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If you enjoy today's message, 38 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 5: why don't you be a blessing and share it with 39 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 5: a friend. We appreciate you and pray for God's very 40 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 5: best in your life. 41 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 6: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into. 42 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 5: Your homes, and if you're ever in our area, please 43 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 5: stop by and be a part of one of our services. 44 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 5: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 45 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you 46 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 5: again for coming out today. I like to start with 47 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 5: something funny and I heard about this pastor and this 48 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 5: song leader. They weren't getting along. It started to spill 49 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 5: over into the services. One Sunday morning, the pastor spoke 50 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 5: on being willing to change. Afterwards, the song leader got 51 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 5: up and led the song I Shall not be moved. 52 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 5: Next week, the pastor spoke about being a giver. The 53 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 5: song leader got up and led the song Jesus paid 54 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 5: it all. Next week, pastor talked about not gossiping, watching 55 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 5: your tongue. Song leader got up and led the song 56 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 5: I love to tell the story. Pastor got so frustrated 57 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 5: he resigned. Told the congregation Jesus brought me here, and 58 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 5: Jesus is taking me away. 59 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 6: The song leader then led, what a friend we have 60 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 6: in Jesus. 61 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 5: Hold up your bible, say it like you mean it. 62 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,399 Speaker 6: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 63 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do 64 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 6: what it says I can do. 65 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 5: Today I will be talked the word of God. I 66 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 5: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 67 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 68 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 69 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 5: not fueling the fire we all have opportunities to make 70 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 5: people look bad. We hear rumors and things that we 71 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 5: don't know for sure or true, but it's tempting to 72 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 5: repeat them. And it's not that we're a bad person. 73 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 5: We're just telling what we heard, or maybe we know 74 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 5: something about a person that is true. They made a mistake, 75 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 5: they had a failure. It's easy to justify telling that 76 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 5: because it's the truth. But there are a lot of 77 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 5: things that are true that we don't need to tell. 78 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 5: We should do our best to never show people in 79 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 5: an unflattering light. 80 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 6: One Peter three ten says. 81 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 5: If you want to see your day fill up with good, 82 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 5: here's what you do. 83 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 6: Say nothing evil or hurtful. 84 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 5: We live in a society that's filled with rumors, gossip 85 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 5: in the windows. There's a lot of chatter these days, 86 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 5: people talking on the internet, at work, at school. Their nosy, 87 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 5: busy bodies. They love to get things stirred up. They 88 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 5: have no problem repeating things they know are only half 89 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 5: true on purpose. They'll leave out certain details just to 90 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 5: prove their point, and if we're not careful, we'll get 91 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 5: pulled in and become carriers of their poison. 92 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 6: Did you hear what I heard? 93 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 5: I got some big news, I got some juicy information. 94 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 6: I read a. 95 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 5: Quote that I like. Have you heard a word against 96 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 5: your neighbor? Then let it die within you? In other words, 97 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 5: have you heard any gossip lately? Have you read something 98 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 5: juicy on the internet? As a friend told you some 99 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 5: inside information about a person. It's true, it's hot off 100 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 5: the press. 101 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 6: They lied, they cheated. Here's what you're to do. 102 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 5: Don't go to the phone, don't go call three friends, 103 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 5: don't get on the internet and expose them. God says, 104 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 5: let it die within you. Don't say a word about it. 105 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 5: Somebody put it this way. Every person carries a bucket 106 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 5: of gasoline and a bucket of water. When you hear rumors, gossip, 107 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 5: juicy information, you can either pour your gasoline on it, 108 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 5: add fuel to the fire and make it worse, or 109 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 5: you can do what God says and pour water on it. 110 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 5: Help to try to put it out. Too many people 111 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 5: are using their gasoline. They try to justify it, Joel, 112 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 5: it's the truth. 