The Trick of Tolerance 1st John 3:8

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's turn to 1st John 3-8.

[SPEAKER_00]: 1st John chapter 3 verse 8.

John 3:8

[SPEAKER_00]: And once you find 1st John, by the way, in case you didn't know, 1st John comes before 2nd John.

[SPEAKER_00]: And 1st John also comes before 3rd John.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to let you know this.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is to help you out.

[SPEAKER_00]: So 1st John chapter 3 verse 8, if you can please stand on the reading of his word.

John 3:8

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the books of John are really great.

[SPEAKER_00]: He has five of them for a second.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're John our letters, but they're really, really did.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, first John chapter three verse eight says, whoever practices sin is of the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

[SPEAKER_00]: For this purpose, the Son of God was revealed that he might destroy the works of the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the ring of his word, and you may be seated.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be tolerant, be tolerant, you've probably heard of this before, to be tolerant, to abide, what does it mean to abide?

[SPEAKER_00]: To abide means to be tolerant.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it means.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it means to abide means to be tolerant.

[SPEAKER_00]: to have tolerance, to tolerate others who differ from you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you've heard of that before.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's other words for it, to coexist, to be a lenient, to be merciful.

[SPEAKER_00]: These are things that we've heard before.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to be merciful, be lenient.

[SPEAKER_00]: To be loving, be loving, be lenient.

[SPEAKER_00]: co-exist pastor, way pastor, isn't that what Jesus did?

[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that what Jesus wants us to do?

[SPEAKER_00]: Be co-existent, be lenient, be loving, isn't that what Jesus did?

[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that what Jesus would do?

[SPEAKER_00]: That is a good question.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hear it so very often.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do what Jesus would do?

[SPEAKER_00]: And he would be lenient.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wouldn't correct people.

[SPEAKER_00]: He would accept them for who they are.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not what he did.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't lenient in such a manner.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't, we'll talk about that though today.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is a good question.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mind if people ask it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But no, he wouldn't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, he was co-existent.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, he loved everyone.

[SPEAKER_00]: He loved him.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that doesn't mean that he was co-existent in a sense that he just led him keep on sending.

[SPEAKER_00]: He corrected their sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he showed love towards them, despite the fact that they send.

[SPEAKER_00]: He loved him anyway.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact is, it's a trick, it's a trap, number one, we have to remember the enemy, it's a trick from the enemy, it's a trick from the enemy to make you believe that you're supposed to tolerate everybody to allow them to keep on sin and it don't you dare correct them.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Jesus will want you to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, it does it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You should love them, but that doesn't mean that you love everything they do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine allowing your neighbor to steal from you?

[SPEAKER_00]: And just to keep your supposed to be loving, supposed to keep letting them do it?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, wrong is wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the Bible talks about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the enemy Satan wants us to go along.

[SPEAKER_00]: with this whole judging scenario, you're not supposed to judge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we are talking about that a couple of weeks ago, didn't we?

[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about what judging really means.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's talk about all these things.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, the title today's sermon is the trick of tolerance, the trick of tolerance.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we live in a time now where the word tolerance, be tolerant, is used a lot, misused, misinstalled, misconstrued, all these other words, but we don't understand what it means.

[SPEAKER_00]: they misuse it, they misuse the word truth all the time nowadays, don't they?

[SPEAKER_00]: But why is that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why is it?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why is it missing instead?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because the devil has been tricking and misusing words from the beginning.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember Adam and Eve, he misused different words all the time when they ate the fruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look at this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at word abide.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there are certain things that I cannot abide and cannot tolerate.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the word abide people use that a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need to abide.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen bumper stickers of plenty.

[SPEAKER_00]: Many bumper stickers that I hate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I do hate them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Different bumper stickers to say abide or tolerate, be tolerant.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the phrases we see with that is, be loving, be accepting, let bygons be bygons.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's a problem with that when it tells to be accepting, here's the definition of accepting, at least the way nowadays dictionary says it, be objective, objective, willing to tolerate.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what the words say, willing to tolerate, include or regard different people, ideas, or situations without hostility, fear, or harsh judgment.

