His love.

1183
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,780
Number eight, affirm your love for them.

1184
00:47:14,860 --> 00:47:16,120
And I don't know how you do this,

1185
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,900
but your spirit and your words need to

1186
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:23,000
affirm that you care for them, that you're

1187
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,220
concerned for them.

1188
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,440
You care about them as a person.

1189
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,720
You're not just there to boom, boom, boom,

1190
00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:33,000
lay down this issue, but you're there because

1191
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,060
you care about them as a person.

1192
00:47:36,860 --> 00:47:39,380
Number nine, be humble.

1193
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,220
You know, there's a spiritual principle in the

1194
00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:45,180
Bible in James where it says, God resisteth

1195
00:47:45,180 --> 00:47:47,580
the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

1196
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:49,460
You know, that's true between people.

1197
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:51,220
You know, it's hard to resist a humble

1198
00:47:51,220 --> 00:47:51,940
man, isn't it?

1199
00:47:52,060 --> 00:47:53,660
If somebody comes to you and they're humble,

1200
00:47:53,940 --> 00:47:55,620
it's almost like you can't help it.

1201
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:56,880
You're going to hear what they have to

1202
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,340
say because their spirit is humble and it's

1203
00:48:00,340 --> 00:48:02,420
like you just give them grace, don't you?

1204
00:48:03,260 --> 00:48:04,280
We're that way too.

1205
00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:06,560
There's a spiritual dynamic that happens even between

1206
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:07,340
you and I.

1207
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:07,980
So be humble.

1208
00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:10,820
Realize as you go, and in the back

1209
00:48:10,820 --> 00:48:12,040
of your mind, I know you know this,

1210
00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:13,480
but do you know when you go, you

1211
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:14,780
have some flat spots too?

1212
00:48:16,220 --> 00:48:16,560
You know?

1213
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,060
And you're not there to talk about yours,

1214
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,660
but I'm just saying, know who you are

1215
00:48:20,660 --> 00:48:21,460
as you go too.

1216
00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:22,420
You know?

1217
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,580
And if you know that, that'll help you

1218
00:48:24,580 --> 00:48:25,020
be humble.

1219
00:48:25,470 --> 00:48:26,180
Number 10.

1220
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,340
I'm not sure how to make this one

1221
00:48:30,340 --> 00:48:31,000
a short one.

1222
00:48:33,940 --> 00:48:35,480
This sort of goes along with something I

1223
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,900
already said about affirming love, but show that

1224
00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:41,160
you're interested in their life.

1225
00:48:45,060 --> 00:48:47,280
Maybe this is something you do before you

1226
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:47,800
go.

1227
00:48:48,420 --> 00:48:51,600
Make sure that you go in your mind

1228
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,280
with specific things that you actually appreciate about

1229
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,700
that person's life and even respect them about

1230
00:48:58,700 --> 00:48:59,380
their life.

1231
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,120
Because nobody, even if they're doing one part

1232
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,580
of their life is off, does that mean

1233
00:49:05,580 --> 00:49:06,620
that they're all bad?

1234
00:49:07,020 --> 00:49:07,320
No.

1235
00:49:07,620 --> 00:49:09,700
And sometimes we get so focused on the

1236
00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:12,480
negative thing, and it is wrong, and it

1237
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,180
does need admonishing that we don't open our

1238
00:49:16,180 --> 00:49:17,940
eyes to see the whole person.

1239
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,040
And I find that it helps me get

1240
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,800
out of this tunnel vision thing if I

1241
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,280
can go, well, you know, actually, I really

1242
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,780
appreciate this person and, you know, you can

1243
00:49:27,780 --> 00:49:29,880
make a list very easily.

1244
00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:33,100
I've learned from this person like that.

1245
00:49:33,380 --> 00:49:35,600
And somehow that just sort of gives you

1246
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,180
a balance in your heart and allows you

1247
00:49:38,180 --> 00:49:39,780
to go with more freedom and grace in

1248
00:49:39,780 --> 00:49:40,200
your heart.

1249
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:42,700
Number 11.

1250
00:49:44,500 --> 00:49:46,980
Try to be specific when you go.

1251
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,180
Try to give examples.

1252
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,260
Try not to generalize.

1253
00:49:51,340 --> 00:49:53,160
You know, it's pretty rough when you go

1254
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:54,640
to someone and say, well, I've just noticed

1255
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:56,740
things aren't right in your life.

1256
00:49:57,100 --> 00:49:58,300
And they'll say, what are you talking about?

1257
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:02,020
Well, just things aren't right, you know.

1258
00:50:02,180 --> 00:50:05,080
And that happens sometimes, but it doesn't work.

1259
00:50:06,020 --> 00:50:08,160
Now, you don't go with 20 examples because

1260
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,220
you're going to overwhelm them.

1261
00:50:09,380 --> 00:50:11,980
Okay, I can't balance everything I'm saying today,

1262
00:50:12,060 --> 00:50:15,000
but, you know, use some, not just common

1263
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,600
sense, but be sensitive in your heart.

1264
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,320
But you need to be specific enough that

1265
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,760
they understand because see, think of it this

1266
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:21,060
way.

1267
00:50:21,780 --> 00:50:23,880
It's a blind spot because if they're a

1268
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,160
spiritual person and they're walking with God and

1269
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,260
they saw it, you don't have to go

1270
00:50:29,260 --> 00:50:29,640
to them.

1271
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,960
The problem with a blind spot, if it's

1272
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:32,940
back here, guess what?

1273
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:34,760
I can't see it.

1274
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,560
And so when you go, don't be surprised

1275
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,820
if they don't see it at first because

1276
00:50:39,820 --> 00:50:43,220
they're blind or they're making themselves.

1277
00:50:43,300 --> 00:50:45,880
If it's really a serious root of sin,

1278
00:50:47,420 --> 00:50:49,440
they're purposefully not seeing it, but they're still

1279
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:50,160
not seeing it.

1280
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:57,900
Okay, number 12.

1281
00:50:58,900 --> 00:51:01,440
Encourage and exhort as you share.

1282
00:51:01,620 --> 00:51:03,360
Did you notice when he was talking to

1283
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,580
Timothy there and he said preach on it,

1284
00:51:05,580 --> 00:51:06,940
but the word exhort was in there and

1285
00:51:06,940 --> 00:51:08,300
I think in another verse we read.

1286
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,640
And the word exhort and encourage means at

1287
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,700
the same time that there's rebuking and reproofing,

1288
00:51:14,460 --> 00:51:18,180
there's also some encouragement given there, you know,

1289
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,420
about their life and about who they are

1290
00:51:20,420 --> 00:51:22,140
and how they're needed in the body of

1291
00:51:22,140 --> 00:51:22,620
Christ.

1292
00:51:22,620 --> 00:51:25,680
And, you know, there's words of exhortation and

1293
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,640
come on, yeah, you know, given with that

1294
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,960
because they need to hear all those things

1295
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:31,480
as well.

1296
00:51:32,020 --> 00:51:34,560
13, and this one goes together, go in

1297
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:34,980
faith.

1298
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:36,900
Go in faith.

1299
00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:38,840
Don't go with a defeated attitude.

1300
00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:40,760
They can read you like a book.

1301
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:42,980
You know, go in faith.

1302
00:51:44,140 --> 00:51:45,980
Believing better things of them.

1303
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,700
Being persuaded in faith that they will see

1304
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:51,540
what God needs them to see.

1305
00:51:52,660 --> 00:51:54,320
Brother Dean, that they'll see it.

1306
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:56,600
Go in faith that they'll see it.

1307
00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:58,660
Not just hear, but that they'll see it.

1308
00:51:59,060 --> 00:51:59,840
Have some faith.

1309
00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:02,060
Be persuaded of better things of them.

1310
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,120
Don't go thinking, you know what?

1311
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:05,400
They're not going to see this.

1312
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:09,820
You know, if you're like that, I'm sorry.

1313
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:11,760
There's something wrong with your heart.

1314
00:52:12,540 --> 00:52:13,340
Go in faith.

1315
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:14,600
Go in faith.

1316
00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:20,300
14, do not exaggerate to try to make

1317
00:52:20,300 --> 00:52:20,780
a point.

1318
00:52:20,780 --> 00:52:24,240
Don't use broad, sweeping statements like, well, I've

1319
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:25,820
noticed that you always...

1320
00:52:26,860 --> 00:52:27,780
fill in the blank.

1321
00:52:27,900 --> 00:52:28,860
Or you never...

1322
00:52:29,740 --> 00:52:32,380
because first of all, nobody always does anything,

1323
00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:32,760
do they?

1324
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,000
You know, so once you start doing that,

1325
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:36,480
they're going to shut you off and think

1326
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:37,760
this person doesn't know me.

1327
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:39,180
Because I don't always...

1328
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,740
whatever it is that they're coming to rebuke

1329
00:52:41,740 --> 00:52:42,080
you about.

1330
00:52:42,700 --> 00:52:44,400
You know, don't exaggerate.

1331
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:47,720
Now, sometimes as humans, we're so tempted to

1332
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:49,680
try to make our point, we want to

1333
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,120
drive it home, we think we have to

1334
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,240
add some juice to it, you know.

1335
00:52:55,420 --> 00:52:56,820
We have the Holy Spirit.

1336
00:52:58,240 --> 00:52:58,720
Right?

1337
00:52:58,880 --> 00:52:59,760
We have the Bible.

1338
00:53:00,300 --> 00:53:01,640
You don't need to do that.

1339
00:53:02,220 --> 00:53:03,240
Let God do that.

1340
00:53:03,380 --> 00:53:05,920
Because if God doesn't come, and the Spirit

1341
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,320
of God isn't at work anyway, it doesn't

1342
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:09,920
matter what you say, you know.

1343
00:53:12,060 --> 00:53:13,760
Number 15, pray.

1344
00:53:14,940 --> 00:53:16,620
Pray with them at the end if you

1345
00:53:16,620 --> 00:53:18,540
can, and afterwards, you pray.

1346
00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:20,560
That God will finish the work.

1347
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,320
Because you want God to do the work,

1348
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:22,720
don't you?

1349
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,200
You may be God's mouthpiece.

1350
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,700
You may be the one God is using

1351
00:53:26,700 --> 00:53:30,000
to do this, but pray that God will

1352
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:30,640
do the work.

1353
00:53:30,720 --> 00:53:31,680
That God will finish the work.

1354
00:53:31,740 --> 00:53:34,400
For that person's sake, but also for the

1355
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:35,440
sake of the church, right?

1356
00:53:36,700 --> 00:53:36,940
Amen?

1357
00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:38,680
Okay.

1358
00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:46,240
Alright, now, throw the switch with me.