113 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 6: They were wrong. I'm just stating the facts. 114 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 5: Yes, they may be guilty, but the scripture says love 115 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 5: covers a fault. Love doesn't expose, Love doesn't tell five friends. 116 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 5: Love doesn't get on Facebook and add fuel to the fire. 117 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 5: Love says, they made a mistake, but God can restore them. 118 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 6: They messed up, but God has a new beginning. They 119 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 6: did wrong, but I'm not going to add to their pain. 120 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 5: By talking about them making them look bad. I'm going 121 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 5: to show mercy and let it die within me. When 122 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 5: you know something negative about a person, you could easily 123 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 5: show them in an unflattering light. That is a test. 124 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 6: How you respond will determine. 125 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 5: How high you will go. If you add fuel to 126 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 5: the fire, tell all your friends, get everything stirred up. 127 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 5: That will keep you stuck where you are because God 128 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 5: will not promote a gossip, a busy body, a fault finder. 129 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 5: But if you'll get your bucket of water and help 130 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 5: put the fire out, don't say anything about it, cover 131 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 5: that fault, then you'll pass the test. 132 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 6: That's the kind of people that God promotes. 133 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 5: The real question is when we hear you, you see information, 134 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 5: when it's hot off the press, will we use our 135 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 5: discipline to let it die within us? A few years ago, 136 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 5: I was at dinner with a friend of mine. This 137 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 5: man's name came up. Now I knew firsthand this man 138 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 5: was having legal problems. He had done something wrong, got 139 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 5: in trouble with the law, and the friend I was 140 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 5: with knew nothing about it. 141 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 6: Human nature wants to tell. 142 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 5: It, after all, the man never asked me not to. 143 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 6: It was all true. I had my gasoline, I had 144 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 6: my water. 145 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 5: It's very tempting to just throw a little fuel on 146 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 5: the fire. I don't know how he's doing. I heard 147 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 5: that he may have some legal problems. I could have 148 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 5: stirred it up, but I knew there was a chance 149 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 5: that may never come out in public. And this friend's 150 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 5: opinion of this man would never change. But if I 151 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 5: were to be undisciplined and just say whatever I want, 152 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 5: then because of me, this friend's opinion of that man 153 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 5: would forever be lower. When you protect a reputation, you 154 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 5: are sowing a seed for God to protect your own reputation. 155 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 5: In our conversations, we need to ask ourselves. Number one, 156 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 5: do I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that 157 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 5: this is really true? 158 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 6: Or have I heard it third or fourth hand? 159 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 5: And number two, even if it is true, is it 160 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 5: absolutely necessary? Do I really need to tell it? Or 161 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 5: do I just want to tell it? This friend I 162 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 5: was at dinner with he had no connection. 163 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 6: With the other man. 164 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 5: There was no reason, and I didn't do it to 165 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 5: show that man in an unfavorable light. A lot of 166 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 5: times we think, well, I'm just going to tell this 167 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 5: one friend that's not going to hurt anything. But that 168 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 5: person will tell another person, that person another, on and on, 169 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 5: and no matter. 170 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 6: How they retell it, it won't be the same. 171 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 5: Things will be exaggerated, blown out of proportion. What's big 172 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 5: will get bigger, what's bad will get worse. That's why 173 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 5: if you're hearing things third or fourth hand, you should 174 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 5: take it with a grain of salt. It can be 175 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 5: so tainted, so misconstrued that very little of it is true. 176 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 5: Don't believe it until you hear it from the real source. 177 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 5: Victoria and I have some good friends now, but for 178 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 5: about ten years they wouldn't have anything to do with us. 179 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 5: They liked us from a distance. We're in similar positions. 180 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 5: But somebody that doesn't know us well, that couldn't handle 181 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 5: God's favor on our life, poisoned their opinion of us. 182 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 5: They took things out of contact, very one sided, and 183 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 5: showed how we were these terrible people and we just 184 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 5: did somebody wrong. 