WEBVTT - Just A Little Bit (Joyce Meyer)

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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<v Speaker 1>I hope you're blessed today.

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning, Wow, what more times for the Lord? All right,

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<v Speaker 2>praise God, you can be seated. I love you too.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, we we tell each other we love each

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<v Speaker 2>other all the time, but I really really do love Halloween, Stephen.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's kind of funny you have connections with certain

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<v Speaker 2>people and I met him, I don't know how many

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<v Speaker 2>years ago at a Hillsong conference in Australia and there

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<v Speaker 2>was just like an immediate bond. And so it's an

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<v Speaker 2>honor for me to be here today. And I want

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<v Speaker 2>to teach you something that will you'll enjoy have fun with,

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<v Speaker 2>but it will also make you come a pyre because

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<v Speaker 2>we're living in a day that really, to be honest,

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<v Speaker 2>we talk about how hard it is, but God shows

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<v Speaker 2>us for this time. We didn't just end up here

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty twenty five accidentally. We're here for a purpose

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<v Speaker 2>and the world is very dark, but we have the

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<v Speaker 2>privilege of being lights in a dog for it. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think we need to shine a lot little brighter

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<v Speaker 2>than what we are. Amen. And you know, everybody, you

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<v Speaker 2>all have a pulpit. Maybe it's not this one. It

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<v Speaker 2>might be your backyard fence or your desk at work,

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<v Speaker 2>but you've all got a pulpit. And most people that

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<v Speaker 2>will come to the Lord will come through somebody like you.

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<v Speaker 2>Your influence, because the ones that really need it aren't

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<v Speaker 2>here today. But they are different places in your world.

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<v Speaker 2>And really we're not supposed to be doing all the

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<v Speaker 2>work anyway, Paul said. You train them up so they

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<v Speaker 2>go out and do the work of the ministry. You know. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>first of all, I'll tell you I have four grown children,

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<v Speaker 2>and my baby will be forty five in December. My

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<v Speaker 2>oldest son will be sixty. I don't know how that

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<v Speaker 2>all worked out, since I'm only fifty's that's an odd thing.

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<v Speaker 2>But we have four grown children. Dave actually ended up

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<v Speaker 2>with some kind of virus and couldn't come this weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>And we have four grown children. We have twelve grandchildren

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<v Speaker 2>and twelve great grandchildren. And so I feel like all

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<v Speaker 2>I do is write checks all year, don't take them

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<v Speaker 2>very long, and all they wants money, like five or

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<v Speaker 2>six years old, they got their hand out for the cash.

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<v Speaker 2>Dave and I in January will be married fifty nine years,

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<v Speaker 2>and we are not alike at all. So don't tell

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<v Speaker 2>me that you can't get along with somebody that's different

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<v Speaker 2>than you are, because you can if you want to.

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<v Speaker 2>And I've actually had the great privilege. I can't. I

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<v Speaker 2>can't think of having the privilege of doing anything greater

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<v Speaker 2>than actually handling and teaching the Word of God, the

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<v Speaker 2>most important thing that we have. And I've been teaching

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<v Speaker 2>for fifty years, and i want to talk to you

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<v Speaker 2>today about well. I actually put two titles on it.

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<v Speaker 2>The first one was acceptable Sins, which I think that

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<v Speaker 2>we think there are some of those, and I think

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<v Speaker 2>there are things that are sin that we have forgotten

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<v Speaker 2>our sin. But I decided to change the title to

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<v Speaker 2>just a little bit, because you know, that's the biggest

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<v Speaker 2>lie the devil tells people. It's just a little bit,

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<v Speaker 2>that's not a big deal, that doesn't matter. I think

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<v Speaker 2>the hardest thing for a sincere Christian to do is

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<v Speaker 2>to keep the balance between holiness and legalism, because see,

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<v Speaker 2>I've been legalistic, and I don't want to be legalistic.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to feel like I can never do

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<v Speaker 2>anything or never have any fun, you know, but all

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<v Speaker 2>I can do is spiritual things. However, if I have

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<v Speaker 2>to choose to lean toward holiness, I'm going to always

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<v Speaker 2>lean toward holiness. And some people will call that legalism,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's not. And God has called us to be

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<v Speaker 2>a holy people. And we live in a more casual

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<v Speaker 2>society today, and I don't know that I think it's good.

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<v Speaker 2>But maybe that's because I'm older. I don't know, but

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<v Speaker 2>it seems like the more casual our society gets, the

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<v Speaker 2>more casual our morals get. And I think we have

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<v Speaker 2>to be really careful because we are a unique generation

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<v Speaker 2>that has been called far such a time as this.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you know that Jesus actually really could come back

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<v Speaker 2>in our lifetime? I mean, he really could call the

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<v Speaker 2>church home at any day. And I don't ever want

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<v Speaker 2>to be ashamed when I stand before him. When fifty

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<v Speaker 2>years ago, just as I was starting to teach home

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<v Speaker 2>Bible studies, I was going to a Walgames drug store

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<v Speaker 2>one day, and I remember I was walking down the

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<v Speaker 2>street to get there, and I saw a penny laying

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<v Speaker 2>on the street and I just kind of kicked it.

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<v Speaker 2>Walked over it, and I got about this far, and

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord spoke very clearly to me, and he said,

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<v Speaker 2>if you pick up pennies, you'll always be blessed. But

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<v Speaker 2>I knew it had nothing to do with the penny.

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<v Speaker 2>What he was saying to me was, if you pay

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<v Speaker 2>attention to little things, I'll always bless your life. And

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<v Speaker 2>he has. And We've picked up many pennies in our life.

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<v Speaker 2>I will dig them out of the dirt. I won't

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<v Speaker 2>leave them there because they have a very special meaning

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<v Speaker 2>to me. And we've tried the best we can to

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<v Speaker 2>run our ministry with integrity and excellence. But I think

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<v Speaker 2>it's time to tighten our belt of truth just a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit tighter. You know Ephesians six, when it talks

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<v Speaker 2>about warfare, one of the first things that says is

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<v Speaker 2>tighten the belt of truth. Tighten it so you may

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<v Speaker 2>know the word, but God wants us to lean in

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<v Speaker 2>on it a little bit more. Make sure we're living it,

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<v Speaker 2>not just not just talking about it. And so I

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<v Speaker 2>think that there are things that we do that we

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't do, but we do them because the devil says

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<v Speaker 2>it's just a little bit. Everybody does it. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>maybe you're not here because I know their integrity. But

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<v Speaker 2>there are pastors I know that do things that God

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<v Speaker 2>won't let me do, and I used to. I went

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<v Speaker 2>to God complaining about it one time because there was

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<v Speaker 2>a movie that was out that I really wanted to see,

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<v Speaker 2>and I just knew God didn't want me to go

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<v Speaker 2>see it. But I mean, my pastors were seeing it.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody was seeing it, and I got a little miffed.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, why is it that everybody else can do

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<v Speaker 2>stuff and I can't do anything? And you know what

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<v Speaker 2>he said to me. Look, Joyce, you asked me for

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<v Speaker 2>a lot. Do you want it or not? So you know,

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<v Speaker 2>everybody wants everything that you here talked about, but not

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<v Speaker 2>everybody's willing to live the lifestyle they need to live

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<v Speaker 2>to get it. I want to read your story. It's

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<v Speaker 2>by a woman named Annette Nee. Many parents are working

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<v Speaker 2>hard to explain to their children and teens why some

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<v Speaker 2>video games, music, movies, books, and magazines are not acceptable

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<v Speaker 2>material for them to see or bring into their homes.