1359
00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:47,800
Can we leave that for...

1360
00:53:48,380 --> 00:53:49,400
just leave that list.

1361
00:53:49,460 --> 00:53:50,900
Let's just throw the switch now.

1362
00:53:50,900 --> 00:53:52,580
Get on the other side.

1363
00:53:53,060 --> 00:53:56,270
Now, receiving.

1364
00:53:58,990 --> 00:54:01,570
Receiving admonishment, correction, rebuke.

1365
00:54:02,130 --> 00:54:04,010
Someone comes to you and you hear that

1366
00:54:04,010 --> 00:54:06,490
phrase, I have something to share with you.

1367
00:54:07,870 --> 00:54:09,970
I would like to talk with you sometime.

1368
00:54:11,710 --> 00:54:15,850
Unfortunately, most of us in our flesh, our

1369
00:54:15,850 --> 00:54:16,910
heart begins to flutter.

1370
00:54:17,470 --> 00:54:18,830
Our neck muscles tighten.

1371
00:54:19,550 --> 00:54:22,350
Breathing becomes a little difficult for a few

1372
00:54:22,350 --> 00:54:22,770
minutes.

1373
00:54:23,310 --> 00:54:27,670
Because most of us in our flesh, we

1374
00:54:27,670 --> 00:54:30,150
don't like to be shown in an unfavorable

1375
00:54:30,150 --> 00:54:30,990
light, do we?

1376
00:54:31,750 --> 00:54:33,110
It's uncomfortable.

1377
00:54:33,830 --> 00:54:37,390
It doesn't feel good.

1378
00:54:40,990 --> 00:54:44,070
We want people to think the best of

1379
00:54:44,070 --> 00:54:44,290
us.

1380
00:54:44,390 --> 00:54:46,710
We want to be shown in a favorable

1381
00:54:46,710 --> 00:54:47,130
light.

1382
00:54:49,940 --> 00:54:55,220
The truth is, in our old man, we

1383
00:54:55,220 --> 00:54:56,900
have a distaste for correction.

1384
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,420
How many people really like to be told

1385
00:55:03,420 --> 00:55:07,260
that they're wrong in the flesh or in

1386
00:55:07,260 --> 00:55:07,800
the old man?

1387
00:55:08,180 --> 00:55:09,300
It's just not there.

1388
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,440
We do not always appreciate someone telling us

1389
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:14,260
that we have erred.

1390
00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:17,500
But there's a very important principle you need

1391
00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:18,540
to get, beloved, here.

1392
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:22,300
This doesn't work.

1393
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,060
There's a very important principle you need to

1394
00:55:28,060 --> 00:55:28,480
get here.

1395
00:55:32,910 --> 00:55:37,390
Constructive correction, I'll call it, admonishment, but I'll

1396
00:55:37,390 --> 00:55:42,340
use the phrase constructive correction, is going to

1397
00:55:42,340 --> 00:55:43,460
do one of two things.

1398
00:55:57,510 --> 00:56:03,840
It's going to devastate or develop.

1399
00:56:11,130 --> 00:56:12,250
It depends...

1400
00:56:12,250 --> 00:56:12,930
Now here's the key.

1401
00:56:13,150 --> 00:56:15,470
It depends totally on you.

1402
00:56:15,850 --> 00:56:17,930
Not on the person that comes.

1403
00:56:18,650 --> 00:56:20,770
I'm sorry, you can't put it off on

1404
00:56:20,770 --> 00:56:21,010
them.

1405
00:56:21,010 --> 00:56:25,930
It depends on you, on how you choose

1406
00:56:25,930 --> 00:56:27,470
to receive it.

1407
00:56:27,770 --> 00:56:30,890
Whether it will devastate you or develop you.

1408
00:56:32,010 --> 00:56:33,790
But it is your choice.

1409
00:56:34,730 --> 00:56:36,830
It is not the choice of the person.

1410
00:56:37,290 --> 00:56:39,110
It is not the way they delivered it.

1411
00:56:39,350 --> 00:56:41,450
It is not everything they said or didn't

1412
00:56:41,450 --> 00:56:41,790
say.

1413
00:56:42,190 --> 00:56:45,650
The choice of whether constructive criticism or correction

1414
00:56:47,150 --> 00:56:51,710
devastates you or develops you is up to

1415
00:56:51,710 --> 00:56:52,210
you.

1416
00:56:52,510 --> 00:56:53,750
How you choose.

1417
00:56:55,510 --> 00:56:57,970
You know, I know your theology is right.

1418
00:56:58,130 --> 00:57:00,270
Most of us would say we're open to

1419
00:57:00,270 --> 00:57:03,250
correction, but again, the sad truth is too

1420
00:57:03,250 --> 00:57:06,190
many of you and me, we are too

1421
00:57:06,190 --> 00:57:07,530
easily bruised.

1422
00:57:09,050 --> 00:57:10,950
We're too easily bruised.

1423
00:57:13,540 --> 00:57:14,940
You know, I can think of my own

1424
00:57:14,940 --> 00:57:15,400
life.

1425
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,220
Sometimes after I preach a message, someone can

1426
00:57:18,220 --> 00:57:20,520
say to me, oh, you know, our emotions

1427
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,380
that are part of the old man anyway

1428
00:57:22,380 --> 00:57:23,880
are tricky things.

1429
00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:27,700
Someone can say to me, oh, your message

1430
00:57:27,700 --> 00:57:28,260
was good.

1431
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:29,640
It really changed my life.

1432
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,540
Well, spiritually I'm blessed, but sometimes my emotions

1433
00:57:32,540 --> 00:57:34,240
get involved and I go, oh, good.

1434
00:57:34,780 --> 00:57:36,420
You know, three minutes later though, I've had

1435
00:57:36,420 --> 00:57:37,660
somebody come up to me on the same

1436
00:57:37,660 --> 00:57:39,300
message and say, I didn't agree with the

1437
00:57:39,300 --> 00:57:40,080
thing you've said.

1438
00:57:40,140 --> 00:57:40,740
You're wrong.

1439
00:57:41,140 --> 00:57:45,640
And my emotions want to go, boom, right

1440
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:46,000
down.

1441
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:50,140
Emotions are, they're not stable.

1442
00:57:50,260 --> 00:57:51,820
You cannot trust those things.

1443
00:57:52,300 --> 00:57:54,620
And if you do, you will find yourself

1444
00:57:54,620 --> 00:57:55,960
too easily bruised.

1445
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:57,240
It happens.

1446
00:57:58,620 --> 00:57:59,780
But we're spiritual.

1447
00:57:59,980 --> 00:58:01,480
We want to walk in the new man.

1448
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,440
We want to make the right choices by

1449
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,060
the Spirit of God and by the power

1450
00:58:06,060 --> 00:58:06,300
of God.

1451
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,640
Remember, you're not able to admonish, but may

1452
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,160
I say, you are able to receive it.

1453
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,220
God would not give you something you couldn't

1454
00:58:13,220 --> 00:58:13,580
handle.

1455
00:58:13,940 --> 00:58:16,820
There wouldn't be all these commandments to give

1456
00:58:16,820 --> 00:58:18,600
it if God knew it was just going

1457
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,180
to crush and devastate everybody.

1458
00:58:20,380 --> 00:58:21,340
You ever think about it that way?

1459
00:58:21,340 --> 00:58:25,640
God knows you not only need it, you

1460
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:26,480
can handle it.

1461
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,980
If you choose to develop rather than devastate.

1462
00:58:30,980 --> 00:58:32,920
We need to see these things right.

1463
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:37,800
Turn to Proverbs 3.

1464
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:41,120
Proverbs 3.

1465
00:58:44,940 --> 00:58:46,460
Verse 11 and 12.

1466
00:58:46,540 --> 00:58:47,960
Proverbs 3, 11 and 12.

1467
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:54,140
Why don't we stand?

1468
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:55,360
Why don't you stand with me?

1469
00:58:56,460 --> 00:58:58,880
Proverbs 3, 11 and 12.

1470
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:05,230
And let's read these two verses together.

1471
00:59:06,540 --> 00:59:08,440
Proverbs 3, 11 and 12.

1472
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,760
My son, despise not the chastening of the

1473
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:16,060
Lord, neither be weary of His correction.

1474
00:59:16,580 --> 00:59:20,640
For whom the Lord loveth, He correcteth, even

1475
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:23,600
as a father the son in whom He

1476
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:24,480
delighteth.

1477
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:25,720
Isn't that wonderful?

1478
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:27,360
Okay, you may be seated.

1479
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:32,460
Now, the word despise here means put it

1480
00:59:32,460 --> 00:59:33,980
off or throw it away.

1481
00:59:35,380 --> 00:59:37,480
So He's saying, My son, don't throw this

1482
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:38,240
stuff away.

1483
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,920
Don't throw it away, the chastening and the

1484
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:43,660
correction of the Lord.

1485
00:59:44,260 --> 00:59:47,120
Because when He brings it your way, He's

1486
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,560
doing it because He delighteth in you.

1487
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,180
Our thinking with our emotions are all wrong.

1488
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,260
We're thinking, Oh no, woe is me, poor

1489
00:59:55,260 --> 00:59:55,660
me.

1490
00:59:55,860 --> 00:59:57,240
I'm getting picked on.

1491
00:59:58,540 --> 01:00:00,760
And God is saying, No, I'm delighting in

1492
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:00,980
you.

1493
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:02,900
Don't put it away.

1494
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:05,460
Don't let your emotions rule you.

1495
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,820
God is saying you need in your Christian

1496
01:00:09,820 --> 01:00:12,620
life Proverbs 3, 11 moments.

1497
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:14,100
I've had them.

1498
01:00:14,340 --> 01:00:16,360
Have you had any Proverbs 3, 11 moments

1499
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,180
in your Christian life which have defined and

1500
01:00:19,180 --> 01:00:23,460
changed and put a juncture, a change in

1501
01:00:23,460 --> 01:00:24,740
the direction of your Christian life?

1502
01:00:24,820 --> 01:00:25,480
I have.

1503
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,200
And I can say that I'm different because

1504
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,340
God has delighted in me with some Proverbs

1505
01:00:32,340 --> 01:00:35,560
3, 11 moments when I've seen it as

1506
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:37,940
the hand of God reaching down, delighting in

1507
01:00:37,940 --> 01:00:38,240
me.

1508
01:00:38,380 --> 01:00:39,340
And it's changed.

1509
01:00:39,420 --> 01:00:41,120
Even since I've been in the ministry, I

1510
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:42,420
remember I've made some mistakes.

1511
01:00:42,500 --> 01:00:43,960
The first sermon I ever preached, I made

1512
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:44,640
a mistake on.