185 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 6: We couldn't be trusted on and on. 186 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 5: When this couple finally met us, they said, you're not 187 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 5: anything like those people said you are. Since then we've 188 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 5: become good friends. My point is, don't believe everything you hear. 189 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 5: Don't let the internet and people that are jealous, people 190 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 5: that can't handle success, poison your opinion of somebody else. 191 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 6: The other day, a man came up. 192 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 5: To me said, Joel, did you hear about so and so. 193 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 5: By the way he said it, I knew it wasn't 194 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,599 Speaker 5: going to be good. I smiled and said, very politely, no, 195 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 5: I didn't hear, and if it's not good, I don't 196 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 5: want to hear. You shouldn't let people fill you with 197 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 5: a bunch of trash. Somebody wants to talk bad about 198 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 5: a person, gossip, put them down, don't sit there and 199 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 5: take it all in. 200 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 6: Tell them no thanks. 201 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 5: My ears are not garbage cans. I don't want to 202 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 5: hear that trash. You want to talk bad about them, gossip, 203 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 5: judge them, stir up strife. That's your choice, but you're 204 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 5: going to have to find somebody else to do it with. 205 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 5: You got to put your foot down and not allow 206 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 5: people to poison your life. You shouldn't go to lunch 207 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 5: every day at the office and sit with people that gossip, 208 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 5: bad mouth of boss, complain about the company, trash your friends. 209 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 5: So in discord, that's one of the things that God hates. Well, Joel, 210 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 5: if I don't eat lunch with them, I may not 211 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 5: have anybody to eat lunch with. Well, I would rather 212 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 5: be lonely and not poisoned than to let that trash 213 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 5: go into me. Do you know spirits are transferable? The 214 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 5: scripture says, don't hang around angry people, or you will 215 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 5: become angry. You hang around gossipers, and you will become 216 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 5: a gossip You hang around fault finders, you'll become a 217 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 5: fault finder. You hang out with nosy, busy bodies, and 218 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 5: that nosy busy body spirit will get off on you. 219 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 6: Be careful who you associate with. 220 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 5: Your time is too valuable to be poisoned. And we 221 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 5: all know people that mind everybody's business except their own. 222 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 5: They're nosy, prying to people's affairs, trying to get the 223 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 5: latest scoop. Let me tell you what I heard. You 224 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 5: will believe what I found out there. Busy bodies they're 225 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 5: always spreading rumors. They've got an opinion about everything, and 226 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 5: they're going to give it to you, whether you want 227 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 5: it or not. They try to run everybody else's life. 228 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 5: The truth is they can't even run their own life. 229 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 5: Be kind, be respectful, but don't associate with a busybody. Listen, 230 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 5: if they'll talk about somebody else in front of you, 231 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 5: don't be fooled. They'll talk about you in front of 232 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 5: somebody else. We have to realize it is just as 233 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 5: wrong to listen to gossip as it is to tell. 234 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 6: It takes too to gossip. 235 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 5: The mouth and the ears, the seed and the soil. 236 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 5: Proverbs eleven thirteen says a gossip goes around spreading rumors, 237 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 5: but a person of honor. 238 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 6: Tries to quiet them. 239 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 5: Notice a gossip has the gasoline, but when you're an 240 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 5: honorable person, you've got the water. 241 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 6: You defend, You show mercy, you cofor. 242 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 5: If somebody starts gossiping around you, starts talking bad about 243 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 5: a person, you can do a couple things. Number one, 244 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 5: you can say, oh, I just realized I've got to 245 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 5: go make a telephone call. 246 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to step out. 247 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 5: You can politely excuse yourself. If you want to be 248 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 5: more bold, you can say hey, instead of talking about them. 249 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 6: Why don't we pray for them? 250 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 5: If we would spend the same amount of time praying 251 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 5: for people as we do talking about them, then they 252 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 5: would change person of honor. 253 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 6: Sticks up for their family. 