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Beware of False Teachings | Pr Matthew Chang
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message
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will light up your day today. I'm continuing on a sort of like a
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three to four part series or second Peter. So the last time I spoke
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to you guys, I'm gonna give a very quick introduction and then we will
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move on. Okay. So for the second Peter is the apostle. Peter
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writing not just to one particular church, He's writing to all the churches,
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okay. And he knows that he is going to die, but and he
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also knows that the church is facing a very unique challenge, not a unique
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challenge, but a very very important time of their lives. They have very
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powerful enemies from everywhere, from the Romes, from the Greeks, from the
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Jews, and now from inside the church as well. Everywhere, and it's
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like you're from every every neighbor that you see it. But now inside the
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house they are having enemies as well. And so Peter actually says that the
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highlights that you know, outside threat is one, but the inside threat are
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the enemies within the inside the church are always the most dangerous one. You
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know that you know sometimes when you fight a common enemy everybody can come together.
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But when there's no common enemy and everybody start fighting among themselves, isn't
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it you know, they start to look at each other's imperfections, you know,
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start to have what they call it a disgruntledness, and people start to
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what they call it break away and start to fight. And one of the
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things that happened to the churches was that there was a lot of false teaching
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that was happening as well. And you will see a lot, you know,
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nowadays you don't have to go to other nations to see it. You
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can see it happening in Malaysia, in the schools, in the society right
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now online. The world is changing. The world is having a new kind
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of UH or they call it message that they want to shape the world.
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They want to change the world according to what they perceive is right and wrong
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as well. How many of you use CHEGBT here? How many of you
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believe in AI or do you think that it's just hype money? Do you
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think it's just hype? It's a tool? People will say, like,
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you know, actually, I wanted to do a talk eventually on AI and
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what we think as church, what AI will become when I give you what
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I think. I'm not saying what the Bible says. It's just an opinion,
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Okay. I'm very careful too to qualify what I say. But I
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believe that a very short preview. I believe that there are three requirements,
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okay, for a to be relevant in the Bible, and and what it
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competes and how it is the anti god. Okay, So there are three
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things in the enemy. We're talking about the devil Satan, right, if
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he wants to you know, and why is his agenda? You start with
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a motivation? What is his agenda? He doesn't want just to destroy you,
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Yes, he wants to destroy you, but he has other agenders.
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You know, his agenda is to be that one. What was his initial
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agenda? He didn't just created Hey, I just want to destroy humans?
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You know he's he. When he was created, he was an angel,
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isn't it. He was an angel of worship, in charge of music.
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But what causes down for? What did he desire most of anything? Else?
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Worship? So the devil, his desire is always one worship. You
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don't destroy you just to like wipe you out of the earth. He wants
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to destroy you because he wants your worship more than anything else. Whether your
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life is ruined, anything in your life is ruin is one thing. He
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doesn't get glified. He wants to get glorified. He wants to take the
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glory from God. You're having right. So to take glory away from God
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is to either diminish God and to glorify himself. He's get me right.
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So how does he diminish God in your life? He can diminish God in
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your life by ask making you ask questions, why why good things bad happen
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to bad people? Give me right? Getting you to think like, why
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is life so unfair? Why? Why why things happen to me and not
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other people? Why does it make why? It doesn't make sense? Get
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me right to question God's goodness? That is why the temptation in the garden
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and in the in the garden Eden. What's what the tree of the knowledge
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of good and evil? Not because whether you're smart or not, it's about
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good and evil? Is God good or its God good? Is God evil?
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Are you good? Or are you evil? There's always the agenda what
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is God? Is God really good? And why is the world the world
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relieved that bad? If it's the world's really clearly bad. You wouldn't pursue
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it isn't it. But you believe in something that, hey, it's okay,
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somehow, somehow good. That's why you still pursue. So that's the
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agenda of the devil. Okay. And I believe that I can be just
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a tool, it can be just another fan. But if AI can achieve
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three things, then it can be used by the devil. Treat things.
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Okay. For anything there to be useful, it must have power, power
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in terms of resources. Either it's an army. He has money, it
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has authority, this tat this number one power, he must have a lot
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of power. Second one, it must have a lot of knowledge. Okay.
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Means that whatever that you say, it can say it better. It
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thinks faster, smarter, quicker than you, has access to anything, wisdom
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beyond anything. Okay, these two things almost there already, AI, correct.
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Now you can think faster, I can do more things already, And
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it's learning learning, and it's learning faster than you are. Most of all,
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we stop learning after we learn, after we finish university and causing a
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way, but it's still learning, you know. Imagine learning at the same
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pacer for years and years with all the information, learning every single thing.
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The third thing that it doesn't have yet, okay, is ultimate morality.
