Sermon
Insanity Makes you Culpable - Pastor Bruce Mejia
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He shall surely be put to death and if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand
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Then will I appoint thee a place whether he shall flee?
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But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile
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Thou shall take him from my altar that he may die the time of my sermon this morning is
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Insanity makes you culpable
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Insanity makes you culpable here next to this 21
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We find that if a person plans to deliberately and deceptively take a person's life
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They are guilty of murder regardless of mental and social conditions. Okay. They're still guilty of murder. It talks about them lying in wait
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waiting presumptuously
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slaying him with guile
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This is these are all phrases that involve what we would call today
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Premeditated murder and according to the Bible the person who commits these things is surely put to death. It's a capital crime
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That it merits the death penalty according to the Bible go to Daniel chapter 4 if you would
Daniel 4 chapter mention
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Daniel chapter number 4. I'm gonna read you a lot of verses here in my introduction
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Regarding the sermon here before we get into Daniel chapter 4 my main points
Daniel 4 chapter mention
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But let's just talk about the death penalty for just a second number one
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Let me start off by saying that we as Christians should be pro death penalty
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Okay, meaning that we should believe in justice
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We believe that the Bible teaches that if a person commits a capital crime that according to God according to his word
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Which is our final authority?
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They merit the death penalty and no we don't need to figure out whether the person was
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Mentally sane or not because according to the Bible the mosaic law does not carve out insanity as being excused to kill people
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Okay, you're still held culpable for your crime if you have
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Committed murder and even if you think you were insane even if you think you were not in your right mind at the moment
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It doesn't matter according to the Bible and it's important for us as Christians to have that worldview
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Okay, to understand that this is what the Bible teaches and not allow your emotions to get involved in situations and think to yourself
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Well, I know that's what the Bible says, but I just feel well
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There's your problem Bible says lean not unto thine own understanding and all thy ways acknowledge him
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And he shall direct thy path. It's important for us to recognize that sometimes our emotions can deceive us
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The heart is deceitful above all things
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Desperately wicked who can know it and so the Bible tells us that because our hearts are often
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susceptible to deception
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We need to make sure that we govern our hearts according to the Bible and sometimes the Bible goes against the grain of what we
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Believe sometimes the Bible rubs us the wrong way
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But folks let me just remind you it is the final authority and we need to side with what the Bible says
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And if you read the Bible and see what the Bible says regarding something and it
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Contradicts what you believe it just kind of goes to show you that you've been conditioned to believe a certain way
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Contrary to the word of God and you need to be brainwashed
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Okay, you need you need your brain to be washed from the filth of this world
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The Bible says be not conformed to this world, but be
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Transformed by the renewing of your mind the Bible says, okay
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And so it's important for us to recognize that you're like, oh man just the death penalty just sounds so bad though
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Like is that Christ's like is that really in the Bible and the answer is yes
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The reason you don't know that is because whatever church you've gone to whatever pastor you listen to never talks about it
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always stays out of the Old Testament always, you know
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You know forbids themselves from talking about controversial things and so it's important for us to preach the entire counsel of God
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So you can have a plenary understanding of what the Bible says regarding these issues
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Let me read you a couple verses here before we go to Daniel chapter 4
Daniel 4 chapter mention
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Numbers 35 verse 20 says this but if he thrust him of hatred or hurl at him by lying of weight that he died or
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In enmity smite him with his hand that he died he that smote him shall surely be put to death
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Listen to this for he is a murderer
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The revengeer of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him. Well, that's in the law though pastor
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We're not under the law. Well, actually the death penalty existed even prior to the mosaic law being instituted
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Genesis chapter 9 verse 6 says this Genesis which comes before
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Exodus which comes before the mosaic law God said this who so shed of man's blood
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By man shall his blood be shed for an image of God made he him the Bible says
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The Bible is telling us here that if a person murders another individual takes their life
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According to the Bible by man's blood a man shall shed his shed his blood and murder that
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But not murder but kill that person put them to death for the crime that they've committed
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Okay, there's no question that God demands the death penalty for those who commit capital crimes
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You say well, okay, you've proven that from Genesis, but what would Jesus say?
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What about Jesus that's a that's a big thing, you know the New Testament, okay?
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Well, you know Jesus said in Matthew 7 10 to honor your father and mother who so cursed at this father mother let him die the death
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That's Jesus
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But somehow that's not good enough, huh?
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Somehow once you call what Jesus said is like well, you know, I still don't think so it doesn't really matter
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How many verses we give people how much evidence we provide at the end of the day?
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Usually those don't like what the Bible says
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So Moses says it God said it Jesus Christ said it, you know
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Various people throughout the Bible were for this they were for the mosaic law
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It's up to us as Christians to just embrace it and recognize that this is what the Bible teaches now
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It's important for us to make the clarification here that we're not saying the Christians should go out and put people to death
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Okay, that's absurd that's nonsensical and you're like well
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We live in a society that doesn't really promote the death penalty
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So it's kind of irrelevant to say someone deserves the death penalty
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No, because the Bible teaches us that we should still preach the counsel of God
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Yeah, and when we preach about certain capital crimes deserving the death penalty
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It helps people to realize that there are sins and then there are certain sins that are exceedingly sinful
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There are certain sins that are not just sinful
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They're crimes in the eyes of God to the point where God says this person has forfeited
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They're right to live and therefore they should be put to death. Okay
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Now you say why are you preaching this?
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Well, obviously I'm preaching this because of the whole Lindsey Clancy trial
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Obviously the jurors are gonna be deliberating tomorrow and let me just remind everybody in case you don't know, you know
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The trial isn't to determine whether she killed her children or not
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Let me just repeat that again
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the trial is not to determine whether she killed her children or not because
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Everyone including Lindsey herself said that she did it
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The only people listen to me the only people who are claiming she didn't are tick-tock investigators
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True crime tick-tock
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Investigators who just think they have all types of evidence, but no one cares about their trial
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No one cares about their testimony
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No one cares about their evidence because they're tick-tock investigators and no one really cares what they have to say, okay?