254 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 5: You defend your friends, You cover their weaknesses. If I 255 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 5: hear somebody talking about you and I know you're a 256 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 5: part of the Lakewood family, I'm going to do everything 257 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 5: I can to take up for you. Well, Joel, one 258 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 5: of your members tried to run me off the road 259 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 5: last week. Now, I'm sure they didn't mean to. They 260 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 5: probably just dropped their cell phone, got distracted. No man, 261 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,599 Speaker 5: they were honking their horn, had their fist up in 262 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 5: the air. 263 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 6: Now, I'm sure they're just worshiping the Lord. You are 264 00:13:58,840 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 6: good all the time. 265 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 7: You are good. 266 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna poor gasoline. 267 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 6: I'm gonna pull water. 268 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 5: You're my friends, You're my family. That's the way you 269 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 5: need to be with the people in your life. 270 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 6: Defend them, stick up for them. 271 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 5: Somebody starts gossiping, bad mouthing, your attitude should be, hey, 272 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 5: you're messing with the wrong person. 273 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 6: That's my family. 274 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 5: They're a part of my church, they're my friend, they're 275 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 5: my classmate. You have a responsibility to help stop that gossip. 276 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 5: You should be especially loyal to your own family, your parents, 277 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 5: your brothers, your sisters, your siblings, your relatives, your cousins. 278 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 5: You may not always agree with them. They may get 279 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 5: on your nerves from time to time. They may be 280 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 5: a little bit different. Doesn't matter. Somebody starts talking about 281 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 5: your family, it's your duty to put a stop to it. 282 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 5: That's your blood, that's who God has chosen you to 283 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 5: be with. 284 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 6: Now, I've seen people. 285 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 5: Somebody starts talking about a family member, they jump on 286 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 5: the bandwagon. Yeah, I know what you mean. They've been 287 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 5: a jerk their whole life. I've had to put up 288 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 5: with them for years. Now, put a stop to it. 289 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 5: They may not be perfect, but you can say something. 290 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 6: Yeah, I know they're a little different. 291 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 5: They've got some issues, but you know what, they're growing, 292 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 5: they're changing deep down. They're a good person. That's my family. 293 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 5: I love them. Be loyal, stick up for them. 294 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 6: For Joe, you don't know what they've done. 295 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 5: My brother borrowed money from everybody in the family, hasn't 296 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 5: paid us back. My dad ran off with somebody else, 297 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 5: messed up our family. That's unfortunate, but it's still your family. 298 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 5: It's easy to kick people when they're down. It's easy 299 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 5: to be judgmental say I told you so. But the 300 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 5: honorable thing to do is stay on the high road 301 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 5: and help restore them. 302 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 6: Help bring peace back to your family. 303 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 5: They got enough people trying to push them down. They 304 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 5: should be able to count on you as family to 305 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 5: help lift them up. Very blessed because I have family 306 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 5: members that I know would defend me till my dying day. 307 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 5: I could go out rob a bank, steal a car. 308 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 5: They say, oh Joe, he's not really stealing, he's just 309 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 5: borrowing it. He wants to help somebody. Now, behind closed doors, 310 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 5: they'd tell me to get my act together, But in 311 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 5: front of you, I can do no wrong. They're my family. 312 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 5: They believe in me. They're loyal, they're honorable people. If 313 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 5: we can't count on our family, who can we count on. 314 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 5: Proverbs says a friend loves it all time, but a 315 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 5: brother is born for adversity. 316 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 6: That's saying your friends are great. 317 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 5: We all need them, but there's something about your family. 318 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 5: They were born for adversity, and in the tough times, 319 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 5: your family needs you more than ever. 320 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 6: Too often we. 321 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 5: Let strife, jealousy, competition, division, pull us apart. Rise above that, 322 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 5: get over the petty differences, arguing over things that don't matter. 