1513
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:46,400
It was a bad mistake.

1514
01:00:46,980 --> 01:00:48,620
And poor brother Aaron had to come to

1515
01:00:48,620 --> 01:00:48,720
me.

1516
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,660
Sweet brother Aaron.

1517
01:00:50,860 --> 01:00:51,680
And rebuke me.

1518
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:53,700
You know, how'd you like that for you

1519
01:00:53,700 --> 01:00:55,020
to be your first sermon at charity?

1520
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:57,520
And he had to rebuke me.

1521
01:00:57,620 --> 01:00:58,560
And I made a mistake.

1522
01:01:00,980 --> 01:01:02,320
And you know, at first I was like,

1523
01:01:02,420 --> 01:01:03,280
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

1524
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:04,820
But then I went, okay, wait a minute.

1525
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:10,300
And it was a Proverbs 3, 11.

1526
01:01:10,380 --> 01:01:11,900
I saw it as the hand of God.

1527
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:13,300
And I needed it.

1528
01:01:14,020 --> 01:01:16,880
And I thank God for that moment in

1529
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:18,640
my life, that Proverbs 3, 11 moment.

1530
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:20,520
I've had others in the ministry.

1531
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:21,540
I've had others in my life.

1532
01:01:21,620 --> 01:01:22,820
And I'm thankful for those moments.

1533
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,360
Even in my job, in my work life,

1534
01:01:25,380 --> 01:01:25,860
I've had it.

1535
01:01:31,110 --> 01:01:33,770
Okay, well, I need to move on here.

1536
01:01:34,050 --> 01:01:35,530
But remember this whole thing.

1537
01:01:35,890 --> 01:01:39,250
You need these Proverbs 3, 11 moments in

1538
01:01:39,250 --> 01:01:39,770
your life.

1539
01:01:41,210 --> 01:01:43,690
You should be very worried if you don't

1540
01:01:43,690 --> 01:01:44,510
have very many.

1541
01:01:44,810 --> 01:01:46,390
If you can think back over the last

1542
01:01:46,390 --> 01:01:47,830
five years and you've only had one or

1543
01:01:47,830 --> 01:01:51,830
two, there's something wrong with you, but there's

1544
01:01:51,830 --> 01:01:53,050
something wrong with our church too.

1545
01:01:53,110 --> 01:01:54,370
And that's why I'm preaching this message.

1546
01:01:54,490 --> 01:01:55,930
There's something wrong with our church.

1547
01:01:56,270 --> 01:01:57,030
That's the admonishment.

1548
01:01:57,210 --> 01:01:58,150
There's something wrong.

1549
01:01:58,770 --> 01:01:59,750
There's something wrong.

1550
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,800
Now again, I want to try to make

1551
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,840
this as practical as I can with this

1552
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:07,160
list.

1553
01:02:07,220 --> 01:02:08,760
So keep your pen and paper out.

1554
01:02:09,660 --> 01:02:11,240
Now I'm going to try as I do

1555
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:11,660
this.

1556
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,100
I spoke to my wife a couple of

1557
01:02:15,100 --> 01:02:15,480
days ago.

1558
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:16,760
I think it was two or three days

1559
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:18,980
ago because I felt that there's a tendency

1560
01:02:19,580 --> 01:02:21,900
in how we receive things that sometimes I've

1561
01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:23,140
noted over the years.

1562
01:02:23,140 --> 01:02:24,260
And I checked it with her and she

1563
01:02:24,260 --> 01:02:24,900
said I was right.

1564
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:28,260
That women and men have certain tendencies when

1565
01:02:28,260 --> 01:02:29,260
they receive rebuke.

1566
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:31,240
Many of them are the same, but there's

1567
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:32,800
some that are a bit more unique.

1568
01:02:32,980 --> 01:02:34,860
Although again, a lot of them cross over.

1569
01:02:35,180 --> 01:02:36,880
So I'm going to divide these up at

1570
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,260
times a little bit between the men and

1571
01:02:39,260 --> 01:02:39,580
the women.

1572
01:02:39,900 --> 01:02:41,580
But if it applies to you anyway, don't

1573
01:02:41,580 --> 01:02:43,740
let that exclude you because some cross over.

1574
01:02:44,420 --> 01:02:46,600
And so remember, this is not just a

1575
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:47,020
list.

1576
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:49,840
This one especially more than the other list

1577
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:51,160
is a searching.

1578
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:53,720
It is a searching from the heart of

1579
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:54,680
God to your heart.

1580
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:56,080
It is a searching.

1581
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,140
And there's going to be people in this

1582
01:02:58,140 --> 01:03:00,440
room I know that need to repent.

1583
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:02,780
You know, I just tell you, I know

1584
01:03:02,780 --> 01:03:03,940
some of you need to as you hear

1585
01:03:03,940 --> 01:03:05,720
this list, you need to allow the Spirit

1586
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:07,860
of God to search your heart and you

1587
01:03:07,860 --> 01:03:08,440
need to repent.

1588
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,680
Because you want, you need, I beg of

1589
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:13,720
you, to let God delight in you so

1590
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:15,620
that you can have a Proverbs 311 moment.

1591
01:03:16,060 --> 01:03:16,480
You do.

1592
01:03:18,260 --> 01:03:19,160
Okay, number one.

1593
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,300
Having an unapproachable attitude.

1594
01:03:27,410 --> 01:03:30,530
Did you know that people can tell whether

1595
01:03:30,530 --> 01:03:31,590
or not you're approachable?

1596
01:03:31,930 --> 01:03:33,890
People can tell whether or not you're touchable?

1597
01:03:34,370 --> 01:03:35,370
People can tell.

1598
01:03:35,390 --> 01:03:36,910
You don't have to say a word and

1599
01:03:36,910 --> 01:03:38,870
people can tell by the Spirit you give

1600
01:03:38,870 --> 01:03:39,170
off.

1601
01:03:39,870 --> 01:03:41,750
I'm satisfied with my life.

1602
01:03:42,270 --> 01:03:43,430
Do not speak into my...

1603
01:03:43,430 --> 01:03:44,730
It's like you're wearing a sign.

1604
01:03:45,190 --> 01:03:46,330
Do not touch me.

1605
01:03:47,030 --> 01:03:48,690
We give off those vibrations.

1606
01:03:48,890 --> 01:03:49,350
We can't.

1607
01:03:49,390 --> 01:03:50,770
Isn't that sad that we can do that?

1608
01:03:51,450 --> 01:03:52,150
Shame on us.

1609
01:03:52,150 --> 01:03:54,750
But you know, and I'm not generalizing here

1610
01:03:54,750 --> 01:03:55,130
or out there.

1611
01:03:55,190 --> 01:03:57,550
I'm saying in our church, in our churches,

1612
01:03:57,610 --> 01:03:59,390
in our circles, in this church, there are

1613
01:03:59,390 --> 01:04:00,770
people that have this attitude.

1614
01:04:01,630 --> 01:04:02,550
Do not touch me.

1615
01:04:03,650 --> 01:04:04,770
Now, they've never said that.

1616
01:04:05,290 --> 01:04:06,970
Their theology would be perfect.

1617
01:04:07,390 --> 01:04:08,930
They would never dare to say that.

1618
01:04:09,290 --> 01:04:10,970
But they give off that attitude.

1619
01:04:11,350 --> 01:04:12,350
Do not touch me.

1620
01:04:13,810 --> 01:04:14,990
Oh, you need to repent.

1621
01:04:15,630 --> 01:04:16,670
Oh, you need to repent.

1622
01:04:18,710 --> 01:04:19,790
You know, I'm just going to stick my

1623
01:04:19,790 --> 01:04:22,470
neck out and just tell you, please, beg

1624
01:04:22,470 --> 01:04:24,150
you, you need to repent.

1625
01:04:25,090 --> 01:04:27,490
Because you think nobody knows, but you'd be

1626
01:04:27,490 --> 01:04:28,890
surprised how many people know.

1627
01:04:29,310 --> 01:04:30,310
And you've never said a word.

1628
01:04:30,710 --> 01:04:31,550
But they read you.

1629
01:04:31,650 --> 01:04:32,410
They read your spirit.

1630
01:04:33,790 --> 01:04:34,690
Do you need to repent?

1631
01:04:35,270 --> 01:04:37,310
Can you truly say you want correction?

1632
01:04:37,750 --> 01:04:39,930
As you're sitting here, can you say you

1633
01:04:39,930 --> 01:04:40,730
are touchable?

1634
01:04:42,090 --> 01:04:44,690
Can you say that before God honestly?

1635
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:52,700
Number two, crying out of hurt.

1636
01:04:52,820 --> 01:04:55,000
And this one tends to be a tendency

1637
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,300
of the sisters a bit more.

1638
01:04:57,140 --> 01:04:58,380
Crying out of hurt.

1639
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:03,480
They shed tears immediately upon the rebuke coming,

1640
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,760
not of repentance, not of sorrow over sin,

1641
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,240
but of bruised feelings and hurt.

1642
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,340
And when somebody starts doing that, it's hard

1643
01:05:12,340 --> 01:05:12,900
to finish.

1644
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:14,620
May I say?

1645
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,380
Because what they're really saying is, don't touch

1646
01:05:17,380 --> 01:05:17,680
me.

1647
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:21,300
Because their feelings are bruised.

1648
01:05:24,750 --> 01:05:28,290
I've watched Helen train our girls in the

1649
01:05:28,290 --> 01:05:30,710
home, our older girls, not to do this

1650
01:05:30,710 --> 01:05:32,170
as she goes to them or I go

1651
01:05:32,170 --> 01:05:34,830
to them, because she says, girls, someday, Lord

1652
01:05:34,830 --> 01:05:35,910
willing, you'll have a husband.

1653
01:05:36,050 --> 01:05:37,830
And can you imagine you have this wonderful,

1654
01:05:37,950 --> 01:05:40,050
tenderhearted husband, and every time he tries to

1655
01:05:40,050 --> 01:05:44,030
come to you, you start crying because your

1656
01:05:44,030 --> 01:05:44,750
feelings are hurt.

1657
01:05:44,990 --> 01:05:46,110
You know, after two or three times, you

1658
01:05:46,110 --> 01:05:46,890
know what he's going to do?

1659
01:05:47,650 --> 01:05:48,610
He's going to stop coming.

1660
01:05:49,430 --> 01:05:51,130
And then your life is really going to

1661
01:05:51,130 --> 01:05:53,570
be a mess because you've just blocked the

1662
01:05:53,570 --> 01:05:55,570
person closest to you from coming to you.

1663
01:05:55,710 --> 01:05:56,990
Because he's tenderhearted.