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Lindsey herself admitted that she did this. Well, the system failed. Oh, well, you know
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I failed to realize or see a passage in the Bible that says if a system fails you you're free to just kill your children
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Anybody got a verse anybody got some evidence doesn't exist
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Okay, and so the trials to determine whether she is criminally
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Responsible based on whether she was sane or not
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So the trials not about to you know
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They're not trying to figure out did she do it or not everyone knows that she did it
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The trials there just to simply you know, it's a stupid trial by the way
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It's a trial that should not exist at all because it's simply there to determine whether she was in her right mind
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You know according to the law and if she wasn't in her right mind then she you know
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She's not gonna
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You know be charged
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Criminally with murdering her children because she was just mentally insane
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She'll be institutionalized for the rest of her life and quite frankly even if she were to be found guilty
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Meaning that they don't believe she was insane, you know all all that's gonna happen
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She's gonna go to prison for the rest of her life
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Which according to God is just not enough
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Tooth for tooth eye for eye life for life. That's what the Bible teaches
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So this morning I want to preach on the subject of insanity and the fact that it still makes you culpable
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So let's just say for let's just say hypothetically that she was mentally insane and I do believe she's cuckoo for sure. I
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Believe she's insane because you have to be insane to kill your children
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You have to be with the Bible calls past feeling
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You have to be a reprobate
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You have to be just absolutely out of your mind not only to kill your children kill three of them and kill them in the
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manner that she did it
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Okay, but despite all that let me tell you this insanity still makes a person culpable for their actions
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Okay, I'm gonna keep reading here a couple verses before we get into Daniel chapter 4
Daniel 4 chapter mention
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Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse number 3 says this is an evil among all things that are done under the Sun that there's one event unto all
Ecclesiastes 9 chapter mention
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Yay, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil and
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Madness is in their heart while they live and after that they go to the dead
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What is the Bible telling us here madness is another way of saying insanity to go crazy
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It's just a synonym for that and the Bible saying here that pretty much all of humanity has the potential to go insane
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Whether you're a Christian or not whether you're saved or not
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Everyone has the potential to just absolutely lose their minds
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It's possible for anybody to come under this type of condition and I'm gonna explain to you
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I'm gonna show you a bunch of different examples in the Bible both saved and unsaved who just completely lost her mind everyone is subject to this right
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Now why do people go insane? Why is it that people lose their minds? Why do they go through a state of psychosis?
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Well, I'm gonna give you a couple reasons first and foremost as a form of judgment from God
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Okay, so you have to understand this before we could ever even get into the examples
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Before we can give a conclusion to this we have to recognize that this is a spiritual thing
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Meaning that when people go insane it could be because of the fact that God is punishing them and in fact
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Let me read you from Deuteronomy 28 verse 27
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You can write these verses if you want to read them later
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Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 27 says this the Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt and with
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Emeralds and with the scab and with the itch whereof thou canst not be healed the Lord shall smite thee listen to this with
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madness and
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Blindness and
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Astonishment of heart the Bible says so this shows us that the source of insanity for a lot of people in this world is God
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You see people just going insane. It's possible that God has
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Strictened that person with absolute insanity as a form of punishment. He said why would God do such a thing?
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Well, I don't know maybe because they're blaspheming God in their heart
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Maybe because they're just an absolute wicked person
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Maybe because they're a reprobate maybe because they're blaspheming and cursing God and harming others and rejecting the truth and therefore God
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Removes their mental faculty so they can no longer function as a normal human being. That's a punishment
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He smites them the Bible says with
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Madness second Thessalonians 2 verse 10 says this and with all the
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Seevableness of unrighteousness and them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved and
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For this cause listen to this God shall send them strong
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Delusions that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth that have pleasure in
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Unrighteousness so according to second Thessalonians chapter 2 the Bible tells us that sometimes God makes people mentally insane
2 Thessalonians 2 chapter mention
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He gives them a strong delusion as a result of their rejection of the truth
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So they just continually reject the gospel
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Continue to reject that it's by faith in Jesus Christ and then on top of that
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They have a hatred for the truth and a love for the lie God says okay
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I'll just give you a strong delusion that you should believe a lie and be damned
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Now this is different than the God that you hear about in your Sunday school class
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You don't really hear this on a Sunday morning in Sunday school class because pastors don't really know how to explain all this
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But I'll explain it to you. God just does it
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Here I'll explain to you. That's why you shouldn't reject the gospel
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Here's a good reason not to reject the gospel aside from the fact that hell is real and
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If you reject the gospel you reject salvation
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You will go to hell for all of eternity and burn there and be tormented day and night
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If you don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, here's another thing while you're here on this earth
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You can go mentally insane
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You can become delusional and it's God's form of punishment on your life for
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Rejecting the truth. Okay, so, you know, sometimes people go mentally insane as a form of judgment from God
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But also just persisting in sinfulness and sinful activities can cause you to go insane
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Ecclesiastes 10 13 says the beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness and the end of his talk is mischievous
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Madness another way to describe this would be, you know, if someone is
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Delving into, you know, mind-altering drugs
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They're, you know, experimenting with LSD. They're experimenting with trumes
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They're experimenting with any form of drugs that can just completely change your mind. They can just permanently be fried and
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We've seen this if you don't know what I'm talking about go to downtown LA
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You see tons of examples lots of illustrations there, okay, and then you think there's a what's wrong with these people
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They just seem insane. They are insane and obviously, you know
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We can say some of them are demonically possessed and we're gonna get into that in just a bit
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But sometimes they just had a bad trip and they stayed on that bad trip
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God allowed them to suffer the consequences of their actions of their sinfulness
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They destroy their minds look folks. This is why it's important for us to value the virtue of being sober
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That means we abstain from alcohol abstain from marijuana abstain from drugs because the Bible exalts being sober and being vigilant
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So why do people go insane? Sometimes it's a punishment from God
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Sometimes because of the fact that they are just persisting in sinful behavior
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Persisting in you know drugs and alcohol it can cause them to go insane. Here's another reason and this is gonna shock you
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You know, sometimes people go insane just because they're faking it
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Me and they're not really insane
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You notice people in this world that just fake being crazy
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either because they want to
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Get the drugs get the anti-depressants and you know get whatever or just because they want people to sympathize with them
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Sometimes people actually fake it now in first salmon 21. We have an example of this of David
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feigning himself to be mad and he's literally like, you know
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He's allowing like saliva to come out of his mouth
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He's scribbling on the doors and they're just like why are you bringing this crazy guy around me?