323 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 5: In a little while, we're all going to be gone. 324 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 5: Your brothers, sisters, cousins, relatives, they need you. Stick up 325 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 5: for your family, defend them, cover their faults. The Book 326 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 5: of Genesis tells how Noah was on the ark for 327 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety days with his family and with 328 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 5: all of the animals. It rained for forty days, then 329 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 5: it took one hundred and fifty days for the waters 330 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 5: to recede. You can imagine how Noah must have felt, 331 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 5: being cramped up all that time, with not only the animals, 332 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 5: but with all of his family, all of his relatives, 333 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety days nowhere to go, always together. 334 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 5: Somebody pointed out, when Noah got off the ark, the 335 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 5: first thing he did was went out and got drunk, 336 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 5: and it wasn't right, but he had had enough. We laugh, 337 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 5: but most of us can only take a one day 338 00:17:55,480 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 5: family reunion. Imagine a one hundred and ninety day family 339 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 5: reunion with all of your relatives, never able to leave 340 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,479 Speaker 5: the house. Well, Noah was lying on the floor of 341 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 5: his tent, drunk, passed out totally naked. 342 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 6: Taking off all of his clothes. 343 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 5: His youngest son, Ham came in and saw his father 344 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 5: lying there drunk and naked. Ham ran out and started 345 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 5: telling everybody found his two brothers. You won't believe what 346 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 5: dad has done, making a fool of himself. He's drunk, 347 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 5: he's lying their naked, on and on. Ham told everybody 348 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 5: he could find. Instead of covering his father's fault, he 349 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 5: exposed it. He added fuel to the fire. The other 350 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 5: two sons did just the opposite. They went to Noah's tent. 351 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 5: When they saw their father lying there drunk and naked, 352 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 5: they turned around. 353 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 6: They refused to look at their father. 354 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 5: They got some blankets and they backed into the tent, 355 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 5: never looking at their father. In that shame, they took 356 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 5: those blanks and they covered Noah up. They were saying, 357 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 5: by their actions, Dad was wrong, He made poor choices. 358 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 5: He's lying here drunken naked. But we're not going to 359 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 5: do like our younger brother Han and go out telling 360 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 5: everybody and expose him and add fuel to the fire. 361 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 5: We got this water, We're going to cover his fault. 362 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 5: They were saying, that's our father, that's our flesh and blood. Yes, 363 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 5: he's lying here in shame, but we're going to protect 364 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 5: him while he's down. We're going to defend him while 365 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 5: he's not up to par. We're not going to let 366 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 5: anybody else see him in this negative light. When Noah 367 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 5: woke up, he found out what had happened. How one 368 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 5: son had exposed his faults, the other two sons had 369 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 5: covered his faults. He said to him, the one that 370 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 5: went out telling everybody, your children and your grandchildren will 371 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 5: always struggle. There will be a curse on your descendant 372 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 5: because you dishonored me. You didn't protect my reputation. 373 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 6: You exposed me. 374 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 5: Noah said to the two sons that showed him honor 375 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 5: by covering his faults. By protecting his reputation, you and 376 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 5: your descendants will always be blessed. You will prosper, You 377 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 5: will rule over cities, Your land will increase. 378 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 6: You will have God's favor. 379 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,959 Speaker 5: Because you showed me honor even when I deserved dishonor. 380 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 5: It's interesting Ham could have just as easily put water 381 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 5: on instead of the gasoline. He could have covered his 382 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 5: father's faults. He could have defended Noah, but he was undisciplined. 383 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 5: He chose to go out and tell everybody. 384 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 6: When we make the choice. 385 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 5: To make people look bad, to say things, to damage 386 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 5: a reputation, to show them in an unfavorable light, that 387 00:20:54,960 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 5: puts us on Ham's side instead of the two brothers side. 388 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 5: But when you show honor, even when honor is not due, 389 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 5: maybe what the person is doing is wrong, they deserve shame. 390 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 5: But because you choose to cover the fault, because you 391 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 5: stick up for your father, because you defend your brother, 392 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 5: your cousin, your relative, God says to you what Noah 393 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,719 Speaker 5: said to the two sons, you will be blessed, you 394 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 5: will prosper, you will be in a position of honor. 