1664
01:05:57,150 --> 01:05:58,370
I mean, he's not going to make you

1665
01:05:58,370 --> 01:05:58,790
cry.

1666
01:05:58,950 --> 01:06:00,930
What husband wants to make his wife cry?

1667
01:06:01,690 --> 01:06:01,930
You know?

1668
01:06:03,490 --> 01:06:04,990
It's not right.

1669
01:06:05,670 --> 01:06:06,430
It's not right.

1670
01:06:08,010 --> 01:06:10,010
God can help you overcome that, sisters.

1671
01:06:10,670 --> 01:06:11,230
God can.

1672
01:06:11,870 --> 01:06:12,550
Number three.

1673
01:06:13,730 --> 01:06:16,950
I'll just call this one being personally offended.

1674
01:06:17,530 --> 01:06:19,030
Being personally offended.

1675
01:06:19,390 --> 01:06:20,450
And I'll explain it here.

1676
01:06:20,450 --> 01:06:22,370
I think the root of this is somewhat

1677
01:06:22,370 --> 01:06:23,010
pride.

1678
01:06:23,490 --> 01:06:25,710
But you're offended at the person for even

1679
01:06:25,710 --> 01:06:26,370
coming to you.

1680
01:06:26,510 --> 01:06:28,430
This one, men tend to, I think, have

1681
01:06:28,430 --> 01:06:29,290
a little bit more.

1682
01:06:29,570 --> 01:06:31,950
And you can tell they're offended just that

1683
01:06:31,950 --> 01:06:34,910
you came even before you're halfway done.

1684
01:06:36,790 --> 01:06:38,290
And they stop hearing you.

1685
01:06:38,510 --> 01:06:40,370
They might even cut you off or cut

1686
01:06:40,370 --> 01:06:43,570
you short and say things like, I'm offended.

1687
01:06:44,950 --> 01:06:45,830
I'm offended.

1688
01:06:47,050 --> 01:06:49,070
And you know, as you hear what God

1689
01:06:49,070 --> 01:06:51,610
wants for rebuke, there is no room in

1690
01:06:51,610 --> 01:06:52,730
there for offense.

1691
01:06:52,830 --> 01:06:53,310
I'm sorry.

1692
01:06:53,950 --> 01:06:56,470
Because once you do that, you've just cut

1693
01:06:56,470 --> 01:06:59,190
off the flow of God admonishing and speaking

1694
01:06:59,190 --> 01:06:59,870
into your life.

1695
01:07:00,150 --> 01:07:03,490
You've chosen to be devastated instead of to

1696
01:07:03,490 --> 01:07:04,010
be developed.

1697
01:07:04,290 --> 01:07:05,190
You've made a choice.

1698
01:07:06,170 --> 01:07:07,570
You know, you can choose whether you're offended

1699
01:07:07,570 --> 01:07:08,030
or not.

1700
01:07:09,010 --> 01:07:10,670
It doesn't just fall on your head and

1701
01:07:10,670 --> 01:07:11,050
hit you.

1702
01:07:11,550 --> 01:07:12,570
You've made a choice.

1703
01:07:14,230 --> 01:07:15,350
Don't be offended.

1704
01:07:16,830 --> 01:07:19,330
You need a Proverbs 311 moment.

1705
01:07:19,890 --> 01:07:21,790
You need to see God wants to delight

1706
01:07:21,790 --> 01:07:22,290
in you.

1707
01:07:23,070 --> 01:07:23,790
Number four.

1708
01:07:23,930 --> 01:07:25,710
Now, this is probably, this number four, these

1709
01:07:25,710 --> 01:07:26,670
are not necessarily in order.

1710
01:07:27,030 --> 01:07:28,230
This one is probably one of the big,

1711
01:07:28,290 --> 01:07:29,810
I don't know how to rate these things.

1712
01:07:29,870 --> 01:07:31,070
I don't think I can, but I will

1713
01:07:31,070 --> 01:07:32,550
rate this one at the top of the

1714
01:07:32,550 --> 01:07:32,730
heap.

1715
01:07:33,950 --> 01:07:36,130
Finding fault in the person who comes.

1716
01:07:37,850 --> 01:07:39,850
Finding fault in the person that comes.

1717
01:07:40,470 --> 01:07:42,970
You know, we fault their attitude for the

1718
01:07:42,970 --> 01:07:43,590
way they come.

1719
01:07:43,850 --> 01:07:45,530
We fault that they don't have all the

1720
01:07:45,530 --> 01:07:46,410
stories straight.

1721
01:07:46,410 --> 01:07:49,010
We even begin to see flat spots in

1722
01:07:49,010 --> 01:07:51,670
their life and before they're done rebuking us,

1723
01:07:51,730 --> 01:07:53,990
we start telling them things that aren't really

1724
01:07:53,990 --> 01:07:55,010
right about their life.

1725
01:07:55,390 --> 01:07:56,650
And we do it very subtly.

1726
01:07:57,070 --> 01:07:57,730
You know, people do that.

1727
01:07:57,790 --> 01:07:59,350
They just kind of drop little hints.

1728
01:07:59,450 --> 01:08:00,490
Well, I don't know, you know.

1729
01:08:00,710 --> 01:08:04,130
And they make comments about your life or

1730
01:08:04,130 --> 01:08:05,890
they make comments about the ministry or about

1731
01:08:05,890 --> 01:08:06,170
the church.

1732
01:08:06,210 --> 01:08:07,690
Well, this church doesn't, you know.

1733
01:08:07,830 --> 01:08:09,270
And then they bring out their list.

1734
01:08:09,570 --> 01:08:11,650
This is not a debate, okay?

1735
01:08:11,890 --> 01:08:13,830
This is not a time to play lawyer,

1736
01:08:14,530 --> 01:08:14,890
okay?

1737
01:08:15,689 --> 01:08:17,870
This is a time for a Proverbs 3

1738
01:08:17,870 --> 01:08:20,870
.11 moment where you sit and you listen

1739
01:08:20,870 --> 01:08:24,710
and you receive and you get really quiet

1740
01:08:24,710 --> 01:08:25,609
before God.

1741
01:08:25,930 --> 01:08:28,450
Because as long as you're firing shots back

1742
01:08:28,450 --> 01:08:31,750
out, you're not receiving what you need to

1743
01:08:31,750 --> 01:08:31,970
hear.

1744
01:08:32,450 --> 01:08:33,350
This is a big one.

1745
01:08:33,830 --> 01:08:36,410
I can just say personally, I've had this

1746
01:08:36,410 --> 01:08:38,370
happen to me many times.

1747
01:08:38,950 --> 01:08:39,890
Many times.

1748
01:08:40,370 --> 01:08:41,569
And I've talked to others and they have

1749
01:08:41,569 --> 01:08:42,210
the same problem.

1750
01:08:42,490 --> 01:08:44,410
This is a problem that we people have.

1751
01:08:44,410 --> 01:08:47,590
Someone comes and immediately something rises up and

1752
01:08:47,590 --> 01:08:48,930
we want to see fault in them.

1753
01:08:49,529 --> 01:08:51,310
Well, you don't do and you've not done.

1754
01:08:51,529 --> 01:08:55,600
And please don't do that.

1755
01:08:57,660 --> 01:09:00,020
These are common mistakes that people make.

1756
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:05,840
Number five, explaining or justifying action or situation.

1757
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:09,140
Explaining or justifying action or situation.

1758
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:12,040
You know, somebody comes and suddenly you have

1759
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,080
a list of all the reasons of why

1760
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:15,800
you're behaving a certain way or doing a

1761
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:16,359
certain thing.

1762
01:09:18,550 --> 01:09:19,990
Again, it's time to listen.

1763
01:09:20,270 --> 01:09:21,490
Don't talk too much.

1764
01:09:21,670 --> 01:09:21,970
Listen.

1765
01:09:22,390 --> 01:09:24,170
You know, maybe ask a few questions so

1766
01:09:24,170 --> 01:09:25,810
that you can understand, because you probably don't

1767
01:09:25,810 --> 01:09:26,290
see it.

1768
01:09:26,850 --> 01:09:27,170
Pray.

1769
01:09:27,590 --> 01:09:29,890
Ask God to help you hear and see

1770
01:09:29,890 --> 01:09:30,130
it.

1771
01:09:30,330 --> 01:09:32,330
Because again, if you probably already saw it,

1772
01:09:32,390 --> 01:09:33,350
they wouldn't have had to come.

1773
01:09:34,229 --> 01:09:35,950
But if you start giving a list of

1774
01:09:35,950 --> 01:09:38,550
reasons why you're doing this or why, well,

1775
01:09:38,590 --> 01:09:39,790
my music isn't that bad.

1776
01:09:39,810 --> 01:09:40,990
Let me tell you all the good things

1777
01:09:40,990 --> 01:09:41,450
about it.

1778
01:09:41,510 --> 01:09:43,210
Or, well, I wore that, I know.

1779
01:09:43,250 --> 01:09:44,770
And I know the church doesn't approve, but

1780
01:09:44,770 --> 01:09:49,750
it isn't going to work.

1781
01:09:50,390 --> 01:09:53,950
You're not going to receive that love and

1782
01:09:53,950 --> 01:09:55,290
that delight that He wants to bring in

1783
01:09:55,290 --> 01:09:55,670
your life.

1784
01:09:56,210 --> 01:09:59,850
Number six, doubting that it's true.

1785
01:10:00,810 --> 01:10:01,990
Doubting that it's true.

1786
01:10:02,630 --> 01:10:05,310
You know, immediately somebody comes and you think,

1787
01:10:05,410 --> 01:10:06,350
well, this isn't true.

1788
01:10:07,090 --> 01:10:08,450
Again, I talked about it already.

1789
01:10:08,530 --> 01:10:09,930
This is the blind spot problem.

1790
01:10:10,730 --> 01:10:13,270
If you saw it, you wouldn't need them

1791
01:10:13,270 --> 01:10:13,850
to come.

1792
01:10:15,810 --> 01:10:17,910
People think, well, I don't see that about

1793
01:10:17,910 --> 01:10:18,510
my life.

1794
01:10:18,790 --> 01:10:20,390
Well, of course you don't see that.

1795
01:10:22,110 --> 01:10:23,870
That's why somebody else has to come.

1796
01:10:24,990 --> 01:10:26,410
And so you doubt it's not true.

1797
01:10:26,470 --> 01:10:27,990
And the minute you doubt it's not true,

1798
01:10:29,010 --> 01:10:31,130
you think, well, thoughts like, well, they don't

1799
01:10:31,130 --> 01:10:32,250
really understand me.

