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Thank you so much for joining me on the journey today.
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Hey, welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered.
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I'm your host, Sister Diana.
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So good to have y'all joining us today.
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We have everybody around the table.
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We had just finished up with a simple presentation of the Book of Acts on chapter 15, part one, and we're going to label that 15.1A, and we're going into chapter 151B.
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And so we've got everybody around the table.
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We're not going to do introductions.
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We're just going to start right into the lesson.
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We're going to start the video.
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Brother Edico, right ahead.
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All right.
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So we're going to continue.
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There was this convocation, for lack of a better word, in Acts 15, where the brethren from Antioch went to Jerusalem to consult with the apostles and elders about this question of these Pharisees who had become brothers, wanting all the Gentiles who had come into the faith to keep the law of Moses.
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And Peter had gone and testified about what God did through him.
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And I want you to see as you read through this that Peter did not rely upon his own doctrinal understanding to make his point.
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Instead, he relied upon the experience he had with God, which can be, as you read through the scripture, verified doctrinally.
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But he put forth this is what God did.
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And all of you know this testimony.
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You know it.
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So if we're here to discuss this issue, we got to consider that.
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So we're going to read verses 12 through 18 now.
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Then all the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me.
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Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name.
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And to this agree the words of the prophet, as it is written.
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After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up, that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things?
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Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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All right.
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So Peter's comments had silenced the whole multitude.
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Everybody in the room was quiet.
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And when he got through talking about what happened when he was in Joppa and the people came from Cornelius' house, and everything unfolded, and all those people were baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost.
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He gets, you know, this.
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This is my testimony.
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You've all heard about it.
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He provided the perfect introduction or segue for Paul and Barnabas to give a report of all their work for the Lord.
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This report included all the miracles God did through their ministries.
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Look again at verse 12.
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All the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders.
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So there wasn't just one or two.
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But we have the key ones.
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We have the most visible ones, the most prominent ones, but we don't have them all.
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Just like you know, when John wrote about Jesus, if everything that Jesus began both to do and teach had been written down, now all the books in all the world could hold everything that he had done.
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So these brethren were walking in the success of Jesus Christ.
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This report included all the miracles God did through their ministries, including a very great success, soul-winning success among the Gentiles.
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It went beyond the synagogue.
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So it went beyond the proselytes, who were Gentiles that became Jews according to the law of Moses, into strictly Gentiles also.
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So after Paul and Barnabas finished their reports of church planting and church growth, James, the pastor of the church at Jerusalem, begins to speak.
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Scholars believe this James is the brother of the Lord Jesus and the pastor of the church in Jerusalem.
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Notice how he takes authority over all the apostles and elders and ministries represented in this gathering.
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If the Holy Ghost didn't give him that authority, why did everybody be quiet?
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We don't read about a sergeant of arms, we don't read about Robert's rules of order.
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But James, when he spoke, evidently they were coming to one mind and one accord, and they understood.
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Oh, the Spirit of God is speaking to us, and they quieted down, and they were receiving what he had to say.
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So we see how James takes authority over all the apostles, elders, and ministries represented in the gathering.
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Remember, I said, you cannot be an apostle, you cannot be a prophet, you cannot be a pastor, you cannot be an evangelist, you cannot be any of these things if you are not first a servant.
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If you cannot recognize God's authority working through the church, how are you going to exercise apostolic authority?
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And you'll read in the book of Revelation about people who said they were apostles and were not.
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Just because a person says, I'm a prophet, I'm an apostle, doesn't make it so.
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Now, James took authority over all the apostles and the elders and the ministries there, and he reminds everyone of the work that God did through Simeon, or that is, Simon Peter, the apostle Peter, among the Gentiles.
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He is saying, You just heard what Peter said.
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This is known among us.
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Everybody knows about this incident.
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You've heard that.
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And he declares this work among the Gentiles was prophesied.
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And it's so that all the glory will go to the name of Jesus.