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<v Speaker 2>One parent came up with an original idea that's hard

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<v Speaker 2>to refute. He listened to all the reasons his children

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<v Speaker 2>gave for wanting to see a particular PG thirteen movie.

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<v Speaker 2>It had their favorite actors. Everyone else was seeing it.

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<v Speaker 2>Even church members said it was great. It was only

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<v Speaker 2>rated PG thirteen because of the suggestion of sex. They

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<v Speaker 2>never really showed anything. The language was pretty good. They

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<v Speaker 2>only used a large name in vain three times in

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<v Speaker 2>the whole movie. The video effects were fabulous, The plot

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<v Speaker 2>was power packed. Video effects were fabulous. Yes, there was

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<v Speaker 2>those this one scene where they blew up a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of people in kill them, But you know, not violence

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<v Speaker 2>as normal stuff today. It wasn't really that bad. Even

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<v Speaker 2>after all these explanations for the rating, the father would

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<v Speaker 2>not give in. He didn't even give them a satisfying

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<v Speaker 2>explanation for saying no. He just said no. A little

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<v Speaker 2>later that evening, the father said to his teens, if

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<v Speaker 2>you'd like some brownies, I've made some fresh. He explained

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<v Speaker 2>he'd taken the family's favorite recipe and added a little

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<v Speaker 2>something new. They said, what is it, and he calmly

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<v Speaker 2>replied that he had added just a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>dog poop. He said, but it's just a little as

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<v Speaker 2>in this whole batch of brownie. You won't even taste it,

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<v Speaker 2>But all the other ingredients or gourmet quality. He had

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<v Speaker 2>taken great care to bake the brownies at the precise

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<v Speaker 2>temperature at the exact time. He was sure they'd be superb.

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<v Speaker 2>Even with all the explanations of the perfect attributes of

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<v Speaker 2>the brownies, the teens, not one teen would even try one.

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<v Speaker 2>The father acted surprised. Well, there's only one little element

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<v Speaker 2>in there that I don't know. Why you actually stubborn?

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<v Speaker 2>He said, I assure you you won't notice it, you

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<v Speaker 2>won't taste it, if at all. But they all held

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<v Speaker 2>firm and not one would even try the brownies. He

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<v Speaker 2>then explained that the movie they wanted to see was

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<v Speaker 2>just like those brownies. Stand enters our minds and our

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<v Speaker 2>homes by deceiving us into believing that just a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit won't matter, just a little bit won't make any difference.

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<v Speaker 2>So now when the father's children want to do something

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<v Speaker 2>they shouldn't do, he just says, would you like a brownie? Now?

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<v Speaker 2>I have one main thing that I want to get

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<v Speaker 2>out today, and so I'll have to just kind of

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<v Speaker 2>give you a little dust over so we all have

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<v Speaker 2>a good idea. Okay, I doubt that any one of

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<v Speaker 2>you is going to rob a bank next week. I

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<v Speaker 2>doubt that anybody here is planning to rob the local

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<v Speaker 2>mini march. I doubt that anybody here is planning a murder.

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<v Speaker 2>But there are some of you here this morning that

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<v Speaker 2>harbor jealousy. Oh yeah, it is a sin. Bible says,

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<v Speaker 2>Jealousy rots the bones. You know, it's amazing to me

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<v Speaker 2>that we don't see this center. Everything that God tells

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<v Speaker 2>us to do or not to do is not for

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<v Speaker 2>his benefit, it's for ours. He just tells us to

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<v Speaker 2>do what will make us happy, and what will make

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<v Speaker 2>us better, and what will that make us healthier and

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<v Speaker 2>make us live long. Jealousy rots the bones. It has

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<v Speaker 2>an actual effect on your health. But let's just say

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<v Speaker 2>that there's a woman at work that is not a believer,

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<v Speaker 2>and there's an office that's opened up. There weren't enough

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<v Speaker 2>offices for everybody, but certain people got offices and somebody

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<v Speaker 2>had quit, and so now this office was open. And

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<v Speaker 2>you're a Christian and you prayed for that office. You

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<v Speaker 2>even gave a little extra that week in the offering

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<v Speaker 2>because you wanted that office. But this girl who wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>even a Christian got it. Now, all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 2>you can't like her anymore, because as soon as you

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<v Speaker 2>become jealous of somebody, you can no longer have a

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<v Speaker 2>loving right relationship with him. Or maybe let's say it's

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<v Speaker 2>a sibling rivalry. Maybe just somebody here today maybe or

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<v Speaker 2>somebody watching on television. Maybe you have a brother or

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<v Speaker 2>sister that's smarter than you are. I had one son

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<v Speaker 2>that got straight a's and never had to crack a book,

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<v Speaker 2>and another another one that a girl's. She got good grades,

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<v Speaker 2>but I mean she studied so hard. That was all

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<v Speaker 2>the girl did. And then I had two who didn't care.

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<v Speaker 2>And one of those two the ministry now. And because

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<v Speaker 2>he wasn't a book guy, he was a hands on guy.

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<v Speaker 2>And everybody has gifts, and you should never be jealous

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<v Speaker 2>of somebody else's because what happens if you're jealous of

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<v Speaker 2>somebody else's gifts. It causes you not to see your own,

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<v Speaker 2>and then we end up being robbed. Because God put

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<v Speaker 2>that gift in them for you. The gift that's in

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<v Speaker 2>me makes me work. You get to enjoy it, right,

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<v Speaker 2>and so I need your gift and you need mine.

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<v Speaker 2>But if we get jealous of each other, then it

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't happen. What if my eyes said, you know, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>really tired of just looking at that ring. I've looked

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<v Speaker 2>at that ring all my life and I'm just tired

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<v Speaker 2>of it, and I want my own ring. Now. What

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<v Speaker 2>if God said, oh, okay, well there you have it.

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<v Speaker 2>So now I've just messed up everything. I got my ring,

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<v Speaker 2>I got my way, but now I can't see what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm doing or or where I'm going in life? Amen?