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He wasn't really insane. He just acting like it
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But you know you have a lot of people today that feign themselves to be insane as well
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Okay
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They're just faking it
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Here's another reason
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It's because of false religion. You know false religion can cause you to go insane
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Yeah, how do you know well when you look at the religions of this world and the fact that they actually have followers
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You think to yourself these people got to be crazy
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The fact that Islam have so many converts
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You guys are crazy
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The fact that their leader is a pedophile and you're still following that you gotta be crazy
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The fact that Mormonism exists and that there's people following Mormonism and doing the holy underwear thing
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And believing they're gonna get their own planet and have eternal babies. That's insane
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Well, you know what false religion can make people go crazy
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Because along with that is just a rejection of the truth
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Therefore God allows them to be given over to the lie Jeremiah chapter 50 verse 38 says this a draw is upon her waters
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And they shall be dried up
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For it is the land of graven images and they are mad upon their idols
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Mad meaning crazy insane and look you can go to India
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You can go to Southeast Asia and see this all these idols on every corner
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Just being performed to just demonic entities demonic idols and you think to yourself
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How can these people believe these things? Yeah, because they're crazy. They've gone insane
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Their mental faculties are not operating because of the fact that they knew God, but they glorified them not as God neither
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We're thankful, but became listen to this vein in their imagination and their foolish heart was darken. Okay?
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So sometimes they're faking it. Sometimes it's a judgment from God. It's persistent sinfulness
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It's because of false religion. Let me also say this is that physical conditions can affect a person's mental state
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Where they think that they're going crazy. I mean think about this, you know, Elijah was so
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Emotionally and physically depleted that he literally told God take my life away, right?
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And no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourished it than cherished it
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So obviously he must have been in a very bad physical and mental condition to have those thoughts
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Job's physical condition was so profoundly devastating that he said in Job 7 14 15 excuse me
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Well, let me read to you from verse 14 then thou scarred me with dreams and
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Terrify us me through visions so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my life
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I loathe it. I would not live all way. Let me alone for my days are vanity now with Elijah the solution to his
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You know depression to his mental state. God just said sleep and eat
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You just need more sleep you need to get some food in you and then you can be replenished and you know
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You'll be fine. How about this fear can often be a result of insanity, you know people who are just paranoid
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Just constantly wondering what's going on thinking that people are after them
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This is fear
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But the Bible says that God didn't give us a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind, okay?
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And look, I've known Christians are just paranoid
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I'm known Christians that were so paranoid that you know, they have and look if you have a security system
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You know, it's all good, but this this guy was like overkill like he was like Batman
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You know, I mean he just had like all these screens in his room
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And then he just had all these web and I'm like, have you been threatened? He's like no
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I haven't I'm like have people said they're coming after he's like no. No, I'm just getting ready for what? No one knows you
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nobody knows you
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She's paranoia
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But the Bible says perfect love casteth out fear fear has torment the Bible says
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And so people can go insane because of fear they become paranoid they become so overly worried
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That they lose their minds
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The Bible tells us in Leviticus chapter 26 verse 36 and upon them that are left alive of you
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I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies and the sound of a shaken leaf
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Shall chase them and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword and they shall fall when none pursue it
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Here's another reason why people go insane and this is very common and that is demonic possession
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Sometimes people absolutely lose their minds because they're possessed by devils. Yes, that's a real thing
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Okay, and an often worse in conjunction with drugs
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You know, like I don't know if this person is on drugs or the demon possessed. Yes
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Yes, because sometimes it's the drugs that kind of opens up the door to demonic possession
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Okay, the Bible says in Matthew chapter 4 verse 24 and his fame went throughout all Syria
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And they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments and those which were possessed with
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Devils and those which were lunatic and those that had the palsy and he healed them
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And lastly, let me say this is that people go insane because they're reprobates
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Okay, meaning that they have been rejected by God indefinitely for salvation because of their rejection of the truth
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Romans 128 tells us this even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
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God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient
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And so that's important to note there as well
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Sometimes people are just mentally insane because of the fact that God removed their conscience
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Their conscience is seared according to the Bible
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They don't have the mental capacity to differentiate between good and evil because they have a reprobate mind
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Okay, so the point being here is that people go insane for a variety of reasons
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But in every single instance if they're to commit a crime, they're still culpable for that crime
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If they murder someone they are supposed to be held responsible for that murder doesn't matter how insane they were
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Okay, now let's look at a couple examples of people who lost their minds in the Bible. You're in Daniel chapter 4
Daniel 4 chapter mention
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Let's talk about Nebuchadnezzar. Okay
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Nebuchadnezzar was made insane by God because of his pride and unwillingness to repent and correct his ways
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Look at verse 27. It says, wherefore, O King, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee and
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break off thy sins by righteousness and
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Iniquities by showing mercy to the poor it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility
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So Nebuchadnezzar is a pretty godless person. He's a very angry individual short fuse
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power-hungry and the guy is just extremely arrogant
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Unmerciful you could read the chapters prior to this and so he he you know
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He is boasting. He's prideful and they're basically saying hey, you know if you act
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Righteously as a king this doesn't mean he's saved, but if you act righteously you show mercy to the poor, you know
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God can lengthen your peace
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He can lengthen the peace of mind that you'll have here on this earth, right?
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You can live out your day. He's just living in peace and I don't believe this is God dealing with Nebuchadnezzar as a
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Saved person. I do believe that God just deals with
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magistrates and kings and presidents in their own
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Type of position where if they act righteously, you know, God can bless that nation
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He can bless that individual and so forth and I believe that's what's taking place here
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He's saying hey, you know repent of your ways stop being a wicked person and you'll lengthen your peace your tranquility your
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soundness of mind verse 28 says this came upon the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar at
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The end of 12 months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon
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The kings vacant said is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom
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By the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty
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So what's going on here? You know he the prophet tells them. Hey
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Repent get right. Don't be arrogant
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You know be good to the poor break off your sins by righteousness and for a full 12 months. He just ignores this
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So I would say that God is being pretty merciful to Nebuchadnezzar
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Now what's the principle there that we can learn that's outside of this sermon?