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Ultimate morality means that no matter what you say, you will always agree that
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it's right. When an entity has as limitless, limitless power, limitless knowledge,
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and limitless morality, then everybody will worship it. When will we start
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come to a stage when we say that AI is right, that is that,
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that is that boundary that is being veryy tricky. Right now he gave
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me right. You can't have use it. But the day it said it's
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right, you see, you can't have your children use it. In a
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wow, very powerful, as very useful, very good, we say that
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whit if I can track you like it becomes a pastor you can wear a
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digital watch or band or I it can track you. Hey, let's say,
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Raphael, I noticed, not this whole month, not from on Wednesdays
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and Fridays, you're very stressed out your corti soul and your blood pressure is
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super high. But I also notice, and then you know, because at
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this hour it must be very stressed out and work, and I you know,
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I noticed that. You know when you listen to this song or you
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will hear this passage, your your heart rate improves, your mood improves,
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you know, stuff like that. So can I give you this particular scripture
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to inspire you? Maybe I can come out with a customized mess sermon to
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also minister to you. Oh, and it works. And then after a
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while you become so used to this type of ministry. You know why you're
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used to it because it makes you feel better. What you feel is you
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might think is undeniable. I can't deny this feeling. Why do you think
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we have infatuations in life when you meet someone that's like, oh, I
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can't deny this feeling because the feeling is real to you. Correct, No,
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you may not know this person, but your feeling is so strong.
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I want to go after this person ready. So feelings are powerful, very
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powerful. So the moment that the a I can make you feel that way
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and you're start like, WHOA, I think what the world they say is
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right? And you know only way you say it is right, you will
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start to say what it is it is natural. And so what happens to
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you? Then what happens to the church people who are being ministered by AI
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who will always follow you seven days twenty four hours. And this I will
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never disappoint you because they know how you feel, they know what you want.
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Everything you desire, you will they will fulfill it. Now in the
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Bible, is there any place that looks very similar to that where all the
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way from the very beginning, at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
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evil? Eve was all alone? Isn't it? When he was it was
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alone? She was at the tree a tree that was that that looks good
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for the body, And there's beauty that there's pleasant to the eye and good
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for the body. One they will make one wise? Isn't it one wise?
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Why one day that everything you do is not just fast educated, but
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always right? What's what world does? Human? One? They always want
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to be right when you why. That's why you argue, isn't it?
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That's why you go online and then you type your opinions. Isn't it?
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Humans crave what power and being right right in their own eyes? And one
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day you're so right, and you will say that this is right, and
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you will say God is wrong and humans will be totally departed from God.
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There is where I will be a powerful Do you agree me? I don't
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have a problem. That is fast enough. But I have a problem that
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where everyone that humans will start to say that AI is right, and when,
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well, when will we ever get there? Who knows? There is
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my opinion. Okay, three things infinite resources, infinite knowledge and infinite truth
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and morality scary. Okay, I haven't gone to a message. So it's
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funny, isn't it. We started from the garden Eden. Now now humans
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are coming back in the garden I Eden. The tree of the knowledge of
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good invert is a different version right now. It's not a tree, it's
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an AI. What do you choose? You choose AI, you choose what
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the world tells you it's so powerful, you know, or you choose God.
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Yeah, it comes back to that one. That's why I revelations.
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I think in Revelations seven or Observation fourteen, he says that then then and
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the the when when the Antichrists creates a he won't create an actual biases,
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he creates an image of the piece, not the Actually it's an image.
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You know why. It's an image. Image means it's not real. It's
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a projection, isn't it? Nowadays? What do we see images? Isn't
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it? Everybody would agree, one even the world leaders would agree that it's
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right, and everybody wants to agree that is right. Then there's and reading.
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Okay, let's move on. Let's move on to the Second Peter chapter
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two. Okay, there's quite a lot of verses, but I won't go
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through all of them, probably a cover of few and because of time.
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Okay, let me track my time by eleven, I need to finish,
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right, Okay, good, All right, Let's reach Second Peter chapter two.
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Verse one, it says here, but there were also false prophets among
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the people, even as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly
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bring in destructive heresies, heresies meaning one false teaching king, even denying the
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Lord. Okay, so one the false teaching was there. They were saying
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that Jesus is not God and Lord okay, denying the Lord who bought them,
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and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways,
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not just one, and not many people will follow them, because of
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whom the way of truth will be blaspheme. Okay, the way of truth
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will be a blaspheme. And by covartiousness, they will exploit you with deceptive
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with deceptive words, for a long time, their judgment has not been eitherm
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and their destruction does not slumber. Okay. Now by the last one,
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now by the versetry is says, by covartiousness, they will exploit you with
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deceptive word for a long time. Their judgment that's not being either. It
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talks about the church and also the leaders and also the believers. You know,
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they look at all some of these people who teach very obviously wrong things,
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evil things. But a lot of believers are questioning, but how is
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it that God has not done anything to them? How come they are still
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who leaving successful, they are still prospering in their own ways when it's God's
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judgment is going to come upon them. So Peter is trying to tell them,
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no, no, no, don't be deceived, don't get discouraged.