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And he chooses one prophecy in particular from the book of Amos, chapter 9, verses 11 and 12.
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Do you have that, mama?
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Yes.
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You do.
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Read it, beautiful.
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In that day will I rise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up the ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the heathen that are called by my name, saith the Lord, that doth this.
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So the Edomites and all the other remnants of the world, Gentiles, are going to come to a place where they give God glory.
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And he says that this prophecy about the tabernacle of David being rebuilt is fulfilled in how the church is coming together.
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So it wasn't a literal tent that was being put up, but it was the spirit of worship and unity that was at the tabernacle of David was happening again in the church of the living God.
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He declares by the Holy Ghost, this is that prophecy being fulfilled.
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It's done by Peter in Acts chapter 2, pointing to things that David said in the Psalms, pointing to Joel, saying these prophecies are being fulfilled now.
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James is doing that again, but he's citing Amos.
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So then James declares that since both Jews and Gentiles recognize Jesus as Lord and Savior, in that God is rebuilding Davidic worship in the church.
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In the tabernacle, or that is the tent of David that he built for the Ark of the Covenant, the presence of God was visible to all.
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Now listen to me.
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In Moses' tabernacle and in Solomon's temple, the presence of God was only visible in the Holy of Holies to the high priest who went in there.
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They saw the Shekinah glory once a year.
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Now, traveling through the wilderness, they did see God as a pillar of cloud by day and as a pillar of fire by night.
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But that special manifestation that happened in the Holy of Holies, only the high priest got to witness.
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But when David goes and gets the Ark of the Covenant and brings it back from the home of Obed-Edom and builds a tent for it in Jerusalem, it's left open where everybody can see it, and he organizes worship.
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24-hour worship.
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Seven days a week worship.
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And the church has a hard time getting there on Sunday and Wednesday.
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Lord help us.
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I'm there.
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And verse 17, go ahead.
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Okay.
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So they brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it.
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Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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Tabernacle is tent.
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Right.
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Okay.
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So for further reference on the worship that David established, you should have already read 1 Chronicles 15 and 16.
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See, there were people who offered wave offerings, there were people who played instruments, there were people who danced.
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There was specific joyful worship that went on at the tabernacle of David.
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Are we rejoicing when we come together to worship?
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Are we rejoicing in the presence of God?
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We should be.
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That's worship.
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That's idolatry.
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Listen, when you get involved in these things, you like watching it, you like being a part of it.
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Don't let it become worship.
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Have a good time.
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Have fun.
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Don't let it become worship.
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Don't hate people because they prefer a different team.
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That's not who we are.
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That's not a testimony for Christ.
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That's a testimony for the team that's there, and it proves that we are half-wits.
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Fight and beat somebody to death because the team lost or because they rooted for the wrong score.
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They're spending energy in the wrong direction.
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Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with having fun.
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But we don't want to get caught up and turning it into idolatry.
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Now, for further reference on the worship that David established, you should have read 1 Chronicles chapters 15 through 16 and 20 through 23 through 26.
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And you've seen how that David established all of this worship.
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And now, James, under the anointing of the Holy Ghost, saying, the prophecy that Amos gave about rebuilding the tabernacle of David that everybody might come into the presence of God is being fulfilled in the church of the living God.
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And these Gentiles coming in are proving it.
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Yeah.
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James did all that.
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None of the apostles said, sit down, you're the pastor.
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Right.
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We're the apostles.
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None of the elders said, sit down, we're the elders.
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You're just the pastor in the church of Jerusalem.
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They recognized when the Holy Ghost moved through him that this was the Spirit of God in action.
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What did John tell us?
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Try the Spirits.
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Yes.
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We need to be able to tell that's not Jesus.
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Yeah.
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We need to know it.
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And the only way we can do that is by communicating with God ourselves in prayer and worship and praise and intercession.