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I'll tell you what, you know, just because God hasn't punished you right now for your sin doesn't mean you're not gonna get it
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You might be in the fifth month
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You might be in the sixth month. You might be in the ninth month. Hey, you might be in the 11th month
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Don't think just because God has not punished you
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That just automatically means that he places his stamp of approval on your actions
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Because the Bible says here that on the 12th month when he walked out and he said these things evil came upon him
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What does he say? He said, oh man, this Babylon is because of me. I did this. No Nebuchadnezzar
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God did it not because he likes you not because he favors you, but because it's working towards his ultimate plan
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verse
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31 says while the word
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Was in the king's mouth there fell a voice from heaven saying oh
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King Nebuchadnezzar to thee it is spoken the kingdom departed from thee
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And they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beast of the field
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And they shall make thee to eat grass as an oxen and seven times shall pass over thee until down
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No, it's that the most high rule it in the kingdom of men and give it to whomsoever he will
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So as he's just boasting about his greatness and how he's awesome. God just speaks to him and
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He basically says like you're gonna be punished for this. I'm gonna remove your sanity
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I'm paraphrasing verse 33 the same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men and
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Did eat grass as an oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hairs were grown like eagles feathers and his nails
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Like birds claws
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So what do we have here? We have that he just completely goes insane. He thinks himself to be an animal
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So he goes from being this awesome king
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This conquering king this powerful magistrate to being reduced to acting like an absolute animal
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He becomes a vegetarian his nails grow his hair grows
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He just looks absolutely horrendous even to the point where his subjects are just kicking them out
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They don't want nothing to do with them. Why because he went insane. He went crazy
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His insanity was a punishment for his pride and his sin now
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This is actually today referred to clinically as
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Boanthropy
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Okay, where people say, you know, there's been people throughout history that they thought that there were like a cow or an ox
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And they start literally eating grass
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You know like a cow like an ox and there's actually a recorded
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Instance of this in the 11th century with the ruler from Persia
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Who basically thought he was a cow and he would eat grass like an ox and everything?
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I believe it was God's punishment on that person for doing so. Okay, and you know what you say
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Well, do you have any modern examples? Well, you know furbies are kind of like that, right?
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Well, is that what they're called furries furries not fur piece furries
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Furries are the little animals, right?
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Furries are an example of this or just people who just think that they're animals
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You know these these reprobates who just want to be you know a call the dog
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They want to be called a cat they want to identify themselves as some sort of animal, you know
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This is a curse upon them. They're acting like animals and God saying okay because you've rejected the truth
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I'm gonna make you go insane and
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Yeah, they're not being driven physically from society, but society's looking and saying you're weird
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You're a freak. What is this?
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You know, I know a furry, you know, yeah, you know an insane person
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It's insane
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It's God's punishment on that person because that's embarrassing
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Okay, it's embarrassing to frolic like a little fox
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It's a frolic like a deer or something act like you know, put the little
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Ears on your head and act like you have a tail and all this that's nonsense
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It's embarrassing stop doing that and parents don't let your kids get involved in being a furry
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You're a grown man
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Walking around with the tail. What is that?
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Bring bullies backing man
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I
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Why do people go insane? I'll tell you why because I reject the truth
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But here's a clear example of someone who went insane not because he had some sort of chemical imbalance
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Not because the system failed him not because of any of that. It's because he disobeyed God
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Prideful and arrogant and rebellious God exalted him to the position of being a king of
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Conquering all these nations. He gives no glory to God and God says okay
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You want to take credit? Then I'll just make you an ox for seven entire years
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Bro became a vegetarian for seven entire years
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Where he's just eating grass like an ox looking like an absolute beast just completely embarrassing himself
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Living out there like an animal, okay?
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You know and by the way homos act like animals
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So you can see how that's like associated with that. Yeah, they act like animals and
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So this is part of the punishment, okay?
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Like anthropy or broanthropy is what it's often called like anthropy is just when people think they're transitioning into becoming an animal
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This is what's happening to Nebuchadnezzar go to 1st Samuel chapter 16 first Samuel chapter 16
1 Samuel 16 chapter mention
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We would look at Nebuchadnezzar today and say that guy went
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Mentally insane that person is crazy. Would we say oh put him on anti-depressants put on you know
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Give him some medication. No get right with God
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And in fact it wasn't until the seven years are over that Nebuchadnezzar gave glory to God
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He gave credit to the God of heaven
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Recognized that he's the only deity and what happened his saying is his mind which is reason the Bible says returned unto him
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Because God is able to just flip the switch
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And say, okay now you're thinking right? Let me just flip the switch and guess what he
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Reinstated him to his former glory. He became the king again
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His life was restored as normal as before but it took an entire seven years for him to get right
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He didn't need medication. He didn't need pills. He didn't need the apothecary
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He didn't need a sorcerer. He needed the great physician and he needed to get right with God
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Insanity sometimes plays out because people are just rebellious against the Lord. That's why and let me say this
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Obviously Nebuchadnezzar is an unsaved example, but I'm I guarantee you there's an example of saved people doing this
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And in fact, we're gonna look at one right now
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Let's look at example number two of someone going absolutely insane and that is Saul
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Saul's probably the greatest example of all of these okay
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Look at first Sammy chapter 16 verse 14
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It says then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him referring to David in the midst of his brethren
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And the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward so Sammy rose up and went to Ramah now
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We obviously know that Saul was the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel and he started off great
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He was head and shoulders above the rest. He was a humble person
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He was little in his own sight the Bible says I mean the guy had a great beginning
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But then pride snuck into his heart
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Rebelliousness snuck into his heart and he began to disobey the Lord
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He wasn't carrying out the commandments of God and therefore God ended up punishing him and in fact part of his sin
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Was that he was envious?