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Okay. He says that for a long time, their judgment has not been
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idle, and their destruction does not slumber. You gave me right say the
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judgment is coming, and it literally in verse four all the way until verse
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eleven, Peter tells you tries to tell to teach the church through the Old
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Testament, how God delivers his judgment. Why is he so patient and and
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how the judgment comes swiftly. And because God keeps receipts. You know what
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does it mean now? Keeping receipts? Huh, keeping receipts, Keeping receipts
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where God remembers some of us kip receipts. One, no matter what you
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spend for your company, and you kip receipt on all the receipt single one,
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the high boss, here is my receipt what so many receipts? You
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claim? People the kid receipts? No, not everything. One fire stands
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also cli we claim. Remember God remembers everything. Yeah, now, and
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try to be sin regard actually remembers everything. He knows every single one of
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them. Okay, but all of us has been paid by Jesus. Amen.
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Okay, So let's go through the slides. Did you get my slights?
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Girl? Okay? Just very quickly. Okay, So second beat the
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chapter two. Let's go for the first. First. So the first thing
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that we will know from false teachers. Okay, I'm sharing a few guys
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so that you guys will be aware for yourselves. First of all, they
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speak what you want to hear. Of course, if they don't speak what
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you want to hear, why would you listen? Isn't it speak what you
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want to hear instead of speaking about sin? About hey, you know if
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you do not repent, you know God will punish or God will deliver a
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judgment. They entice people with promises, with promises that actually what tingle the
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year, tingle, the heart, tingled, the answers, tingle your ambition
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and your desires. And when they sit, when he says that, then
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they speak what you want to hear. It means they know actually what you
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want to hear. They know your appetite, and they'll know your hunger.
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Actually, and you know that you also involved and be a finance no.
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Every few years are someone here here and there would tell me, hey,
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you know one God, this investment schema can deliver seven to twelve percent every
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month. One. I was like, whoa, this means you're better than
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Warren Buffett and already you know seven tow percent or every month. You know.
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I was like, wow, okay, what banks are? You know?
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It means that over a year you can almost earn like two hundred percent,
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and now you're pret hundred you can earn like three hundred and over a
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year. You know, wow, if you see um, they understand that
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they will. What what what people do is that they try to stretch,
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you know, like by me or they're stretching you see, a bit quick,
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a fool. But then when they stretch out, when they make a
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big volume amount of they are oh it looks like a lot of noodles.
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You know, Yeah, this is the same thing thing people do it they're
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stretched. Okay, hey seven percent, you put in one thousand. I
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tell you over five years are you don't need to work anymore? You don't
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need to work anymore. And the thing is this is this thing has existed
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for the past twenty thirty years. How can people still fall for it?
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And I'm not talking about people are I know church members are who know fall
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for real until now? And these are not nor people who are not educated,
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very educated and successful people who want you know, very educated and successful
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people you look at it that you will buy that out and be shocked,
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you know. But actually the lead, the people who are less educated,
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the ones that this is a scheme, this is a scam, they know
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very well. It's so obvious to them. They're not so obvious. But
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the more educated one, I'm just so surprised. They will fall for it,
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and they will tell you it's okay, I've done the research and stuff
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like that. But you see, there's what happens then greed blinds people.
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So every year, So how can twenty thirty years people still for the same
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thing. And I dig a bit deeper insight and I found out from the
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syndicate, from people who know the syndicates one or Osta got law accessor you
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know what they always do. They always inject one main ingredient inside this scheme.
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They inject one energy. They inject energy. They know one once while
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they will come up with a different name. Okay, they're probably not operating
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that. It used to be a big, big syndicate in Binang, Okay,
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one big one, and then they got chased out. Now then now
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they operate in Thailand, and then they will start in Thailand. Then then
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they'll put a new name that will have a classroom and put that in the
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inject energy. Do you want to be like this in five years time?
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Where will you be? You know, giving the best life for your wife
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and for your children. You sell all these things, you know, believe,
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belief, belief ah As someone come to me and say, hey,
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mad, you know remind me of my younger self. Hey, you know,
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I really want this successful you that I've experienced as well. And he
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gave me this package, you know, his book CD. And then he
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said, mad, before you sleep, I want you to put on this
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CD and put it on your ear and listen to it before you sleep every
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night. I'd be like, I was like, what is this? You
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know? Look at it. It's like, oh, it's a it's a
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it's a meditative thing, you know. So they believe in neurological rewiring.
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Rewiring neurological means you start to rewire intentionally at night. You stay I am
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rich, I am rich. Project what you want to be? Where you
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are right now? Project project project? You are rich. You will succeed,
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you will. So they why are you minding on? And so are?
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They try to change the way you think and where you speak. So
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you start to do that and change of faith? You want to do that
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as well. How many do we have students here? I'm telling you right
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now where things are that people won't tell you one? Okay, So be
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careful of people who try to promise you a lot of things. A lot
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of people want to use young people. This is the truth. That's the
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truth. Are young people here, that's the truth. Many many of the
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rich people they want to use young people because you're full of energy. I
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told you before, what do they want to change? Why did they inject
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energy? That's the one thing they're want energy and energy is there even the
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all will go as well. Sometimes you go to this conferences that you see,
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Hey, how are they're like fifty sixty year olds, you know,
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because they feel like they missed the book and they want to jump on made
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full of energy. You know, they will recommend to all their friends and
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families how to buy it after the die. Anyway, I'm just sharing with
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you guys again, same thing that was employed in the world they're employed in
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the church as well, the false teaching. They know what you want to
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hear, they know what you want to feel, and so they speak your
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language, the language of Babylon. Okay. Next one they disguise themselves.