395 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 5: Make sure you stay on the two brothers side. Now 396 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 5: let's take this beyond our biological family. How about our 397 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 5: church family. That person you sit close to each week, 398 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 5: that volunteer you see in the nursery. If they fall, 399 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 5: if they make a mistake, are you going to cover them? 400 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 5: How about that coworker that blew it they were wrong? 401 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 5: Are you going to go out like Ham and expose them? 402 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 5: Blow it up bigger? After all, it's true. Now, just 403 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 5: because it's true doesn't give us the right to rep well, Joel, 404 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 5: they're guilty. They were wrong, yes, but only the guilty 405 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 5: need mercy. Paul said, Ingalatians, when someone falls, you who 406 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 5: are spiritual are to gently restore them. Notice he didn't 407 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 5: say to expose them, to tell everybody, make sure they 408 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 5: feel embarrassed and ashamed. He said to gently restore them. 409 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 5: If you will cover people when they fall, cover their weaknesses. 410 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 5: God will make sure somebody will always be there to 411 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 5: cover you. But it's easy to expose, want to be critical, judgmental. 412 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 5: Remember this, The same amount of mercy you show others 413 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 5: is the amount of mercy God will show you when. 414 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 6: You protect a reputation. 415 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 5: You are so in a seed not only for your life, 416 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 5: but for your children. The scripture talks about how we 417 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 5: can store up mercy for future generations. When you cover 418 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 5: that fall, you may not receive the mercy. It may 419 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 5: go to one of your children in their time of need. 420 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I'm going to be 421 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 5: generous with my mercy. I'm not going to be a 422 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 5: fault finder. I'm going to be a protector. There's nothing 423 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 5: you can do that will cause me to expose you. 424 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 5: If you fall, I'm going to cover you. If you 425 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 5: blow it, I'm going to protect your reputation. 426 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 6: If somebody is talking about you, I'm gonna defend you. 427 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 6: If you drop out, I'm gonna help restore you. I'm 428 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 6: going to be a friend. 429 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 5: You can count on someone that will stick with you 430 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 5: through thick and thin, to protect you, to defend you, 431 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 5: to cover you. See, we live in a society that 432 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 5: likes to kick people when they're down. A lot of 433 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 5: people jump on the bandwagon whow they're wrong, critical, judgmental. No, 434 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 5: don't be a fair weathered friend. Stick with people, your family, 435 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 5: your friends. They need you more in the tough times 436 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 5: than they do the good times. Where are the people 437 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 5: that will defend their family. Where are the people like 438 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 5: Noah's two sons that will say, yes, my cousin may 439 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 5: have fallen, but don't you dare talk about them. That's 440 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 5: my family. 441 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 6: He may be down, he's not staying down. 442 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 5: He's coming back again. This is not the end. It's 443 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 5: a bump in the road. He's going to come out 444 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 5: stronger than before. Hey, yeah, but I don't see how 445 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 5: he could have made that mistake. 446 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 6: What was he thinking? 447 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 5: Just ask them, have you ever made a mistake? Have 448 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 5: you ever done something that you're not proud? Of If not, 449 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 5: you can throw the first stone, but if you have, 450 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 5: you need to zip it up because you're talking about 451 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 5: my family and these ears are not garbage cans. I 452 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 5: don't want to hear that trash. Defend your family, stick 453 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 5: up for your friends, put an end to that gossip. 454 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 6: Do what you can to cover a fault. 455 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 5: Years ago, there was a minister that made some poor decisions. 456 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 5: It's a very public ordeal, big controversy in the press 457 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 5: went on for months and months. At one point, another 458 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 5: minister that was. 459 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 6: Also very well known. 460 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 5: Got on television and criticized this minister and told everyone 461 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 5: what a disgrace he was and how he was like 462 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 5: a cancer that needed to be removed. No mercy, so harsh. 463 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 5: It's as if this man's reputation wasn't bad enough already, 464 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 5: but this minister just added fuel to the fire, made 465 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 5: it even worse. Eventually he had to resign, lost his ministry. 