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Towards David
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Now God had already determined once Saul disobeyed him that the kingdom of God was gonna be taken from him and given to David
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Okay, which is why David is being anointed at this time
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But even though David is one being anointed, you know Saul still has to fulfill his term so to speak
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So he's still the king even though David is the runner-up after he goes away
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I look at verse 14 says the spirit of the Lord
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departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord
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Troubled him and Saul's servant said unto him behold now an evil spirit from God
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Troubly, let our Lord now command the servants
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Which are before thee to seek out a man who is a cunning player on a harp and it shall come to pass when the evil
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Spirit from God is upon thee that he shall play with his hand and that shall be well
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So, you know he the Lord departs from him in the sense of God's power is no longer with him
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Now people often point to this and say well isn't this proof that
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Saul was not saved because the spirit of the Lord departed from him
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No, because in the Old Testament when people got saved the Holy Spirit would come and regenerate them
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Bring their dead spirits to life, but he wouldn't necessarily live within them as he does with us today
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The part of salvation that the Holy Spirit plays in is that he regenerates the dead spirit
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You know the Bible tells us you hath he quickened who were dead
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Interest passes in sin not by works of righteousness, which we have done
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But according to his mercy he saved us by the washing and regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost
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So the Holy Spirit comes at the moment of salvation
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Brings your spirit to life and that's it
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But in the New Testament the Bible tells us that he sealed there until the day of redemption
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The major difference between the two is the temple
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Tabernacle and temple the Bible says in the New Testament that we're the temple of the Holy Ghost
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Which we have of God and we are not our own the temple in the Old Testament was a literal physical building
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So God's presence in the Old Testament was in that physical tabernacle and temple
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Well since our bodies of the temple in the New Testament the Holy Spirit resides within us
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And so in the Old Testament when the Holy Spirit would save people he would do the same exact way that he does it today
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The difference is he would not abide in them as he does in the New
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He would come upon them in order to give them wisdom
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Courage boldness and so forth, but that was it
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So when the Bible says here that the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul
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It means that he's not a spirit filled person anymore
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And then God sends an evil spirit
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A demonic spirit to oppress him
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Okay
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Now the funny thing is is that you know the servants see this they're like oh man this guy's tripping out
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You know
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He's got like an evil spirit on him. And what do they do? They're like he needs antidepressants
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You know he needs antidepressants
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He needs you know, we need to take him to the doctor. He needs a psychiatrist
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He needs a therapist because what they're doing is creating a solution with music, but it doesn't really do anything
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Chills him out for a moment, but it doesn't really take care of the job
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Because he's listening to it, you know, he calms down for a little bit
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But then later on he goes on his murderous spree. They're after
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You know, and this is kind of like your pharmaceutical industry
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Where people pay millions of thousands and millions of dollars for medication doesn't do anything
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They're still depressed. They're still angry. They still got mental issues does absolutely nothing but put
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Money into the pockets of those who are promoting it, you understand and so look at chapter 18 if you will chapter 18
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First Sammy chapter 18 look at verse 7 it says in the woman
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Answered one another as they played and said Saul has slain his thousands
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And david his 10,000 so david comes back from a war
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And you know david's he is a mighty warrior gods with him
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He's a man's man. He's taking care of business. He's not the king. He's subject them to saul
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But you know, he's famous. He's famous in the congregation so to speak
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And so, you know, he has these fans
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Who are making songs about him and one of the songs is just like, you know, hey, saul slain
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He slew his thousands, but david is 10 thousands. In other words, they're giving him more credit
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Than what saul has accomplished. Oh, you know, look in my opinion though
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If I was saw I'd be like, yeah, he works for me. So he's supposed to be doing the bulk of the work
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You know, he's working for the kingdom. We're on the same team
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It doesn't matter how many people I've slain or he slain we're both on the same team
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But because he has the evil spirit because he's envious it's bothering him
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Look at verse 8 and saul was very wroth wroth means that he's wrathful
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And the same displeased them and he said they have ascribed them to david 10 thousands
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And to me they have ascribed with thousands and what can you have more about the kingdom?
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He's just being just kind of throwing a fit
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Why don't you guys just give him the crown already?
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You know, he's like throwing a little fit verse nine and saul
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I david from that day forward. What does it mean to I am? It means that he's envious of him
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He's just kind of like
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Those guys think he is, you know, he's suspicious of him. He's envious of him
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It's because of that evil spirit verse 10 says and it came to pass on the morrow
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That the evil spirit from god came upon saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house
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And david played with his hand as at other times and there was a javelin in saul's hand. So, you know, he has the evil spirit
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He's being tormented. He's in a bad mood. He's angry. He's wrathful
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So he's doing what the servants basically recommended which is to listen to some music
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And david's there, you know, he's playing with the harp and the bible says here that saul is prophesying
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Prophecying in the bible doesn't mean just preaching. It actually also means to sing
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Which is why we have him prophesying while david played
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So he's trying to sing his favorite song or whatever
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But he has a javelin in his hand
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Okay
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verse 11 says and saul cast the javelin for he said
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I will smite david even to the wall with it and david avoided out of his presence twice
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So he's just like, you know, he's singing and then he's just like
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I mean david is pretty awesome to be able to like hit those keys and still move out of the way
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Twice
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You're like, well, you know the system failed saw though
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I know he was trying to kill david, but you know, it wasn't the right song david should have played something else
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There's a particular song that he wanted that's probably what it was
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He wasn't playing that who put that javelin in his hand
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Who who put those conditions? I don't think it was saw. I think it was jonathan
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It was jonathan who did that not saw
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But saul took responsibility wasn't him though. It was his wife
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Verse 11 says and saul cast the javelin for he said I will smite david even to the wall with it and david avoided out of his
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Presence twice and saul was afraid of david because the lord was with him and was departed from saul
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Therefore saw removed him from him and made him his captain over a thousand
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And he went out and came in before the people and david behaved himself wisely in all his ways and the lord was with him
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So, you know saw so paranoid
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By david that he's just like I don't even want him to play for me anymore
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Just have him be you know a captain so I don't have to see him because I'm just worried about him
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I'm scared of him. I'm afraid of him because it's that evil spirit that is tormenting him go to chapter 19 chapter 19
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And look at this whole thing no one's sympathizing with saul
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Who we're sympathizing with david
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He's the one that merits the sympathy
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The bible says that he's behaving himself wisely in all his ways that the lord is with him that god is with him
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He's protecting him
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There's not like a band of servants outside of the kingdom
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for saul
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Right no, it's just like free my boy saul
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Look at verse 8 of chapter 19 and there was war again
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And david went out and fought with the philistines and slewed them with the great slaughter and they fled with him from him
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And the evil spirit from the lord was upon saul
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And as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand and david played with his hand
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And saul sought to smite david even to the wall with the javelin
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But he slipped away out of saul's presence and he smote the javelin into the wall and david fled and escaped that night
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saul also sent messengers unto david's house
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To watch him and to slay him in the morning
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And macau david's wife told him saying if thou save not thy life tonight tomorrow thou shall be slain
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So macau let david down through a window and he went and fled and escaped so again. He's trying to kill david
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He's not in his right mind. He's demonically
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Oppressed his mind isn't all there. He's not acting the way he's supposed to act
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But you know what he's still responsible for this
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He's mentally insane. He's not behaving
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Appropriately. He's not behaving sanely
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He has an evil spirit upon him yet. He's trying to carry out a literal murder upon an innocent individual
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And he's culpable for that go to chapter 20 chapter 20
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And then we're going to go to 22 look at first sam at 20 verse 33
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First sam at 20 verse 33
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Insanity makes you culpable verse 33 says in saul
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Cast the javelin add him to smite him whereby jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay david
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He's like well, you know trying to kill david, you know
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All right, i'm not for that, but you know, it's not really that bad, right? I mean well, how about trying to kill jonathan his own son?