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And after you said everything you wanted to say, by being able to sit there and be quiet, after you shouted all over your living room or your office and praised God and talked in tongues, can you sit down and say, Jesus, you're my savior.
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If you've got something to say to me, I want to be here for it.
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Can you sit there and wait?
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What if he doesn't speak today?
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We'll do it again tomorrow.
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Yeah.
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Okay?
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If the church is the bride of Christ, the bride and groom exchange communication.
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I guarantee if all that happens in my house is that I tell mama what to do and what to think and how to say, and I don't listen to her.
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Look at her face.
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This is a relationship.
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Yes.
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The church is to be in a relationship with Jesus.
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The individual saints are to be in a relationship with Jesus.
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The gift of the Holy Ghost is given to individuals.
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Amen.
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And that's when holiness is imparted to you.
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Yes.
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You can't get up in the morning and put holiness on.
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No.
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And you don't take it off at night before you get in the shower and go to bed.
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It is the character and the nature of Jesus Christ being formed in us.
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And a lot of us have a long ways to go for it to be formed.
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That's all right.
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Just keep walking.
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Just keep following Jesus.
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Don't pass such harsh judgments on one another.
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Work in progress.
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Say that again?
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A work in progress.
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Oh, say it louder.
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We are a work in progress.
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Peter told the church that you need to grow to the desire the sincere milk of the word that you may be exercised thereby and grow thereby.
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Grow what?
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Grow into the full measure and stature of the man of God, the woman of God.
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If we know that our children must be given time to grow and mature, don't the saints of the living God, since they're born again, don't they start out needing growth and maturity?
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We got to be careful how we pass judgments on each other.
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So James then declares, this is my translation.
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Okay, God saw all this before time began.
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And if you understand prophecy, you already know this, or should you should have been able to know it when I said it.
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So he's anticipating that the less listeners, whether they are Jewish converts, proselyte converts, or gentile converts, are in the word of God enough to know that Amos made this prophecy.
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Yeah.
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Amen.
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And there's other prophecies about this.
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So let's pause for a minute.
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And anybody know what Isaiah had to say about this?
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Did you come across that in
your studies?
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I did.
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I don't remember.
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Oh, Anne says she did.
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But I don't remember you don't get to say I don't remember.
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So if you have a note or Google it if you want to, but see if you can find it.
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Uh where Isaiah talks about the Gentiles, where he prophesies about the Gentiles.
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You got that, uh Audia?
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I remember reading it.
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You remember reading it?
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Good.
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Anne says she remembers reading it.
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I remember things on occasion.
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And I'm sure we've read it twice this year.
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Yeah, we have, Mala.
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We've read it twice this year at least.
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And that's not answers.
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Well, actually, we're in Isaiah, so yes, we are.
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Yeah, we might not have passed it yet.
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So who who's who's found it already?
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What are we looking at?
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Where Isaiah prophesied about the Gentiles.
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The rustling of pages in the Bible is not quite the same as the tapping of cell phones.
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Yes, I know.
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It's a little different.
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But you've got these tools now.
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Isaiah, well, he says it in several places.
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Okay.
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What have you got?
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One and the first one is Isaiah 2, verses 2 to 3.
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Read it.
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I had to go get it because it didn't give me that part.
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Oh, just tell me where to find it.
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All right.
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Okay.
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So two, two, and three.
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Oh, that's one.
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Yeah, one and two are different.
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Yeah, they are.
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Okay.
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Now it's Shall come to pass in the latter days.
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Latter days.
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All right, sister.
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That the mountain of the Lord's house.
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Come on now.
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Yeah.
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Shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills.
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And all nations shall flow to it.
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All nations.
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All nations.
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So the church is the establishment.
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That mountain wasn't physical.
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Right.
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Right.
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Sometimes you have to look at prophecy after you get past it.
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You know, when Jesus is about to be crucified and he tells them in the gospel of St.
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John, they're going to take me, I'm going to die.