[SPEAKER_00]: This all sounds nice, isn't it?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's stupid, but this is what they say.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why do they say that?

[SPEAKER_00]: This means you accept them for the way they are, but you don't get to say anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is one side of thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a one-trick pony.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to say anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a one-sided street.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to say anything when they're doing exactly what they want to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about the world now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about those of the world, those of sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to say anything when people live a homosexual life, when people live a bisexual life, when people live worldly, when people do exactly what the Bible says is wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to judge.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to say anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to disagree.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's wrong, be tolerant, be loving, be Jesus loves.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, yes, he does.

[SPEAKER_00]: He loves all people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just because he loves him, doesn't mean he lets him keep on going.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I heard a preacher, let's say two weeks ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he was right, the thing he said, but he said something that was a little off.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that was he's talking about how he loved the woman at the well.

[SPEAKER_00]: All that was true.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said he accepted it just where he was.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was wrong because

[SPEAKER_00]: So he was wrong with what he said.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said he's a creditor for who she was.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no, he didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said go from here.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said it because what he, he didn't say said no more.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was a different woman.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he did say to her.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said the man that you're leaving with now is not your husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: He corrected her and said, you're leaving sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the, here's the great thing about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: When he corrected her, you know, he didn't told her.

[SPEAKER_00]: We told her that you need to go tell your neighbors about me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he did.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, other people have nothing to do with her.

[SPEAKER_00]: They have nothing to do with her.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're corner trash.

[SPEAKER_00]: They wouldn't have nothing to do with her, but he corrected her and still loved her.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how we have to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not telling you to go around and tell your neighbors or trash.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you to do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times you have to be honest, to be forthright, to be kind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there are some Christians who are too blunt.

[SPEAKER_00]: They come out and say, well, every single one of you are horrible beings, no, we're not to do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You should be kind-loving, but when the time comes, when God wants you to show them what's right, what's wrong, who are the word?

[SPEAKER_00]: be loving, be kind, and be honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's too many dishonest Christians who will not tell the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: God doesn't want that either.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, there is one way and there's not a one way street.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's one way as a very, very slim street, a way to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: A people want a one way street.

[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, it used to be kind of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: But don't you dare tell the truth or they're going to be angry at you, you say nothing Christian, you be quiet, you be loving, let the words, let the world disrespect Jesus, and you say nothing about it, that's what they want, that's what they want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be tolerant, be quiet, tolerate, be silent, be like a wounded puppy inside, in that little corner, inside that little corner, be like Jesus,

[SPEAKER_00]: And you can believe him, but don't you say it.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what the world says to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's all God says.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a look at Acts chapter five, verse 29.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to remember something.

[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, New Jesus, very, very well.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's Peter who said this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Peter and the other apostle answered.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now who was the other apostle?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure could have been John probably.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it says, Peter and the other apostle answered, we must obey God rather than men.

[SPEAKER_00]: We must obey God rather than men.

[SPEAKER_00]: People are gonna come at you all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: You must be loving, you must accept whatever one does.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can still love him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I see people are holding one all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like their work, I guess.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be honest with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: The more I'll spoken they are about their politics, the more I'll spoken they are about how stupid God is in their opinion, the less the less I enjoy their work.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because the less I can see through their pretend mask and the more I see who they really are, Robert and Ero, anyone.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's really good at playing a jerk.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're probably a reason for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is, is that he's a good actor, I guess, but the point is, is that when a person comes out all the time speaking to guess God, it's hard for me to respect him because God loves the human being.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that doesn't mean he accepts all their nonsense.

[SPEAKER_00]: God still loves them, but he loaded enough to die for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean their way is always right.

[SPEAKER_00]: He loved you before you were saved, but what if you were a thief?

[SPEAKER_00]: Does it God be all I love him?

[SPEAKER_00]: He can keep stealing.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what if you're a liar?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I was when I was a little bit of boy?

[SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean God love me?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I should just keep lying.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: My father and mother corrected me in my lies.

[SPEAKER_00]: My father got corrected me in my lies.

[SPEAKER_00]: But God loves me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I should just keep lying.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: I talked about the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who is the truth?