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They will disguise themselves wolves among ships. Okay. They use the same words
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bless Jesus, Hosanna. Hey, you're from X church. I'm from X
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church as well from Extra Hey, I visit the Extra Rutch as well.
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Who praise God. You go to cell group, You go to homes,
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Yes, I go to homes as well. Yeah, you know, we
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all serve the law. We want to give glory to God. They all
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have the same volcap, but they have the different dictionary. Okay, same
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volcap, different dictionary. Okay, can say the same thing. Enough about
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you check their life what they actually mean? Hey, dictionary mean differently?
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You want to know. So it's very hard to distinguish, you know,
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what is the skin or what compared to what is the substance? Okay,
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they disguised themselves, then they would. They will never tell you that.
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Oh I'm like that. Never. Never. You will probably never get a
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very clear truth from them. You will never extract it that from them one
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okay never. But you gotta have the discernment to see and run away.
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Sometimes I'm basery understand what I'm saying. That's why you gotta know your truth.
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You know, you cannot depend on someone else to tell you what the
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truth is. You gotta know your Bible. You cannot say, hey,
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mom, and then every time I tell my children that I won't be there
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all the time to tell you why he's right and wrong. You gotta know
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for yourself. You gotta right, You gotta know for yourself. It won't
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always be there. The truth is you can't be depend on Church always be
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there, past ahead anytime you want. How Hey, can you tell me
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this is right and wrong? No, she won't always be there. I
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mean right. You gotta know for yourself. That's why you gotta invest in
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yourself. You know, to really in the world so that you know yourself
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are built up. Okay, next one they will deny crises. They will
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say it. I believe in Jesus. I believe him there know that you
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know that he did miracles. I believe that he healed. But I don't
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think he's God. Did you know that other religions believe in Jesus as well?
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Do you know that the devil believes in Jesus as well? So how
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many people believe in Jesus? But what kind of authority does he have over
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your life? Is he God? Did he die? Did he rise from
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the dead? If he writes from the dead, what does that mean to
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you? Is he your hope? Is he your hope and your future?
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Is he your anchor? But in the last days, people will say,
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like, hey, I'm a Christian as well, you're a Christian as so,
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hey, let's do this thing. Christians come with Christians are sure win
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one. Sure what cannot be wrong? Why let's do something that I tell
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you sometimes I tell you you're doing the Christians one. Now, there's the
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most troublesome one. Okay. I won't say anything. Okay, but not
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because the faith is wrong. You know, it's just that people are deceptive
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to themselves and to others. Be very careful. Yeah, I'm not trying
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to assult this court here. I'm teaching you guys to be very wise because
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this is the scripture. You know, this is scripture. Or no,
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I'm not teaching anything. This is scripture. So that everyone you will be
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on guard. Whether you're at homes, you gotta protect your homes. You
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know, where you have a family, you gotta protect your family. Now,
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you don't simply let anything happen or you take it for granted. Whatever
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that's happening, extract you gotta protect it as well. That's why where something
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is wrong, the pastor who will call it out. Hey, hey,
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guys and girls, you cannot hang minger like that one. You know,
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do things things like that one or not take it from granted because we're having
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a good time. No, no, no, never take things for grunted.
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You see, I've seen cell group members because of jealousy. Okay,
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either you spoke to my girlfriend or my wife or my husband a bit more
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ready than they broke up ready, over one event, over one event,
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he know, broke up Ready. You'll never take things for granted ever,
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if you want to protect what you have and saying now, the devil works
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in all these small cracks and crevices. One day, next one there will
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be popular What did the Bible say? Many will follow the instructions? What
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does that mean for you and I? You will feel like you're the one
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missing out. You'll feel like, hey, they had believe something Wronger?
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Did I hear something Wronger? Am I slower too to grab it? You
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know, it will cause a lot of doubt and confusion within you as well.
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Hey why yah? It will seem like if they follow this, they
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will be more successful, and people will all them seem to be more successful,
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and you'll feel like I'm still the same three, four or five years
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ago. Starts to shake your confidence, you know, Like I said,
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feelings start to have a lot of confusion. You know, but what grounds
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you the word of God? And the date is the word of God?
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Why does the Bible say? And there's where you'll be really tested, really
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really tested in knowing the world of God and how you interpret it. You
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interpreted by comparing their successes or interpreting the Bible with the word of God.
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No compromises. You get me in right. It's very very important. Next
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one, they were covered. No, these people were. They say that
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They told you they will look like Christians, sound like Christians. But yeah,
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they say they are free. We are free in Christ. No christis
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freed as all. But you look at them, you will realize that,
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hey, they say they are free, but they are not free. They
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are like slaves, slaves to one to last and greet they are free,
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they are used. They are freedom to indulge on these things. You get
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me in right. They cannot help it, cannot help it. But you
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won't be so obvious in now. It's like sugar. You know, you
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say that, hey, you're addicted to sugar. I'm not added to sugar,
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just a sweet But then you realize when you counter, how many times
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are you you know you eat sugar and think all the things you just wo
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wow. If I ask you, guys are to know for the next whole
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week, take a diary of every thought that you have. What would you
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think about? Do I have enough money for this week? You know why
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this person have a car and in a better car than me. You know?