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<v Speaker 2>Or what about unforgiveness? And you know, I know you

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<v Speaker 2>hear a lot about unforgiveness, but it's the single biggest

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<v Speaker 2>problem in the church. You would be absolutely astonished at

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<v Speaker 2>how many people are in here today that are angry

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<v Speaker 2>with someone and you don't forgive them because you don't

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<v Speaker 2>think they deserve it, or you know, it's it's funny

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<v Speaker 2>when somebody does something that hurts us, how well we

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<v Speaker 2>remember it, but how quickly we forget the things that

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<v Speaker 2>we do to other people.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow. Amen. And you want to forgive some of you,

0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.959
<v Speaker 2>some of you don't. But if you want to forgive,

0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.240
<v Speaker 2>people get mixed up because they think forgiveness is a feeling.

0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.280
<v Speaker 2>So you pray to forgive and you don't feel any

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<v Speaker 2>different about that person when you see them, you still

0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:36.879
<v Speaker 2>want to knock them down. But forgiveness is not a feeling.

0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.520
<v Speaker 2>It's a decision you make about how you will treat someone. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to get that, so that'll help so

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<v Speaker 2>many of you. The Bible says that we are to

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<v Speaker 2>do three things. Pray for our enemies. So if you

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<v Speaker 2>want to forgive somebody, you pray for them. You pray

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<v Speaker 2>for them to be blessed. And you think, well, I

0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.280
<v Speaker 2>don't want them to be blessed. Well, you pray for

0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.000
<v Speaker 2>them to be blessed anyway. And that doesn't mean God's

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<v Speaker 2>going to give them a new house. Maybe He'll give

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<v Speaker 2>them some revelation about how they treat people. You pray

0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.040
<v Speaker 2>for them to be blessed, you bless and do not

0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:20.199
<v Speaker 2>curse them, And that means in that way that you

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<v Speaker 2>speak well of them, you don't speak evil of them,

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<v Speaker 2>so you don't run around telling everybody else what they did.

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<v Speaker 2>And Thirdly, if they have a need, who that's the

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<v Speaker 2>out you one. If they have a need, you meet

0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.600
<v Speaker 2>that need. Now, forgiveness doesn't necessarily mean that you have

0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.560
<v Speaker 2>to be around the person. You don't have to have

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<v Speaker 2>a reconciliation of the relationship. But how you feel about

0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:57.280
<v Speaker 2>them in your heart, you release them in your heart,

0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.920
<v Speaker 2>You release them into God's hands, and you do yourself

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<v Speaker 2>a favor when you do that, not them you because

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<v Speaker 2>you can't. It messes your love life up if you're

0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.280
<v Speaker 2>mad at people. And I tell you, I want to

0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.400
<v Speaker 2>be so good at forgiveness that I'm forgiving somebody while

0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:21.040
<v Speaker 2>they're still trying to offend me. So that's I just

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to give you an idea, But I got to

0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:28.120
<v Speaker 2>get going here to get to the real stuff. One

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<v Speaker 2>I want to mention is lying. There are a lot

0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:37.119
<v Speaker 2>of Christian liars, because any time you don't keep your word,

0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:45.679
<v Speaker 2>you're lying. Now we're gonna get down to the little stuff,

0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.760
<v Speaker 2>because I think God cares about the pennies. If you

0:19:50.040 --> 0:20:00.320
<v Speaker 2>tell somebody, I'll call you back this afternoon. And and really,

0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.359
<v Speaker 2>if the truth were told, you already know when you

0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.440
<v Speaker 2>say that you're not going to call him back this afternoon.

0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:11.159
<v Speaker 2>You've just found a way to get rid of them.

0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.920
<v Speaker 2>I tell you how God cured me of that. We

0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:22.359
<v Speaker 2>were in Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, ministering several different churches and

0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.679
<v Speaker 2>we kind of really hooked up with this one couple

0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.840
<v Speaker 2>that were pastors, and so we said to them. I

0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.119
<v Speaker 2>said to them, hey, you guys ought to come to

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<v Speaker 2>Saint Louis sometime and stay for about a week, and

0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.080
<v Speaker 2>we'll take you to the arch and you know, we'll

0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:43.960
<v Speaker 2>do all these things. Well, I don't even know why

0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.120
<v Speaker 2>I said it. I didn't really say it. I didn't

0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:51.800
<v Speaker 2>really say it because I wanted them to come. I

0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:56.480
<v Speaker 2>just was trying to be nice. Well, about a month

0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.520
<v Speaker 2>went buying the man calling, he said, well, we're ready.

0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:07.840
<v Speaker 2>I said, ready for what? He said, We're ready to

0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:14.880
<v Speaker 2>come to Saint Louis. And I thought, oh, And I said,

0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:16.600
<v Speaker 2>to god, God, what am I going to do? I

0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.840
<v Speaker 2>can't have company for a week right now. I'm just

0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.440
<v Speaker 2>up to my eyeballs and work. And he said, I'll

0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.640
<v Speaker 2>tell you exactly what you're gonna do. You're gonna tell

0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.119
<v Speaker 2>them to come, and you're going to put them in

0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.200
<v Speaker 2>a good hotel and you're going to spend the week

0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.960
<v Speaker 2>with them. And that's going to teach you not to

0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:43.359
<v Speaker 2>say things that you really don't mean. And ma'am, don't

0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.040
<v Speaker 2>tell people. I'll pray for you, and then don't pray

0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.400
<v Speaker 2>for them. I'll pray for you as a good way

0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.880
<v Speaker 2>to get rid of people too. Sometimes I'm gonna pray

0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.360
<v Speaker 2>for you about that. Well, then you pray for them

0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:57.879
<v Speaker 2>about that. If you tell somebody you're going to call

0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.760
<v Speaker 2>them back, you call them back. If you say I'll

0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.600
<v Speaker 2>call you in a few weeks and we'll go to lunch,

0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:09.200
<v Speaker 2>call them and take them to lunch. We expect God

0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:15.240
<v Speaker 2>to keep his word, and God expects us to keep

0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:22.400
<v Speaker 2>our word. Amen. I mean these to me are areas

0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:27.240
<v Speaker 2>where you could lean a little toward legalism and it

0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:35.080
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't hurt I honestly try before God, anything that I

0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:40.080
<v Speaker 2>tell somebody I'm going to do to the best of

0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:44.119
<v Speaker 2>my knowledge, I do it. And if there's anything I've forgotten, Lord,

0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.920
<v Speaker 2>please remind me. But the thing I actually want to

0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:53.040
<v Speaker 2>talk to you about today is a big sin, but

0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:56.000
<v Speaker 2>one that people I don't think you even think it's

0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:08.520
<v Speaker 2>a sin, and that's complaining. I don't know if you

0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.840
<v Speaker 2>know who Madam Guyan is, but she lived in the

0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:18.600
<v Speaker 2>sixteen hundreds and some of her books have really helped me.

0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:25.280
<v Speaker 2>Pretty strict, but they've really helped me. And she said

0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.639
<v Speaker 2>something is just like God, You've got to be kidding.

0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:33.680
<v Speaker 2>She said, even if you sigh, it's a sign of discontentment.