1800
01:10:32,590 --> 01:10:34,330
They don't really understand my situation.

1801
01:10:34,490 --> 01:10:35,630
They're being too hard on me.

1802
01:10:36,130 --> 01:10:37,630
And what you're really doing, may I say,

1803
01:10:37,710 --> 01:10:39,430
is you're having sort of a little bit

1804
01:10:39,430 --> 01:10:41,130
of a pity party on the inside.

1805
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:44,880
This is not the time for a pity

1806
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:45,180
party.

1807
01:10:46,020 --> 01:10:48,420
You know, you may not see it.

1808
01:10:48,500 --> 01:10:49,560
And I acknowledge that.

1809
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:51,740
And sometimes you may just need to go

1810
01:10:51,740 --> 01:10:53,400
away and pray and fast for a day

1811
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:53,740
or two.

1812
01:10:54,460 --> 01:10:55,140
I don't know.

1813
01:10:56,900 --> 01:10:59,060
It doesn't always work out that you go

1814
01:10:59,060 --> 01:11:00,620
to somebody and they see it the minute

1815
01:11:00,620 --> 01:11:01,300
you say it.

1816
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,280
It just doesn't always work that way.

1817
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:06,680
But don't doubt that it's not true just

1818
01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:08,420
because you don't immediately see it.

1819
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:13,020
Number seven, no right to come.

1820
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:15,080
No right to come.

1821
01:11:15,860 --> 01:11:18,740
Sometimes thoughts come to people like, well, they

1822
01:11:18,740 --> 01:11:20,080
don't really have any right to come to

1823
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:20,260
me.

1824
01:11:21,580 --> 01:11:23,220
You know, and you're a little bit indignant.

1825
01:11:23,440 --> 01:11:24,960
You're thinking they're not qualified.

1826
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:27,460
And they don't really have a right to

1827
01:11:27,460 --> 01:11:27,940
do that.

1828
01:11:28,060 --> 01:11:30,480
They're not in the ministry and all these

1829
01:11:30,480 --> 01:11:31,220
other things.

1830
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:34,380
And again, hopefully after today's message, you won't

1831
01:11:34,380 --> 01:11:35,300
have that thought anymore.

1832
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:36,920
They do have a right to come.

1833
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:38,580
In fact, they have an obligation to come.

1834
01:11:38,980 --> 01:11:40,640
In fact, they're commanded of God to come.

1835
01:11:41,420 --> 01:11:42,900
So you don't want to get between them

1836
01:11:42,900 --> 01:11:44,200
and a commandment of God, I hope.

1837
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:47,840
Number eight, it works this way too.

1838
01:11:48,020 --> 01:11:49,020
Telling others.

1839
01:11:49,700 --> 01:11:50,700
Talking to others.

1840
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,840
After they come to you, do you immediately

1841
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:57,440
run and tell three or four or five

1842
01:11:57,440 --> 01:11:58,300
of your best friends?

1843
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:00,940
And how do you tell the story when

1844
01:12:00,940 --> 01:12:01,460
you tell it?

1845
01:12:05,940 --> 01:12:07,160
Do you tell it in such a way

1846
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:08,000
as to draw pity?

1847
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,500
Do you tell what happened like it really

1848
01:12:12,500 --> 01:12:12,840
happened?

1849
01:12:15,430 --> 01:12:17,330
Do you say things like to your friends,

1850
01:12:17,430 --> 01:12:18,650
am I really that bad?

1851
01:12:19,750 --> 01:12:21,690
I mean, how can they answer that question?

1852
01:12:21,690 --> 01:12:23,030
You put them in a corner.

1853
01:12:24,090 --> 01:12:26,350
Don't go running to your friends and tell

1854
01:12:26,350 --> 01:12:27,130
three or four friends.

1855
01:12:28,270 --> 01:12:30,050
Take it to your Father in Heaven.

1856
01:12:30,130 --> 01:12:31,850
He's the One bringing this in your life.

1857
01:12:32,350 --> 01:12:33,490
He's the One you need to be talking

1858
01:12:33,490 --> 01:12:33,810
to.

1859
01:12:36,060 --> 01:12:39,400
Number nine, this one again is a little

1860
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:41,920
bit more, may I say, on the sister's

1861
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:43,080
side, but not entirely.

1862
01:12:43,380 --> 01:12:44,220
I'm not going to put it all on

1863
01:12:44,220 --> 01:12:44,720
your side.

1864
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:46,800
It's hopeless.

1865
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:48,880
It's hopeless.

1866
01:12:49,740 --> 01:12:56,480
Somebody comes and then you find yourself saying

1867
01:12:56,480 --> 01:12:59,340
things like, I can't ever live up to

1868
01:12:59,340 --> 01:13:00,480
the standards of the church.

1869
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,100
I can't ever please anybody.

1870
01:13:03,540 --> 01:13:05,960
Nothing I do pleases the church.

1871
01:13:06,140 --> 01:13:09,840
And just big exclamations of hopelessness.

1872
01:13:10,500 --> 01:13:11,820
Well, first of all, it's not true.

1873
01:13:13,460 --> 01:13:15,160
It's a lie, you know.

1874
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,420
The devil is whispering condemnation into your ear

1875
01:13:18,420 --> 01:13:20,320
and you're agreeing with the wrong guy.

1876
01:13:20,580 --> 01:13:21,880
You're agreeing with the devil.

1877
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:23,500
That's the devil.

1878
01:13:24,020 --> 01:13:25,320
And you're agreeing with him.

1879
01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:26,440
You don't want to agree with the devil,

1880
01:13:26,500 --> 01:13:26,820
do you?

1881
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:30,160
But that's just an emotional response that sometimes,

1882
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:31,060
oh, it's hopeless.

1883
01:13:31,780 --> 01:13:34,180
I can never do anything right, you know.

1884
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:36,980
And all those emotions and things start coming.

1885
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:38,540
It's the devil.

1886
01:13:39,620 --> 01:13:40,260
It's the devil.

1887
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:42,620
Don't fall prey to his condemnation.

1888
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:45,560
Number ten, this is similar.

1889
01:13:45,660 --> 01:13:46,940
Making yourself a victim.

1890
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,480
Making yourself look like the victim.

1891
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:53,700
Again, afterwards when you retell the story, do

1892
01:13:53,700 --> 01:13:56,540
you use words like, they really hurt me

1893
01:13:56,540 --> 01:13:57,860
with the things they said.

1894
01:13:59,850 --> 01:14:02,430
They made me feel so bad.

1895
01:14:03,330 --> 01:14:05,030
As you're telling all your friends.

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01:14:05,530 --> 01:14:08,450
Men sometimes say things like, oh, he really

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01:14:08,450 --> 01:14:09,510
plowed into me.

1898
01:14:10,030 --> 01:14:11,970
He raked me over the coals.

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01:14:12,470 --> 01:14:13,930
Well, you know, immediately when you start talking

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01:14:13,930 --> 01:14:15,670
like that, you're making yourself the victim.

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01:14:16,270 --> 01:14:18,090
And we all feel sorry for victims, don't

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01:14:18,090 --> 01:14:18,230
we?

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01:14:18,450 --> 01:14:19,770
I mean, somebody's in a car wreck.

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01:14:19,890 --> 01:14:21,010
They're a victim of getting hit.

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01:14:21,610 --> 01:14:22,590
I mean, poor thing.

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01:14:23,750 --> 01:14:25,630
But see, you're not a victim here.

1907
01:14:26,470 --> 01:14:29,410
Somebody's trying to restore you where you need

1908
01:14:29,410 --> 01:14:31,670
to be in the church and with God.

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01:14:35,440 --> 01:14:38,380
Number eleven, this is one that is definitely

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01:14:38,380 --> 01:14:40,240
on the men's side, although I think some

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01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:41,980
women do it too, but it's definitely on

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01:14:41,980 --> 01:14:42,520
the brother's side.

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01:14:42,900 --> 01:14:46,860
Since some is incorrect, all is incorrect.

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01:14:47,340 --> 01:14:48,380
Men are great lawyers.

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01:14:48,380 --> 01:14:51,580
For example, somebody comes to you and 80

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01:14:51,580 --> 01:14:53,740
% of what they have to say is

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01:14:53,740 --> 01:14:56,520
either not true or it's really there's something

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01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:57,340
wrong with it.

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01:14:57,440 --> 01:15:00,000
But 20% of it is accurate.

1920
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:02,780
And men are good at this.

1921
01:15:02,860 --> 01:15:04,080
We weigh it in the balance of our

1922
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:04,360
mind.

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01:15:04,440 --> 01:15:06,860
Let's see, 80% off, 20% sort

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01:15:06,860 --> 01:15:07,400
of true.

1925
01:15:08,660 --> 01:15:10,040
Probably the whole thing is wrong.

1926
01:15:10,340 --> 01:15:11,740
And we just pitch it in the trash.

1927
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:13,780
That's bad theology.

1928
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:15,480
That's bad Christian life.

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01:15:15,480 --> 01:15:18,380
Because that 20% may be the most

1930
01:15:18,380 --> 01:15:20,200
important thing in your life that you ever

1931
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:20,560
see.

1932
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:22,300
And it may be this is your chance

1933
01:15:22,300 --> 01:15:23,000
to see it.

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01:15:23,260 --> 01:15:24,900
And you've just pitched the whole thing out.

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01:15:28,220 --> 01:15:30,440
Number twelve, pushing it off.

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01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:32,260
Pushing it off.

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01:15:32,620 --> 01:15:34,060
We let time pass.

1938
01:15:34,260 --> 01:15:35,540
We decide to put it all on the

1939
01:15:35,540 --> 01:15:37,400
back burner and say, well, someday I'll see

1940
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:37,920
it, maybe.

1941
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:39,820
And time goes by.

1942
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,780
Weeks, months, months, months.

1943
01:15:43,100 --> 01:15:45,800
And during that time, we find ourselves doing

1944
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:47,660
things like avoiding the person.

1945
01:15:47,820 --> 01:15:48,720
Who came to us.

1946
01:15:48,900 --> 01:15:50,720
When we walk down the hall, our eyes

1947
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:51,840
go down the other way.

1948
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:53,840
You know, things like that.

1949
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,700
And we actually, strangely enough, begin to accumulate

1950
01:15:56,700 --> 01:15:57,720
a little bit of a list in our

1951
01:15:57,720 --> 01:15:58,640
mind of their faults.

1952
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:01,560
You know, rather than dealing with what God

1953
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:02,340
is trying to teach us.

1954
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:03,660
Don't let time go by.

1955
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:04,780
If you need to take off a couple

1956
01:16:04,780 --> 01:16:06,380
of days from work and pray and fast.