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Then he says, He doesn't say it's going to happen in the next six hours.
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No.
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He doesn't say it's going to happen in the next week.
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It's just going to happen.
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And then he says, I've told you before that when it has come to pass, you might believe.
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Prophetic utterances are to make us be encouraged.
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When they come to pass, encouraged in God's faithfulness.
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You had one you wanted to read.
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Yeah, Isaiah 9 1 and 2.
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Go ahead and read it.
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Isaiah 9 1 and 2.
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See, you weren't there.
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Oh, but I found it though.
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Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Neptali, and afterward did more to grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations.
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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.
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Did the Gentiles walk in darkness?
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Yes.
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Yeah, but the light's gonna shine on them.
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Yes, Audio.
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Isaiah 60 3 says, The Gentiles shall come to your light and the kings to the brightness of your rising.
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Mama's got one.
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Go ahead, Mama.
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66 and 18.
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Isaiah 66 and 18.
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And I know their works and their thoughts.
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It shall come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.
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All nations and tongues shall come and see his glory.
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Amen.
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Yeah.
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You got another one, Ed?
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Yeah, 42, 1 through 6.
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Go ahead and read them.
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Behold, my servants whom I uphold, my elect one in whom my soul delights.
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Come on.
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I have put my
spirit upon him.
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He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
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Justice to thank you, Jesus.
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He will not cry out, nor raise his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets.
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A bruised reed he will not break, and smoking flax he will not quench.
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He will bring forth justice for truth.
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He will not fail nor be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth, and the coastlands shall wait for his law.
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In the earth?
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In the earth.
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And in all the coastlands?
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Coastlands.
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That means all nations.
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How about that?
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Salvation.
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Oh, salvation.
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It was always God's intention for humanity to have salvation.
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And Israel was chosen to be the conduit by which Jesus Christ would come to the world.
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Yes.
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Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it.
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Thank you, God.
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And spirit to those who walk on it.
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I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand.
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I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles.
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As a light to the Gentiles.
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God didn't pick Abraham because he hated Gentiles.
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He picked Abraham to make sure there was a path for his will and his word to come to all the world.
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Yes.
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And that's why we read, but if if a Gentile wanted to partake of the feast, he could do it.
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He'd be circumcised and considered a native.
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Rather, just Rahab and and and Ruth the Moabite were considered native Israelites after they came to God.
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So much so that they were in the lineage of Jesus Christ.
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Right?
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Yes.
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So who is the Israel of God?
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The Israel of God is both Jews and Gentiles who believe in Jesus.
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The Israel of God.
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So I don't want you to think that God has looked at the Jews and say, I'm not going to have anything to do with you anymore.
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The whole purpose of Christ's coming is so that the world could be saved.
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For God so loved the world.
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And if there's anything left prophetically that needs to be fulfilled for those who are bloodline children of Abraham, God will not miss it.
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He keeps his word, he is a God of integrity.
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But let me encourage you, as much great things as you may see happening in Israel, go ahead and rejoice in that.
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But it's more important that your name is written in the Lamb's book of life.
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Yes.
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Amen.
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I think if we look at Isaiah 56, the whole chapter.
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Well, the whole chapter.
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Yeah, but six through what?
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Six through eight are pretty specific.
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Read it again.
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Also, the sons of the foreigner.
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The sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord to serve him.
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That's us.
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And to love the name of the Lord to be his servants.
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We're throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.
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Yes.
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Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath and holds fast my covenant.
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Come on.
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Even them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer.
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Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.
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Isn't that what Jesus said when he drove them out of the temple?
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Yes.
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This place was to be a house of prayer.
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You've made it a den of thieves.
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All right, so let's talk about this lesson some more, okay?
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Oh, I'm sorry, you gone, huh?
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You need to read you need to read some more.
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Go ahead.
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The Lord God who gathers the outcasts of Israel.
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Oh, so Israel had some people that dropped their watermelon.