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You're insane
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He's trying to kill
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His own son everyone with me here
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His own flesh and blood his own son why because he's crazy
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Go to chapter 22 chapter 22
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Here is the
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You know the degradation of saul. He just went from being a great king
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an awesome king
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A wonderful king a righteous king
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To just being an absolute insane
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murderous
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Backslidden godless person
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Like well, you know, okay, you know david. I get that you know that's pretty bad jonathan. Okay. I see the tide that you're making there
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But really, you know, it's just maybe he's just being irrational. Yeah, you think
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He's being a little irrational
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But look what it says in verse 13 of chapter 22 and saul said into him
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Why have he conspired against me?
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Thou and the son of jessie and that thou has given him bread and a sword and has inquired of god for him
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That he should rise against me to lie and wait as at this day's being paranoid here
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Then a himilek answered the king and said and who is so faithful?
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Among all thy servants is david
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Which is thy king's son-in-law and go without at thy bidding
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And is honorable in thine house. So, you know david came and a himilek helps him out
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He gives him bread. He gives us his guy's bread. He gives him food to eat
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And saul is just super bothered by this. He's like, how could you do this to me?
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How can you conspire with david? You guys are trying to kill me and the himilek has no idea what's going on
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He's just like, isn't this your son-in-law?
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I thought you would want me to feed your son-in-law. Who's the captain and his men. What's wrong here?
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Verse 15 says did I then begin to inquire of god for him be afar from me
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Let not the king impute anything unto his servant
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Nor to all the house of my father for thy servant knew nothing of all this less or more
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And the king said thou shalt surely die a himilek thou and all thy father's house
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Talk about overreacting
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And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him turn and slay the priests of the lord
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Because their hand also is with david because they knew when he fled and did not show it unto me
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But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the lord
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And the king said to doeg turn now and fall upon the priests and doeg the eat of my turn
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And he fell upon the priests and slew on that day
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Four score in five persons that did wear a linen e-fod
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Who just murdered a bunch of priests for no good reason
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Now you think to yourself well, you know if he's trying to kill david
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He didn't succeed. He tried to kill jonathan didn't succeed
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Yeah, but he actually succeeded in murdering a bunch of innocent men here though
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priests of the lord
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Oh, but it doesn't stop there
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It says in verse 19 and knob the city of the priest
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Smote he with the edge of the sword listen to this both men and women
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Children and sucklings
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An oxen and asses and sheep with the edge of the sword go to first chronicles chapter 10 first chronicles chapter 10
1 Chronicles 10 chapter mention 1 Chronicles 10 chapter mention
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Insanity moves all to murder
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It's not because they didn't play the right song. It's not because the system failed him. He's the king
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It's not because it's his own rebellion. It's his own godlessness. It's his own sinfulness his unwillingness to repent
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Made him go insane and you know what god holds him responsible
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And look you say well, doesn't it say that the evil spirit from the lord came onto him?
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Yeah, but it's working in conjunction with his sinful condition though
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Because it's not like Saul is just a robot
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Under the oppression of a demon carrying out these things
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He knows exactly what he's doing
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Look at first chronicles chapter 10 verse 13
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So Saul died listen to this for
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His transgression which he committed against the lord
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Even against the word of the lord which he kept not and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to
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Inquire of it. What does that mean? It means that he was culpable. He's responsible
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Insanity demonic oppression
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demonic troubling
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No matter what you can come up with he still held responsible for his actions and look folks
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Lindsey Clancy, you might say she was insane. She was going through postpartum depression
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She was in in a right mind medication this medication that according to the bible
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You have to have this right position, which is that she still deserves the death penalty
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It's still her fault
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The system failed her I can point you to a bunch of people who system
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You would say the system didn't fail them and they came out of it just fine. What about that?
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Oh her husband fell there. Well, you know what that might be true, but she's still responsible for her actions
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You know what we need to stop letting our wives
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Just go online and just go through every single conspiracy
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Every single tiktok video
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Every single instagram video every single conspiracy theory to just come up with all these wild narratives
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Look folks women have a tendency
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Women have a tendency just go overboard on that stuff
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Because they're just emotional beings
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You know, they watch a couple of forensic files and all of a sudden they're just experts
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on finding the killer
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And we live in a society that just absolutely saturates their minds with any form of conspiracy whatsoever
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I'm surprised aliens haven't gotten involved in this
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I'm surprised Jeffrey Epstein isn't involved in this conspiracy. I'm surprised that somehow
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Trump isn't involved in this somehow
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It's crazy
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It's absolutely insane. You're like, oh man. I feel like my wife. Well, then just keep her off the internet
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And then you know you ladies out there's like, oh, what do you mean keep them like keep them off?
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Like you're not allowed to go on the internet
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I mean, that's what I told my wife and my wife had the right position on this
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You know, my wife understood that she's 100 guilty, you know
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But here's the thing my wife is a woman whose heart
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You know her heartstrings can be pulled in the wrong direction
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And she has to like intentionally say like this isn't a right way of thinking
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I need to think biblically about these things and why does she feel that way?
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I'll tell you why because it's just all over the internet. It's on youtube
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It's constantly being talked about it's all these articles and then when she told me I said, all right, you can't go on there anymore
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Case closed. Oh, what are you some kind of dictator? Yes
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Yes, I am
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You know because I need to protect my wife's heart her mind her emotions because we have six kids
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She has a ton of responsibilities and I can't have an overly emotional wife
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Just completely breaking down every single day because of what's taking place. I need her mind to be fresh. Amen
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On the things of god reading the word of god spending time with our kids
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Fellowshiping with their awesome husband, you know things of that nature
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Cooking cleaning doing that. Oh man. This sounds so chauvinistic. I can't believe yeah
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Well, go ahead and look outside the courtroom of Lindsey Clancy. And if you don't do it this way, that's what you'll get
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pink shirts
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Throwing hearts at a murderer
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insanity
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crazy
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The virus is keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life
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You know what it means to keep means guard your heart
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Why because deception is rampant and you know who satan always goes for first and foremost the woman
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Prove it eve
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Case closed
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Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression
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That's what the bible says
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And that's why it's important for us as husbands to do our part to protect our wives and you know, you're like, I'm just too scared
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Can you tell her no I gotta tell her you need to stand up to your wife
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Can you just say can you just say that to her please? No, I didn't marry her you did
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What is that?