0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:37.160
<v Speaker 2>So let me just tell you I've got a ways

0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:43.560
<v Speaker 2>to go, because I still do sigh. In numbers twenty one,

0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.400
<v Speaker 2>verses four through seven, the Bible says, and they journeyed

0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:49.119
<v Speaker 2>from Mount Horror by way to the Red Sea to

0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:53.240
<v Speaker 2>go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient, depressed,

0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.040
<v Speaker 2>much discouraged because of the trials of the way. And

0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:00.879
<v Speaker 2>the people spoke against God and against Moses. Why have

0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:03.720
<v Speaker 2>you brought us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness.

0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:07.000
<v Speaker 2>There's no bread here, neither is there any water. And

0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:22.000
<v Speaker 2>we loathe this light, contemptible, unsubstantial manna. Then the Lord

0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:26.200
<v Speaker 2>sent fiery burning serpents among the people, and they bit

0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:30.120
<v Speaker 2>the people, and many Israelites died. It was twenty three

0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:34.280
<v Speaker 2>thousand exactly. And so they went to Moses and said,

0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:42.680
<v Speaker 2>we have sinned. Duh. Sometimes it takes us a long

0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:48.840
<v Speaker 2>time to get the idea that God's trying to get

0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:52.840
<v Speaker 2>something across to us and we're just not paying any attention.

0:24:54.480 --> 0:25:00.880
<v Speaker 2>Oh joyce, does the Bible really say complaining is sin? Well,

0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:03.159
<v Speaker 2>it says give thanks in all things, no matter what

0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:06.520
<v Speaker 2>the circumstances. Might be be thankful and give thanks for

0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:08.239
<v Speaker 2>this is the will of God for those of you

0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:14.240
<v Speaker 2>who are in Christ Jesus. Well, that was a lousy clap,

0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:26.600
<v Speaker 2>that was Pye. And then over in the New Testament

0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:32.520
<v Speaker 2>in First Corinthians eight through eleven, it repeats that whole

0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:39.280
<v Speaker 2>thing again, that's in numbers, and Paul said these things

0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:42.680
<v Speaker 2>befell them by way of a figure as an example

0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:49.480
<v Speaker 2>and a warning to us, a warning. You know, everything

0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:51.920
<v Speaker 2>that you hear in church is not supposed to make

0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:56.800
<v Speaker 2>you feel great. And that's one of the problems we

0:25:56.880 --> 0:26:00.760
<v Speaker 2>have today. People just go to get their blessing and

0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:07.000
<v Speaker 2>they want to feel good. Tell me how wonderful I am,

0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:08.960
<v Speaker 2>Tell me all the good things that the Bible has

0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:12.360
<v Speaker 2>to say about me. Well, you know, I just went

0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:14.400
<v Speaker 2>through a season of doing that. I spent about six

0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.320
<v Speaker 2>weeks telling the whole world how wonderful they were. Now

0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:26.480
<v Speaker 2>I feel led to go in another direction. I feel

0:26:26.480 --> 0:26:31.160
<v Speaker 2>a new annoying coming on me for a season. One

0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:40.040
<v Speaker 2>of those Mama's thinkings, we must not gratify evil desire

0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:43.680
<v Speaker 2>and indulge in immorality, as some of them did. God

0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:47.840
<v Speaker 2>called what they were doing immorality. They were crabbing and

0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:52.639
<v Speaker 2>complaining about this miracle that God's raining down out of

0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:57.480
<v Speaker 2>the sky. You think miracles would keep you happy, They

0:26:57.520 --> 0:27:03.479
<v Speaker 2>really won't because we get too used to things. I

0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:05.480
<v Speaker 2>bet they were excited about that Man of the first

0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:12.520
<v Speaker 2>few days, But you know, we get familiarity with things.

0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:15.240
<v Speaker 2>I remember saying to the Lord once, why don't you

0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:19.959
<v Speaker 2>do the things that you used to do? When I

0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:22.040
<v Speaker 2>was first baptized in the Holy Spirit? I mean, I

0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:24.600
<v Speaker 2>had so many supernatural things happening. It was just like

0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:28.879
<v Speaker 2>I'd ask God for an answer to something and open

0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:35.680
<v Speaker 2>my Bible and that would be the answer. Why don't

0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:38.520
<v Speaker 2>you do the things you used to do? And boy

0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:41.120
<v Speaker 2>did he shock me? He said, Oh, I still do them.

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:52.760
<v Speaker 2>You've just gotten used to them. How many amazing things

0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:56.359
<v Speaker 2>is God doing in your life every day that you

0:27:56.359 --> 0:28:04.920
<v Speaker 2>don't even recognize as amazing anymore? Do you know how

0:28:04.960 --> 0:28:07.199
<v Speaker 2>amazing it is just to have a church like this

0:28:07.359 --> 0:28:17.560
<v Speaker 2>to go to? I mean, really amazing. There's so many

0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:20.840
<v Speaker 2>amazing things that God does for us. But we have

0:28:21.000 --> 0:28:30.080
<v Speaker 2>gotten Yes, God's our friend, but he's also sovereign, and

0:28:30.119 --> 0:28:33.399
<v Speaker 2>he means what he says, and when he says to

0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:36.840
<v Speaker 2>do something, if we don't do it. We're going to

0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:40.400
<v Speaker 2>feel it in our own life. Remember what I say.

0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:43.480
<v Speaker 2>I think if you get this, it'll really help you.

0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:47.479
<v Speaker 2>Everything that God tells us to do or not to

0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:51.880
<v Speaker 2>do is for our benefit. It's not for his. It's

0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:56.920
<v Speaker 2>for our better. He's telling us what will make us happy,

0:28:57.080 --> 0:28:59.480
<v Speaker 2>what will make us powerful, what will put us in

0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:03.880
<v Speaker 2>a position where the devil can't touch us. He's telling

0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:07.000
<v Speaker 2>us how to live a life that is so far

0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:13.920
<v Speaker 2>superior that you can't hardly believe it. And we have

0:29:14.040 --> 0:29:21.400
<v Speaker 2>the audacity to obey him. Yes, but just a little bit.

0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:28.440
<v Speaker 2>There's just a little bit that we You know, Saul,

0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:34.240
<v Speaker 2>when God told him to go in and kill all

0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:38.360
<v Speaker 2>the women, the men, the babies, the cattle, don't leave anything.

0:29:40.080 --> 0:29:45.800
<v Speaker 2>And Saul did a little too much thinking, and instead

0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:47.840
<v Speaker 2>of just doing what God told him to do, he

0:29:48.800 --> 0:29:53.680
<v Speaker 2>killed everybody, kept got rid of everything except the good stuff.

0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:59.120
<v Speaker 2>And when Saul confronted him about it, the prophet Saul,

0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:02.400
<v Speaker 2>he said, well, I just kept the good things to

0:30:02.520 --> 0:30:07.960
<v Speaker 2>sacrifice them to the Lord. Now you're really getting light.

0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:16.360
<v Speaker 2>I just did it for you. Lord. Well, I desire sacrifice.