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There you go.
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Oh, Israel says, Yet I will gather to him others besides those who are gathered to him.
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The church of the living God is of every tribe, every tongue, every nation.
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They're rich, they're poor, they're uneducated, they're highly educated.
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Right.
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Because it's
whosoever will.
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So in today's lesson, and in Acts chapter 15, 1 through 18, so Joyce, what was uh maybe one or two things that you noticed right off that you had a question or a comment regarding?
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How James called Peter Simeon.
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And because he was Simon Peter.
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He was Simon Peter, but you got Peter, which is Roman.
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Greek, Greek, Greek, but you also have Simeon, which is Hebrew, Hebrew, and then you have Simon, which probably one of them is Hebrew and one of them is Aramaic.
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I didn't do a deep dive.
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I didn't either, but that came out.
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Okay.
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So I thought it was a misspelling, but then as I read and stuff, it wasn't.
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Okay.
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But then also too about the circumcision, it took me personally until I was studying, you know, the way you gave it, but it took me till verse five to realize that the Pharisees is the ones that caused the first split in the church.
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And it wasn't because they didn't love God, it was because they couldn't see the fulfillment of the law of Moses in Christ.
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Yeah, they were still stuck in the old covenant, yes, where Jesus has said, I am have bringing a new covenant.
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And that's what and that's where that's where the Pharisees and the new Jews.
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If you're not if you're not careful, if we're not careful, we can become modern day Pharisees.
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I heard a testimony in church one time, it grieved my heart.
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A lady stood up to testify, and she said, I I was doing the laundry at the laundromat.
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Yes.
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She's an older woman.
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And she said, and this this other lady was in there, this young lady, and she was wearing her hot pants and her halter.
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And she walked up to me and she said, I believe you have the Holy Ghost, or something of that sense.
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And she said, Yes, she said, I just received the Holy Ghost last night, and she was so excited.
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And then the lady says, But I told her, No, you didn't.
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You can't come in here wearing hot pants and a halter and say you received the Holy Ghost.
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I received.
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Now, wait a minute.
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Aren't we all babes in Christ when we get started?
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Yes.
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I I remember Brother Johnson, our pastor, we call him Pappy.
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He was preaching on Sunday morning, and we came from an organization where they have a lot of dress codes, okay?
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But he he was preaching from the pulpit and he said, Don't you discourage anyone from coming in this church?
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He said, You welcome everyone.
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He's I don't care if they come in here in hot pants.
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Yeah, they're here, and we're gonna worship God and we're gonna love them and we're gonna bless them.
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And Brother Manuel didn't speak real good English.
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So he's we're visiting with him and his wife one day, and he says, Brother Johnson, but godly, he's all right.
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He's saying, I can come to church in my shorts, says, No, no, manual.
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That wasn't it.
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That's not what he was saying.
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You know, it makes me think of when I went to church as a child.
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Yeah, we had the Baptist church, and and I'm not saying this to ridicule Baptist, but you know, we went into church every Sunday when I was little, and we would never come to church wearing a pair of pants, much less a pair of blue jeans.
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Well, culturally things can be unacceptable, but culturally does it mean biblically.
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And and I look now and I think if I walked into that church that I went to as a child today, what would they think of me?
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And I mean, I don't go to church looking provocative or anything, but just the fact that most of the time when I go to church, I wear jeans and a nice shirt or a t-shirt that says something about Jesus.
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And I just don't think personally, I mean, you don't come to church dressed like you're going to the club.
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No.
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But but some do you think you should come clean, clean, you should wear clean clothes, have bathed, because why?
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You respect Jesus.
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And you're trying to be a witness.
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So the way mama and I came up, dress respectfully.
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We always dressed up to go to church.
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Yeah.
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We were taught that if you're gonna go meet the president, you dress accordingly.
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Yeah, just ask Slolinsky.
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Wrong president.