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You tell your wife
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I'm not saying be mean to her anything like that. You know, I'm just saying like you need to go to your wife and say
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Hey, we're done with this
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You're not looking this stuff up anymore. Right. Okay. This is it's over with I'm checking the history and you better not be on it
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Because it's going to destroy their minds
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And all this is and look folks look you think well the people out there in the court, you know outside the courtroom
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They're just deceived. No, they're reprobates
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A lot of these people are just agitators
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They're agitators that are just meant to go there and just spread feminism and godlessness and try to control the narrative
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Because they know how easily persuaded people can be
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And they know when there's a lot of numbers of these people. Oh, it must mean it's true then
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false my friends
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Okay
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You know and again look look she's not even claiming that she didn't do it
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Right
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So you stop defending someone who claims that she they did it
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I just think it was the husband. I just think it was you know aliens. I just think it was bigfoot. I just think
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And then when people finally come to realization we're like, okay, yeah, she did it, but the system still failed her well
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Wrong wrong in wrong opinion wrong opinion
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The opinion needs to be biblically based
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The biblically based opinion and statement that we need to make is that
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Three children were killed by their mother. Therefore she deserves the death penalty
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Case closed
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Who cares about the system?
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Who cares about you know, there's a lot of people in this world who actually had it worse than her
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Just remember that
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This woman had a lot of money. She had a nanny. She had all types of things. Look folks
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I know people. I know moms who had it way worse than that
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Who did not have those resources. They didn't have that help
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They didn't have all the glitz and the glamour and you know what they turned out just fine
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The point being here is we need to stop standing with murderers
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We need to recognize that this is
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You know part of satan's agenda to cause women and cause society to just
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empathize with absolute criminals
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To empathize with murderers to hate children
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It's crap a bunch of nonsense
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You're like, well, I don't like what you're saying. Well, you're just gonna have to like refute what i'm saying according to the bible though
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Because it's in the bible and i'm not interested in your emotions or your emotional explanation to this
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I'm not interested in how you feel. I'm interested just not in this particular case
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I'm not interested in, you know, well, I just feel as though
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You know and look folks again. I do believe women go through post-partum depression for sure. That's a legitimate thing
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I'm not undermining that at all
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That's a real thing and it makes me thankful that i'm not a woman, you know
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Because women are emotional for sure
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And if women you're offended at that, I don't know why because you know that's a fact
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And everyone around you knows that too
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We all know that that's that's that's just part of the fall
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Look at all the men looking around to see if women are offended or whatever
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Don't trip. You're good
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male oriented
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You know, I know that that's a thing. I get it for sure. But you know what?
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Doesn't justify strangling three children and you'll never be able to convince me of that
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Well, who are you to speak on these things a pastor someone who knows the bible?
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You know a man
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And you know, I'm sick and tired of hearing men should not be talking about these things
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Oh, yeah, but you're okay with the man performing an abortion though, huh?
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Ain't that right? It's called hypocrisy
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And I'll speak on these things as much as I so please
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And the more you, you know, give me the looks the more you criticize me the more I'm gonna do it
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All right, go to act chapter five now that I made half the women mad in our church
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We'll work on the other half at the end here
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Hey, it's true folks
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We need to cast down imaginations every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of god
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We need to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of christ
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So the bible says the bible teaches that if there's an ideology that contradicts the word of god
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We need to go with what the word of god says
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Regardless of how many millions and millions of people don't agree with that
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And I get it, you know, you're a lady in our church and you're just like, oh man, this is just oh
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I don't know about this, you know, just give it some time
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Just look at what the bible says
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Say lord help me to accept the truth because it is there
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This is the biblical position. I'm just bothered by it
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And I get it
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I get I get why you would be bothered by it because the society has conditioned women to think contrary to the word of god
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So I get it
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But you know, I recommend for you to spend time meditating on the bible not making excuses for it
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Well the cultural context the cultural context is murders is always wrong
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All right, here's another example of insanity a form of insanity should we say
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Is ananias and sapphira
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Okay, and you know, I couldn't say that they are they would be considered clinically insane
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But this is an example of people who were influenced
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By demonic entities to carry out a specific thing
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Look at acts chapter five verse one and certain man named ananias with sapphire his wife sold a possession
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And kept back part of the price his wife also being privy to it and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles feet
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But peter said to ananias
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Why have satan filled thine heart to lie to the holy ghost?
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And to keep back part of the price of the land
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Whilst the remain wasn't not thine own and after it was sold wasn't not in thine own power
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Why has thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
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Thou has not lied unto men but unto god and ananias hearing these words said the system failed me
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My parents failed me
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No, he fell down and gave up the ghost
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Now it says here that satan filled his heart
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to lie
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And the interesting thing here is that peter says why
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Has satan filled thine heart to lie into the holy ghost
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Meaning that there had to be some sort of invitation from ananias to do this
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Working in conjunction with satan in order to lie into the holy ghost
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So we could say oh, oh man, you know, this person was just demonically possessed
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They were demonically oppressed satan deceived them well ananias still suffered the consequences of that though
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He fell down and gave up the ghost because he's the one
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He is the body that carried out this lie. Okay
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It says in verse number five and ananias hearing these words fell down gave up the ghost and great fear came upon all
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Them that heard these things and the young men arose and wound them up and carried them out and buried him
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It was about the space of three hours after when his wife not knowing what was done came in
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And peter answered her unto her tell me whether you sold the land for so much and she said yay for so much
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Then peter said into her
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How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of god?