466 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 5: A very sad situation. But when we choose to expose, 467 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 5: when we choose to run out and tell everybody, that's 468 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 5: just like him not covering for his father, Noah. A 469 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 5: couple of years later, this minister that was so hard 470 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 5: on the other minister he got involved in the same 471 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 5: type of thing, it was an even bigger controversy. 472 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 6: He ended up losing his ministry as well. 473 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 5: When somebody has done wrong, when they're at fault, you 474 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 5: could say that. 475 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 6: Situation is contagious. Like a virus. You've been exposed. 476 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 5: Now how you handle it is going to determine whether 477 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 5: or not you come down with it. In other words, 478 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 5: like a person that has the flu, they're contagious. If 479 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 5: you get around them, you've been exposed to it, that 480 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 5: virus can get off on you. What's going to protect 481 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 5: you is if you have a flu shot, the vaccination. 482 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 6: Will keep you from getting it. In the same way, 483 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 6: when you've been exposed. 484 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 5: To somebody that's done wrong, they're contagious, you can catch 485 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 5: the exact same thing that they have. Here's the key, 486 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 5: mercy is your vaccine covering the fault is the equivalent 487 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 5: of taking a flu shot. That's what's going to keep 488 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 5: you from being infected. But if you're hard, just show 489 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 5: no mercy. You let them have it the very thing 490 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 5: that you're critical about, because they're contagious, it can come 491 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 5: right back to you. 492 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 6: We all face situations. 493 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 5: Where we can be judgmental and man I can't believe 494 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 5: they did that. 495 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 6: I'm gonna let everybody know how wrong they were. 496 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 5: No, it's much better to say I've been exposed to 497 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 5: something that I don't want. Now I know the secret. 498 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 5: I'm going to show mercy. I'm not gonna do like 499 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,719 Speaker 5: hand run out telling everybody. Let me tell you what 500 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 5: my dad did, let me tell you what my neighbor 501 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 5: got caught doing last week. No, be a person of 502 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 5: honor and cover it. 503 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 6: Show mercy. That's your vaccine. 504 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 5: That's what's going to keep you from doing the exact 505 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 5: same thing somewhere down the road. As a parent, when 506 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 5: somebody does something good for our children, they help restore 507 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 5: them in a time of need. They're kind, they're forgiving, 508 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 5: they're merciful. There's nothing we wouldn't do for that person. 509 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 5: We'd be so grateful, we'd go out of our way 510 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 5: to do anything that they ask. In the same way, 511 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 5: when you stick up for one of God's children, when 512 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 5: you defend them, when you help restore them. 513 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 6: When you protect a reputation. 514 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 5: There's nothing that God won't do for you. When you 515 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 5: are generous with your mercy, you will always have God's favor. 516 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 5: Mercy sets the tone for blessing. My challenge for all 517 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 5: of us, when you hear a word against your neighbor, 518 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 5: against your family, against your friend, be disciplined to let 519 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 5: it die within you. If you will be a person 520 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 5: of honor not let people gossip around you, cover those faults. Then, 521 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 5: because you choose the water and not the gasoline, just 522 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 5: like Noah's two sons. 523 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 6: I believe and declare, you will be blessed. 524 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 5: You will prosper, you will succeed, and you will. 525 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 6: Become everything God's created you to be. Amen. Do you 526 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 6: receive it today? 527 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 5: Or we never like to close our broadcast without giving 528 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 5: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 529 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 6: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I. 530 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 5: Repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I make 531 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. Well, if you prayed that 532 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 5: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 533 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 5: a good Bible based church, and keep God first place. 534 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 6: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 535 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 4: Thank you for listening to the Joel Osteine podcast. 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