1957
01:16:06,660 --> 01:16:08,680
If you need to, you know, seek the

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01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:08,980
Lord.

1959
01:16:09,260 --> 01:16:10,380
You need to search the Bible.

1960
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:11,720
This is serious.

1961
01:16:11,940 --> 01:16:13,660
You need to take it as a warning.

1962
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:15,180
As an admonishment.

1963
01:16:15,540 --> 01:16:16,940
As a rebuke from God.

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01:16:18,820 --> 01:16:21,040
Fourteen, rejecting the delivery.

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01:16:21,820 --> 01:16:22,840
Rejecting the delivery.

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01:16:23,220 --> 01:16:25,920
You judge the one that comes, not by

1967
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,100
what they say, but by the delivery.

1968
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,960
Maybe they didn't hear the first part of

1969
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:31,880
the message today.

1970
01:16:32,100 --> 01:16:34,280
And maybe they don't come and say everything

1971
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:34,960
just right.

1972
01:16:35,420 --> 01:16:37,760
Maybe they don't affirm their love for you.

1973
01:16:38,060 --> 01:16:40,060
Maybe they even say it in the wrong

1974
01:16:40,060 --> 01:16:40,620
spirit.

1975
01:16:40,820 --> 01:16:41,540
I don't know.

1976
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,120
People make mistakes, don't they?

1977
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:44,700
And so you say, well, you know what?

1978
01:16:44,700 --> 01:16:45,880
Their attitude was wrong.

1979
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:48,100
I can tell that there's something wrong with

1980
01:16:48,100 --> 01:16:49,360
the way they're thinking about me.

1981
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,480
And you just pitch the whole thing away.

1982
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:53,560
Danger.

1983
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:54,940
That's very dangerous.

1984
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,100
You know, human vessels make mistakes.

1985
01:16:59,700 --> 01:17:03,800
And just because the delivery isn't picture perfect,

1986
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:05,900
I don't think gives you or I the

1987
01:17:05,900 --> 01:17:07,720
right to pitch the whole thing out.

1988
01:17:08,540 --> 01:17:10,340
And I've heard this one so many times.

1989
01:17:10,420 --> 01:17:12,560
Well, if you could have heard their attitude,

1990
01:17:12,820 --> 01:17:15,000
Brother Rick, you'd know why I didn't hear

1991
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:15,560
that one.

1992
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:18,120
Well, you know, maybe their attitude was wrong.

1993
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:19,980
I can't defend that.

1994
01:17:20,060 --> 01:17:20,660
I don't know.

1995
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:21,920
I don't know.

1996
01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:25,280
But I do know that God does use

1997
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:26,140
imperfect vessels.

1998
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:27,960
And sometimes we don't say things the right

1999
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:28,200
way.

2000
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:29,800
Sometimes we don't have the right attitude.

2001
01:17:30,220 --> 01:17:31,540
But I don't believe it gives you the

2002
01:17:31,540 --> 01:17:32,560
right to pitch it all out.

2003
01:17:33,480 --> 01:17:35,600
I believe you're doing yourself and your church

2004
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:37,560
a grave injustice.

2005
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:43,260
Well, I know the time is moving on

2006
01:17:43,260 --> 01:17:43,440
here.

2007
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,400
I got started a little bit late this

2008
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:45,740
morning.

2009
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:48,140
With the service, I've just got a little

2010
01:17:48,140 --> 01:17:49,280
bit here and I'm going to close.

2011
01:17:50,740 --> 01:17:52,340
I know some of these overlap.

2012
01:17:52,860 --> 01:17:54,420
And I know more could be said on

2013
01:17:54,420 --> 01:17:55,160
some of these things.

2014
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:57,040
But I hope you get a little bit

2015
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:59,100
of an idea of some things.

2016
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:00,880
And I hope God has stirred your heart

2017
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:02,720
this morning, some of you here, to repentance.

2018
01:18:03,060 --> 01:18:05,220
That you can see there's something wrong in

2019
01:18:05,220 --> 01:18:06,840
my heart in this whole area.

2020
01:18:07,180 --> 01:18:08,900
And that you can see that God is

2021
01:18:08,900 --> 01:18:11,500
waiting to delight in you and give you

2022
01:18:11,500 --> 01:18:14,180
these, again, Proverbs 3.11 moments in your

2023
01:18:14,180 --> 01:18:14,600
life.

2024
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,360
But you've been dodging them.

2025
01:18:16,860 --> 01:18:18,180
You've been dodging them.

2026
01:18:18,260 --> 01:18:19,280
You've been avoiding them.

2027
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,560
You've been shoving them under the rug or

2028
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:22,860
doing whatever it is with them.

2029
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:25,700
And it's not going well with you.

2030
01:18:27,020 --> 01:18:28,900
You know, it is not going well with

2031
01:18:28,900 --> 01:18:29,000
you.

2032
01:18:29,060 --> 01:18:31,580
My dear beloved, we must not let the

2033
01:18:31,580 --> 01:18:33,600
devil have the advantage over us in this

2034
01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:33,860
area.

2035
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:36,340
This is an area the devil, I think,

2036
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,420
has a joyride among us.

2037
01:18:38,580 --> 01:18:41,160
You know, of all the misunderstanding of the

2038
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:43,180
heart of God in this and the misunderstanding

2039
01:18:43,180 --> 01:18:46,420
both how to give and receive warnings and

2040
01:18:46,420 --> 01:18:48,420
corrections and admonishments in the church.

2041
01:18:49,100 --> 01:18:51,180
Go over these things and study them for

2042
01:18:51,180 --> 01:18:51,520
yourself.

2043
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:53,820
And I believe you'll see that this is

2044
01:18:53,820 --> 01:18:55,280
part of loving the brethren.

2045
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:56,900
This is part of one anothering.

2046
01:18:57,160 --> 01:18:58,800
And again, we must see that this is

2047
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,740
part of my relationship with God and my

2048
01:19:01,740 --> 01:19:02,820
relationship with you.

2049
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,440
And again, if I fail in one part,

2050
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:07,240
in effect, I fail in the other.

2051
01:19:07,980 --> 01:19:11,520
These things will and do strike at your

2052
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:14,700
true attitude towards the church.

2053
01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:16,980
They do.

2054
01:19:17,180 --> 01:19:19,580
They strike at your real attitude towards the

2055
01:19:19,580 --> 01:19:22,800
church and your maturity and your willingness to

2056
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:25,300
submit yourself to God's ways.

2057
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:28,140
You know, are we willing to do that?

2058
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:31,820
Let me just in closing, read a final

2059
01:19:31,820 --> 01:19:32,740
verse here.

2060
01:19:32,820 --> 01:19:35,100
Turn to Psalm 141.

2061
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:38,600
Psalm 141.

2062
01:19:42,440 --> 01:19:44,500
And here is verse 5.

2063
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:46,600
Turn to Psalm 141, verse 5.

2064
01:19:46,700 --> 01:19:47,900
And look at this verse here with me

2065
01:19:47,900 --> 01:19:48,640
for just a moment.

2066
01:19:51,210 --> 01:19:54,210
This is a wonderful verse that I hope

2067
01:19:54,210 --> 01:19:55,890
will open your heart as the Spirit of

2068
01:19:55,890 --> 01:19:56,810
God will speak it to you.

2069
01:19:57,090 --> 01:20:00,130
It says, Let the righteous smite me.

2070
01:20:01,550 --> 01:20:02,470
Isn't that an interesting verse?

2071
01:20:04,030 --> 01:20:06,090
Sometimes people feel like they've been hit.

2072
01:20:06,570 --> 01:20:09,990
Well, this says, Let the righteous smite me.

2073
01:20:10,310 --> 01:20:11,770
It shall be a kindness.

2074
01:20:11,770 --> 01:20:14,950
Yeah, their delivery may not be just right.

2075
01:20:15,050 --> 01:20:15,670
But you know what?

2076
01:20:16,070 --> 01:20:17,710
It's a kindness to you.

2077
01:20:18,310 --> 01:20:19,850
And let him reprove me.

2078
01:20:20,350 --> 01:20:23,970
It shall be, watch, an excellent oil.

2079
01:20:25,980 --> 01:20:27,080
Do you think of that?

2080
01:20:27,340 --> 01:20:29,120
When you think of somebody coming to admonish

2081
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:30,220
you, do you think of it as an

2082
01:20:30,220 --> 01:20:30,980
excellent oil?

2083
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:34,360
Or do you get all tense and nervous?

2084
01:20:34,780 --> 01:20:35,720
Look at the last of it.

2085
01:20:36,220 --> 01:20:38,980
Which shall not break my head.

2086
01:20:39,540 --> 01:20:42,400
Them reproving you will not break you.

2087
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:46,060
It will not cause you damage.

2088
01:20:46,580 --> 01:20:49,680
If you don't hear it, if you don't

2089
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,440
hear it, that is damage.

2090
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,940
Because constructive correction is either going to devastate

2091
01:20:55,940 --> 01:20:57,440
you or develop you.

2092
01:20:57,480 --> 01:20:59,120
And if you allow it to devastate you,

2093
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:00,840
there will be destruction.

2094
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:02,300
There will be problems in your life.

2095
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,240
I can say, brothers and sisters, this morning

2096
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,820
with all my heart, I love you.

2097
01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:10,180
I do very much.

2098
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:10,840
I love you.

2099
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:12,400
And I love God's ways.

2100
01:21:13,420 --> 01:21:14,720
This is God's way.

2101
01:21:15,060 --> 01:21:17,060
Can we not combine our love for each

2102
01:21:17,060 --> 01:21:21,800
other with God's ways and open this area

2103
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:27,430
up in our lives between each other in

2104
01:21:27,430 --> 01:21:28,430
love for each other?

2105
01:21:28,470 --> 01:21:29,370
I think we can.

2106
01:21:29,590 --> 01:21:31,750
I'm persuaded of better things, just like Paul

2107
01:21:31,750 --> 01:21:34,010
said in Romans 15-14, that you are

2108
01:21:34,010 --> 01:21:35,350
able to admonish.

2109
01:21:35,750 --> 01:21:36,010
Amen.

2110
01:21:36,110 --> 01:21:38,850
May God add His blessings and applications in

2111
01:21:38,850 --> 01:21:39,790
your life and in mine.

2112
01:21:39,930 --> 01:21:40,350
Thank you.

2113
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:47,800
Excuse me, please.

2114
01:21:48,380 --> 01:21:53,600
I had some announcement about Africa to deal

2115
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:53,900
with.

2116
01:21:57,330 --> 01:21:57,950
Well, amen.