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But my my thing is, God's not gonna look at you and say, You're not wearing the right style of shoes, so you can't come worship.
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Yeah, you're not not riding the right suit or whatever.
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Yeah, but there should be an attitude in our hearts and minds that say, I've come to respect you, Lord.
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--> 00:35:18.800
Yeah, yeah.
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Come come to church with the attitude, I want people to see Jesus in me.
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Well, okay, can it?
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Come back.
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Come back.
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What was it you had to say?
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Come on in.
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I didn't have anything to say.
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No, you had something because you were standing there looking.
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I was helping Diana.
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You were standing there looking in here.
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You don't preach to us?
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Are you sure?
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Okay.
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I had uh I've been everybody looks on Facebook, right?
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I kind of I troll and scroll.
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A lot of people I have seen are they would ask different churches, you know, what you know, how what's what's the drink?
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Yeah, what what can I wear?
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And a lot of them, of course, they're non-denominational churches, but I think you're probably going more to, but there are they're saying, We're whatever you're comfortable in.
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We just want you to come to church.
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That that and you know what?
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I think that's important, but once you start understanding I'm filled with the Holy Ghost and I'm being a witness, it's time for you to leave your dirty jeans and your stained-up clothes at home and wear something that's clean.
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Well, I kind of didn't make it.
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Me and Mama, it came up like that.
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Judges.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna buy you clothes to wear to church.
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There have been times when street people have come in.
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I I went to this church one Sunday, and this man came, he was homeless, and he saw the church door was open and he came in.
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Yeah, and nobody went, ugh, you know, or anything like that.
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Everybody welcomed him.
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I mean, I was so I was so thrilled, and then said, Hey, we're all going to lunch, please come with us.
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I mean, you know, I think it's important that when people come in, especially if they're not members and you don't know them, that regardless of what they're wearing, yeah.
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You pick on what they're wearing, they look at it, look like you welcome them and you show them we're glad you're here.
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And do you know Jesus?
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Let me share a testimony with you because you never know if it's gonna be the undercut the boss.
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So we we had a VHS years ago of the uh Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.
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Oh and this guy was giving his testimony, David Griffin, and and he was wearing a pair of slacks and a real nice t-shirt.
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Okay, you but he said the first time I came to this church, I heard all the singing, I heard all the worship.
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He said I was homeless, you know, I sleep in a cardboard box, etc.
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He said, I came in.
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He said, I really didn't know do I belong here because I knew I was filthy.
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My clothes were filthy, he said, and I stumped like Uran.
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He said, and then I thought, I need to go to the altar, I need this experience.
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And then he said, How can I present myself like this?
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But there was such a spirit in church, such a spirit of love and compassion, that he felt the freedom to go down to the altar.
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He said, knowing I stink like urine, I'm dirty, I'm nasty, I'm filthy, but God made me.
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He said, and now I have ministry here, I'm on the security team, and I have a place to live again.
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What you see, what you saw when God saved me is not where I am today.
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We can't look at people and anticipate because of how you're dressed or the way you wear makeup or because of how much you like your jewelry, or because you prefer boots or whatever.
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You can't look at them and say you don't belong here.
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But as we grow in our relationship with God, we ought to come to the house of worship.
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There ought to be enough in us to say, I'm wearing something clean and neat, because I've come to worship God.
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And when I see, when guests come in here and they see me, they can't always know my spirit.
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But if they can see I'm carrying a respectful attitude and that I want to be friendly to them, you know, if you didn't use deodorant for six weeks and you try to greet a visitor, they might you might not go off too well.
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You know.
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Whereas the visitor who comes in like that, hopefully they're just welcomed in.
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But the child of God who's been walking with Jesus for two or three years should have learned.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I need to appreciate the gift of God that is life.
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Right.
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I better be quiet, huh?
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No, it's it's a matter of transformation, you know.
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Say it again.
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Yeah, transformation.
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Transform when John writes, as many as believed in his name, to them gave him the power to become.