0:30:16.360 --> 0:30:20.479
<v Speaker 2>I desire obedience, not sacrifice. And I think Sometimes we

0:30:20.560 --> 0:30:23.600
<v Speaker 2>don't obey God in something, and then we will do

0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:28.960
<v Speaker 2>something like give extra money in the offering, and I

0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:31.080
<v Speaker 2>think it just happened so fast. Sometimes we don't even

0:30:31.080 --> 0:30:34.320
<v Speaker 2>realize what we're doing. We're trying to make up for

0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:39.240
<v Speaker 2>something else that we should have done and we didn't do.

0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:43.400
<v Speaker 2>Wonder how happy it would make the Lord if everybody

0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:49.920
<v Speaker 2>that's a Christian never complained. I'd be happy if I

0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:54.320
<v Speaker 2>could make it through one whole day. And I mean,

0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:58.440
<v Speaker 2>I really try to do this. I'll tell you what

0:30:58.480 --> 0:31:04.280
<v Speaker 2>we don't do very well is inconvenience. We are just spoiled,

0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:14.480
<v Speaker 2>rotten inconvenience. Well, my electric went off for two hours.

0:31:17.040 --> 0:31:20.800
<v Speaker 2>None of my electronics would work. I couldn't use my epad,

0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:27.720
<v Speaker 2>you paid epad, whatever they are, there's too many, too

0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:38.200
<v Speaker 2>many things. It's YouTube and whatever the pad is. I forget.

0:31:44.040 --> 0:31:47.120
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we can't live if we don't have all

0:31:47.160 --> 0:31:51.280
<v Speaker 2>of our electric stuff. I mean, I left my phone

0:31:51.320 --> 0:31:54.840
<v Speaker 2>at home on this trip, and I was kind of

0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:56.400
<v Speaker 2>proud of myself. I thought, I'm gonna see how I

0:31:56.400 --> 0:31:57.840
<v Speaker 2>do without it. But they figured out a way to

0:31:57.840 --> 0:32:02.080
<v Speaker 2>get it to me and I got I had it

0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:08.840
<v Speaker 2>by the time I got here. Okay, listen to what

0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:13.360
<v Speaker 2>Poe says in First Corinthians. First Corinthians ten eight. We

0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:17.600
<v Speaker 2>must not gratify evil desire and indulge in immorality, as

0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:21.040
<v Speaker 2>some of them did, and twenty three thousand suddenly fell

0:32:21.120 --> 0:32:28.800
<v Speaker 2>dead in a single day. Wow. We should not tempt

0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:32.680
<v Speaker 2>the lord try his patience, become a trial to him

0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:39.440
<v Speaker 2>by critically appraising him and exploiting his goodness, as some

0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:44.440
<v Speaker 2>of them did and were killed by poisonous serpents. Nor

0:32:44.520 --> 0:32:49.920
<v Speaker 2>should we discontentedly complain, as some of them did, and

0:32:50.000 --> 0:32:53.280
<v Speaker 2>were put out of the way entirely by the destroyer.

0:32:54.640 --> 0:32:57.200
<v Speaker 2>Now these things befell them by way of a figure,

0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:01.720
<v Speaker 2>as an example and a warning to us. They were

0:33:01.720 --> 0:33:05.280
<v Speaker 2>written to admonish and fit us for right action by

0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:10.920
<v Speaker 2>good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached

0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:13.920
<v Speaker 2>their climax. You know, the Bible doesn't say that we

0:33:14.000 --> 0:33:17.160
<v Speaker 2>are just to be encouraged, Paul told Timothy. Preach the

0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:30.920
<v Speaker 2>word encourage, urge, warn, and rebuke. So we need a

0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:34.080
<v Speaker 2>healthy diet of all of it in order to be balanced. Yes,

0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:37.280
<v Speaker 2>we need to be encouraged. There are times when we

0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:41.600
<v Speaker 2>need to be rebuked. There's times when the sermon needs

0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:45.719
<v Speaker 2>to make you squirm just a little bit in your seats.

0:33:45.760 --> 0:33:47.800
<v Speaker 2>And you know, I mean, if we're not going to

0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:52.120
<v Speaker 2>learn anything, you got to learn something when you go

0:33:52.160 --> 0:33:55.640
<v Speaker 2>to church. I mean it's great, the worship is great,

0:33:55.640 --> 0:33:57.840
<v Speaker 2>and it's great to jump around and be happy, and

0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:01.880
<v Speaker 2>we all need that. But you need to listen to

0:34:01.960 --> 0:34:10.319
<v Speaker 2>every word that Stephen says. Don't ever be the kind

0:34:10.320 --> 0:34:12.920
<v Speaker 2>of person if somebody asks you what did Stephen preach

0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:16.759
<v Speaker 2>on the day, say it was good? I know it

0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:21.400
<v Speaker 2>was good. I want you to know. Well into the

0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:24.000
<v Speaker 2>middle of next week, if somebody asks you, oh, I

0:34:24.000 --> 0:34:25.600
<v Speaker 2>heard Joyce is at your church. On you what does

0:34:25.640 --> 0:34:27.960
<v Speaker 2>she preach on? I want you to be able to

0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:31.920
<v Speaker 2>tell them that we have to stop just letting a

0:34:32.040 --> 0:34:35.600
<v Speaker 2>little bit of sin into our lives because a little

0:34:35.600 --> 0:34:42.600
<v Speaker 2>bit doesn't matter. And when you have something inconvenient, I

0:34:42.680 --> 0:34:46.720
<v Speaker 2>want you to when you start to complain, to remember, oops,

0:34:47.080 --> 0:34:52.520
<v Speaker 2>that's something I'm not supposed to do. Yeah, go on,

0:34:52.520 --> 0:34:56.640
<v Speaker 2>how many of you complain? Everybody in the whole church

0:34:56.680 --> 0:35:03.920
<v Speaker 2>is sinning. Let me ask you a sincere question. Do

0:35:04.840 --> 0:35:07.440
<v Speaker 2>you believe that little things like this make a difference,

0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:12.880
<v Speaker 2>so it's not the big things that we're guilty of.

0:35:16.360 --> 0:35:21.840
<v Speaker 2>It's all the little stuff. A man that I knew,

0:35:24.160 --> 0:35:29.920
<v Speaker 2>his wife had divorced him and he had met another

0:35:29.960 --> 0:35:36.000
<v Speaker 2>guy and they both claimed to be Christians. And this

0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:39.560
<v Speaker 2>other guy was living with his girlfriend, had been for

0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:42.440
<v Speaker 2>quite some time. And he says to the guy that

0:35:42.520 --> 0:35:46.759
<v Speaker 2>I know, I've got a good idea. Why don't we

0:35:47.040 --> 0:35:55.920
<v Speaker 2>fast once a week and pray together for God to

0:35:55.920 --> 0:36:00.120
<v Speaker 2>do these certain things they wanted him to do. Nay,

0:36:00.239 --> 0:36:12.560
<v Speaker 2>excuse me, but that's just stupid. I mean, why even bother? Yeah,

0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:15.520
<v Speaker 2>but you know, somehow or another, he had himself convinced

0:36:15.520 --> 0:36:18.440
<v Speaker 2>that what he was doing wasn't wrong. And that's the

0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:22.600
<v Speaker 2>scary part. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful

0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:28.200
<v Speaker 2>above all things. Who can know his own heart? That's

0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:33.680
<v Speaker 2>why we got to have some meetings with ourselves. I mean,

0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:35.680
<v Speaker 2>at least once a week. You used to have a

0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:40.440
<v Speaker 2>meeting with yourself and just really ask God, am I

0:36:40.520 --> 0:36:44.200
<v Speaker 2>doing okay? Here? Is there something you need to remind

0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:47.520
<v Speaker 2>me of? Do I need a little kick in the rear?