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If I give ties and offering how much money do I have left?
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Or if I take a diary of your you know of all your thoughts are
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what will you be thinking mostly about? See about God and be honest,
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I see about how much I have, how much I have, sometimes more
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about how white people have more than me? Sure not, but it's whether
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all these things are kept in control and in what is surrender to the Lord?
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You know, it's like God, I think these things bad. It
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cannot dominate me. See, God has a supreme power over us if we
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submit, you know. But when we don't do that, we become what
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slaves to it. You will be what you think? What do you imagine?
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You watch Facebook so many times? Wow, this person had a renovation
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so nice, This person bought this watch so nice. This person went to
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this place so nice. And you're suddenly like, hey, I call no
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money, but I still want to travel. Then you're like how did I
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ended up thinking about traveling out of Norway? And you realize from the obegobegob
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to this week, to this month to this quarter. Oh, at that
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time I actually spoke to someone who went traveling and it started a chain effect
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that got me spending money that I didn't have. You realize that how many
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I don't know? I think people are looking everywhere right now, it's that
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it's not me. It's not me, it's not me. You can realize,
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you know, you're spending the things you never had because you got intercepted,
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you know, in your thought and a one simple conversation can get you
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into trouble, drown. There is why Facebook is so powerful, not because
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they're forcing you, but because they keep intercepting your mind, you know,
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with these thoughts that grow and into something that you don't want to be.
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Okay, they are molding you without you being aware of that. Okay,
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next one there will be presumptuous, stubborn and bold to speak evil. Oh
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okay, now what do I mean by that? They because you see,
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why is this world becoming? Like when you see like you know, social
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media, it's like you see the same thing, same fitness person, same
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higher, same money making ski, same popularity. I see, I've seen
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this before two years ago. But just a different person, isn't it?
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Different person? Maybe you know, maybe covers a bit differently. You know,
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skin is a bit different. Okay, but yet to differentiate themselves,
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they will up the stick. Okay. They will say I did this some
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person I said I did this for thirty days. I did this for sixty
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days. Someone that I did it for one year. Yeah right. It's
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always upping the stick, you know, or I you know, I drove
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a sixteen miles, I drove one hundred and twenty miles. Oh I did
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this? Or so people humans have this tendency here, this this, this,
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this temptation to always want to be higher in authority. You know what
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I'm saying here. So if I gain the argument with you or conversation with
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you, I would say, oh I heard before, I heard from someone,
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but people said who is someone said oh? Then it will say,
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oh, I experienced this before somewhere somewhere, Oh I know this person who
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is like that? What what? What do you see? What's happened here?
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To make your argument more compelling, more persuasive, you will try to
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attach authority to it. So in the olden times, people will start swearing.
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When I say swearing doesn't mean that they say bad words. They will
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say they are I promise I will make money by my family's name. Family's
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name. Not good enough, they will say, by the names of all
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the animals, family animals. Not gonna buy this God and that God and
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that god, Egyptian God and God. Then not enough. But they will
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swear by heavenly Father's name. That is why I one of the commandments as
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well. Oh, what's the one of the commanders, Do not take the
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Lord Lord's name in vain, isn't it? People were what there was a
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temptation for people wanting to attach authority to wait, isn't it. So they're
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bringing everybody to wait, you know, everything to wait as well, and
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so so that whatever they say on stage or with the people becomes like whoa
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dispeller co credibility, you know, very powerful, and they will do all
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these style of things. Okay, I'm not naming people here, but sometimes
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you see and they are according to this name and them my cast and then
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say this thing about that, Oh can do this tout thing, can say
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this tout thing, and they're not only saying it to to to to people,
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They're saying it to enemies, you know, to demons and devils.
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You know. Now, what does the Bible say about that? What the
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Bible say about that? Being very presumptuous here, now, let me go
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through scripture. Okay, second Peter, Chapter two, Verse four, Okay,
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let me let's no chapter four. Let's go to verse because not enough
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time here. Uh. Verse nine okay, Let's do a verse nine.