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is a truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you had to be corrected in your sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: and they love being enough to correct me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Praise God for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Praise God for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 14 one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I love Romans.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 14 verse one says, welcome him who is weak in faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: This talk about the young Christian, those who are brand new.

[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome him who is weak in faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: not for the purpose of arguing over opinions.

[SPEAKER_00]: So when you get a brand new Christian, a brand new baby Christian.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're not a baby.

[SPEAKER_00]: I met a guy here years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he believed he was all that and someone say a bag of chips.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he thought that, but I know one thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He thought he was so wise that he was leading this man who was coming here at the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that man didn't have much faith in himself.

[SPEAKER_00]: He had faith in this Christian.

[SPEAKER_00]: The fun to think about this Christian,

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I've been saved a long time, and he mentioned when he got saved.

[SPEAKER_00]: He got saved the same year I became a pastor.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I would kind of under my breath get gold.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because if that's not very long, because at the time it only been a pastor for about four years, maybe, and if that's not very long, definitely not to lead people to Christ thinking that he was on his way to victory, because of all these people leading me Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: But what he was doing was misleading people and he thought he knew everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was brand new, brand brand new.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was maybe a toddler who thought that he was a teenager.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't even that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I understand, but we're not to believe that we know everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I didn't argue with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, well, it's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna take time to get there.

[SPEAKER_00]: All I'm already there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm already there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he ended up leading the family out of the church and unfortunately, the family divorced and different things happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I saw that coming from a mile off, unfortunately.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 155, now made the God a perseverance and encouragement, grant you to live in harmony with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: See, it's not about what I say.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't matter.

[SPEAKER_00]: But God matters.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's word.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus's word.

[SPEAKER_00]: We must be in accordance with Him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now with what man says, not what others say, but with what the Lord says.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why it's the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've done it on the Holy Spirit earlier in Sunday school.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the Holy Spirit that leads us

[SPEAKER_00]: But we can easily minister understand what the Bible is saying, if the Holy Spirit is not leading us, we need like a Holy Spirit guidance, one last one in this section.

[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 516 has Jesus speaking now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what Matthew 516 says.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, let your light so shine before man or man, excuse me, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: let the line of Christ shine before man, let the light of Christ shine before people.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just for your glory, course not.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not for your glory.

[SPEAKER_00]: People may think that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I've met Christian to try that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was a teenager once, believe it or not.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I went to McDonald's before, right before I signed up there, started working.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this young man, he went in there and he started trying to preach to him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was embarrassed to be honest with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't embarrassed because the man was preaching about Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: The truth is, I was embarrassed because there was no door opened up for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He just went up there and started saying, Jesus died for you, and I don't know what the person asked him if they wanted a burger or something, and all of a sudden he started preaching at him.

[SPEAKER_00]: and the person was so uneasy.

[SPEAKER_00]: The door went open up from the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: The door was open up by this loudmouth teenager and that's all good and fine that he wanted to preach the Lord but of the Lord to these people but folks you can't open the door yet that the Holy Spirit opened the door and you'll know when you know and you know and he walked away there go yes he goes yes another one and I was like another one

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you kidding me?

[SPEAKER_00]: When you were walking away, I turned around on something they were rolling their eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, folks, that's not good.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not good that you now look like a joker in their eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not good at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because now it looks as if.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there goes another one.

[SPEAKER_00]: There goes another was idiots for Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, that's not a good representation of Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to let your light shine and they'll come to the light.

[SPEAKER_00]: The light of Jesus, not the light of you.

[SPEAKER_00]: The light of Jesus shining in you.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what news

[SPEAKER_00]: Now we need to coexist, so we'll say, I've seen a million, maybe not quite that many, but I've seen a whole lot of co-exist buffers stickers.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you seem to co-exist.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just sound nice for some.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate them, but the reason why I hate them is because it doesn't just say co-exist.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says co-exist with a bunch of shapes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the last one, the T, looks like a cross.

[SPEAKER_00]: And everything looks like different religions.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it says co-exist every religion.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says, every legend belief is the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we're all headed to the same place.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, just here today I met with someone and they said this, they alluded to this.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're all going to the same place.