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And this is the most you know mafia cold statement here behold the feet of them
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Which have buried thy husband or at the door and shall carry the out
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And of course she ends up dying as well
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She's carried out even though they were influenced by demonic entities. It doesn't matter go to luke chapter 22
Luke 22 chapter mention
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luke 22 if you would
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Luke chapter 22
Luke 22 chapter mention
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Insanity still means that you're culpable. It still means you're at fault
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Even if you say well, it was for that short duration period of time that I was insane. Oh, how convenient
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The you were just completely mentally insane for that short window of time
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Not necessarily before and not necessarily after it's called being calculated there. Okay
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But let's look at an example here. Judas Iscariot is a prime example
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Of someone who is possessed by satan himself
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And carried out a betrayal that led to someone's murder
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okay
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Luke 22 verse 1 says and now the feast of 11 bread drew nigh
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Which is called the Passover and the chief priests and scribes saw how they might kill him for they feared the people
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Then entered satan into Judas sir named miscaria
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Being of the number of the 12 and they went his way
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And he communed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him
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Onto them and they were glad and coming in coming in to give him money
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And he promised and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude go to Matthew chapter 26
Matthew 26 chapter mention
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We see here that satan enters Judas Iscariot now
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Here's the thing when it comes to demonic possession. Okay
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I believe demonic possession is a legitimate thing. It's a real thing
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I do believe that demonic possession can lead people to committing
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criminal acts
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Murderer it could commit that cause them to do just horrendous things
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But I will say this is that I do believe that people I don't believe demonic possession happens on a whim
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Like a demon just selects someone at random
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I believe they have to like invite that into their life
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Because you have Judas Iscariot who was wicked
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From the beginning
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He didn't believe from the beginning. He's rejecting the gospel and in conjunction with that. What is he doing? He's stealing money
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He's the thief
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He's stealing money. He's playing the part and by this. I believe he's inviting
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Satan to come and possess him which is why he did so
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Now he does it. He betrays Jesus Christ. He's crucified because if you look at Matthew 26 verse 24
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Jesus held him responsible for this
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It says in verse 24 the son of man goeth as it is written of him
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But woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed
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It had been good for that man if he had not been born
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There's nothing here. Hey, I know you guys are really rough on Judas
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I just want to let you know he was the monarchy possessed if we would have gotten the help that he needed
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We could have helped him out. It's not his fault
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You know and let me just say this when he said father forgive them for they know not what they do
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It didn't include Judas
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Did it include Judas?
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In fact, he said of Judas you should have never been born
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Why why is he not rebuking Satan?
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Why is he not defending Judas say well, he was just demonically possessed. It doesn't count
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He shouldn't be held culpable. No because it was Judas who carried out this crime
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Look at Matthew 27
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I just think Judas got the raw end of the deal there
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Who's going to be able to resist Satan? You know, it's the most demonic. He's he's Satan. He's the devil
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Look at verse three then Judas which had to betrayed him
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When he saw that he was condemned listen to this
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Repented himself and brought again the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders saying
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The devil made me do it
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It was the devil that made me do it
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The system failed me the chief priests. They knew I was weak when it comes to money
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No, I have sinned
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And that I I have betrayed the innocent blood and they said what is that to us?
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See thou to that and listen to this and he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself
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Why did he hang himself because he knew he was guilty
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Why did she throw herself out the window because she knew she was guilty
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That's why
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Amen
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Because no parent can live with themselves knowing that they did that to their children
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And even if she didn't even if she was already past feeling after she killed her children, you know what she knew
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I'm gonna get it for this
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And so let me just throw myself out the window
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And unfortunately she didn't succeed
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She didn't succeed in killing herself
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We wish she would have succeeded because that's what she deserved and that's exactly what Judas did
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And you know what the bible doesn't say and it wasn't Judas's fault
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And it was satan who did this and let's not hold him culpable for this
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No, Judas was a son of a man of perdition the son of perdition
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He is an antichrist picture. He was possessed by satan
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He was a devil from the beginning to bow down in the truth
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This man was a wicked person a thief
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He was the man who masqueraded as a believer and you know what he's the one that carried out the crime
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What's the point here the point is this just because someone is mentally insane doesn't mean we just automatically excuse their crimes
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Get away from that way of thinking
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That's what our that now that is what our country does though
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You know
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Again this trial with Lindsay Clancy is is retarded
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It should not exist
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Well, we're just trying to see if she was
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You know mentally insane or not
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So she could either go to the insane asylum for the rest of her life or prison
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And bible believe in christians like gas chamber. What do you mean?
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Lethal injection electric chair firing squad
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All of the above what do you mean? Why is this person even living they have forfeited their right to live?
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Go to proverbs 28
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Proverbs chapter 28
Proverbs 28 chapter mention
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You know women who are being deceived by this don't even know
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That the people who are convincing them don't even believe what they're saying
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They're just reeling them in trying to get them away from biblical values and biblical principles and just corrupting society
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Corrupting women corrupting families trying to get their minds to be evil affected against their children
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Against their husbands against their family. It's a godless wicked movement and that you know that uh video needs to be shut off
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That social media needs to be shut off
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You need to control your mind start getting into the word of god and go with the truth side with the truth
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What the bible says? Okay
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Now here's my concluding verse here. Okay and proverbs 28
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regarding insanity
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Making you culpable
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You know if after this sermon you're like well, I still think you know
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I still think that like I get what you're saying
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It's my favorite phrase when someone's about to disagree with me, right? I get what you're saying
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I totally like agree with that
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But I just think that she is it wrong though to have like empathy
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For her though, even though I do believe that you know, yeah, she's she's held accountable
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But you know, I just empathize with her. Is it is it wrong? Well look at proverbs 28 verse 4
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They that forsake the law
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praise the wicked
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But such as keep the law contend with them
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They that forsake the law
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Praise the wicked they side with the wicked
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They empathize with the wicked
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They're with the wicked and you know what if you sympathize and empathize with an absolute child murderer
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The bible says you forsook the law
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You can't have it both ways
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No, I stand with the law. No, not if you side with her
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Well, I believe what the bible says. Well, then stop siding with her because the the bible tells us here that a
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An indication that you're no longer adhering to the laws of god
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The evidence is that you are praising the wicked. You're siding with godless wicked people
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And what am I doing? I'm keeping the law. Why because I'm contending with them
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And so may your mind be renewed today and look if you say well, I agree with you
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But I'm just never coming back to this church. Well, I still got my job accomplished though
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Because my goal was to just change your mind on this
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My goal was to just renew your mind show you what the bible says and get you back on the law of god
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Agreeing with the lord and not siding with child killers. Yeah
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Let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word
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And thank you for a sober and sound mind
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It's so important to have lord and I pray that you would help us as your people to
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Keep the sound mind by keeping our minds fixated on you
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That will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusted in thee
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Help our minds to be renewed
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According to the word of god to adhere to the biblical principles to preaching to the bible
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And I pray that you fulfill us with your spirit lord
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And I pray that lord you would find that woman guilty
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But we know that she will receive her due punishment in the in the hereafter
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And I pray that that would come speedily lord. We love you. We thank you pray this things in jesus name. Amen