0:36:52.840 --> 0:36:56.480
<v Speaker 2>And See, this doesn't mean that you have to live

0:36:56.520 --> 0:37:00.279
<v Speaker 2>this rigid, legalistic life where you can never do any

0:37:00.320 --> 0:37:04.600
<v Speaker 2>things or have never have any fun. But how about

0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:06.800
<v Speaker 2>if I throw this out? What if you start listening

0:37:06.840 --> 0:37:13.080
<v Speaker 2>to your conscience. That's one of the best things that

0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:16.640
<v Speaker 2>God has given us as a conscience, it's part of

0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:25.680
<v Speaker 2>our spirit. Conscience comes from their intuition revelation. So I

0:37:25.719 --> 0:37:27.719
<v Speaker 2>can sit and talk to your head all day, but

0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:30.160
<v Speaker 2>I want it to fall from your head to your

0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:34.160
<v Speaker 2>spirit and become a revelation. We have got so much information,

0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:40.320
<v Speaker 2>but we needed to become revelation because when it's revelation,

0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:51.560
<v Speaker 2>that's when you start really doing it. One of the

0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:57.120
<v Speaker 2>definitions I found for complain, to complain means to remain.

0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:05.160
<v Speaker 2>So the Israelites remained in the wilderness forty years, trying

0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:10.040
<v Speaker 2>to make an eleven day trip, and one of the

0:38:10.040 --> 0:38:14.080
<v Speaker 2>reasons found. I have found ten reasons why they stayed

0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:19.719
<v Speaker 2>out there, but one of them was just complaining. They

0:38:19.800 --> 0:38:24.360
<v Speaker 2>just complained every time it was inconvenient. Now it's God's fault,

0:38:24.400 --> 0:38:26.759
<v Speaker 2>it's Moses's fault, and we wish we would have stayed

0:38:26.800 --> 0:38:31.560
<v Speaker 2>in Egypt where we had those onions and leaks and garlic. Whew.

0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:36.120
<v Speaker 2>I might rather try a brownie than that. I don't

0:38:36.120 --> 0:38:47.640
<v Speaker 2>know if we could just understand what we give up

0:38:50.840 --> 0:38:52.919
<v Speaker 2>in an effort to try to get what we think

0:38:53.000 --> 0:39:04.440
<v Speaker 2>we want. God doesn't answer complaints, He answers prayers. Philippians

0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:12.279
<v Speaker 2>four six Philippians for six. Do not fret or have

0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:17.719
<v Speaker 2>any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything,

0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:25.680
<v Speaker 2>by prayer and petition, definite request with thanksgiving. Now, you know,

0:39:25.719 --> 0:39:27.400
<v Speaker 2>the Lord says a lot of stuff to me that

0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:32.719
<v Speaker 2>I just don't get by with much. Not that I'm

0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:37.960
<v Speaker 2>trying to, but I don't. And I was praying for

0:39:38.000 --> 0:39:41.560
<v Speaker 2>something one time, and the Lord said, why should I

0:39:41.600 --> 0:39:45.480
<v Speaker 2>give you that? You're already complaining about what you've got.

0:39:46.680 --> 0:39:48.720
<v Speaker 2>Why should I give you something else to complain about.

0:39:53.320 --> 0:39:59.240
<v Speaker 2>We're supposed to be thankful. People I love be thankful

0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:04.160
<v Speaker 2>and say so. It's not enough to say, well, I'm

0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:08.640
<v Speaker 2>a thankful person. Well, how many people are in your

0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:11.240
<v Speaker 2>life that are blessings to you that you haven't thanked

0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:16.440
<v Speaker 2>in a long, long, long long time. You know, if

0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:18.799
<v Speaker 2>the word thank you was around your house as more

0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:29.560
<v Speaker 2>marriages would last a lot longer. Dave told me the

0:40:29.600 --> 0:40:33.840
<v Speaker 2>other day to get him something, and I said, say please,

0:40:38.640 --> 0:40:40.400
<v Speaker 2>and he didn't say it. I said, you're not getting it.

0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:49.919
<v Speaker 2>Till you say please. Don't take me for granted. Even

0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.200
<v Speaker 2>in your home, you need to say please and thank you.

0:40:54.920 --> 0:41:03.000
<v Speaker 2>It's amazing. I mean, if we just had better manners. See,

0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:04.960
<v Speaker 2>how can you be a light in a dark world?

0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:07.480
<v Speaker 2>Get out there and you know, you don't really have

0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:12.000
<v Speaker 2>to preach to everybody. I forget the famous person that

0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:14.239
<v Speaker 2>said it, but somebody said preach at all times and

0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:20.719
<v Speaker 2>if necessary, use words. Who was it, Mike Saint Francis

0:41:20.719 --> 0:41:26.080
<v Speaker 2>of Assissi. He's like my brain when mine gives out.

0:41:30.560 --> 0:41:32.680
<v Speaker 2>I say, there's so much stuff I forget. Now it's

0:41:32.719 --> 0:41:37.600
<v Speaker 2>just gotten to be hilarious. I don't even argue with

0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:39.680
<v Speaker 2>my kids anymore when they tell me you told us

0:41:39.680 --> 0:41:45.040
<v Speaker 2>that last week. I just said, okay, if you say so,

0:41:46.680 --> 0:41:48.880
<v Speaker 2>I don't remember it. But if you say so, but

0:41:49.000 --> 0:41:51.520
<v Speaker 2>I tell you. You know, when you don't remember things as good.

0:41:51.560 --> 0:41:58.120
<v Speaker 2>It's great for movies because I can watch a movie

0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:00.000
<v Speaker 2>and not see it for two months and go back

0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:07.080
<v Speaker 2>watch it again, just like a brand new movie. You

0:42:07.120 --> 0:42:11.520
<v Speaker 2>know what, You're gonna get old, and you better make

0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:13.080
<v Speaker 2>your mind up now. I just made up my mind.

0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:16.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna be a funny old person. I'm I'm not

0:42:16.719 --> 0:42:21.120
<v Speaker 2>gonna be cranky and crabby and hard to get along with.