[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it doesn't matter who you believe in as long as you believe.

[SPEAKER_00]: You sit there, it's matter.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine if someone said that about a map?

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to go to a Gita map because we don't know where we're going.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is back before you had your phone, your stupid smartphone.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad we have smartphones.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really am to a point.

[SPEAKER_00]: But they'll send you the wrong place too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Have you noticed that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Just smartphone take me to worlds of fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: And next thing, you know, your eight miles off.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because it sends you the wrong place.

[SPEAKER_00]: How many people have gone to buy a map?

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember I was on a 100-moon years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we bought a map.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was the wrong map, by the way.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it was it was sending you the wrong place.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because many people think they're buying maps to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to do this, this, this, this, they're not.

[SPEAKER_00]: They've gone into hopeless witness, they've gone to Mormonism, they've gone to all these things, thinking they've found a way to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Know what they found was a way to send their money to a place that's trying to buy them.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's only one way to heaven is through the Lord Jesus Christ for all of sin and for all of us towards the Lord God.

[SPEAKER_00]: So people want to say every religion and belief is the same or I'll hit at the same place.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to go, they're trying to make you feel as if you're bad so that you'll buy your way to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now turn to second John chapter 1.

2 John 1 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: Second John.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's write next to where we were.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says for the second John chapter 1 verse 7 through 11.

2 John 1:7–11

[SPEAKER_00]: I can remember that very well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all remember to set an 11.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I used to go to 7-11 a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't just get this way because I built this way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Slurpee's helped me.

[SPEAKER_00]: They helped me get this way with this wonderful body.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay to laugh, it's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, 7th or 11 of a second John chapter.

[SPEAKER_00]: One was just only one chapter, but let's take a look at it, 7th or 11.

[SPEAKER_00]: For many deceivers who do not confess that Jesus has come in the flesh, have gone out into the world, each one is a deceiver and an antichrist.

[SPEAKER_00]: Watch yourselves so that we do not lose those things for which we have worked, but that we receive a full reward.

[SPEAKER_00]: We ever transgresses and does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God, whoever remains in the teaching of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

[SPEAKER_00]: If anyone comes to you and does not bring His teaching, do not receive Him.

[SPEAKER_00]: into your house, nor greet him for whoever greets him takes part in his evil deeds.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's the thing that I have been wrong about for many, many years of my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: I used to think, get tree everyone with love, and that's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: Treat people with love, kindness, compassion, but that doesn't mean you'll welcome into your house.

[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean that every time you meet someone of another religion or another thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, just treat them like they do your brother and sister and cry.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It just tells you there that if you take of their deeds, if you take of their ways, you're welcome and evil into your home.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you can be loving and kind, but don't say, well, they go to a Catholic church.

[SPEAKER_00]: They must be saved.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now there are some Catholics in no Christ, but folks, there's a guy watching, he's talking the other day.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're all saved through blood of Jesus Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, not necessarily.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's all sorts of nonsense even in the Catholic Church.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the same with Mormonism and Jehovah's Witness.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love them, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let's just all get along.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just co-exist, let's it know.

[SPEAKER_00]: you have to to call a spade a spade.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to be honest about what is real, what isn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because Philip says, oh no, again, I don't matter, but the Bible does.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why you have to know the word, have the word with you, so that you can call out what's right, what's wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I say, so no, because Jesus says so, that's why.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is why.

[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians 5-11.

[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians 5-11.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I have written to you, this is Paul, but I have written to you not to keep company with any man, it was any man who is called a brother, who is listed in this now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this, who is sexually immoral or covetous or an adult

[SPEAKER_00]: or an extortioner, do not even eat with such a person.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, at this time, these are people who are living there in Corinth, and they were living sexually immoral and all these other things, and their people said, Oh, well, you know, they make mistakes, but no, they need to get it right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, unfortunately, we live in a world where so many people live this way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, yeah, but it's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: God still loves me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they're taking that and they're twisting it, they say, God loves me and everything I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he doesn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: He loves you, despite what you do, not because of what you do, if you're watching pornography, it's got to stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not because God loves what you're doing and knows how much I get to camera because I don't want to look at anyone who's so much like I'm talking to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: If we watch a pornography, it's got to stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're cursing out of frustration, it's got to stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I know because I've messed up myself.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you are gossiping, it's got to stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you are angry at people and you're getting on Facebook or whatever, by the way, there's no internet that's any better.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're getting onto someone and you're yelling at him and going off on him, it's got to stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: You guys start showing the love of Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean they're right.