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Doesn't say he instantly changed them.
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He said he gave them the power to become.
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How does the caterpillar become a butterfly?
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It's a process, a struggle too.
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And that's a struggle.
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I mean, being a Christian, you can't grow if you don't process from where you start to grow up.
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Well, I mean, the thing is, you should be.
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I mean, you should there should be a transformation taking place.
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You should be in the words.
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It should be ongoing.
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You know, if you say you're saved and there is no transformation takes place, that's where we need to question the salvation.
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Years ago, when when when our boys were like five and six, six and seven, we moved to this place and went to church.
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And I was a minister, but I sat in the back because the custom was minister sat on the pulpit, but I wanted to sit in church with my wife, and we were guests there.
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So we sat in the back.
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And then this lady came and sat in front of us.
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She was a member.
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And and your nose started to run, and your eyes started to water, you know.
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And and I told mama, I'm gonna sit with you.
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It's all good.
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And then the pastor recognized me, said, Aren't you, brother?
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I said, Yes, he said, come up here and sit on the platform.
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Normally I would have said, No, thank you.
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I'm sitting with my wife, but I felt I'm delivered.
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I got oh, I gotta, and the boys kept saying, Phew, what stakes, mommy?
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:33.760
You say, Oh, that's things.
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Please be quiet.
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You know, we didn't know that she was a member then.
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We found out that she was a member.
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But listen, we're supposed to appreciate the life God has given us.
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Yeah, yes, and whatever damages our testimony needs to change.
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That's where learning to bathe comes in.
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Yeah, you know.
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I I come home so often from Walmart or Brookshires or whatever errands mama has sent me on.
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I come home, and the first thing I do when I tell her, I see her, I say, I am so glad that you are my wife.
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You don't know what I cannot unsee.
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Diana will say, go to Walmart to do that, and I'll say, Do I have to go in?
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But my my point is we have to react to those people that they need Jeans.
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We have to see that.
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But you see, the craziest things, and when I see people come into church, and I and I know it's a fad now, and holy genes are very expensive, but because of the way we came up in church, I see those holy jeans, and I'm like, Lord Jesus put a button on my lip.
00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:54.480
It's like when I see a guy wearing those saggy pants.
00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:56.800
Yeah, I just want to go up.
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I saw I really did one day.
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I saw this guy stopped at CV.
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Yes.
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And I was getting ready to get out.
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And this guy's trying to get out the door, hold his stuff, and hold his pants up.
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As we come to Christ, we need we need to set examples for people so that when they look at us, they say, I want to be like that.
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Mama and I tend to dress up sometimes to match.
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:35.760
And she asked me when I was first going out with her, I'd pick her up for church, you know, and she asked me one day, Don't you have a suit?
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I said, I got two of 'em.
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She said, You do?
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I said, Yeah, I got one for weddings and one for funerals.
00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:50.960
Well, you know, she said, So the next Sunday, a pastor always wore a suit, and my father-in-law usually wore a sports coat, at least.
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.119
And and and I noticed a lot of the men, yeah, they do.
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They wear sports coats and or suits.
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So I wore a suit.
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Nobody told me you better wear a suit.
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:03.519
Yeah.
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Okay.
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So I I went to the door and she came to the door, and she stood there looking at me, and she almost bruised her chin on the doorstep.
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What had you been wearing?
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I just have to know.
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Bell bottoms.
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I had these huge bell bottoms, and I had some psychedelic fringe that I had to sew them around the bottom.
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And leather and leather sandals.
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No, no, no, no, not sandals.
00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:38.480
I had some pigskin leather tennis shoes that looked a little bit like
desert boots.
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And I wore these mock turtleneck shirts.
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And I didn't, yeah, I was just stopped talking.
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I just but you know what my church never did.
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My church never said to me, You are inappropriate.
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:54.159
Right.
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But I I was loved and I saw the examples that were set.