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Okay. Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly of temptation and to
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reserve the unjust underpunishment for the day of judgment. Okay, they settled,
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and especially verse ten, and especially those who are according to the flesh in
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the last of uncleanness and despise authority. This is the next one. There
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they are presumptuous self will they are not afraid underlying, not afraid to speak
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evil of dignitaries underlying the part dignitaries. Okay. And what does he say
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in the next verse, whereas angels who are greater in power and might do
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not bring reviling accusations against them before the Lord. Now, so Peter is
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saying that there are this group of people who are presumptive self will and not
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afraid to speak evil of dignitaries. Means they are on the speaking outloucked publicly
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evil. Okay, okay, against of dignitaries. But I say, these
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people there to say things are the angels. They're not saying you gotta say,
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yeah, okay, he's saying, man, these men are daring to
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say things that angels they're not even there to say. And these angels have
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even greater mind empower and they're not even saying that things to them before the
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Lord. And no, so men who are more bold, bolder than the
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angels. But now let's clarify that they say that they are not afraid to
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speak evil of dignitaries. Who are these dignitaries? Grena, what is it
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the apostles? Is it the angels? Let's turn to scripture. Okay,
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turn to me, to the book of Jude. Okay, turned to Jude
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chapter one. There's only one chapter anyway, and then we will go to
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verse eight, Chapter one, Verse eight. When you don't know how to
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understand when you read a certain scripture and you don't understand it, Ryan,
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do not simply presume Bible is faithful things that God has revealed. He will
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reveal. There are things God have mentioned and he will review later, like
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the Book of Relevation. Who's the Antichrist? We don't know, but we'll
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only go so far. We don't have to presume. But there are things
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that we know. And normally when we say that, how do you interpret
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scriptures, that you use scripture to interpret? Scripture means if you read Second
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Peter, you can read the Old Testament if there are references to be to
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interpret what it actually means, because they are consistent. Yemen, right,
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You're depending on what God is reviewed to review something. Okay, So while
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we are we using we are reading Jude chapter one, and see where there
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are similarities to interpret second chapter two, in verse eight, it says likewise,
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also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of
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dignitaries. See the word again, The word dignitaries come out again. But
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yet, okay, Jude, here he mentions, and what you call it?
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Er example? He says, yeah, yet Michael the arch angel,
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while now we know which angel is theory, Michael the Archangel in contending with
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the devil. Devil is Satana the big Boss. Okay, the big Boss.
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When he did disputed about the body of Moses. When they're talking about
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the body of Moses, mean about where the Moses should be resurrected. Hey,
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they're saying, hey, Moses are there's so many evil things. Now,
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I know he worked before the Lord. He doesn't deserve resurrection. You
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know he doesn't deserve him. And that's why it's contending there. So tell
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the devil is always what trying to keep you down, always accusing one.
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Now Moses, So he accused one, and no, do you think he
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won't accuse you? He will accuse you one. Okay, okay, when
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he disputed about the body of Moses, they're not bring against him a reviling
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accusation, but said the Lord rebuke you. What does it mean say?
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He said, even when they are angel Michael was disputing, okay, contending
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with the devil? What the what? What the Michael too? He dare
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not bring about a reviling accusation, but the maximum that the are injured,
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he will say, it's what the Lord rebuke you, The Lord rebucule But
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then in verse ten, what does Jews say about these men who were lowered
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in authority? What do they do? But these speak evil or whatever they
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do not No this this false teachers speak or things they do no not and
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whatever they know naturally like brute beasts like in these things they called rupt themselves.
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Whoe to them, for they have gone the way of king, have
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run greedily in the era of baylm and for profit, and cherish in the
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rebellion of Chora. So that they make a lot more sense right now.
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So what do people want to do when they contend, when they try to
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speak, when they try to land a green authority and lend authority to their
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argument, they will start saying very silly things. You know, ye me
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right, they're starting, Oh, this fellow speaks so baldly about it.
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Even the devil, you know what, the devil, what do I do?
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But he's not this this this man or women they are not forgot,
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They are not for the devil. They are for themselves. They become a
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beast. Beast ready, beast me Now what you don't you don't know?
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And wrong? Human or not human? You eat you prow uncontrolled one and
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all. So, So that's what I'm saying. When you go out in
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life and go in this world, you must be very careful. That's why
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when I say, okay, don't see you know on the stage. Are
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you preach? You preach, but be very careful of how you use the
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word of the Lord. God holds every teacher and every leader counter ball.
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If I say something I'm not sure, I would always say my opinion.
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That's why when I talk about the AI and never say anything or that's what
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the scripture is, I always say what is in my humble opinion, what
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tomorrow you want to start a business or God will confirm bless me. Be
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careful about saying that. Won't be careful to say, oh, this is
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the will of God my life. Be very careful about saying these things in
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your life. You came in right, just say if the Lord permits,
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I really feel you know, you know, a nice scripture, I really
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feel enough convinced to do this. That's all. You stop there. And
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I know that sometimes it's not enough, because sometimes you need to justify before
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people. But it's okay. That's where you test yourself, you know,
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whether are you convinced or not, whether are you you are trying to use
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a lot because you're trying to convince the person or convince yourself true or not?
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He Pastor Gloria. I really feel like I'm glad in order to do
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this, but so that I can, you know, maybe you know,
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get Pasta Gloria to be silent. True, isn't it you think you're the
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only one who thinks like that? We think there as well. It's a
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temptation of the flesh, isn't it? So that you will stop trying to
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minister to me and hold me accountable, Just say whatever you say. If
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the pastor does not agree with you, you gotta be able to accept that
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you gave me in right. You gotta be able to accept it and hold
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accountably to it. You gave me in right. There are mature pastors.
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They are immature pastors. There's a truth. But you gotta forgive everybody.
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Have I been immature before? Of course I have. Have I said wrong
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things before? Of course I have. I've set things people sometimes want.