0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:27.960
<v Speaker 2>I just I just want to be funny, and my

0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:32.840
<v Speaker 2>kids think I'm hilarious. So I don't know what I

0:42:32.920 --> 0:42:36.719
<v Speaker 2>was saying before I got off on that. See there

0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:51.959
<v Speaker 2>you go, mm hmm, it's in there. It comes back.

0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:56.439
<v Speaker 2>So how can you be a light in a dark world?

0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:58.640
<v Speaker 2>You know? I think a lot of people they get

0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:02.759
<v Speaker 2>they get real can when somebody says you need to witness,

0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:06.959
<v Speaker 2>because we automatically think that means we got to back

0:43:07.000 --> 0:43:11.839
<v Speaker 2>somebody into a corner and preach to him. When I

0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:17.279
<v Speaker 2>wanted to be used of God, I didn't know yet

0:43:17.320 --> 0:43:19.160
<v Speaker 2>that God wanted me to preach, and so I just

0:43:20.560 --> 0:43:22.920
<v Speaker 2>anything they asked us to do at church. I tried it.

0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:26.880
<v Speaker 2>And one of the first things I did was it

0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:29.480
<v Speaker 2>was in a season when passing out tracks was a

0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:34.160
<v Speaker 2>big thing, and so our church would take a group

0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:38.000
<v Speaker 2>of people on Saturday morning to downtown Saint Louis and

0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:43.560
<v Speaker 2>pass out tracks. So I tried street preaching.

0:43:44.560 --> 0:43:50.560
<v Speaker 3>I hated it, did not like it, And that doesn't

0:43:50.600 --> 0:43:59.120
<v Speaker 3>make God mad for me to say that.

0:43:54.560 --> 0:43:57.879
<v Speaker 2>That didn't fit. You know, if you don't know what

0:43:58.239 --> 0:44:00.520
<v Speaker 2>you believe, God wants you to do. Act like a

0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:09.600
<v Speaker 2>woman buying a new outfit. You just keep trying on

0:44:09.680 --> 0:44:18.080
<v Speaker 2>stuff till something fits, and then we're too afraid of

0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:25.200
<v Speaker 2>being wrong, and it just paralyzes us. It doesn't matter

0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.560
<v Speaker 2>if you try something and it's not the right thing

0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:30.000
<v Speaker 2>for you. Your heart's right. You're just trying to find

0:44:30.000 --> 0:44:33.880
<v Speaker 2>out what God wants you to do. And it's not

0:44:34.080 --> 0:44:40.160
<v Speaker 2>that hard. You find something you're good at. Everybody's good

0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:47.320
<v Speaker 2>at something. You just keep trying on stuff till it fits.

0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:50.680
<v Speaker 2>So I tried street ministry and didn't like that. I

0:44:50.760 --> 0:44:52.600
<v Speaker 2>tried working in the nursery and me and are the

0:44:52.680 --> 0:44:59.600
<v Speaker 2>kids like that? I got over that in two weeks.

0:45:04.920 --> 0:45:09.280
<v Speaker 2>But when I finally got around to try to teach,

0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:13.799
<v Speaker 2>I had led a girl to the Lord in the

0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:20.040
<v Speaker 2>bathroom at work, and when we started to go back

0:45:20.040 --> 0:45:22.080
<v Speaker 2>to our desks, the Lord simply said to me, what

0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:23.319
<v Speaker 2>are you going to do with her? And I said, well,

0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:26.040
<v Speaker 2>what do you want me to do with her? He said,

0:45:26.040 --> 0:45:30.439
<v Speaker 2>teach her. I don't know how to do that, he said,

0:45:30.480 --> 0:45:38.799
<v Speaker 2>I do. Whoever says God's going to call you to

0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:45.440
<v Speaker 2>do something, you know how to do. That's the fun

0:45:45.520 --> 0:45:50.080
<v Speaker 2>part is stepping out blindly and watching God work through you.

0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:52.759
<v Speaker 2>Why is He called the weak and the foolish things

0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:55.240
<v Speaker 2>of the world to confound the wise, so we can't

0:45:55.280 --> 0:45:58.440
<v Speaker 2>take the credit. I mean, I am the least likeliest

0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:01.000
<v Speaker 2>person on the earth to be doing what I'm doing.

0:46:06.160 --> 0:46:08.800
<v Speaker 2>I mean, right, this message that I'm preaching here today

0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:12.640
<v Speaker 2>will go around the world in one hundred and seven

0:46:12.680 --> 0:46:23.920
<v Speaker 2>different languages. And that's that's amazing. It's amazing. I don't know.

0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:25.360
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know how I've written one

0:46:25.440 --> 0:46:28.920
<v Speaker 2>hundred and fifty books. I thought one day, how did

0:46:28.920 --> 0:46:30.279
<v Speaker 2>I do that? I don't know how I did that?

0:46:31.200 --> 0:46:33.920
<v Speaker 2>And people say to me, how have you done all this?

0:46:34.120 --> 0:46:41.719
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know. If you're willing, God

0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:46.600
<v Speaker 2>will use you. But don't don't get all torn up

0:46:46.680 --> 0:46:48.840
<v Speaker 2>if the first thing you try doesn't work or the

0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:51.719
<v Speaker 2>second thing doesn't work. You're not a failure until you

0:46:51.800 --> 0:47:03.120
<v Speaker 2>quit trying. A man, be happy in your faith and

0:47:03.200 --> 0:47:08.640
<v Speaker 2>rejoice and be glad hearted continually. One of the things

0:47:08.719 --> 0:47:10.640
<v Speaker 2>we can do to be enlighten in a dark world

0:47:11.000 --> 0:47:18.279
<v Speaker 2>is just smile. Seriously, just don't get out in the

0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:23.920
<v Speaker 2>world and be a crank, be friendly. High How are

0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:33.000
<v Speaker 2>you today, smile and be one of the very unusual

0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:43.160
<v Speaker 2>people that don't complain. You're complaining everywhere you go. Next

0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:50.520
<v Speaker 2>time you feel like complaining about waiting in traffic, just

0:47:50.600 --> 0:47:52.680
<v Speaker 2>be glad you're not one of the people that have

0:47:52.800 --> 0:47:59.560
<v Speaker 2>no legs and can't even walk. The next time, you

0:48:03.000 --> 0:48:04.640
<v Speaker 2>just for the ladies. The next time you want to

0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:11.160
<v Speaker 2>complain about your husband, there's a lot of lonely people

0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:26.359
<v Speaker 2>that will take him off your hands. Well, that's going

0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:34.759
<v Speaker 2>over better than my thoughts. Maybe I better say something

0:48:34.760 --> 0:48:42.279
<v Speaker 2>to the men too. Own you. I mean, really, once

0:48:42.320 --> 0:48:45.040
<v Speaker 2>your eyes are open to it, you see how ridiculous

0:48:45.080 --> 0:48:51.279
<v Speaker 2>it is to complain. God does so much for us.