[SPEAKER_00]: but you got to show wisdom of Christ always.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's got to stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: The sinner's got to stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: But God still loves me.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, your mom and dad love you, despite the fact that you're doing wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's my baby, and I love him, but boy, I always say quit.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, my mom and that love me, even when they spanked and bored it, they spanked, they have so good at it.

[SPEAKER_00]: They really were.

[SPEAKER_00]: My mom had the perfect weapon you could call it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you had these boards, the Board of Corrections, she called them, she broke a couple.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I may have had something to do with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't want thing, it didn't do because they enjoyed hitting me.

[SPEAKER_00]: They did it because they loved me.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's the same way.

[SPEAKER_00]: He loves us enough to correct us and keep us in the right path, not the wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 1715, Proverbs 1715, he who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, listen to this now and let's say it again, Proverbs 1715, he who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are a bombination to the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm known people who do one or the other, but most of the time they're doing both, they're justifying the wicked,

[SPEAKER_00]: and they're condemning the just.

[SPEAKER_00]: Most of the time it's both, why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why are they doing this?

[SPEAKER_00]: Usually to justify themselves to get away with sin, usually say that they don't have to go to Christ, and there's people who convince themselves of this so much that they're never going to go to Jesus before they die.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a shame.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a real shame.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you can't convince me, fill up.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you're convinced by me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who does someone else?

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Billy Graham's no longer with us, but he still ministers to thousands of people every day, maybe more.

[SPEAKER_00]: The point is that he has nothing to do with Billy Graham.

[SPEAKER_00]: Billy Graham wasn't the preacher.

[SPEAKER_00]: Little Coons isn't the preacher.

[SPEAKER_00]: Charlie Stanley wasn't the preacher.

[SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Dave Jeremiah is in the preacher.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever it is isn't the preacher.

[SPEAKER_00]: The preacher's the Holy Spirit, which is the Lord God.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the one, if they're truly obedient to Christ, that's the one, remember that, remember that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 1014, and then we're gonna go on to something else here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 1014.

[SPEAKER_00]: who ever will not receive you, nor hear your words.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just Jesus speaking to the disciples.

[SPEAKER_00]: God sent them into a town, Jesus did.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sent them into a town.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said to those preach His word.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's where He sent them.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to send you into this old town.

[SPEAKER_00]: preach the word, the gospel, preach it to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what He says.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever will not receive you, nor hear your words,

[SPEAKER_00]: when you depart out of that house or city, shake the dust off your feet.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you depart folks, they've got to send you to meet someone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're in a store, and someone's are speaking about the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're gonna say, I have never seen any truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have never seen, there's no truth here.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have a choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they're speaking about the gospel.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have a choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Either you stay behind the quietly.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, say it work, because you're ashamed.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to admit that you know, Jesus, because it's a fair thing to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe you say, well, there is a truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you'll know, because a Holy Spirit's telling you, or you're going to ignore it again.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you already know if you have or not.

[SPEAKER_00]: Speak up and say, well, it says, and you'll say the verse, I'm off, I'm going to go to one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you're going to speak up.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then you'll probably get laughed at.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what?

[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna laugh at something, anyway?

[SPEAKER_00]: There are laughing at God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mugs will laugh at you too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be up there on the cross with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let yourself be laughed at.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I thought we were supposed to coexist.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, folks, folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what if it dart hits you from the world?

[SPEAKER_00]: So what?

[SPEAKER_00]: So what?