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I have left churched before. Pastor how gay? You said, I've learned,
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and Pastor to rebuild me and to learn and teach me. And I
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was like, oh you mad? You know, I think your heart is
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right, but your deliverer, what's wrong? And when I look back like,
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yeah, I think I did it out my own strength more than just
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trusting the Lord. And I have to learn as well. You can mean
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right, that's the truth. But the grace and the forgiveness that that is
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given by the leadership helps us to become better. We all learned. It
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gave me a right. We don't fall back. We have to pick ourselves
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up from thereth from thereth from there, and the same for all of us
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as well, for you guys. You know, I said, oh,
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I really believe this is the world of God for my life, and you
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win and do it with a configation and you were, let's say, hey,
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a that moment I said this is the world of car But maybe it's
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not. It was just me so convinced of myself. And why did you
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learn? You learn the next time when you hear something in your mind and
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your heart. Now you start to wut fear God, God, is it
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really you? Because God, I don't want to move, I don't want
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to sail away until you say so. And God will use these things to
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teach you things that you will never forget, isn't it. God is still
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good enough even when you make a mistake, even when you make a wrong
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chess move, God can still use that wrong chess move. That's the that's
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the glory of God's name. That's the sovereignty of God. I see people
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are h you know you see the will of God can bend too waste wanna.
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Either you become paralyzer or you become wild enough true or not, we
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always see the way of God. People can either be paralyzed or they become
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wild like a beast. Paralyze means that you dare not make any decision in
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your life. You there not take any responsibility, you dare not fail.
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But yet at the same time, some people take the freedom of God.
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Hey, everything is the will of God. Just do whatever you want to
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and your hold yourself not accomfortable the rest of your Let you think you will
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be like I do that. No, God say that you will learn to
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walk before me in fear and reverence. You tore the line. It's a
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it's a it's a narrow road. It's not a white road. It's a
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narrow Sometimes you bend a bit, yes, but you keep back again.
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Come right, you come back again. You give me right. You have
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to walk tell So that is why you don't clearly past us tell you what
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I said, that this is strictly the way one because they know that God
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is the one who is ultimately in control. Now you got me in right,
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So we will Most of the time we just listen. We listen,
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listen because what does God? God sometimes don't tell me. I can't tell
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you what's your future? And now who to marry? You know, I
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can't. We will just listen and listen. But we pray that you will
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really seek the Lord. You pray that you will really desire God's will for
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your life, and by that you will discern and learn from your own life
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as well. Sometimes when you make a mistake, ready all idea, a
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very bad mistake, do we condemn you? It's ah, you see,
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you never listen to me. Of course, we don't do these out of
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things. You know why we don't this out thing because we have experienced in
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our own lives. You can, I mean right, I've experienced it,
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my honor. I've seen it so many times in my own life. That's
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what they know. I said. Even if you don't mistake my our feeling,
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our thoughts, that God can still use you. Pick yourself up,
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come back to the Lord. You can be right. God can use that.
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No, don't run away, don't hide? Amen? Are you getting
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learning here? So far? So it turns of the god. Don't be
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paralyzed or don't be wild? Okay, don't be paralyzed. But I don't
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want to do God tell me? Should I drink lata or chai tea?
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Okay? Chai is tea? Don't t te Okay, okay, should I
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drink? You know? So it eats a fun or one time everything's paralyzed.
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You know, I'm gonna be like that. But yeah, listen,
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they can eat. I don't just you know, hey, mo bong,
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you know, let's eat e twenty four hours, eat whatever I want?
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Don't don't do this our things? Okay, everything in moderation. Okay,
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let me draw to a close ready, Okay, actually only one third the
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way, but it's okay. Do you have any more slides on their one?
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Ah? Okay? So this yeah, the fate of the false teachers
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judgment is coming. Okay. So Peter mentions that, hey, you know,
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you see these people speaking loudly, boldly, you know, teaching things.
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They are also right, but yet they prosper. They've become unhinged.
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You know, but Peter says that do not envy them, do not envy
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them, do not question God, do not wonder why God is not there
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to really put things in control and delivering. Is your God even real?
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You know? But God, Peter reminded them. You know, see talk
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about the angels who sin in Genesis chapter Sis. I'm not going to go
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into that, but you can go into that. It talks about the early
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children, and there's a few what they call it a theory. You know,
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the angels came and you know they you know, are married, and
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and then they didn't marry lot, but they have children with earthly women.
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And you know, the course the children's okay, and these angels were judged,
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and Noah, you know, the whole face of the earth, the
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man, humanity was evil. But yet you know, at that time the
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earth has never seen raining, has never seen rain, you know. But
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yet the clouds, okay, were reserve and the water, the water of
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the earth was reserved for judgment. Judgement was always there. It's just that
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whether it was activated. You know, you know this. When I was
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younger, how many of you, I don't know how many of you remember
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this. I used to watch this old Chinese series. Okay, it's called
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Pouching Tian. Some of you are like, okay, some of you,
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and let me explain to you what it is. The name is the name
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of a famous judge okay with like long beer. Okay, okay, something
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in old school. That war. It's quite funny. I used to watch
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it so much. Okay, So what happened with this judges that? You
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know he will hear the civil cases. But the famous thing about this judge,
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the spoutching thing. You know, what was the famous thing about him?