0:48:53.560 --> 0:48:56.279
<v Speaker 2>And you know, part of the reason why there's so

0:48:56.320 --> 0:49:02.879
<v Speaker 2>many divorces is people forget about the good stuff, and

0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:07.080
<v Speaker 2>they laser in on the one or two things that

0:49:07.200 --> 0:49:14.919
<v Speaker 2>aggravates them, and that's all they think about. One time,

0:49:14.960 --> 0:49:18.320
<v Speaker 2>I was having a hard time with Dave over something,

0:49:18.800 --> 0:49:24.000
<v Speaker 2>and God put on my heart to make two lists,

0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:26.520
<v Speaker 2>one everything I liked about him and everything I didn't

0:49:26.600 --> 0:49:31.040
<v Speaker 2>like about him. And the list of stuff I liked

0:49:31.120 --> 0:49:33.840
<v Speaker 2>was so much longer than the list of stuff that

0:49:33.920 --> 0:49:36.560
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like. And that's usually what it comes down to,

0:49:36.880 --> 0:49:41.040
<v Speaker 2>people will get divorced over a couple of little things

0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:44.040
<v Speaker 2>that they don't like and forget about all the things

0:49:44.040 --> 0:49:50.000
<v Speaker 2>that you love about them. The Bible says that love

0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:53.160
<v Speaker 2>covers a multitude of sins. And I'll tell you something

0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:57.719
<v Speaker 2>that will help you in your homes. Stop every time

0:49:57.800 --> 0:50:08.600
<v Speaker 2>somebody makes a mistake, telling them they did. We have

0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:12.719
<v Speaker 2>lived in our home for twenty years, and for at

0:50:12.880 --> 0:50:19.200
<v Speaker 2>least eighteen of those twenty years sometimes I'm slow. Eighteen

0:50:19.239 --> 0:50:23.600
<v Speaker 2>of those twenty years. Every time Dave left his closet

0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:28.719
<v Speaker 2>light on, which is all the time, I would say

0:50:28.760 --> 0:50:33.320
<v Speaker 2>you left your closet light on? Again, I finally decided

0:50:33.320 --> 0:50:37.239
<v Speaker 2>to shut up and just turn it off, because if

0:50:37.280 --> 0:50:39.040
<v Speaker 2>I tell him you left your closet light on, you

0:50:39.120 --> 0:50:41.160
<v Speaker 2>know what he says. Do you know what he says?

0:50:41.680 --> 0:50:44.600
<v Speaker 2>He says, I didn't leave it on. You must have

0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:48.719
<v Speaker 2>turned it on. Now, why would I go to his

0:50:48.800 --> 0:50:53.760
<v Speaker 2>closet and turn on the light. The man has three

0:50:53.960 --> 0:50:57.120
<v Speaker 2>different kinds of hearing aids, and he won't wear any

0:50:57.160 --> 0:51:01.279
<v Speaker 2>of them. He won't wear any of them, and he

0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:06.080
<v Speaker 2>says that he's not hard at hearing that I'm mumble. Now,

0:51:06.160 --> 0:51:08.359
<v Speaker 2>let me ask have you heard me mumble one time

0:51:08.400 --> 0:51:16.759
<v Speaker 2>here today? But you know what, you know what I

0:51:16.800 --> 0:51:20.120
<v Speaker 2>really love about Dave. He lets me do anything I

0:51:20.160 --> 0:51:26.359
<v Speaker 2>want to just anything I want to do, he lets

0:51:26.360 --> 0:51:30.680
<v Speaker 2>me do it. Well, that's worth turning off a closet

0:51:30.760 --> 0:51:35.160
<v Speaker 2>light and keeping your mouth shut. If I went home

0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:37.279
<v Speaker 2>and said, you know, honey, I feel like I need

0:51:37.320 --> 0:51:41.840
<v Speaker 2>to spend some time alone, I'm gonna I'm gonna just

0:51:41.920 --> 0:51:43.719
<v Speaker 2>leave for a couple of weeks and spend some time

0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:52.839
<v Speaker 2>with the Lord, he said, okay, okay, So see, look

0:51:52.840 --> 0:51:56.200
<v Speaker 2>at the good things in people. Look at the good

0:51:56.239 --> 0:51:58.960
<v Speaker 2>things about your job. Instead of complaining about your job,

0:51:59.040 --> 0:52:01.680
<v Speaker 2>be glad you've got it. There's so many people that

0:52:01.760 --> 0:52:08.520
<v Speaker 2>don't even have a job. Amen. Let's appreciate everything good

0:52:08.560 --> 0:52:12.280
<v Speaker 2>that God does for us, and let's just not complain

0:52:12.320 --> 0:52:17.439
<v Speaker 2>about anything. Amen. How many of you if we pray

0:52:17.480 --> 0:52:21.880
<v Speaker 2>together today, how many of you We'll just make a

0:52:21.920 --> 0:52:24.920
<v Speaker 2>commitment to just try to tighten your belt just a

0:52:24.960 --> 0:52:32.640
<v Speaker 2>little bit and then let's all stand up together. I

0:52:32.680 --> 0:52:35.319
<v Speaker 2>really forgot to ask how they like to close services here,

0:52:35.320 --> 0:52:36.960
<v Speaker 2>But I'm going to pray for you and then give

0:52:36.960 --> 0:52:42.280
<v Speaker 2>it back to Stephens. Now this has been very serious

0:52:42.320 --> 0:52:46.760
<v Speaker 2>to me today. I never go anywhere and preach without

0:52:46.960 --> 0:52:50.759
<v Speaker 2>feeling like I've got the word of the Lord. And

0:52:50.920 --> 0:52:55.200
<v Speaker 2>so this is very simple. You're not going to forget it,

0:52:55.280 --> 0:53:02.200
<v Speaker 2>but at the same time very profound. Don't it's just

0:53:02.239 --> 0:53:08.200
<v Speaker 2>a little bit now, And don't do it because everybody

0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:11.680
<v Speaker 2>else is doing it. You're only going to have to

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<v Speaker 2>answer for yourself. You do what's right if everybody else

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<v Speaker 2>in the world wants to do it wrong. Amen, Father,

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<v Speaker 2>we love you so very much, and we're so appreciative

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<v Speaker 2>that you love us. And I want to thank you

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<v Speaker 2>for reminding us that we need to pay attention to

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<v Speaker 2>little things, because it is the little foxes that spoiled

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<v Speaker 2>the vine. So we're all making a fresh commitment today

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<v Speaker 2>to always be sure that we do what we say

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to do, not harbor things like jealousy and

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<v Speaker 2>petty things, a little hang on, little anger issues, but

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<v Speaker 2>to just let that stuff go. Let it go and

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<v Speaker 2>help us to appreciate everything you do for us. And God,

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<v Speaker 2>put a watch over our mouth lest we sin against

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<v Speaker 2>you with our tongue by complaining. And let the words

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<v Speaker 2>of our mouth and the meditation of our heart be

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<v Speaker 2>acceptable in your sight in Jesus's name, Amen, thank you

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<v Speaker 2>for having me today.

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