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Thank God he said, Mama, your way.
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No, listen, show some love.
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Show some compassion, show some mercy.
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And and that little church was merciful.
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Now, you listen, the first time mama went to church, you you're picking on me.
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Well, we didn't know.
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We know about the orange.
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:22.320
What color was your hair?
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Depended.
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:24.960
It was probably green.
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Yeah.
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:31.519
Actually, it was blonde, but I went swimming.
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:41.760
You know what bothers me is I don't have a picture of my wife in a mini skirt and go-go boots, and I missed it.
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:45.119
I missed it.
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In spiked hair.
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And spiked hair.
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I don't have that.
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But but listen, we who have been walking with Christ.
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Yeah, yeah.
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When we come to church, we ought to think about the occasion, especially.
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:00.719
Yeah.
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:05.280
If you're entering into ministry, we are setting examples.
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That's right.
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And it's not like you have to go out and buy$700 clothes and all that.
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Present yourself clean and crisp and you know, have on deodorant.
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That's right.
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If we're gonna wear seven or eight hundred dollar outfits, then we're in the wrong business.
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I've got some suits that I don't know how much they cost, they were, but they were gifts to me.
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:33.440
Yeah.
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:34.480
And I know they were expensive.
00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.280
And some people gave me some beautiful clothes.
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:43.679
When we were growing up, if your parents said we're going to the airport, you had to change out of your play clothes.
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:44.239
Oh, yeah.
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And have your hair in colors.
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And if my mom said to me we're going to the grocery store, I I couldn't be wearing holy jeans.
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:52.639
Yeah.
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:53.039
Yeah.
00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:54.800
Or an old dirty t-shirt.
00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:55.119
No.
00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:56.880
I'd have to have a clean t-shirt.
00:47:57.119 --> 00:47:57.280
Yeah.
00:47:57.360 --> 00:47:57.679
Oh, yeah.
00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:00.320
Because you might you're gonna run into somebody at the local.
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:03.920
My mom never left the house and it wasn't the makeup bar.
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:07.119
I'm so glad I never had to wear makeup.
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.800
You know, my grandmother wanted her hair done.
00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:11.280
Yeah.
00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:18.800
I remember one time I was in Pennsylvania and my grandmother lived in this little coal mine town, and she wanted to go to the grocery store.
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:20.559
And I said, Well, I'll take you.
00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:24.400
And she's in there and she's putting on her wig and powdering her face.
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:26.880
And I come out and I've got on shorts and a t-shirt.
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She went, Okay, she just looked at me and she said, Always wear your spurs.
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:34.559
You might meet a horse.
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Listen, Amy, it it is important the impression that we make on people.
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The first impression.
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:48.960
You you don't always have to be wearing a formal dress or a suit and tie.
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.960
But the way we look at it is we're going to see the King of Kings.
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:59.280
And so if I'm not wearing a suit and tie, if I'm wearing my boots and jeans, my shirt is ironed.
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:00.000
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:01.519
My jeans are crisp.
00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:01.920
Yeah.
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:03.360
My boots are shined.
00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:03.840
Why?
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Jesus is not gonna fry me, but I'm going to see him.
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:08.480
Yeah.
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:12.320
And and and so I want to be respectful.
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:16.880
When I go out with mama, people tease me about what I wear sometimes.
00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:20.159
I said, look, when I'm out with her, I want to look like I'm worthy.
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:20.960
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:28.719
I want people to say that I look like I'm worthy of this woman because she's some kind of special.
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:30.320
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:31.440
It's good stuff.
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:32.320
It's good stuff.
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:33.039
All right, y'all.
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We gotta go.
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Gotta wrap this up.
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:39.519
Great study on the chapter 15 of the book of Acts for a simple presentation.
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Thank you very much.
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We didn't talk enough about it afterwards, but thank you all for your participation.
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That's all right.
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That's all right.
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All right, so we're gonna end with our slogan as we always do.
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