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No, he's not. He's beard enough is that beside his court?
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There? What was it? You see the instrument of execution? There was
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a tiger sword there down and they will execute publicly. You want to know,
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I was like, whoa? So for the common people the shape of
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the of the whole entire, I don't know why you call it instrument.
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It's a tiger. But if they have to execute someone royal, he'll be
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shaped in the shape of a dragon. Ah. That's how you know.
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He only used the dragon once before. So he will execute an So when
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people come before his car, the first thing that he would see him and
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they will see that that big sword as well, and so people will be
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scared scared. So the instrument of judgment was there, just that it's not
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being used. You get me in right. So what Peter is trying to
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let me tell you, get to show you with that. He said that
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you may not see God ex secuting it yet, but the instrument of judgment
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is there already. Just in the days of Noah, the waters were that
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you don't know it. It's just like that boom. You will happen ready,
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Hey, tsunami can happen anytime, one and all. It was swift,
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hardly a warning can come just like that. And I won't go treat
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But if you're read in second Pitter, it talks about the world you know
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now, the lakes, the seas, in the end of times, he
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will become it became instruments of judgment for these people, or you will become
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in the lakes of fire for the soul. Don't envy them. God is,
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you know, holding back because he's full of grace and mercy, merciful
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God that's not want to wipe the people out one and all. Even in
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the days of no One, preaching was no One was continued preaching and preaching
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and preaching and preaching until men were even men were fully corrupt. Why so
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that they will know that no man is good Without God? The world will
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continue its going evil, isn't it? And it will continue to be even
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more? In my humble opinion, why why it's God allowing it to show
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that no matter what technology men can come up with, they cannot cure evil.
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No man, they cannot cure evil, and they cannot cure death.
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You can create ev cars, you can bring Tesla, you can go to
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the moon, can go to Mars. Men will still die, Men will
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still have evil in their hearts. Only Jesus says, okay, only Jesus
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says, God will sure you guys are utterly hopeless. You will let you
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go all the way. Do you know you are heartily hopeless? Will you
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still want me? And then men will say no, God will shure is
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glory. I will change your hearts with the Holy Spirit. Gem right,
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That's how That's why Israelites are like that, isn't it. It's a preview.
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You know, Israelites they have everything. They have Moses, they have
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Abraham, they have the prophets. If you like in Jesus even come to
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them, but yeah, they still deny. Isn't it just shows you how
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sinful sin is. Isn't it how evil sin is? At the other day,
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we need Jesus Amen, Hey man, let me stop here for now.
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Okay, let's take this time here to really heed the warning, to
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heed what we've learned to know that. Yes, the world is treacherous,
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the world is full of deception. But the Lord continually preserves his people,
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isn't it in the midst of all these chaos, God preserves. God brings
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a light. God puts salts here and there, you know, to preserve
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us no where there. Day we were talking about teaching about and our salt
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and light, isn't it I was asking the question, how many of you
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like to buy have freachers in your houses? That everybody say, yeah,
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we have freachers, Say how many of you are will still continue to have
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a fat the door that doesn't have a door? One? Do you have
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a freacher doesn't have a door. If I sell you a freacher there,
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it's like super a duport expensive ten thousand dollars one, but he has no
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door? Will you will buy it? Why? Why? It doesn't make
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sense? It isn't there the idea of a fridge is why is that it
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changes the environment so that it preserves what it's inside? Isn't it when the
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door is gone? Is there a difference in the environment. Hardly. It's
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like a bit of wind then gone ready, a bit of winkle, gone
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ready. Freezer so powerful or so can keep food a six months to a
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year just because the door is opener. Nothing works, you know, even
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the ice melts. You know. So as believers are we Christians? Are
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we like fridges? Are we doors open? There is no difference in temperature
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inside the fridge and outside, you know. And whatever God has put there
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is already melted as spoiling. So is it the problem of the fridge or
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the door? Sometimes I can have the best friature, But just because your
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children forget to close the door, that's it, really, And you're laughing
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at who are you to close the door? Wake up the whole media,
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spoil all the soup, other things I could all spoil or not true or
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not true or not. Is there anything wrong with the fridge? No?
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Is there anything wrong with what God has given to us? No? But
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we are responsible for closing the d We must remain salty in and then we
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must remain cool out here. Be cool, okay, you must remain so
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that what God has given us is preserved the same way as well. The
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whole world is going rotting, you know, it's rotting away, literally fading
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away. But God has given us these things so that we can preserve and
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make the difference. So you'll examine our lives. Are we having that temperature?
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Is that temperature there? But if not, why is stealing away?
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This? This? This? This, this, this this thing in our
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lives? Why is leaking away? Are we opening doors to things that we
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are not allowing that we're not supposed to? Your open doors here, your
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open doors here? Upon I thought we reallet's say there's no difference between me
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and outside the world. True or not? True or not be an effective
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freach. Okay. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more
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