[SPEAKER_00]: I've had so many darts hit me, you probably can't tell this, that's why I got all these scars.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, the truth is, you're going to get hit no matter where you're at, be loving, be kind.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you to go out there and say, you're all going to hell, no, don't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But be loving, be kind and be truthful, to be honest as someone is loving and kind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine seeing someone heading for a pits of hell and not tell them the truth?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how many times I've stood in line or been somewhere and I hear some talking about hell or heaven and I've had to just speak up, I didn't want to do it, but I had to do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because God put me there at that time at that place, well, it's just quinsus, it's not a quinsidance.

[SPEAKER_00]: God puts you there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've had people say to me,

[SPEAKER_00]: Why is it that you're in the right place the right time?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, how come your grandpa was in the right place the right time?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because we were open to those moments.

[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't because we're better than any of you.

[SPEAKER_00]: No one, no one's better than you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when you open your heart to it in your prayer all the time, Lord God placed me in a place for this situation for such a time as this.

[SPEAKER_00]: There you are, Esther, you're in the such a time as this doesn't matter if your man doesn't matter if your woman got his place you're there for that moment Who said that you were not there with those children at that school just for that moment could very well be who says you're not at that McDonald's at that moment just for that time Maybe you're at that grocery store for that very reason at that very time God knew that so-and-so was gonna be there too and they were gonna say that very thing and you might very well be there for that time for that moment Who said you have but I just don't believe that within you're believing the wrong things

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about you, but my Lord God knew they were going to be there.

[SPEAKER_00]: He knows all people, and they're just as important as you, may man.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because of the true level God, the true level God loves Him too, and the true level God is to spread the gospel, to spread the gospel, the truth, the only truth with love, compassion and God's understanding.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I hear understanding, God's.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a young kid,

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even know what gospel meant.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought gospel was a type of music.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it is, but I didn't realize what gospel meant.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gospel is a word of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the first four books of the New Testament is the gospel.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the truth of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we're to spread that.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't mean that every time you go out and you spread the gospel, you're supposed to only read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but you're supposed to spread the truth about Jesus to people.

[SPEAKER_00]: His love, His compassion.

[SPEAKER_00]: did you know the Old Testament is pointing to Jesus the gospel books?

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know the New Testament afterwards pointing back at every single one of the Scriptures are going right to the gospel?

[SPEAKER_00]: They're all going like this to the center of the Bible, the gospel.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the way the truth alive.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the light of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know it's been going to first John a lot, first John 3-1 or second one first John 3-1 says consider how much love the Father has given to us that we should be called children of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: therefore the world does not know us because it did not know him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever noticed you get made fun of?

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you get made fun of a lot from the world?

[SPEAKER_00]: I see Christians get laughed at all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now that hurt my feelings is a kid when I was in school.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've never been in art class get laughed at a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not for the stuff I made, usually the kids were jealous of that, but it was usually it was because of the fact that you were talking about God and how

[SPEAKER_00]: and they didn't understand it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why you looked mentally challenged in reality, you weren't mentally challenged.

[SPEAKER_00]: You weren't mentally challenged.

[SPEAKER_00]: You saw what they could see.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't understand that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I may ask my dad all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Dad, I don't get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because you know why you don't get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because they don't get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see something they don't see.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it has nothing to do with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It has to do with Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I could get that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't understand that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when you get older, you start to realize, ah, God has given you a new vision, a new vision.

[SPEAKER_00]: a new light.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the light of Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the light of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have something they don't have.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like you remember the movie's six cents for people who they, I don't know if you were seeing it, you don't necessarily need to, but I'll tell you, you have a sense that they don't have.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have the light of Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have the Holy Spirit given you wisdom that they don't have.

[SPEAKER_00]: First John, once again, chapter four, verse 16.