2117
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:03,460
I have to think this morning that there

2118
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:05,320
are probably some of you sitting in your

2119
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:10,480
seats this morning like Rick said that need

2120
01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:10,960
to repent.

2121
01:22:12,180 --> 01:22:15,140
And as I was sitting here listening, I

2122
01:22:15,140 --> 01:22:18,720
think there's a qualification that God gives for

2123
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:21,660
the perfect man when He's talking about elders.

2124
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:24,880
It's called easily entreated.

2125
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:28,380
Ever been challenged by that word?

2126
01:22:30,020 --> 01:22:31,060
Easily entreated.

2127
01:22:32,700 --> 01:22:35,180
A person that's easy to go to.

2128
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:37,760
Oh, I know he'll respond right.

2129
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:40,540
I know he just doesn't see it, but

2130
01:22:40,540 --> 01:22:44,340
when I come to him, I'm sure that

2131
01:22:44,340 --> 01:22:45,440
it'll be a blessing.

2132
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:47,480
We'll both get a blessing out of it.

2133
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:49,720
Do you know of very many people like

2134
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:50,040
that?

2135
01:22:51,260 --> 01:22:52,460
Easily entreated?

2136
01:22:53,940 --> 01:22:55,700
Are you a person like that?

2137
01:22:58,140 --> 01:23:00,880
How is it with you this morning?

2138
01:23:01,020 --> 01:23:04,200
Can we just ask that question right off?

2139
01:23:04,540 --> 01:23:05,540
How is it with you?

2140
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:15,260
I almost hesitate to just go on and

2141
01:23:15,260 --> 01:23:18,100
not do something with a message like that.

2142
01:23:23,710 --> 01:23:27,570
Because like Rick said, this is the command

2143
01:23:27,570 --> 01:23:28,170
of God.

2144
01:23:28,290 --> 01:23:31,650
This is a problem that we have in

2145
01:23:31,650 --> 01:23:32,230
the church.

2146
01:23:33,770 --> 01:23:36,170
Maybe I could just ask, how many of

2147
01:23:36,170 --> 01:23:38,330
you would raise your hand and have been

2148
01:23:38,330 --> 01:23:41,810
admonished this last year?

2149
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:45,280
Have been admonished?

2150
01:23:45,340 --> 01:23:47,560
Personally, someone's come to you and admonished you

2151
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:49,080
about something in your life?

2152
01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:53,600
More than I expected.

2153
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:55,940
Maybe a quarter of us.

2154
01:23:57,060 --> 01:23:57,900
Well, praise God.

2155
01:24:01,170 --> 01:24:04,150
How many of you have admonished someone else

2156
01:24:04,150 --> 01:24:05,770
about an area in their life?

2157
01:24:06,590 --> 01:24:07,930
Maybe you could raise your hand.

2158
01:24:10,300 --> 01:24:11,060
About the same.

2159
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:20,720
Do you feel the need that we should

2160
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:22,080
do anything?

2161
01:24:22,180 --> 01:24:23,480
Or should we just take it home, brother?

2162
01:24:37,900 --> 01:24:41,000
Alright, well, maybe the thing that we could

2163
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:42,900
do here is let's just open it up.

2164
01:24:43,060 --> 01:24:46,040
And if God has spoken to your life

2165
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:49,980
this morning and you feel like you would

2166
01:24:49,980 --> 01:24:52,980
like to stand to your feet and give

2167
01:24:52,980 --> 01:24:58,620
testimony, either something to add to this message,

2168
01:24:58,780 --> 01:25:01,300
but especially if you have a failure in

2169
01:25:01,300 --> 01:25:02,820
your life in this area and you see

2170
01:25:02,820 --> 01:25:07,820
it this morning, and you'd like to repent

2171
01:25:07,820 --> 01:25:10,300
publicly, just stand to your feet and repent.

2172
01:25:11,480 --> 01:25:12,540
Let's do that.

2173
01:25:13,500 --> 01:25:14,460
And be healed.

2174
01:25:15,480 --> 01:25:17,220
And bring a health to this congregation.

2175
01:25:20,010 --> 01:25:21,070
Can we do that this morning?

2176
01:25:21,370 --> 01:25:24,490
Just raise your hand and we'll get a

2177
01:25:24,490 --> 01:25:26,650
microphone to you and stand to your feet.

2178
01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:30,040
Anyone?

2179
01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:42,420
I have built a wall around my life

2180
01:25:42,420 --> 01:25:45,360
and I have tried to keep people at

2181
01:25:45,360 --> 01:25:48,060
bay so they wouldn't share with me things

2182
01:25:48,060 --> 01:25:49,320
that they see in my life.

2183
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:52,060
And I want to, with the Lord's grace

2184
01:25:52,060 --> 01:25:53,920
this week, to work in that and deal

2185
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:54,760
with that in my life.

2186
01:25:56,760 --> 01:25:57,200
Amen.

2187
01:25:58,040 --> 01:25:58,720
Thank you.

2188
01:26:02,300 --> 01:26:04,100
For the grace of God be upon you.

2189
01:26:07,220 --> 01:26:07,660
Alex?

2190
01:26:11,220 --> 01:26:13,600
First of all, I'd like to really thank

2191
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:15,680
brother Rick for sharing that message, a very,

2192
01:26:15,740 --> 01:26:16,660
very needful message.

2193
01:26:16,900 --> 01:26:18,220
And I give a hearty amen to it.

2194
01:26:18,460 --> 01:26:22,120
I've certainly been guilty of having a harsh

2195
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:27,380
spirit sometimes and using words like always and

2196
01:26:27,380 --> 01:26:27,640
never.

2197
01:26:28,100 --> 01:26:29,060
I've done that too.

2198
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:32,780
I appreciate the admonishment in that area.

2199
01:26:33,180 --> 01:26:34,020
And I do repent.

2200
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:36,980
Amen.

2201
01:26:37,180 --> 01:26:37,800
Thank you, brother.

2202
01:26:43,700 --> 01:26:45,140
Go ahead and stand up if you would.

2203
01:26:47,740 --> 01:26:50,560
Yeah, I too appreciate brother Rick's message.

2204
01:26:50,760 --> 01:26:55,680
I want to thank him and pray that

2205
01:26:55,680 --> 01:27:02,260
God would just bless him for sharing these

2206
01:27:02,260 --> 01:27:02,660
things.

2207
01:27:02,820 --> 01:27:04,300
I'm sure it's just as hard to do

2208
01:27:04,300 --> 01:27:06,040
that as it is for us to go

2209
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,820
to someone else and entreat them.

2210
01:27:12,530 --> 01:27:15,230
I know in my own heart, it seems

2211
01:27:15,230 --> 01:27:16,850
like it's very hard for me to...

2212
01:27:19,470 --> 01:27:21,490
Well, I just appreciate the first point he

2213
01:27:21,490 --> 01:27:21,910
gave us.

2214
01:27:22,070 --> 01:27:22,870
Pray, pray, pray.

2215
01:27:22,870 --> 01:27:26,590
And I've been doing that in the last

2216
01:27:26,590 --> 01:27:28,410
little while here is praying for a lot

2217
01:27:28,410 --> 01:27:28,750
of you.

2218
01:27:30,570 --> 01:27:32,790
And I bless God for the burdens He

2219
01:27:32,790 --> 01:27:36,070
gives me, but I also see that many

2220
01:27:36,070 --> 01:27:37,430
times when He gives me a burden, I

2221
01:27:37,430 --> 01:27:38,910
go and share it with someone else instead

2222
01:27:38,910 --> 01:27:42,410
of talking to the person about the burden

2223
01:27:42,410 --> 01:27:44,490
that comes upon my heart.

2224
01:27:44,610 --> 01:27:46,030
And I want to repent of that this

2225
01:27:46,030 --> 01:27:46,370
morning.

2226
01:27:48,150 --> 01:27:51,150
And my wife and others in my family

2227
01:27:51,150 --> 01:27:53,350
have been reminding me for a long time

2228
01:27:53,350 --> 01:27:54,510
that I talk too much.

2229
01:27:55,450 --> 01:27:56,850
And so I would like for you all

2230
01:27:56,850 --> 01:27:59,470
to pray for me that when I do

2231
01:27:59,470 --> 01:28:03,630
talk, it would be from God, from the

2232
01:28:03,630 --> 01:28:05,530
will of God instead of just out of

2233
01:28:05,530 --> 01:28:09,290
the frustration of my own heart.

2234
01:28:11,110 --> 01:28:17,550
I know I have a need for that

2235
01:28:17,550 --> 01:28:19,270
verse that says, set a watch, O Lord,

2236
01:28:19,750 --> 01:28:21,990
before my mouth and keep the door of

2237
01:28:21,990 --> 01:28:22,450
my lips.

2238
01:28:24,070 --> 01:28:25,950
And so I'd just like to repent of

2239
01:28:25,950 --> 01:28:26,630
that this morning.

2240
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:33,040
I need a mind that's purified and a

2241
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:37,140
heart that's set on the things that God

2242
01:28:37,140 --> 01:28:39,440
would have me to speak to others.

2243
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:40,720
Thank you.

2244
01:28:41,660 --> 01:28:42,100
Amen.

2245
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:49,420
I'd encourage us all to take those two

2246
01:28:49,420 --> 01:28:51,780
lists to our prayer closet tomorrow morning.

2247
01:28:53,140 --> 01:28:54,780
I intend to do that myself.

2248
01:28:54,780 --> 01:28:58,040
Just look over that list in prayer before

2249
01:28:58,040 --> 01:28:58,400
God.

2250
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:00,140
Brother Roy.

2251
01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:01,400
Amen.

2252
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,520
I just want to express my appreciation for

2253
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:05,500
the message this morning.

2254
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:06,960
I was blessed.

2255
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:09,360
I feel like I was admonished.

2256
01:29:13,930 --> 01:29:17,450
Doing what we heard this morning is not

2257
01:29:17,450 --> 01:29:22,230
something that comes naturally to the man, natural

2258
01:29:22,230 --> 01:29:22,590
man.

2259
01:29:24,990 --> 01:29:29,060
And I believe it's an area that we

2260
01:29:29,060 --> 01:29:31,640
all need to grow in if we're really

2261
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:32,840
honest with ourselves.

2262
01:29:35,510 --> 01:29:38,370
What we heard this morning was wisdom.

2263
01:29:39,970 --> 01:29:43,350
The writer in Galatians said, Brethren, if a

2264
01:29:43,350 --> 01:29:47,050
man be overtaken in a fault, ye which

2265
01:29:47,050 --> 01:29:49,670
are spiritual, restore such in one in the

2266
01:29:49,670 --> 01:29:50,530
spirit of meekness.