[SPEAKER_00]: and we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is love, whoever lives in love lives in God and God in Him.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have love that they don't get.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why you love people.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know why.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't understand why I talk about this in February a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: you have love, you love these people who are jerks to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was about to say you love these jerks.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a truth is they do act like jerks sometimes.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why I pray for no matter who the president is, I pray for.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't always like them, but I love them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray for the government people, everyone say you guys aren't here a lot of you, some of you are.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray every Wednesday for the people who's the president, whoever it might be or for the government.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like a lot of times when I see him say on the news, they drive me up the wall, but I love him.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm worried about him.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray for their safety.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray for their eternal safety because the scary, the people that seem to think they're going to go to heaven on their own actions and they're not.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that scares me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray for their knowledge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter 8,

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

[SPEAKER_00]: For I am persuaded neither death nor life, neither angels or principalities, nor powers, neither things present, nor things to come, neither hyphen or death, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: we are more than conquerors through him that loved us so amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Christ who dwells within us is the one that gives us from here to there.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Christ who dwells within us helps us to get up each and every day is the Christ who dwells within us who helps us every day.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, it's a difficult day.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a difficult time.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, now, sleep, we're going to talk a little bit more about the tricks of the level.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now he is a manipulator and a disguiser and I tend to have a picture provided.

[SPEAKER_00]: I get a chance to do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is a disguiser, a great disguiser, and the trick of tolerance is not just a trick that has played on us that we're supposed to be tolerant to everyone, it's a trick of tolerance and a treat of Satan.

[SPEAKER_00]: He loves to have treats from cells by tricking you to be tolerant to everybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: Should you love everyone?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: But should you be tolerant of sin and all the sins know?

[SPEAKER_00]: says this, but I fear, because once again is Paul, but I fear that somehow as a serpent deceived Eve through his trickery, so your minds might be led astray from simplicity that is in Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now what does that mean simplicity that is in Christ?

[SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean that Jesus is simple?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is a simple.

[SPEAKER_00]: It means it's simplicity of salvation.

[SPEAKER_00]: We call it unto Jesus and we are saved by His grace.

[SPEAKER_00]: Our faith in His grace is what saves us.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a simple notion.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people are fooled by this simplicity, quote unquote, I can't do it over here.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, the truth is,

[SPEAKER_00]: It may sound simple, but we pick the simplicity and we leave it up to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's taking care of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people say, it's too easy.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's too simple.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not easy, but people do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And because of that, they go to other false religions.

[SPEAKER_00]: See, see, they go to other religions that are false.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they try to make all these other actions pay their way.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can't do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can't go to heaven on false actions.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can't be done.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 11, once again, this time, verse 13 through 14, you can write that down to one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 13 through 14, and it says, for such are false apostles and to see for workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel,

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and he does he tries to pretend that he is something that he's not this way it will fool you It will make you believe that you found the Lord when you have it.

[SPEAKER_00]: This way you will follow that instead of being on that Curvy road that small little road you're on a wide road look, but I found a better way No, no, no, there's one way and if you found a broader way a better way I got news for you You follow for trap you follow for a trick of tolerance

[SPEAKER_00]: And it sounds so great.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've known a lot of people when I was working out at the gym all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm playing on my own back, but not like I did then.

[SPEAKER_00]: I never get here's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: I felt there was a lot of great people there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was in a lot of groups.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if I ever mentioned Jesus, which I was very careful about doing that at the time, I'm not scared anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: At the time, I was trying to be friends with everybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still am to a point.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I remember at the time, different ones were all like,

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we got to be tolerant and everybody had bumper stickers, you know, all the stuff I mentioned want to go, co-exist, tolerance and all this nonsense.

[SPEAKER_00]: The problem was, whenever I was trying to be tolerant and kind, I never was tolerant of any other way to have it.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's on the one way.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if I mentioned Jesus at all, they're like, no, you're going to hurt someone's feelings,

[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, they were so inept in their way of preaching the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: They would want what they didn't send to realize is the YMCA in young men's Christian, young men's Christian.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's the thing association.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they don't seem to understand that they're associating themselves with the ways of Satan.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they didn't seem to understand that Christ is in the name of that place.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they didn't get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I mentioned that once a twice to the people, especially the one I said of that day, I said, listen, I said, I didn't say sweetheart, by the way, listen, my friend, because I didn't want to get in trouble.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, listen, my friend, I said, the young men's Christian association, leaves in Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, and without Christ, there was no way to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.