2267
01:29:50,710 --> 01:29:53,230
And who of us this morning would like

2268
01:29:53,230 --> 01:29:54,530
to acknowledge we're carnal?

2269
01:29:55,090 --> 01:29:57,010
I think we would all like to admit

2270
01:29:57,010 --> 01:29:58,090
we're spiritual.

2271
01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:04,080
Well then, we have a command, do we

2272
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:04,360
not?

2273
01:30:07,100 --> 01:30:10,340
And I just feel like I need to

2274
01:30:10,340 --> 01:30:10,780
repent.

2275
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:14,660
You know, it's something that at times I've

2276
01:30:14,660 --> 01:30:15,060
seen.

2277
01:30:15,500 --> 01:30:19,240
Maybe a brother needs some direction, but it's

2278
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:20,820
too easy to look the other way.

2279
01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:23,300
And well, maybe somebody else will take care

2280
01:30:23,300 --> 01:30:23,680
of that.

2281
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:24,420
No.

2282
01:30:25,640 --> 01:30:26,880
We have a responsibility.

2283
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:32,980
And I appreciate those that have shared with

2284
01:30:32,980 --> 01:30:36,620
me needs in my life.

2285
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:39,820
And maybe it didn't always come in the

2286
01:30:39,820 --> 01:30:40,380
right way.

2287
01:30:41,440 --> 01:30:46,420
But I am so grateful that God had

2288
01:30:46,420 --> 01:30:50,000
given me grace at times to accept it

2289
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:56,390
anyway and see and hear and listen and

2290
01:30:56,390 --> 01:30:56,770
amen.

2291
01:30:56,950 --> 01:30:58,550
What we heard this morning was right.

2292
01:30:58,550 --> 01:31:02,110
And if we do that and listen with

2293
01:31:02,110 --> 01:31:07,270
our hearts and hear, God will show us

2294
01:31:07,270 --> 01:31:08,370
those blind spots.

2295
01:31:08,550 --> 01:31:09,810
They are blind spots.

2296
01:31:11,390 --> 01:31:13,410
And we all have them.

2297
01:31:15,050 --> 01:31:16,110
I just pray.

2298
01:31:16,190 --> 01:31:19,210
I want to have an open heart to

2299
01:31:19,210 --> 01:31:24,800
hear what God has for me as we

2300
01:31:24,800 --> 01:31:27,260
walk together here in this congregation.

2301
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:29,080
I want to have an open heart.

2302
01:31:29,860 --> 01:31:33,340
Whether admonition comes in a right way or

2303
01:31:33,340 --> 01:31:34,120
a wrong way.

2304
01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:38,140
Oh, I just want to, by God's grace,

2305
01:31:38,900 --> 01:31:42,080
be able to listen and to allow that

2306
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,920
to develop me and not devastate me.

2307
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:53,230
Go ahead, Steve.

2308
01:31:53,550 --> 01:31:54,550
Down here in the front.

2309
01:31:55,370 --> 01:31:56,010
Brother Lawrence.

2310
01:31:57,130 --> 01:31:57,610
Danny.

2311
01:31:59,970 --> 01:32:01,110
Okay, Steve, go ahead.

2312
01:32:05,440 --> 01:32:10,020
I feel I need to confess in this

2313
01:32:10,020 --> 01:32:14,840
area of giving admonition that I have grown

2314
01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:15,840
weary in well-doing.

2315
01:32:17,420 --> 01:32:19,760
And for a while I've noticed, and I

2316
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:20,840
know I've shared it with a few of

2317
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:23,440
the brethren, that I've become dull.

2318
01:32:25,340 --> 01:32:27,180
And I think that the Lord is answering

2319
01:32:27,180 --> 01:32:28,420
why I've become dull.

2320
01:32:29,340 --> 01:32:31,160
Because there's no reason to show me anything

2321
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:32,640
if I'm not going to do anything about

2322
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:32,860
it.

2323
01:32:36,700 --> 01:32:39,580
So, may the Lord give us grace and

2324
01:32:39,580 --> 01:32:43,300
restore us to continue to walk with Him.

2325
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:47,160
Daniel.

2326
01:32:48,620 --> 01:32:51,580
Yes, I need to share.

2327
01:32:51,740 --> 01:32:52,580
I don't know how much.

2328
01:32:55,900 --> 01:32:57,940
This was a very, very timely message for

2329
01:32:57,940 --> 01:33:01,520
me just Friday evening, and yesterday I failed

2330
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:02,000
the test.

2331
01:33:08,780 --> 01:33:11,280
First of all, I want to repent of

2332
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:14,960
every brother and sister here that I've said

2333
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:20,920
any derogatory, harsh statements of the church that

2334
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:22,140
were left a couple of years ago.

2335
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:25,120
I'm very sorry.

2336
01:33:27,610 --> 01:33:31,330
I know that I don't feel that I

2337
01:33:31,330 --> 01:33:34,950
have that much of a problem accepting admonition

2338
01:33:34,950 --> 01:33:38,630
of things that are truth in my life.

2339
01:33:38,950 --> 01:33:43,700
But just to clarify what I failed in,

2340
01:33:45,220 --> 01:33:46,920
Friday night I had a brother come to

2341
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:53,150
me and said that he's hearing that in

2342
01:33:53,150 --> 01:33:55,630
a doctor's office this past summer that I

2343
01:33:55,630 --> 01:33:58,630
was to another old grandma from...

2344
01:34:01,110 --> 01:34:01,790
Well, it's just not a dad.

2345
01:34:01,850 --> 01:34:03,850
It was a grandma that I really railed

2346
01:34:03,850 --> 01:34:04,490
against the church.

2347
01:34:04,550 --> 01:34:05,130
Is that true?

2348
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:13,040
And I said, I'll search my heart.

2349
01:34:14,380 --> 01:34:15,440
They were trying to get...

2350
01:34:15,440 --> 01:34:18,100
It had to do with their granddaughter and

2351
01:34:18,100 --> 01:34:19,220
a bunch of stuff.

2352
01:34:20,880 --> 01:34:22,520
I said, we had already left when these

2353
01:34:22,520 --> 01:34:23,460
things happened.

2354
01:34:23,700 --> 01:34:25,000
I said, I choose...

2355
01:34:27,530 --> 01:34:29,250
I know very, very little about it, and

2356
01:34:29,250 --> 01:34:30,870
I choose not to know anything about it.

2357
01:34:31,370 --> 01:34:33,130
And that's how I thought I had responded.

2358
01:34:35,070 --> 01:34:37,370
Now, the brother that came to me Friday

2359
01:34:37,370 --> 01:34:41,050
said that it's all over, how terrible I

2360
01:34:41,050 --> 01:34:42,650
talked about the church to this lady.

2361
01:34:44,090 --> 01:34:45,630
And she was trying and trying to get

2362
01:34:45,630 --> 01:34:47,290
out of me why we left, why we

2363
01:34:47,290 --> 01:34:48,510
did this, why we did that.

2364
01:34:49,170 --> 01:34:51,330
I said, we're not talking about it.

2365
01:34:53,290 --> 01:34:54,510
That wasn't so bad.

2366
01:34:55,430 --> 01:34:56,750
But I should have let it at that.

2367
01:34:57,970 --> 01:34:59,570
Last night I had to call my friend

2368
01:34:59,570 --> 01:35:02,430
up and tell him all this, what they're

2369
01:35:02,430 --> 01:35:02,990
doing to me.

2370
01:35:03,370 --> 01:35:04,530
I'm very, very sorry.

2371
01:35:07,270 --> 01:35:08,230
I repent of it.

2372
01:35:09,770 --> 01:35:10,670
Please forgive me.

2373
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:21,240
Thank you for opening up there.

2374
01:35:26,850 --> 01:35:27,590
Anyone else?

2375
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:33,600
Have one right up here in the front.

2376
01:35:37,840 --> 01:35:39,640
Anyone else, get your hand up if you'd

2377
01:35:39,640 --> 01:35:40,020
like.

2378
01:35:48,180 --> 01:35:49,640
Yeah, I was really blessed by the message

2379
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:50,200
this morning.

2380
01:35:51,740 --> 01:35:53,920
One thing, one word of testimony for me

2381
01:35:53,920 --> 01:35:57,940
is growing up, I never had that admonishment.

2382
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:00,320
And being in the home that I am

2383
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:01,620
now, that God has placed me in, I'm

2384
01:36:01,620 --> 01:36:02,820
really blessed by having it.

2385
01:36:03,480 --> 01:36:05,420
And one attitude that I found in coming

2386
01:36:05,420 --> 01:36:07,300
into it when mom and dad come and

2387
01:36:07,300 --> 01:36:08,420
say they have something to talk to me

2388
01:36:08,420 --> 01:36:12,280
about, just having a thankful attitude.

2389
01:36:12,880 --> 01:36:15,080
I don't quite see it right now, but

2390
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:16,360
thank you for telling me.

2391
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:19,740
I look into it, I search my heart.

2392
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:21,620
And just having that thankful attitude, I think

2393
01:36:21,620 --> 01:36:24,140
God just really pours a blessing upon you

2394
01:36:24,140 --> 01:36:26,600
and gives you strength to overcome.

2395
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:30,200
Praise God.

2396
01:36:30,980 --> 01:36:32,120
Thank you, Brother Billy.

2397
01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:36,140
Yeah, that's a testimony to all our homes.

2398
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:39,940
This is a perfect topic to take home

2399
01:36:39,940 --> 01:36:41,160
and talk as a family.

2400
01:36:42,140 --> 01:36:44,340
Take it home and talk with your family

2401
01:36:44,340 --> 01:36:44,880
about it.

2402
01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:50,120
Anyone else?

2403
01:36:51,120 --> 01:36:51,680
Lingering?

2404
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:55,240
Feel like you should say something, but there's

2405
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:56,160
not enough time?

2406
01:37:10,920 --> 01:37:11,760
Right up here.

2407
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:13,600
Go ahead, Gordon.

2408
01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:15,980
I just felt like maybe I should share.

2409
01:37:16,540 --> 01:37:18,520
I was here during Bible school, was not

2410
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:22,520
a student, but sorry for the attitude I

2411
01:37:22,520 --> 01:37:23,580
ran around with here.

2412
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:27,360
It was just the attitude that I had

2413
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:28,360
everything under control.

2414
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:32,200
And I was at peace inside, but I

2415
01:37:32,200 --> 01:37:34,080
was not displaying an attitude that I probably

2416
01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:35,740
could have been approached if there was something

2417
01:37:35,740 --> 01:37:36,100
wrong.

2418
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:37,900
So I ask your forgiveness.

2419
01:37:41,010 --> 01:37:41,490
Amen.