[SPEAKER_00]: No way to have it, but with through Christ, Christ and Christ alone, and that's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, as they're trying to remember, and that's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I went upstairs and worked out and I split and I ran.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, that's how we have through these Christians.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you, sweating, running, going to waves you right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you to sweat and run as a Christian and keep on keeping on and don't let the devil interrupt your time with Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let it happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you can love them.

[SPEAKER_00]: but you don't have to put up with your nonsense, don't tolerate the lies of the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tolerate the manipulation.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tolerate people who are changing the word so that everyone feels welcome to heaven when they're on their way to hell.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tolerate the manipulation of Satan.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tolerate it.

[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter 5-8, be sober and watchful because you're advits scary.

[SPEAKER_00]: The devil walks around as a roaring line, seeking whom he may devour.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be aware when you

[SPEAKER_00]: that lie in in the face, slap him as a fake lie in two.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then John 10, 10, John 10, 10.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember we talked about John chapter 10 a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Creators, he used to use it in the news of the world, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about that from the first John.

[SPEAKER_00]: But listen to John 10, 10.

[SPEAKER_00]: And John chapter 10, verse 30, it says, a father and I are one listen to John 10, 10.

John 10:30

[SPEAKER_00]: The thief comes not, excuse me, the thief does not come except to still kill and destroy.

[SPEAKER_00]: that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus wants you to live, you want you to have life in heaven, you want you to have it abundant life, praise the Lord God.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the trick of the devil, there should be tolerant of everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a trick.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be nice, let everyone go to hell.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a God.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's what it sounds like in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: In that way they're saying, be nice, shut up, pastor, let everyone go to hell happily.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, tell them the truth so that they can see where they're going.

[SPEAKER_00]: Get to the map where they can see it.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're going, I had a dream years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Years ago, years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: I saw everyone heading to hell from far off.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I couldn't get them to stop heading off the ledge into the depths of hell.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I tried, I was grabbing a hold of people from the back of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was trying to grab a hold of their bridges, even trying to keep it going off against what?

[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't stop it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And all I could do was get in front of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: This was a little bit while later, I could another dream, I tried to get in front of them and stop them by speaking to them for the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: And some of them could see it now.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was like that yield sign.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was trying to be like the yield sign way.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't see, there's a turn that's going the wrong way.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to send you in the tips of hell.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was trying to be that yield sign.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, that's you.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is using it to be the yield sign to keep them from falling into the depths of hell.

[SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, otherwise, but I want to be tolerant.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't be tolerant.

[SPEAKER_00]: Science says, go anywhere you want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Go this way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Go that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Go every way.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't be that sign.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be the one that tells them the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Always, always.

[SPEAKER_00]: But they may not like you.

[SPEAKER_00]: They may try

[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, but remember, you have Jesus in you and greater is he.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a news that he's in the world for a son, four, four, be strong, let that strength.

[SPEAKER_00]: They may try to tear you down, but don't let it happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Stand strong.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even if they try to move the sign, be strong.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna close.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna close with Ephesians 6, 11, or 12.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why we must always have the armor of God on, because an enemy comes to destroy.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when you have the armor of Christ on us, you know you're protected, and you know you're gonna be okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pastor, this wasn't the most fun sermon in the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know that next week's goes along with it in a sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a little more fun, but not really, except to know this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even though we know the enemy's coming, there's already been a winner.

[SPEAKER_00]: The winner is Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 6, 11 to 12, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's bow to the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Jesus, we thank you so much for loving us.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know we don't deserve it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know Lord God that we don't deserve it at all, but Lord, you love us.

[SPEAKER_00]: You love us despite the fact that we don't deserve it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You love us despite the fact that we are sinners.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you Lord died on the crossroads all.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray right now that each and every one of us will come to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray, Lord, that each and every one of us will come up to you and ask you to lead us and guide us not to fall for the tricks Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Lord, even though, maybe we've been tolerant at times because we are afraid to say anything, we pray Lord that you will speak through us in to us, Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray, Lord, that you will be the one speaking, not us.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray for the Holy Spirit to be the one, Lord, to give us the words.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we pray, Lord, that you will help us and give us the scripture that we need for those moments.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray all this in your holy precious name, Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go ahead.